Student Spotlights

BA in Applied Dance and a BS in Exercise Science

Hometown: Passaic, NJ BA in Theater Performance How did you first get interested in theatre? I’ve loved being on stage since I was in elementary school. I helped with set design in middle and high school as well as singing the national anthem for football and basketball games. Once I graduated, I instructed dance at […]

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: Gastonia, NC BA in Theater and BA in History 2024 How did you become interested in theater?  Honestly watching the TV show Friends as a kid and seeing Joey as an actor made me want to do it initially. What kind of career do you hope to have? I either want to be an actor or […]

Hometown: Charlotte, by way of Cairo, Egypt Bachelor of Arts in Architecture 2024 Give some general information about yourself: how did you become interested in architecture? I was initially uninterested due to a misconception about architecture being math dominated, but I was proven wrong when I joined the ACE (Architecture, Construction, and Engineering) club and […]

Hometown: Columbia, SC BA in Architecture 2024 How did you become interested in Architecture? I grew up building things with my father, as he was a carpenter. After high school, I joined the Columbia Fire Department and was a fireman for 10 years. During that time, I also ran a handyman company and did lots of renovation […]

Hometown: New Bern, NC Instrumental Music Education Major 2024  How did you first get interested in music? Music has always been a point of interest for me. However, my interest really blossomed in middle school when I decided to play the flute. As I continued playing, my love for music grew, and once I switched to oboe, […]

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: Charlotte, NC Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and a minor in Urban Studies & Geography 2024 How did you first get interested in Architecture? My interest in architecture first started when I started to travel often to the city of Los Angeles in California.  I began to compare the different architectural qualities between Los […]