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Safran and Kaplan receive honorary degrees
UNC Greensboro conferred honorary doctorates to Light the Way campaign co-chairs Susan Safran ’77 and Randall Kaplan during the May 7 Doctoral and Master’s Commencement ceremony at First Horizon Coliseum. Safran received an honorary doctor of science degree for her exceptional guidance in advanced learning in health care, emergency training, and higher education, enriching lives…
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Dual-degree Spartan funds education scholarship
School of Education scholar Shameeka M. Wilson ’18, ’20 MEd established an endowment at UNCG in 2019 as she was finishing her master’s program. Her first scholarship was awarded in 2020. This eastern North Carolina native created the Shameeka Monay Wilson Legacy in Furthering Education (LIFE) Endowed Scholarship in Education to honor her mother and grandmother, and her own successful path to a career in education, teaching Deaf students and multilingual learners with disabilities. Wilson praises…
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Elvira Green Receives UNCG Honorary Degree
UNCG conferred an honorary degree on music educator and renowned opera mezzo-soprano Elvira Green, at the Dec. 11 Doctoral Hooding ceremony in UNCG Auditorium. Born into a family of musicians, Elvira Green grew up on a family farm in eastern North Carolina and began playing the piano at the age of 4. Her lifelong passion…
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Homecoming 2025
Highlights from Homecoming 2025, October 17-18 Photography by Sean Norona and Micciche Photography
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Hansen performing arts collection preserves theater history
Shortly after eBay was born, Dr. Robert Hansen nabbed a treasure: a first-century Roman theater token – now the oldest item in the Robert C. Hansen Performing Arts Collection at UNCG’s Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives. A retired associate dean in the University’s College of Arts and Sciences, he began his 34-year…
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Warmath Commons honors 60 years of commitment to Weatherspoon
In honor of the Warmath family’s 60 years of support to the Weatherspoon Art Museum, its iconic central atrium has been named Warmath Commons in recognition of Sarah Dew Warmath and her late husband, Jack. The naming ceremony was held Sept. 25, 2015. Says Juliette Bianco, the Anne and Ben Cone Memorial Endowed Director of…
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Kinesiology research becomes reality
After years of hard work, Dr. Sandra Shultz (UNCG) and colleague Dr. Randy Schmitz (NC A&T, formerly UNCG) are seeing more than two decades of research pay off. This past April, they earned a patent for a device that can help reduce the number of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, especially in women athletes. The…
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Education scholarship will help educators ‘change the world’
Kids need heroes at home, at school, and in their communities, says Cathy Tisdale ’75. She believes philanthropy can help. With the establishment of the Cathy Tisdale Class of 1975 Teacher Education Endowed Scholarship, she hopes to encourage future educators to join the profession. “I’m a believer in a quality public education not as privilege,…
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UNCG Deaf education alumna makes an impact
With at least 1,500 deaf students throughout North Carolina, Virginia Madorin ‘11 serves the Deaf community in her role with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Madorin is currently an IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) consultant in the Office of Exceptional Children and co-director of the North Carolina DeafBlind Project. In her role…