Brenau University’s Chaplain Don Harrison celebrates the 50th anniversary of his ordination into the priesthood Sunday, Dec. 19, at St. Anthony’s Episcopal Church in Winder following the 10 a.m. service.  For those who want to attend, the church is located at 174 St. Anthony Dr. in Winder. Harrison is a native of Atlanta and a [...]

Brenau University‘s Brenau Academy, the oldest girl’s preparatory school in Georgia, will this year begin a transformation to an institution that provides extraordinary students with an “early college” experience in which they could accumulate up to two years’ worth of college credits by time they receive their high school diplomas. Starting in the 2011-12 academic [...]

Brenau’s North Georgia campuses will be closed and all class cancelled on Monday, Jan. 10, due to anticipated hazardous conditions caused by winter weather. This announcement affects Gainesville, Norcross, Fairburn and Augusta. Any announcement related to Tuesday operations will be posted later. Originally published on 1/09/11  

Due to hazardous weather conditions, Brenau University announced postponement of the Sidney O. Smith Jr. appreciation dinner that was scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 11. Matt Thomas, vice president for external relations at the university, says the event will be rescheduled for a time in March that will be announced later. Originally published on 1/10/11  

Brenau’s North Georgia campuses will be closed and all class cancelled on Tuesday, Jan. 11, due to anticipated hazardous conditions caused by winter weather. This announcement affects Gainesville, Norcross, Fairburn and Augusta. Originally published on 1/10/11  

Classes on Brenau´s Gainesville, Norcross, Fairburn and Augusta campuses have been cancelled for Wednesday, Jan. 12, due to continuing hazardous winter weather conditions for commuters. Faculty and staff are urged to report after noon on Wednesday, but only if it is safe for them to do so. “We know that people are anxious about getting [...]

Classes on Brenau´s Gainesville, Norcross, Fairburn and Augusta campuses have been cancelled for Wednesday, Jan. 12, due to continuing hazardous winter weather conditions for commuters. Although faculty and staff were urged to report after noon on Wednesday, icy conditions persisted on campus in Gainesville and the Atlanta area, and business operations were cancelled for the [...]

Classes on Brenau´s Gainesville, Norcross, and Fairburn campuses have been cancelled for Thursday, Jan. 13, due to continuing hazardous winter weather conditions for commuters. However, Augusta campus classes will go on as scheduled in spite of a previous erroneous report that they had been cancelled. Faculty and staff should report to resume normal operations at [...]

Brenau University officials announced that all classes on the Gainesville campus have been cancelled for Friday, Jan. 14, but staff personnel were asked to report for normal business operations at 10 a.m. Originally published on 1/13/11   Originally published on 1/13/11  

Dennis Campay’s paintings combine cosmopolitan cityscapes with an ethos that is at once rustic and sophisticated, conveying an international urbanity. His kaleidoscopic scenes present a mesmerizing mix of columns, porticos, slatted shutters, and balconies, gently coexisting with marshes, white-washed churches, boats, and bridges. Silvery bodies of water, worn books, the solitary piano, and ubiquitous chairs [...]

The Occupational Therapy Department at Brenau University will hold a grand opening Friday, Feb. 18, at its new 19,000 square-foot facility on the “Brenau East” campus at Featherbone Communiversity, located at 999 Chestnut St. SE in Gainesville. The open-to-the-public celebration from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. features an appearance by Ricardo C. Carrasco, one of [...]

  A scholarship honoring the late Brenau University alumna Lisha Carnes Page has been established to benefit students that follow her footsteps into nursing at Brenau with roots in Gwinnett and Hall County, Ga. Lisha Page, who died June 16 at age 50, grew up in Hall County and graduated from Johnson High School. At [...]

A visiting team of higher education officials from several colleges and universities throughout the South reacted favorably on Brenau’s application for the 10-year reaffirmation of its accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools with only a single direction for improvement in university operations. In an informal briefing with university officials at the conclusion [...]

Nancy Krippel will become Brenau’s provost and vice president for academic affairs in July. Nancy F. Krippel, Mary Baldwin College’s dean of adult and graduate studies and associate dean of the college, formally accepted the position of provost and vice president for academic affairs at Brenau University, effective July 5.As the top academic officer at [...]

Poet and former soldier Brian Turner, whose work provided the title for 2010′s Oscar-winning movie “The Hurt Locker,” will conduct a reading and question and answer session on Thursday, March 31, at the Banks Recital Hall at Brenau University’s John S. Burd Center for the Performing Arts. The 1p.m. reading and 4 p.m. Q&A are [...]

  Jacques Heim, artistic director of a Los Angeles-based international-touring dance company and choreographer of the Cirque de Soleil show in Las Vegas, brings some of his work to the Brenau University stage March 31-April 2 during the wide-ranging and boundary-shattering faculty dance concert. In the process, some Brenau dance majors get to show what [...]

Natalie Chanin, fashion designer and sustainability advocate, will visit Brenau University on April 14, as part of its Earth Day festivities. She will be speaking at the Burd Center at 10:30 A.M. at an event that is open to the public. Her couture line, Alabama Chanin, has been well regarded in both fashion and environmental [...]

Registration for the fall term of Brenau University Learning and Leisure Institute (BULLI) courses and enrollment for the 2011 – 2012 academic year begins at 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, in Thurmond-McRae Lecture Hall, adjacent to the Brenau Trustee Library on Academy Street in Gainesville. The fall term, which runs from Sept, 26 to Nov. [...]

Brenau University senior Heather Hammontree, a psychology major from Buford, Ga., is the 2011-12 recipient of a $2,400 scholarship funded by the United Parcel Service Educational Endowment Fund through the Georgia Independent College Association. The 2008 North Gwinnett High School graduate maintains a 3.58 grade point average at Brenau. Although Hammontree was selected for the [...]

Brenau University joined an elite group of national universities this week when it gained “Honor Roll” status in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2011 “Great Colleges to Work For” rankings.  Brenau was recognized with highest distinction in six of the 11 surveyed categories resulting in its “Honor Roll” status. Brenau and Georgia Tech were the [...]