Student Spotlights

Hometown: Harrisburg, NC B.A. in Music and B.S. in Computer Science 2025 How did you first get interested in music? My interest in music started in 5th grade, when I started a band. I wasn’t too into it back then, and even considered dropping, but nevertheless continued into high school. Playing in my high school’s […]

Hometown: Richmond, VA and Charlotte, NC BA in Theatre and a Minor in Psychology 2026 How did you first get interested in Theatre? I’m going to be honest, I can’t recall a specific moment where I fell in love with acting/moving making in general. It was more of just an unconscious love for the stories this […]

Hometown: Indian Trail, NC BA in Theatre with a Performance Concentration and a Musical Theatre Certificate 2025 How did you first get interested in theatre? I first got involved in theatre in my school’s fifth grade musical. I started to gain more interest in the theatre path when I started middle school. However, it wasn’t […]

Hometown: Hickory, NC BFA in Graphic Design and BA in Art History 2025 How did you first get interested in art? It seems cliche to say that every child was an artist but I do believe I was. I remember participating in art summer camps at our local museum ever since I was young and […]

BA in Applied Dance and a BS in Exercise Science

Hometowns: Atlanta, GA and San Diego, CA BA in Theater Performance, BA in Spanish, and Certificates in Musical Theatre, Spanish-English Translation, and Business Spanish 2025 How did you first get interested in theatre? My introduction to performing actually happened by chance! I wasn’t the most outgoing when I was younger, but my grandma, who sang […]

Hometown: Penza, Russia BA in Architecture 2025 How did you first get interested in Architecture? I first became interested in architecture in middle school when I began thinking about what future career I wanted to pursue. I’ve always been drawn to the arts and mathematics, so I decided that architecture would be an ideal combination of those two. While in […]

Hometown: Charlotte, NC Degree: BM in Composition, Applied Instrument: Cello Graduation Year: 2025  How did you first get interested in music? While I taking a computer class in high school, I was assigned a project. I then decided to base the whole assignment off of music instruments to teach people about the unique sounds and history of each […]

Hometown: Concord, NC Bachelor of Music, Concentration in Jazz Studies 2025 How did you first get interested in music? I grew up with a family that was very passionate about music. All of my family members had played an instrument at some point and had an appreciation for higher forms of music. My parents always […]

Hometown: Harleysville, PA BA in Architecture 2025 How did you first get interested in architecture? I first got interested in architecture when I was little because I liked to look at houses and see how differently each one was set up. Once I got to high school, that is when I really got interested, especially when […]