James Ensor
Class of 2017
Zoey Chittick
Class of 2016
Maxwell Wheeler
Class of 2018
HIGH POINT, N.C., July 1, 2019 – High Point University recently welcomed 11 new staff members. They are as follows: Dr. Jodi Jabs joined the Office of Student Life at HPU as director of campus engagement and student activities. She plans programs and activities for students, including Summer Advantage, Welcome Week and move-in, and the […]
This story is featured in the Spring 2019 edition of the HPU Magazine. Below, take a look at how HPU encourages local children’s interest in the sciences through the Mobile Lab. Imagine being a child discovering a love for science for the first time by looking through a microscope in a state-of-the-art lab at school. […]
Rory Baker, center, and Brianna Berry, right, participants in the Youth Leadership Academy hosted by HPU and the High Point Police Department, prepare lunches to serve at Open Door Ministries. HIGH POINT, N.C., June 28, 2019 – Twenty-seven teenagers graduated from the Youth Leadership Academy on Thursday with a fresh perspective on leadership and service […]
Participants of the fifth annual STEM Camp, led by professors and students in HPU’s Stout School of Education, launch rockets during a finale event today. HIGH POINT, N.C., June 27, 2019 – High Point University’s fifth annual STEM Camp ended with a blast today. Children in lab coats and goggles pointed to the sky with […]
This story is featured in the Spring 2019 edition of the HPU Magazine. Here’s a glimpse of one family with three generations of HPU graduates. Being family isn’t the only tie that binds Richard, Joe, Patrick and Alex Budd. They have High Point University purple in their veins, too. These four HPU graduates represent three […]
This story is featured in the Spring 2019 edition of the HPU Magazine. Below, is a look at HPU’s continued tradition of honoring our nation’s heroes. On a chilly Friday morning in November, they came. They came with family and friends, in wheelchairs and walkers, wearing ball caps and jackets that spoke of their service […]
HIGH POINT, N.C., June 21, 2019 – Thirteen High Point University students cared for more than 500 patients collectively when they traveled to the cities of La Cruz and Liberia in Costa Rica. The group provided free medical, dental and veterinary assistance to these communities. Advised by HPU faculty member Dr. Michael Grider, assistant professor […]
High Point University physical therapy doctoral students help children with limited mobility at Camp High Five.
This story is featured in the Spring 2019 edition of the HPU Magazine. Below take a look at Men’s Basketball Head Coach, Tubby Smith’s, return home to HPU. The most excited freshman on campus is someone you won’t expect. Orlando “Tubby” Smith, HPU’s new basketball coach. A half century ago, Smith left his family’s farm […]
The camp is one of a few in the country that offer constraint-induced movement therapy for children who have limited mobility on one side of their body. HIGH POINT, N.C., June 19, 2019 – This week, more than a dozen High Point University physical therapy doctoral students are helping community children with limited mobility become […]
HIGH POINT, N.C., June 19, 2019 – High Point University has nearly 100 community children on campus for the next two weeks to learn about science, technology, engineering and mathematics. On Tuesday, they built a solar oven out of a pizza box, aluminum foil and cellophane to trap heat from the sun and toasted s’mores. […]
HIGH POINT, N.C., June 7, 2019 – High Point University welcomed 10 new staff members in April and May. They are as follows: Dr. Jason Lattier joined HPU as director of the Caine Conservatory. He will curate plant collections and oversee the new 15,000-square-foot conservatory, which is under construction on campus. The Caine Conservatory will […]
HIGH POINT, N.C., June 5, 2019 – High Point University physical therapy students from the Congdon School of Health Sciences traveled to Guatemala to take the skills they learned in the classroom and treat a diverse patient population within a variety of clinics throughout rural parts of the country. HPU students partnered with the nonprofit, […]
HIGH POINT, N.C., May 29, 2019 – There are four more opportunities left for community members in the city of High Point to participate in free writing classes led by High Point University faculty. On May 21, the Community Writing Center hosted its second of six adult classes that are part of a pilot program, […]
HIGH POINT, N.C., May 23, 2019 – High Point University will honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for this nation by lowering perimeter flags to half-staff on Monday in observance of Memorial Day. “High Point University is a God, family and country school,” says HPU President Dr. Nido Qubein. “We are […]
The Community Writing Center in High Point is now offering adult classes. The center is a partnership between High Point University and Mt. Zion Baptist Church.
HIGH POINT, N.C., May 21, 2019 – The High Point University Civitan Club has earned the Campus Service Project of the Year award from Civitan International for its support of hurricane victims. This is the sixth time the club has won this award since 2013. For this year’s project, the Civitan Club prepared emergency hygiene […]
HIGH POINT, N.C., May 20, 2019 – Dr. Andrew Wommack, assistant professor of chemistry, received the Ruth Ridenhour Scholarly and Professional Achievement Award during High Point University’s 2019 Commencement ceremony. The award recognizes a full-time faculty member for exemplary accomplishments in research and creative endeavors. Wommack’s research blends two subdisciplines of chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry […]
HIGH POINT, N.C., May 20, 2019 – Dr. Adam Graham-Squire, associate professor of mathematics, received the Meredith Clark Slane Distinguished Teaching-Service Award during High Point University’s 2019 Commencement ceremony. The award is named for Meredith Clark Slane, a friend to the university, and has been given annually since 1973 to recognize excellence in teaching. Graham-Squire […]
High Point University’s faculty and staff loaded a U.S. Postal Service truck with more than 7,500 pounds of nonperishable food items. It’s a longstanding tradition for HPU to donate to the United Way of Greater High Point’s “Stamp Out Hunger” campaign.
