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Fall 2019 Commencement: ‘A new beginning’

As the fall 2019 UNC Greensboro Spartan graduates turned their tassels in Greensboro Coliseum today, they also turned a new page in their life journeys. UNCG conferred approximately 1,490 bachelor’s degrees, 338 master’s degrees, 126 doctoral degrees, and three specialist in education degrees. Of the degrees awarded, 74 were conferred to international students. The most […]
UNCG to award 2,000 degrees at December Commencement

UNC Greensboro will award nearly 2,000 degrees at the December Commencement Ceremony and Doctoral Hooding Ceremony. The Commencement Ceremony will be held Friday, Dec. 13, at 10 a.m. at the Greensboro Coliseum. The University’s Doctoral Hooding Ceremony will take place Thursday, Dec. 12, at 3 p.m. at UNCG Auditorium. The University plans to confer approximately […]
Annual ‘Harvest Home’ choral concert returns Nov. 24

Choral music lovers consider Greensboro’s First Presbyterian Church a uniquely ambient space. Good news: UNC Greensboro’s choral program this year will host more concerts there than ever before, with the annual holiday concert taking place this Sunday, Nov. 24. The popular “Harvest Home” concert, which is free and open to the public, will celebrate the […]
Alumna Emmylou Harris to perform on campus

UNC Greensboro today announced that one of the greatest living country singer-songwriters, Emmylou Harris, will perform at UNCG Auditorium on Jan. 24 at 7:30 p.m. as part of UNCG’s University Concert and Lecture Series. Tickets are now available for purchase online. Before becoming a 14-time Grammy-winner, and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and decades before […]
UNCG Pop Up Shop returns to downtown

UNC Greensboro today announced the return of its UNCG Pop Up Shop to downtown Greensboro this holiday season. Beginning with the Dec. 6 Festival of Lights, the UNCG Pop Up Shop will be open for three consecutive weekends during December, offering the Spartan faithful an opportunity to shop for gear and gifts and connect with […]
Mayor Nancy Vaughan to speak at December Commencement

UNC Greensboro today announced that City of Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan will deliver the keynote address at the University’s Commencement Ceremony on Friday, Dec. 13, at the Greensboro Coliseum. More than 1,950 students are expected to receive degrees at the ceremony. Vaughan is the 48th mayor of Greensboro, elected in 2013, and reelected in 2017 by an […]
Women’s hoops to start season with big goals

Seniors Nadine Soliman, Te’ja Twitty, Alexis Pitchford, and Alexus Willey started their UNC Greensboro basketball careers three years ago with a 20-win season and an exciting postseason run. Now, as the veteran players look ahead to the Nov. 5 season opener, they are hoping to once again find that kind of success. Notching 20 wins […]
Men’s basketball returns Nov. 5

The UNCG men’s basketball team returns to the court Tuesday, Nov. 5, and it’s safe to say that this year’s players are hungry. Sure, the Spartans had another record-breaking season last year. They competed in the Southern Conference title game for a third consecutive season and earned the No. 1 overall seed in the National […]
Celebrate UNCG Homecoming

Gear up in your blue and gold, and get ready to show off that Spartan spirit. It’s Homecoming week. UNC Greensboro’s annual Homecoming celebration kicks off this Wednesday and runs through Sunday, with the festivities culminating on Saturday at the annual Homecoming Block Party at Kaplan Commons. UNCG alumni, students, faculty, staff, and community members […]
Powerhouse pianists light up Tew Recital Hall

Johannes Brahms, Leonard Cohen, and Radiohead? All of the above filled UNC Greensboro’s Tew Recital Hall this week as piano powerhouse duo Anderson & Roe (Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe) took the stage as part of UNCG’s University Concert and Lecture Series and as guests in the School of Music. “Their playing is so […]
Progress for new nursing, sciences building

A significant milestone has been reached in the construction of the new Nursing and Instructional Building (NIB) on the UNC Greensboro campus – the project has surpassed the halfway mark in the timeline for completion. This achievement was highlighted by a recent visit to the site by UNC Greensboro Chancellor Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. “It’s […]
Artist Nick Cave kicks off 2019-20 UCLS

It was standing room only Thursday night for the start of UNC Greensboro’s 2019-20 University Concert and Lecture Series (UCLS). Renowned visual artist Nick Cave kicked off the yearlong event series with a lecture to a packed house of students, faculty, staff, and community members at Elliott University Center Auditorium. Cave works through a wide […]
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