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UNC Asheville celebrated the special accomplishments of its professors in an online gathering on Friday, May 8. Awards were given for teaching, creativity, service and scholarship, as well as special recognition for retiring faculty members.
UNC Asheville presented its annual student and faculty leadership awards in a special video tribute on Friday, May 8, 2020.
“While this year’s ceremony might look a little different in practice, we feel that it is important to take a moment to reflect on this academic year and celebrate the successes of our students, staff and faculty at UNC Asheville,” said Chancellor Nancy J. Cable in the video.
History Senior Zach Dorcas explains his history research project and what the Era of Good Feelings tells us about current events.
Leading stargazing sessions for school students and community members…
Leading backpacking expeditions for her fellow students…
Participating as an intern with the IceCube Project to improve the neutrino-detecting capabilities of instruments buried deep in the ice at the South Pole…
Finding data patterns to help explain cosmic events that happened six billion years ago…
And presenting at two of the world’s largest professional astronomy conferences…
Samantha Creech has packed a lot into her time at UNC Asheville, and she has been named the winner of the 2020 Manly E. Wright Award, given to the student first in scholarship.
In the world of business, there’s no substitute for experience.
That’s the idea behind the consulting practicum course in UNC Asheville’s management and accountancy program, taught by Susan Clark, assistant professor of management. The class worked with two local businesses, JB Media Group, founded by UNC Asheville alumnus Justin Belleme, and Kudzu Brands, run by CEO and Creative Director Murphy Capps. Students worked side-by-side with Belleme and Capps to develop their own business strategies for real clients.
UNC Asheville biology senior Ari Miller and Professor Graham Reynolds describe their undergraduate research expedition to Vietnam, how it led to the discovery of a new species, and it's relevance to current events.
In any given day as the associate director for policy and communication for the CDC’s Division of Population Health in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, UNC Asheville alumna Michele Sussman Walsh may be working on a strategic plan for the healthy schools program, helping congressional aids understand the importance of the work being done in the Alzheimer’s disease program, or approving website content for a program on workplace health.
“Venomous snakes are so misunderstood,” shares McKenna Jolly ‘19 (they/their), who spent their spring interning at the Kentucky Reptile Zoo after graduating from UNC Asheville with a degree in biology.
“People will see one of our vipers looking at them and they'll say ‘it wants to eat me!’ I see this snake and I know its body language is very relaxed, it's probably just wondering if we brought it a mouse or something,” explains Jolly.
Their interest in reptiles grew while at UNC Asheville. When Jolly first came to UNC Asheville, they started out as a general science major before narrowing down their interest to biology. Beyond their passion for caring for animals, it was a summer class with environmental studies instructor Landon Ward that solidified their love for reptiles.
UNC Asheville alumnus Dr. Ian Nelligan, a clinical assistant professor in the department of medicine, division of primary care and population health at Stanford, had been working hard on a proposal to roll out video visits for Stanford Health Care's family medicine clinic over an 18-month period.
Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
This month, universities said good-bye to graduating seniors in unusual ways. BPR takes us to UNC Asheville’s English graduation:
On May 9, Professor Lori Horvitz, head of the English Department said goodbye to her students: “I have the pomp and circumstance theme music. Do you hear that?”
Check out our digital yearbook, "20 for 20," and celebrate all our Bulldogs who graduated in May.
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