Philip Friedman was a Professor of Economics and Dean of the School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1984 to 1990. Friedman came to UNCG from Boston University, where he had been Chair of the Department of Finance and Economics since 1980…. Continue reading…
Mariana Newton was a professor of Speech Pathology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1969, until her retirement in 2000. A native of California, Newton received both her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Redlands, in Redlands, California, in 1960 and 1963, respectively. She… Continue reading…
Katharine Smith Reynolds Johnston was born and raised in Mount Airy, North Carolina. She attended the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG) from 1897 to 1899 but did not graduate. Katharine left the campus after the typhoid epidemic of 1899, transferring to Sullins College in Bristol, Virginia, where she… Continue reading…
Robin Remsburg is a Professor of Nursing and the current Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Remsburg received her BSN from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1978, and her MSN in nursing education from UNCG in 1992. She received… Continue reading…
Edward Uprichard was Provost at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1995 to 2007, and Dean of the School of Education at UNCG from 1988 to 1995. Uprichard received his B.A. in mathematics education from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1964, and his… Continue reading…
Lynne Pearcey was Dean of the School of Nursing at UNCG for 23 years, from 1990 until her retirement in 2013. During her time as Dean, the School of Nursing established a Ph.D. in nursing, and became a highly selective and rigorous nursing school. Pearcey arrived at UNCG in 1989… Continue reading…
Robert L. Miller was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1968 to 1985. Miller was born and raised in Chicago, and received his B.S. in biochemistry and his M.S. in biology from the University of Chicago, in 1949… Continue reading…
David H. Perrin was Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 2007 to 2014, and Dean of the School of Health and Human Performance at UNCG from 2001 to 2007. Under Perrin’s leadership as Dean of the School of Human Performance, a… Continue reading…
Charles Adams was born August 24, 1907 in Lamoure, North Dakota. He completed his AB undergraduate work at Amherst College in 1926, his Bachelor of Science degree from the Columbia School of Library Science in 1933, then his master’s degree from the Columbia English department in American literature in… Continue reading…
In 1965, Frank Pleasants was hired to develop both intramural and intercollegiate athletic programs for UNCG in an effort to help transition the university into a co-educational institution. One of the first programs to emerge was an intercollegiate men’s soccer team in 1970. During the 1980s and the 1990s, the… Continue reading…
