Professional portrait of Tia Wiggins wearing a red and black suit.

Tia’s Circle

Bryan School alumna Tia Wiggins created an endowed scholarship at UNCG to cultivate platforms for others.

Nursing students celebrate at UNCG's graduation ceremony.

UNCG Nursing scholarship makes critical care possible

Caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients as an ICU nurse opened Cynthia Jones’s eyes to the health inequalities experienced by our most vulnerable populations. She came to UNCG to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist.

Someone in a UNCG sweatshirt holds 2 boxes - drug screening & nasal Naloxone at a GCSTOP distribution tent.

GCSTOP saves lives while teaching students lessons

Established in 2018, GCSTOP received the 2023 Achievement Award from the National Association of Counties. It is a partnership program between UNC Greensboro and Guilford County that focuses on harm reduction.

Students gather around an Earth Day banner.

UNC Greensboro launches carbon offset program

The Spartan DRIVE Fund encourages campus stakeholders to contribute to an offsetting of commuter emissions, and promotes non-profit work that benefits Greensboro residents.

A student gets maintenance done on his bike.

Campus recognized as Bicycle Friendly

UNCG’s commitment to promoting sustainable travel on campus has been recognized for more than a decade. This continues with a bronze-level award by the League of American Bicyclists.

Dabney and Walker Sanders receive the 2023 Adelaide F. Holderness/H. Michael Weaver Award.

Dabney and Walker Sanders celebrated as ‘game-changers’

The two community leaders have promoted charitable funding, literacy events, and much more in the Greater Greensboro area. UNCG’s Board of Trustees selected them to receive the 2023 Holderness/Weaver Award for their dedicated service.