Tuesday, Feb. 5 Brenau music professor and pianist Ben Leaptrott gave the university’s new Steinway piano it’s inaugural performance during his faculty recital with the Leaptrott Trio and other guests. Brenau leased the piano to kick-start its ongoing fundraising effort to become an “All-Steinway School,” which Leaptrott says will provide the next generation of musicians coming through Brenau with the [...]
The Delta Mu Delta business honor society tapped Brenau University to host the newest chapter of the 100-year-old organization.The Brookfield, Ill.-based society, which operates on 240 campuses worldwide, recognizes academic excellence in baccalaureate, master’s, and doctorate degree business administration programs. Delta Mu Delta selects students in the top 20 percent of their classes for lifetime [...]
Brenau University President Ed Schrader joined 30 other college and university presidents in Washington, DC on Monday to collectively urge Congress and other lawmaking bodies to take “common sense” action of gun legislation and regulation that will enhance safety on their campuses.The group is part of about 350 college presidents who have come together through [...]
Dunn, whose lecture is titled “Focus on Strengths: Imagine the Possibilities,” has published more than 100 articles and books dealing with neuroscience and occupational therapy. Her work revolves around understanding how people perceive sensory input throughout their daily activities and how their ability to process that information affects their lives.“Dr. Dunn has a very strong [...]
Damon Stancil joins Brenau University’s growing athletic program as head golf coach, and he is teeing off by hitting the recruiting trail.Stancil, whose first day on the job was Jan. 31, needs to find at least six student-athletes who can “shoot the scores and make the grades,” he said.Women’s golf, Brenau’s 10th varsity sport, begins [...]
When Brenau University acquired the first piano in its $1.5 million initiative to become an “All-Steinway School,” it already had a name: The Dempsey Steinway. That first piano, Number 481, a handmade Steinway & Son’s Model D Concert Grand, arrived on campus Dec. 4 and now resides in Pearce Auditorium. However, Brenau President Ed Schrader announced [...]
When Brenau University music professor and pianist Ben Leaptrott accompanies cellist Charae Krueger and violinist Kenn Wagner at a concert Tuesday night, Feb. 5, another “performer” will debut on the stage at historic Pearce Auditorium: a brand new Steinway & Sons concert grand piano.The concert, which starts at 7:30 p.m., is free and open to [...]
Following the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges approval for Brenau University to offer courses in Brenau’s Master of Business Administration program on the campus of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Suwanee, Ga., the university plans to offer its first class in the program at the beginning of the spring [...]
The Brenau Gospel Choir and the Tau Sigma Dance Fraternity energized the crowd in Pearce auditorium before keynote speaker Lorna Maloney, an attorney from Baltimore, Md., arrived at the podium. Maloney spoke from personal experience and encouraged students to “dream with a vision and live with a purpose,” the theme of this year’s convocation. “What are [...]
Brenau University named South Carolina native Toby Hinton to the post of vice president for financial services with responsibilities for managing and supervising all financial related services and responsibilities of the Business Office, budget maintenance and management, financial reporting and cash flow management for the 2,800-student institution.Although Hinton is already on the job, he replaces [...]
To kick off Campus Unity Week the Student Activities Board hosted a custom snow globe event Monday in the Yonah Dinning Hall. S.A.B. Director Mycharia Spurling said the week of events is meant to welcome back students returning from winter break.Spurling said events like this are important to the student community and that the S.A.B. [...]
Launching a new era in both its academic progress and its 135-year-old relationship with its hometown, Brenau University has officially moved into to its newest location in Gainesville. The city-owned Georgia Mountains Center now becomes Brenau Downtown Center, which will be the home of expanded graduate degree programs in physical therapy and other health sciences. [...]
An informal Brenau Downtown Center “Move-in Ceremony” will be held at 301 Main Street SW, Gainesville, Ga., on Monday, Dec. 17, at 10 a.m. to usher in the university’s newest expansion. The ceremony is the first step of the $6.5 million program that involves renovation of the facility to house the university’s planned graduate programs in [...]
Brenau University is expanding its athletic program to include women’s golf, which will begin competition as a varsity sport in the fall of 2013. Athletic Director Mike Lochstampfor is in the process of interviewing candidates for the new head coach position and the university will immediately begin recruiting athletes. Lochstampfor says there are a number [...]
Number 481, a handmade Steinway & Son’s Model D Concert Grand piano, arrived at Brenau University Dec. 4 – the first in a new collection that will help Brenau gain the prestigious distinction as an “All-Steinway School.”The concert grand, destined for use in historic Pearce Auditorium, is the first acquisition in the $1.5 million campaign [...]
Students in Dr. Ken Frank’s AS100 class took to the campus Wednesday, Nov. 28., to rally for peace in the Gaza Strip. Frank used the demonstration to give the students some first hand experience with the lessons in civil disobedience they are learning in class. “It takes everything we’ve learned in this class and puts it [...]
The Brenau University Spectrum Singers, Vocal Chamber Ensemble and the Chestatee High School I Cantori performed A Holiday Concert for community members in the Hosch Theatre at the John S. Burd Center for the Performing Arts Monday, Nov. 26. Bobby Ivey, assistant professor in the Music Department and conductor, encouraged the group of performers to [...]
Brenau University will take possession of the city-owned Georgia Mountains Center Dec. 15 as part of a long-term lease agreement with the Gainesville Redevelopment Authority that will pave the way for a $6.5 million expansion of the university’s health care professions graduate programs.Brenau President Ed Schrader said that Brenau’s occupancy of the building means that [...]
