With a background in art and graphic design, Tristin Miller ’10 is flexing other muscles these days. After several years of organizing the Hand to Hand Market and myriad other artist-community groups around the Triad, she is now also a weightlifting coach, focusing on trauma-informed private sessions with people who… Continue reading…
For Suzanne Cabrera ’07, her art consistently starts by hand, whether that is ensuring traces of her analog process come through in her Open Sketch Book project or in starting The Tiny Greenhouse as a place to share plants and well-designed objects with her community. She shares both projects with… Continue reading…
Ash Mohan ’19 created an eye-popping visual of alumna Lauren Holt at Rockefeller Center. Ash currently works in the psychology department of UNCG as an administrator, but keeps crafty, too. Besides creating an online beaded jewelry business, Ash is also applying to become a children’s book illustrator.
Jordan McClendon was only a few classes away from finishing his media studies degree at UNCG when the pandemic hit in 2020. “I had an internship and was working for Central Intercollegiate Athletics Association, when everything just stopped.” But in the middle of the summer, he looked for opportunity and… Continue reading…
After finishing up his time running computer networks for the U.S. Marine Corps in San Diego, Ben Hunter 09, ’11 MS and his wife looked at cities across 10 states in the South, “and she chose Greensboro; it has the amenities of a big city with a local feel.” Hunter… Continue reading…
During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, UNCG Magazine covered several alumni nurses – in the combat zone, at Ramstein Air Base, and on flights with wounded soldiers. We recently caught up with Mary Jo Abernethy ’77. The last time we’d spoken, in 2007, she’d mobilized to Germany where she… Continue reading…
Saundretta James ’08, 12 MEd appeared on the cover of UNCG Magazine’s campaign issue in 2006 as the Students First campaign was having its public launch. The article followed her on a day in her life as a student, going to classes, meeting with professors, studying, and hanging out with… Continue reading…
Sina McGimpsey Reid ’65 was a key figure in the 1963 Tate Street boycott, a Civil Rights milestone for the UNCG community. Led and carried out by Woman’s College (UNCG) students – and with the official support of the student government – students demanded the racial desegregation of three businesses… Continue reading…
Kaira Wagoner ’15 PhD is 50% research scientist, 50% start-up founder, and all abuzz for bees. After graduating from UNCG in 2015 she served as a postdoc researcher in UNCG’s Social Insect Lab, and became the research scientist for her own lab at UNCG in April of 2021. “Bees contribute… Continue reading…
For Tyshea Lewis ’13, ’16 MEd, coming from a small town to the UNCG campus – or any campus – was intimidating. But in the UNCG Guarantee Scholars program, she found community and opportunity as a student. Now, she is leading the program, giving back to current UNCG students and… Continue reading…
