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Cool Majors at UNCG: Animation

Storyboards by UNCG art students on display.

Whether they want to work for a big studio in Hollywood, design for a smaller 2D animation company, or work independently, students will learn the technique to channel their stories through UNCG’s new BFA in animation program.


Try Everything and Stay Curious 

International student Winnie Mwayi with UNC Greensboro Chancellor Gilliam.

International students become family at UNC Greensboro. Winnie Mwayi, MPA ’22, shares how she went from Nairobi, Kenya, to Greensboro to a fulfilling career in Chapel Hill thanks to the support and opportunities she received at UNCG. 


Finding Her Way Home

Wearing a green sweater Cat Regan smiles for the camera in front of UNCG campus.

With the help of financial aid, scholarships and supportive professors, Bryan School student Cat Regan has found a home at UNCG.


Exploring The Senses In UNCG’s Ferguson Building

UNCG sensory room in the Ferguson Building

Behind the brick façade of UNCG’s Ferguson building lies a new recreational therapy sensory room, designed by an interior architecture graduate student, that will be used not just for relaxing, but learning.


UNCG MST2 Program Helps stem the tide

Teacher instructs children at a white board

It’s no secret that a teacher shortage is taking a toll on schools nationwide. A partnership with UNC Greensboro aims to help Guilford County Schools close the gap locally by getting beginning math and science teachers without education degrees off to a good start.


Cool Majors at UNCG: Criminology

UNCG Police canine walks through an office.

This concentration within the College of Arts and Sciences can be a path to a career with law enforcement, the courts, or victim and restorative justice services.


Leila Howze Sees the Divine In Peace and Conflict Studies

Leila Howze

Leila Howze entered UNC Greensboro in Fall 2021, She was interested in social movements in general, but she didn’t know how to enter them constructively. This led her to UNCG’s Peace and Conflict Studies program.