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Spring Convocation Celebrates Innovation, Leadership, Excellence, Community
Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø celebrated Spring Convocation on April 17, 2025, highlighting academic, athletic and artistic achievements, as well as leadership, character and community service.
Professors Gill-Sadler and Castañeda Selected for National Humanities Center Residencies
Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø professors Gill-Sadler and Castañeda were recently selected for summer residencies at the National Humanities Center—a four-week program to give humanities scholars an opportunity to make progress on a current research project or jumpstart a new one. Learn more.
Seeking Humane Immigration Solutions: Itziri Gonzalez-Barcenas ’19 Named Schwarzman Scholar
Itziri Gonzalez-Barcenas ’19 grew up as an undocumented immigrant and has worked toward finding humane solutions to help others. A former student leader at Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø, she has been named a Schwarzman Scholar and will spend a year in a fully funded master’s degree program in global affairs in Beijing, learning from some of the world’s top educators, economists, and political, diplomatic, and non-profit leaders. Learn more.
At the 2023 HEARTsongs event in Cornelius, NC, Professor Brenda Flanagan examined the African American experience through poetry in the 19th and 20th centuries. Learn more.
Still Dreaming: Black Women Writers Offer Unflinching Honesty
Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø Assistant Professor of Africana and English studies Randi Gill-Sadler specializes in 20th century African American and Afro-Caribbean women writers. She encourages students to read the literature in conjunction with traditional historical accounts of the time periods covered. Learn more.
Scholar Focused on Untold Stories Returns to Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø
Dr. Hilary Green is returning to Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø as the James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies, a tenured position, in fall 2022.
Alumni and Foundation Support Create Trio of Endowed Professorships
New endowed professorships enhance college’s efforts to recruit and retain the highest quality faculty.
Alums Contribute to Expansion of Africana Studies Department
One of the college’s youngest departments gets a boost from class of 1961 alums.
Prof. Alice Wiemers Publishes New Book
Congratulations to Prof. Alice Wiemers on the publication of her new book, Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in 20th-Century Ghana with Ohio University Press.
Collective Memory: Surfacing Stories of Black Alumni and Students
Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø storytelling initiative invites Black alumni and students to share their stories. The narratives will live in the college's archive and be made available through a website.
Connections: Reclaiming Crops, Preserving Land, Serving Communities
Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø students partner with Gullah Geechee community to protect a way of life.
Scholar Who Gives Voice to Untold Stories of Slavery, Reconstruction Appointed Vann Professor of Ethics in Society
Hilary Green, a U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction scholar, will join Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø as the second Vann Professor of Ethics in Society for the 2020-21 academic year.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø Again a Top Producer of Fulbright Recipients
With six U.S. Fulbright grant recipients, Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø lands among the top producers of Fulbright students and scholars nationally.
From Cheaper Insulin to Stemming School Expulsions: Pre-Symposium Preview of Original Student Work With Real-World Effects
They tackle real world problems: Tracking measles outbreaks. Developing better life-saving medications. Making mental health counseling more accessible. Keeping at-risk kids in school and out of prison.
They enliven the arts: Performing on stage. Writing poetry. Producing films. Playing music. Composing music. Painting. Drawing. Sculpting.
That’s just a small taste of what Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø students have been up to this year.
