Save the Date! The 2015 Behavioral Health Faith Summit will take place on Thursday, April 16, 2015 from 8:30am-2:45pm at Greensboro College (815 West Market Street, Greensboro NC). A day of Community Education around the spectrum of Mental Health Concerns, the Summit hopes to bring together the behavioral health, faith, … Continued
The 2015 Novem Mason Symposium on Community-Engaged Design will focus on housing the homeless and will feature Brent Brown, of bcWORKSHOP and Dallas CityDesign Studio. The UNCG symposium will be March 5-7. Register online here. Registration to the symposium is free. In lieu of a registration fee, please make a donation … Continued
The second annual “Writers Meet Readers” O.Henry Book Fair will be held at the O.Henry Hotel from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21. It will feature 20 local writers, all with recently published books. Many will be UNCG alumni and faculty. Presented by the O. Henry Hotel, the UNCG MFA … Continued
Enjoying a UNCG Music performance is always a wonderful experience. You can’t get to a particular performance? It may be one of the many that will be live streamed, so you can enjoy it with the click of mouse. What’s more, for the first time, UNCG will live stream a … Continued
Kathy Reichs — best-selling crime writer and inspiration for the Fox TV series “Bones” — will be the guest speaker at the Friends of the UNCG Libraries Annual Dinner Wednesday, April 8. Like her protagonist Temperance Brennan, Reichs is a forensic anthropologist — one of only about a hundred ever certified by … Continued
World War I and World War II figure prominently in the provocative Friends of the UNCG Libraries book discussions scheduled for Spring 2015. Monday, Feb. 9: Friends of the UNCG Libraries Book Discussion – “Regeneration” by Pat Barker, led by Keith Gorman of the University Libraries 4 p.m., Hodges Reading Room, … Continued
Every year, several universities in the United States are selected by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Program to host a speaker of national distinction at their site by offering presentations and colloquiums to students and faculty. This year, UNCG was selected as one of those schools. Prof. David Schmidtz, … Continued
The Kit Kat Club opens for business Feb. 12-22, so come hear the music play. See UNCG Theatre’s production of “Cabaret” live in Taylor Theatre. Kander and Ebb’s Tony-winning musical, set in pre-war Berlin as the Nazis take hold, is “one of the masterpieces of musical theater,” says John Gulley, … Continued
The UNCG Center for Women’s Health and Wellness and the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute at UNC Chapel Hill present the 10th Annual Breastfeeding and Feminism Conference (BFIC) on March 19-20, 2015, the only breastfeeding conference that focuses on the sociocultural, economic, health and political impacts on, and of, women’s infant feeding … Continued
Save the Date! On March 5-7, 2015, the UNCG Department of Interior Architecture and Center for Community-Engaged Design will host the 2nd Annual Novem Mason Symposium on Community-Engaged Design. This year, the focus of the symposium will be on homelessness and housing the homeless, and will feature Brent Brown, of … Continued