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Will Parshley ’13 Publishes Research

Will Parshley has published an article based on research he conducted for his honors thesis in psychology. The article, “The Relationship Between Drinking to Cope and Comorbid Depression & Social Anxiety,” appears in Papers and Publications: Interdisciplinary Journal of Undergraduate Research. Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology Richie Zweigenhaft served as Will’s thesis advisor. The [...]More

Jun. 17, 2013

Six Faculty Members Promoted

The Board of Trustees has promoted six faculty members. David M. Dobson in the Geology and Earth Sciences Department has been promoted from associate to full professor. Chair of his department, Dave earned his doctorate in oceanography, marine biology and geochemistry at the University of Michigan. His recent work includes co-authoring the abstract “Archive of [...]More

Jun. 14, 2013

Presidential Search Committee Named

The Board of Trustees has named a 15-member Presidential Search Committee recommended by board Chair Joseph M. Bryan Jr.                         The search committee will identify candidates to succeed President Kent Chabotar, who has served since 2002 and will retire June 30, 2014. Trustee Carole [...]More

Jun. 14, 2013

Professor George Guo Quoted on U.S.-China Summit

Faculty member George Xuezhi Guo was interviewed about the summit June 7-8 between President Barack Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The meeting was a historic “getting-to-know-you opportunity” for the leaders that could allow them to build personal ties and shape a cooperative relationship, George told the Desert Sun, a newspaper [...]More

Jun. 10, 2013

Guilford Invoices Go Green

Dear Guilford College Students and Parents, Guilford College student billing has gone green! Beginning with the fall 2013 student billing, we will no longer be mailing paper invoices! We previously announced our partnership with Higher One and our plans to begin billing Guilford students electronically through a secure Internet portal. This system is now live, [...]More

Jun. 7, 2013

College Hosts N.C. Cyber Threat Conference

About 120 law enforcement and justice officials, along with business and academic leaders, convened on campus June 5 for the N.C. Cyber Threat Conference. The workshop and training was presented by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina and the N.C. Information Sharing and Analysis Center. Topics covered included assessing cyber [...]More

Jun. 6, 2013

Colleen Hayes ’12 Earns Fulbright Teaching Assistantship

Colleen Hayes ’12 has been awarded an Austrian Fulbright Teaching Assistantship for the 2013-14 academic year. She will be teaching in two high schools in Wels, Austria, beginning Sept. 19. Meanwhile, Ryan Sanders ’12 will be completing the second year of his own teaching assistantship in Austria. “I’ll be aiding two English teachers in the [...]More

Jun. 3, 2013

N&R Features Forensic Biology

A front-page story in the June 3 Greensboro News & Record highlighted the January Term project on cold cases led by Assistant Professor of Biology Bryan Brendley. Guilford County Assistant District Attorney Christopher Parrish, himself a part-time lecturer at the College, presented an actual case to the students. “We’re all trying to figure out, ‘How [...]More

Jun. 3, 2013

Bryan Series Subscriptions on Sale

New subscriptions for Guilford College’s 2013-14 Bryan Series are now on sale. The cost is $195 for five lectures, and approximately 350 seats are available in the rear orchestra and balcony of War Memorial Auditorium. The Bryan Series will present former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Oct. 29, scientist and ocean explorer Robert Ballard [...]More

Jun. 3, 2013

Summer Research Scholars Selected

Six pairs of students and faculty representing five academic departments have been chosen for the College’s first Summer Research Scholars Program: Celine De Perlinghi-Johnson and Joe Cole (Philosophy) Joseph McManus and George Guo (Political Science) Rose McIntyre and Daniel Rhodes (CMJS) Tara Strefling and David Hildreth (Education) Travis Moore and Megan White (Biology) Lyes Benarbane [...]More

May. 31, 2013