Community, Events, Faculty And Staff, Featured, Students, Sustainability - Tuesday, May 22, 2012 10:23 am
‘Cram and Scram’ rummage sale set for June 2
Bargain hunters with spare change and a little patience could be richly rewarded at UNCG’s Cram and Scram rummage sale June 2.
Clothing, decorations, electronics, appliances, furniture and other odds and ends left in university housing by departing students are sold for just 50 cents apiece at the annual event. Proceeds from the sale, put on by UNCG’s Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling, fund environmental educational opportunities for UNCG students and the greater community, like this year’s Earth Day celebration.
The popular sale, which is open to the public, marries frugality and sustainability. “Last year’s event diverted almost eight tons from landfill disposal and put valuable material back into use,” said Ben Kunka, UNCG recycling operations manager. Full Story »
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- UNCG professor awarded NEH Fellowship for study at Newberry Library
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- New freshmen reading ‘Wine to Water’
- UNCG presents 2012 top service awards
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- 33 inducted into Business Honor Society
- UNCG professors selected for fellowships in Princeton for 2012-13
- Phi Beta Kappa chapter inducts 38 new members
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- New freshmen reading ‘Wine to Water’
May 18, 2012 9:01 am
Guarantee scholars follow freedom’s railroad
On May 20, ten UNCG Guarantee scholars travel back in time to pre-Civil War America. Their objective? Follow Harriet Tubman’s historic Underground Railroad.
Their journey will take them to locations across the US and across the Canadian border as they track a runaway slave’s risky route to freedom. The trip is part of a specialized summer class that connects the Underground Railroad to present-day issues of social justice and immigration.
For Gretchen Adkins, a Guarantee scholar and a rising junior in the Lloyd International Honors College, the course is mind-expanding. Gretchen has never left the US; she has traveled as far south as Georgia, as far north as Boston, and as far west as Illinois.
“Most of us on this trip are lucky if we’ve even been to the West Coast,” she says. “When I accepted the Guarantee scholarship, I sort of had tunnel vision. I had no idea the program would be so outside the box. It is, and I like it.” Full Story »
May 18, 2012 2:35 pm
UNCG presents 2012 top service awards
From an artist who serves the homeless to a cancer survivor who is paving the way for the women who come after her, six individuals have received The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s top awards for service. They are:
● Martha Hendrix Kaley ’80 MEd, of Greensboro, Charles Duncan McIver Award, which recognizes individuals who have rendered distinguished public service to the state or nation. The bronze medal bears the likeness of Charles Duncan McIver, the founding president of the institution that is now UNCG.
May 21, 2012 9:07 am
New freshmen reading ‘Wine to Water’
What will UNCG’s incoming freshmen read this summer? Try “Wine to Water: A Bartender’s Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World.”
The book was adopted by the UNCG Freshman Summer Reading Project, designed to introduce students to the intellectual life of the university.
“Wine to Water” was written by Doc Hendley, a Raleigh bartender who learned about the shortage of clean water in countries like the Sudan and dreamed up a way to help. The result is Wine to Water, a nonprofit organization that seeks to provide clean water to the needy around the world. Full Story »
