Fashion-Schools.org, the national online clearing house for information about colleges and universities for students interested in fashion industry careers named Brenau No. 67 in the nation in fashion merchandising and No. 75 in fashion design in its recently published issue listing the Top Fashion Schools in the United States.Also, Education-Portal.com cited Brenau’s fashion merchandising program [...]

 Two teams competing in this year’s Brenau Barbecue Championship will also be selling their pork to hungry visitors at the event. But it’s almost by accident that either team exists.Rick Shaw of Rick’s Smokin’ Pig in Gainesville said he’d been smoking chicken, pork and steaks since the 1960s. But after tasting success with a first [...]

The fifth annual Brenau Barbecue Championship May 24-25 brings together 37 different cook teams from five states to battle for Memphis Barbecue Network and Georgia Barbecue Association amateur and professional titles as well as rights to compete the World Food Championship in Las Vegas.This is the first time that the MBN and GBA teams have [...]

The Brenau University nursing school’s annual pinning ceremony took place in Pearce Auditorium on the Gainesville campus, Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 6 p.m.The ceremony, an over 50 year old tradition, welcomed 65 new nurses into the fold while over 700 faculty, family and friends looked on from the historic auditorium.Keeta Wilborn, director of the Brenau University [...]

By Karen RosenBrenau University athletes were not only the fastest, the strongest and soared the highest at the inaugural Southern States Athletic Conference 2013 women’s track and field championship meet, they were also the most versatile.The Golden Tigers exceeded all expectations for a first-year program by dominating the six-team meet April 26-27 with 352.5 points, [...]

Six members of the Brenau University Golden Tigers softball team missed their graduation ceremony last weekend because they were off playing in the Southern States Athletic Conference tournament. So Brenau threw them another ceremony today – with all the academic regalia, pomp and circumstance as the original ceremony.“It was the least that we could do,” [...]

World-shaping politics, ‘the best and worst of human behavior,’ means hard-won rights can be easily lostGAINESVILLE, Ga., May 4, 2013 – Eleanor Clift, one of America’s foremost political columnist and commentators, told Brenau University graduates Saturday to take advantage of the enormous opportunities the world affords them but cautioned them to be prepared to adapt [...]

In its first year of competition, the Brenau University Golden Tigers track and field team won the Southern States Athletic Conference championship April 27, racking up 352.5 points in the seven-team field compared with the 304 for the next three teams combined.In the conference championship meet, held on campus at Shorter University in Rome, Ga., [...]

Demolition is nearing an end and construction is underway on the new home of Brenau University’s expanded graduate degree programs in physical therapy and other health sciences, the Brenau Downtown Center. The project is estimated to wrap up around six months from now.Crews from Carroll Daniel Construction and local sub-contractors started demo work on the arena [...]

The 2013 Brenau Collaborative Fashion Show wowed audiences with the works of three senior fashion design students, Amanda Maddox with her collection Gehenna, Candice Jenkins with Freedom and Junjun Tong with Motion & Memory, presented in the historic Pearce Auditorium on the university’s Gainesville campus. The lines showcased were the product of the students capstone course [...]

The students in Michelle Daily’s 4th grade language arts class now have a treasure that they can keep for years to come — a copy of Tiger Tales.Pre-service teachers at Brenau University helped students at Fair Street Elementary organize their ideas and compile them into short stories that were then published by Mountain Projects into [...]

The NAIA Champions of Character program promotes five core values- integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship and servant leadership- to help both coaches and players support character building, in and out of competition.The department took athletes from each team and spent two hours with approximately 200 elementary school aged boys and girls. Each team created one or [...]

On Monday, March 18 the Brenau University Vocal Chamber Ensemble filled the lobby of John S. Burd Center for the Performing Arts with the sounds of Bach, Brahms, Bernstein from the winding staircases to a close and intimate crowd. The vocal group’s performance covered material spanning centuries of musical development. Conductor and Brenau University professor Bobby Ivey [...]

The Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society initiated 79 new members into the 301st Chapter on Thursday, March 14 to an intimate crowd of family and friends in the Pearce Auditorium on Brenau’s historic Gainesville campus. The new inductees included four faculty and staff members, 42 graduate students, nine seniors and 24 juniors. The Brenau Chapter began on [...]

Students who entered the Women’s State High School Art and Design Competition flocked to  Brenau’s Gainesville campus Monday, Feb 18 to see the exhibition, participate in various workshops and attend the awards ceremony where faculty doled out more than $40,000 in Brenau scholarships and $1000 in cash prizes.The women-only event featured selected works in multiple [...]