Department Head Janet Lilly teaches in China
While most of us were preparing for the holidays, UNCG Dance Professor and Department Head Janet Lilly was teaching dance in China. Lilly spent two and a half weeks teaching Contemporary Dance and Choreography at Shaoguan University in Guangdong Province. She spent time teaching pedagogy classes to instructors at the university, worked with students to choreograph […]
Performing Arts Website Planned Downtime
There will be planned downtime for vpa.uncg.edu Friday, January 29, 5:30am – 7:30am. This will affect department website visitors on Friday, January 29, 5:30am – 7:30am. The site and all associated files, forms, and pages will not be accessible. If you have questions, please contact 6-TECH at (336) 256-TECH (8324) or [email protected] or Daniel Rice.
Blackboard EOL
A reminder to faculty that Blackboard access will be turned off beginning January 31, 2016. After that point, no one will have access to Blackboard. The Provost and ITS announced the transition from Blackboard to Canvas in June 2014. You can view a timeline of the migration here. ITS has now stated that the transition is […]
Carr’s book wins Society for Ethnomusicology’s most prestigious award
UNCG Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Dr. Revell Carr, was awarded the Alan P. Merriam Prize for outstanding book for 2014-2015 from the Society for Ethnomusicology, and their annual meeting in Austin, TX, Dec. 5. Carr’s book, Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels, is a historical study of the musical interactions between native Hawaiians […]