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Class of 2017 Profile: Kelly Begins Accounting Career at Ernst & Young

With another successful commencement behind us, recent High Point University graduates are preparing to commence prestigious career paths around the world at Fortune 500 companies, international service programs, public school systems, top-tier law, medical and graduate school programs, and many other esteemed organizations thanks to their journey at HPU. Here’s a glimpse of one extraordinary […]

Physical Therapy Students Connect with Local Children

HIGH POINT, N.C., June 22, 2017 – Students in High Point University’s physical therapy doctoral program are one of the newest groups on campus, but already they’re building relationships with children in their community. Children at Camp High Five, a weeklong program for youth with limited movement on one side of the body, are receiving […]

Local High School Students Conduct Summer Research at HPU

HIGH POINT, N.C., June 21, 2017 – Yasa Jasim, a rising senior at T. Wingate Andrews High School, knew what an important step she was taking for her future career when she put on a High Point University lab coat and began her scientific research on campus. Jasim is one of eight rising seniors from […]

HPPD and HPU Welcome Teens to Youth Leadership Academy

HIGH POINT, N.C., June 20, 2017 – The High Point Police Department and High Point University kicked off a special Youth Leadership Academy on June 19 for local teens in the community. This is the fourth year HPU and HPPD have partnered to host the 10-day program, which focuses on developing the teens’ leadership skills […]

Class of 2017 Profile: Garr Goes to Grad School for Biomedical Visualization

Science in the Summer: HPU’s STEM Camp Kicks off for Local Kids

Above: Ashwaq Althubity, a graduate student in HPU’s Stout School of Education (right), leads (from left to right) Adam Koonce, Riley Lemons and Sean Edwards, rising fifth-graders at the North Carolina Leadership Academy, through a rocket building activity. HIGH POINT, N.C., June 19, 2017 – Riley Robinson began building her rocket today at High Point University’s […]

Class of 2017 Profile: Richie Gengel Customizes His Career at Tom James

Students Study Animal Behavior in South Africa

HIGH POINT, N.C., June 15, 2017 – Meerkats, elephants and penguins. What do these animals have in common? Each one has been studied by High Point University students as part of a Maymester course in South Africa. HPU Global Experience programs, also known as “Maymesters,” are short-term study abroad opportunities that allow students to fulfill […]

Class of 2017 Profile: Nicole Drinkwater Joins Better Business Bureau

HPU’s Third PA Class Welcomed During the Profession’s 50th Anniversary

HIGH POINT, N.C., June 11, 2017 – The timing of today’s White Coat Ceremony for physician assistant students at High Point University was significant. Fifty years ago, the physician assistant profession was established to help medical doctors improve the lives of patients in the midst of a growing population and increasing demand for health care. […]

Junior Receives Celia Moh Scholarship

HIGH POINT, N.C., June 9, 2017 – Addison Gantt, a rising junior at High Point University, has been selected to receive the Celia Moh Scholarship for the 2017-18 academic year. The scholarship will pay for full tuition, room, board, books and fees. Gantt is a Salisbury native majoring in visual merchandising design. She is one […]

Class of 2017 Profile: Jenna Irvin

HPU Hosts Free Arts Splash Concert

HIGH POINT, N.C., June 7, 2017 – High Point University will host an evening of free music featuring Laney Jones and the Spirits starting at 6 p.m. on June 25 at the Cottrell Amphitheater. The concert is part of the Arts Splash summer concert series organized by the High Point Arts Council. It is free […]

Class of 2017 Profile: Megan Painter Attends Graduate School at UVA

HPU Announces Academic and Professional Achievements

HIGH POINT, N.C., June 6, 2017 – High Point University students, faculty and staff recently received the following academic and professional awards and recognitions. Graduate Awarded Most Outstanding Senior Award Haley McKeown was honored with High Point University’s Most Outstanding Senior Award at the Onward with Faithful Courage Senior Send Off event, held on May […]

HPU Announces New Hires

HIGH POINT, N.C., June 2, 2017 – High Point University welcomed five new faculty and staff members during the month of May. They are as follows: Dr. James Pampush joined the Congdon School of Health Sciences as an assistant professor of exercise science. Pampush teaches anatomy courses to undergraduate students and graduate students in the […]

Nonprofit Leadership and Management Program Hosts Professors from Thailand

From left to right, Heidi Fischer, HPU director of study abroad; Dr. Christine Cugliari, associate professor of nonprofit leadership; and Nicole Jacobs, capacity building advisor with RTI International, stand alongside visiting Khone Kaen faculty, Dr. Buapun Promphakping, Rattaphon Pitakthepsombat and Dr. Sataporn Roengtam. HIGH POINT, N.C., June 1, 2017 – Faculty from the University of […]

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Class of 2017 Profile: Gianna Carrabotta Designs for Restoration Hardware

Studying the Sky: HPU Professor Joins NASA Research Expedition to South Africa

HIGH POINT, N.C., May 24, 2017 – A High Point University professor is part of a research expedition team traveling to South Africa to collect data for NASA’s New Horizons probe. Jeff Regester, HPU instructor of physics and astronomy, is a lead observer on a team that includes scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, MIT, […]

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