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  • cmaa signing

    NC construction management organization provides scholarship funding

    July 26

    A statewide chapter of a construction industry professionals organization has established a new endowed scholarship fund at ĢƵthat will provide financial assistance to students from North Carolina studying construction management.

  • antonia teaching student

    Antonia Kincaid - Finding Inspiration

    April 23

    Antonia Kincaid came to ĢƵthinking she had it figured out, but quickly realized that her passion for teaching would bring her to the classroom as a student teaching intern.

  • Benny Smith

    Benny Smith

    February 21

    Benny Smith is proud of his success because he is deliberate in using the investment of time and energy that a community of people have given him throughout his life to make a lasting impact in the lives of others.

  • Rome, Italy

    All Roads Lead to Rome

    February 17

    Despite Covid-19 challenges, Samuel Josephson, a Sophomore studying International Studies and History, was able to arrange a study abroad program at the American University in Rome.

  • Brandi Hinnant-Crawford

    Brandi Hinnant-Crawford

    February 7

    Brandi Hinnant-Crawford says that her success makes her humble, appreciative and grateful. She is proud, but not of herself; She is proud of the fantastic community that raised and nurtured here. And her success makes her accountable to that community.

  • Myron Jackson

    Myron Jackson

    February 7

    Myron Jackson is proud of his success because it taught him to be grateful for the help and support of others. One cannot succeed alone.

  • Shamella Cromartie

    Shamella Cromartie

    February 1

    Shamella Cromartie didn’t recall the first time she heard that “if you live by the cheers, you die by the boos,” but it stuck with her and it shapes much of her thoughts around success.

  • Munene Mwaniki

    Munene Mwaniki

    February 1

    Getting a PhD certainly isn't easy and there are few Black professors to model after, but Mwaniki also was fortunate in a lot ways and didn't believe that a degree made him smarter than others.

  • Students

    Exploration Leads to Career Connections

    October 28

    For almost a week this month, 29 students and five faculty members in ĢƵ’s Geosciences and Natural Resources Department went camping and visiting sites across the mountains. It was fun, to be sure, but there was a specific purpose.

  • Kerwin Bell

    Envisioning Championships

    October 16

    To this day, Kerwin Bell remembers vividly the scene in Gainesville, Florida in 1984 when he and his University of Florida teammates returned to campus following a trip to Kentucky after the Gators clinched what was then their first Southeastern Conference championship (a title that was later vacated because of rules violations by coach Charley Pell). Just before landing, the team plane flew over Florida Field where some 40,000 fans gathered to welcome the team home. On the bus ride from the airport to campus, the Gainesville streets were lined with fans.