Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, the Weatherspoon’s capacity to use art for teaching and learning is expanding. Managing this vision for the museum’s educational mission will be the newly endowed Elizabeth McIver Weatherspoon Curator of Academic Programming and Head of Exhibitions, Dr. Emily Stamey.
Volvo is helping steer UNC Greensboro’s students toward success in their careers.
Volvo Group North America, LLC, has pledged $100,000 to UNC Greensboro for the purpose of supporting the UNCG’s Bryan School of Business and Economics Blueprint Series.
Milly Alvarez ’63 and her husband, Walter, have made a planned gift valued at $375,000 to UNC Greensboro’s Mildred Millner Alvarez Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship in Psychology.
Several Spartan doctoral students in the School of Nursing have been supported by a special one-year scholarship.
Before the 2022-2023 academic year began, the Raleigh School of Nurse Anesthesia Board of Directors established a merit scholarship for students in UNC Greensboro’s School of Nursing Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Nurse Anesthesia Concentration.
“Spartan Sweethearts” Dean Castaldo ’12 and Emilie Peterson Castaldo ’10 have announced a planned gift to their alma mater will support the UNCG General Scholarship Fund and the Military and Veterans Alumni Fund.
UNCG alumnus John Bain and his late wife, Anita, recognized higher education as the key to success in life. Now John is honoring Anita’s memory by helping ensure Spartans will succeed for generations to come through the Anita and John Bain Athletic Endowment Scholarship and the Anita and John Bain Endowed Scholarship.
Imagine a world without music! For Ruth Heyd ’99 and Stephanie Frazier, that would be unthinkable. They are proud to establish the Ruth Darling Heyd ’99 and Stephanie Frazier Scholarship Endowment in Collaborative Piano at UNCG’s School of Music with a $600,000 planned gift. It is their hope the scholarship will inspire future students to major in this area.
“The more we change, the more we have to learn,” says Claudia Kadis ’65. Her new gift will establish the Dylan Rose Kadis and Eloise Hall Kadis Distinguished Professorship in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and will represent the bulk of an expected $1 million investment in UNC Greensboro’s WGSS program.
The Seeker Rescue Fund at UNC Greensboro will provide relief to students whose education may be at risk due to a short-term lack of resources. Susan Seeker Jones ’78 and Jim Jones Jr. hope that their $125,000 gift will inspire others to support UNCG’s scholars.
The arts at UNCG received a $266,389 gift from the estate of former art history professor Claire Kelleher, a longtime faculty member and scholar of medieval art and architecture.
