A mix of students, staff, faculty pose with the Chancellor and three goats on College Ave.

Wellness Takeover Day was the G.O.A.T

“Goats walking down College Ave wasn’t on our bingo card when we first discussed plans for this day,” joked Kim Sousa Peoples, senior director of First Year Student Engagement and Experience, “But the positive student reaction to this and other events across campus was exactly what our committee was hoping to achieve with the Wellness Takeover Day.”

In Memoriam: Dr. Naurice Frank Woods, Jr.

It is with great sadness we share that Dr. Naurice Frank Woods, Jr., professor emeritus of African American and African Diaspora Studies, passed away on March 8, 2026.

Woods grew up in Greensboro, N.C., raised by educator parents who were dedicated to truth, justice, and the sharing of knowledge.

Conceptual layout of a restaurant by UNCG alumnus Aaron Solar.

Inside the Winning Designs from Interior Architecture Students’ Awards Sweep

An old, unused building on a busy street can mean something different to each person who passes by. Where some might experience a burst of nostalgia, others might see a dilapidated relic from a fading point in time.

Students in UNC Greensboro’s Department of Interior Architecture (IARc) see the potential to give these old buildings new purpose.

And thanks to that mindset, they also saw a clean sweep. Three proposals by IARc students to revitalize historic properties snagged every student category in the 2025 AIA Winston-Salem Design Awards.

Myles Wilder, Jalani Maxwell, JoAnne Smart Drane, and Aminah Coppage

First African American Student Meets Artists Who Created Mural in Her Honor

When Joanne Smart Drane ‘60, the surviving alumna from the trailblazing duo, read a UNCG News story on the mural and the students who created it, she immediately reached out to the University with a request to meet them. This request led to a reception in her honor, which ended with a poignant conversation where artists Aminah Coppage ‘25, Jalani Maxwell ‘24, and Myles Wilder ‘25 were able to ask their famous predecessor the questions they pondered while creating the mural.