Month: April 2017

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College Theatre presents an evening of student-written and –performed cabaret, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, in Lea Center in Main Building on campus. Admission is free, and the public is invited. The program consists of four cabaret pieces, each written and performed by a student in the Theatre Department’s cabaret class.……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College Theatre presents “Tonin’,” a dance production based on the music of the Manhattan Transfer, Friday-Sunday, April 28-30, in the Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center in Odell Building on campus. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, April 28-29, and 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, April 29-30. Tickets are $10 adults; $8 seniors and……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College art major Dominique Pemberton’s senior exhibit, “4 the Culture,” is up through May 13 in the Anne Rudd Galyon Gallery in the Cowan Humanities Building on campus. A reception will be held 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, April 26, in the gallery. Pemberton, from Greensboro, will speak about her work at 6:30……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Greensboro College Admissions Office will host an open house for prospective college students 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, April 22. Participants can tour campus, learn about the admissions process and financial aid options, and meet people who can show students how to get involved once they enroll. The event is free, but advance……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s annual Spring Streamwalk will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 21. Participants should meet at the north (Market Street) end of the parking lot behind James Addison Jones Library on campus. Members of the public are invited to take part. Participants should wear pants and shoes that can get……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – As part of a psychology class on death and dying, Greensboro College will hold a panel discussion featuring speakers from Greensboro-based Hospice of the Piedmont at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, in Room 206 of the Cowan Humanities Building on campus. The event is free and open to the public. The discussion,……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College alumna Lynette Tannis ’95, Ed.D., will be the college’s 2017 Commencement speaker, the college announced today. The speaker for the 2017 Baccalaureate/Cap and Gown Service will the Rev. Daniel G. Martin. Tannis’s address is titled, “Endowing Those Within Your Sphere of Influence.” Tannis is a career educator whose work most……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – A Greensboro College student has won a $1,000 scholarship for her first year of graduate school beginning this fall. Melanie Smith won the scholarship from Region III of Alpha Chi, a national honor society. Region III includes the Southeast, the Middle Atlantic states and Puerto Rico. Smith, a senior history and sociology/cultural……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Benjamin Wall, assistant professor of religion and ethics at Greensboro College, has been selected to deliver the 2017 Jean Vanier Emerging Scholar Lecture at this year’s Summer Institute on Theology and Disability. The lecture, to be delivered in June at the Summer Institute at Azusa Pacific University in California, honors Vanier, who……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Michelle Plaisance, assistant professor of English and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages  and director of Greensboro College’s M.A. program in TESOL, has published a paper on that subject. “Like Driving from ‘the Back Seat’: Teaching English as a Second Language in Commodified Curricular Terrains”  was co-written with Spencer Salas and……