Brenau University celebrated its student, faculty and staff veterans – particularly the service of one outstanding veteran – in a special ceremony Wednesday, Nov. 9. The university held a grand opening and ribbon cutting for its new veterans lounge as part of Veterans Appreciation Week. All five Brenau University campuses are now equipped with a […]

The 40 doctoral candidates comprising the class of 2019 in Brenau University’s Department of Physical Therapy celebrated a milestone in their educations on Friday, Oct. 28. The two-year-old program held its second White Coat Ceremony, with a keynote address from Dr. Ryan Balmes, board certified clinical specialist in orthopedic and sports physical therapy. The mission […]

Brenau hosted a number of events to celebrate Brazilian culture for International Week. Events included a movie night, a soccer demonstration, a Brazilian lunch and a joint performance from the music and dance departments. Guillermo Rivera, deputy consul in the Consulate General of Brazil in Atlanta, also visited campus to listen to a few Brazilian […]

High school students from across Georgia spent a day learning just what it takes to be a Brenau dancer. Day of Dance, held Sunday, Oct. 16, gave dancers the opportunity to take free classes in ballet, hip hop, modern dance, musical theater and tap. They were taught by professional dancers and Brenau University faculty members and spent time […]

Stefanie Diaz Sheehan, Brenau University alumna and founder of the organization Mastermind Your Launch, advised Brenau women to believe in themselves and support each other’s business endeavors at the Women’s College Convocation known as Grrrl PowHER Hour Thursday, Oct. 26, in Pearce Auditorium. Sheehan graduated from the Women’s College in 2005 with a business degree […]

Brenau students, faculty, staff and administration members joined together, Oct. 18, to honor and remember the lives of African Americans from Georgia who lost their lives due to violence and other miscarriages of the justice system. Brenau President Ed Schrader opened the event with a few remarks, followed by a prayer from Stephen Samuel, pastor […]

Brenau celebrated it’s 2016 Homecoming weekend with festivities, alumnae games and the Athletics Hall of Fame Awards Luncheon. This year’s honorees included swimmers Susie McIntyre Finley, WC ’78, Nancy Voss Emerson, WC ’79, Suzanne Garland, WC ’80, Carol Obermeyer Nall, WC ’80, as well as Brenau’s fist swim coach Dr. Peter ‘Doc’ Kennedy. To read more […]

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 […]