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Archive for 2012

Freddy Gomez Named Student-Athlete of the Week

Following outstanding performances in two recent games, soccer player Freddy Gomez ’13 has been named Guilford’s Student-Athlete of the Week. A midfielder, Freddy scored the team’s lone goal in a Sept. 25 loss to Roanoke College, and he scored two goals in a Sept. 29 victory over Shenandoah University, the seventh multiple-goal game of his [...]More

Oct. 3, 2012

Daniel Hood ’11–Graduate student at Boston College

Watch Guilford alumnus Daniel Hood ’11 talk about how Guilford College changed his life and helped lead him to a graduate program in History at Boston College. Daniel notes his undergraduate research experience and the impact of one of his favorite Guilford professors as being pivotal in his time on campus, as well The Bryan [...]More

Oct. 3, 2012

Kaycee Ingram ’12 – Fulbright Scholar in Germany

Watch Guilford alumnus Kaycee Ingram ’12 highlight the impact of her favorite Guilford professor throughout her pursuit and achievement of the Fulbright Scholarship. Kaycee also talks about Guilford’s beautiful campus and the college’s commitment to environmental sustainability.More

Oct. 3, 2012

An Interview with James McCorkle

James McCorkle ’66 is a soft-spoken man, but at a recent event to mark the 50th anniversary of integration at Guilford he graciously answered questions about his experience as the College’s first African-American student.More

Sep. 28, 2012

Beard Whitlow Wins Poetry Prize

“Birthright,” a poem by Charles A. Dana Professor of English Carolyn Beard Whitlow, has won the 2012 Sonia Sanchez/Amiri Baraka Prize in Poetry. Her poem “At the Blank Blank Bar” appears in the fall issue of storySouth. A chapbook collection of her poems, When the Wind Stills, has been selected for publication by Finishing Line [...]More

Sep. 28, 2012

VP Randy Doss Leaving to Join Greensboro Day School

After nearly 13 years of service, Vice President for Enrollment Services Randy Doss ’82 is leaving Guilford College in November to become director of admission and enrollment at Greensboro Day School. Greensboro Day School is a private, highly selective independent school for pre-kindergarten through 12th graders and has an enrollment of 879. Before coming to [...]More

Sep. 28, 2012

Journalist Steve Sapienza Visits Campus Sept. 26-27

Emmy Award-winning journalist Steve Sapienza will make a presentation, “Global Goods, Local Costs: Peru’s Wildcat Gold Rush,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in Founders Gallery-East. The program is free of charge and open to the public. Sapienza, this semester’s Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting visitor, will discuss how some Peruvians are cashing in on the [...]More

Sep. 26, 2012

Sustainability and Stewardship

The Guilford Farm exemplifies our core value of stewardship.More

Sep. 26, 2012

Biology Faculty Member Melanie Lee-Brown Named Leadership Fellow

Melanie Lee-Brown, associate professor in the Biology Department, has been selected by the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education (PULSE) program as one of 40 Vision and Change Leadership Fellows. In a yearlong effort, the fellows will consider and recommend models for improving undergraduate life sciences education. The PULSE program is a joint initiative of [...]More

Sep. 25, 2012

Commemorating 50 Years of Integration

“Integration is not just about percentages of X or Y or Z group,” President Kent Chabotar said Tuesday. “It’s how those groups are treated. It’s how those groups have access to power. It’s how those groups have respect.” Other speakers at the the first event in a yearlong series— Journeys in Blackness — to commemorate the [...]More

Sep. 25, 2012