The Golden Tigers volleyball team opened their home schedule, and conference play, against Dalton State College on Friday. After losing the first two sets Brenau won the third set 25-21 before falling in the fourth. The Golden Tigers will continue conference play against Martin Methodist on Friday, Sept. 16 on Brenau’s historic Gainesville campus.
The Brenau cross country team travelled to Bishop, Georgia to compete in the University of Georgia Invitational. Three Golden Tigers finished in the top ten in the non-Division I group. Sophomore Michelle Velazquez led the way with an overall eighth place finish of 22:11. Monika Nwajei placed ninth with a time of 24:11 and Nia Griffin […]
The Brenau Golden Tigers soccer team started their 2016 season with and emphatic 4-0 win over visiting Point University on Tuesday in Gainesville. Fifteen minutes into the match, senior Jasmine Brewster notched the first goal of the season off a pass from sophomore Jada Foor. In the 44th minute, freshman Alexis Satterfield earned the first of her […]
Brenau University welcomes more than 400 new Women’s College students this fall from 20 states and 10 countries – including 18 early childhood education students from Anhui Normal University in China – as it kicked off the 2016-17 academic year with its traditional residential hall “Move-In Day” Wednesday, Aug. 24. Although the new student group […]
The first wave of Brenau University junior year transfer students arrived Friday, Aug. 19, on the historic campus in Gainesville, Georgia – a city that has a population that is about the same size as the 35,000-student population of Anhui Normal University where they spent the first two years of their undergraduate studies. To say […]
Construction continues on the softball field at Ernest Ledford Grindle Athletics Park. Crews have been working throughout the summer to make significant progress at the site. Both dugouts are in place, a field house is under construction and grass and dirt already give shape to the field. The Brenau Golden Tigers softball team, after qualifying for […]
Eight interior design graduates exhibited their work at the Stent Family Wing of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, June 16. Six Bachelor of Fine Arts/Master of Interior Design graduates displayed their final portfolios and two Master of Fine Arts in Interior Design students showed their theses. The events also served as an opportunity […]
Sixty-two new students took their first leap into college life on Monday by registering for their first semester classes during the first of Brenau’s early registration events. After speaking with orientation leaders and conferring one-on-one with faculty members in their intended fields of study, the incoming students finalized their schedules for the fall semester. “The students […]
Retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Annie B. Andrews charged Brenau University graduates Saturday to never let fear of the unknown stop them from following dreams. “At the beginning of my career, I thought I had to choose between a safe route and an adventurous one,” Andrews said. “Embarking on my Navy career, I was surrounded […]
Retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Annie B. Andrews told the 2016 Brenau University Women’s College graduating class to aim high in their professional aspirations. She also gave them a blueprint for success: have a plan, a purpose, a passion and then picture in their minds how they are going to place themselves there. “Not only […]
MOBILE, Alabama, April 23, 2016 – Brenau University’s Outdoor Track & Field team picked up its fourth consecutive Southern States Athletic Conference Championship April 23 in Mobile, Alabama. The Golden Tigers collected 11 first-place finishes at the SSAC meet and won the conference crown by a 138-point margin. “To win four successive conference championships elevates […]
The New York and Maine-based foundation that provides programs for and support of mid-career artists recently added two pieces to Brenau University’s permanent collection – self-portraits by influential 20th century American artists John Heliker and Robert LaHotan. The Heliker-LaHotan Foundation in Cranberry Isles, Maine, donated the paintings to Brenau in part because of the university’s […]
The heart of Brenau University’s Gainesville campus has a new name, and in coming months, it could also have a new look. Although the angled drive is not a city street, Gainesville Mayor Danny Dunagan, whose wife is a Brenau alumna, joined Brenau President Ed Schrader to officially christen Golden Tiger Way on the historic […]
Hundreds of Women’s College graduates returned to Brenau’s Gainesville campus for the university’s Alumnae Reunion Weekend and May Day festivities April 15-16. Friday and Saturday’s events were marked by tears of joy, tears of nostalgia and tears of remembrance. Following the traditional class day, May Court and Maypole wrapping ceremonies, alumnae and their families toured […]
Contractors using a heavy crane swung the pieces of a 25-foot-wide, 15-foot-tall digital scoreboard into place April 5 as Brenau University moved closer to opening day for the Ernest Ledford Grindle Athletics Park, home of the Golden Tigers softball team. Located about two miles from the Brenau historic campus, the park lies along Jesse Jewell […]
U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, R-Georgia, said his recent tour of the technologically advanced Brenau University School of Nursing gave him a high level of confidence that “our nursing and health care professionals are being trained at the highest level.” Guided by School of Nursing Director Dina Hewitt, Collins on March 31 met with Brenau professors […]
Georgia State Sen. Butch Miller, R–Gainesville, presented a proclamation to the Brenau University Board of Trustees Friday, April 1, praising the school’s new physical therapy doctoral program for its contribution to the betterment of health care and economic development in the region. Miller authored the resolution during the 2016 session of the Georgia General Assembly, […]
One of the most accomplished coaches in the history of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is among the latest inductees in Brenau University’s Athletics Hall of Fame. Former Brenau head tennis coach Dr. Bill Rogers quite literally led the 2015-16 hall of fame class, as the other three other inductees – Leyla Ogan, Helene […]
In the traditional kickoff of the Brenau University Women’s College academic year, one of the region’s foremost forensic interviewers, Dr. Julie Battle, told students that going to college will not automatically prepare them for life or careers. “You can’t do a Google search to find your passion,” said Dr. Julie Battle, chair of Brenau’s academic […]
