Articles by Eric Townsend
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Founders Day Trivia Competition: Question for March 7
March 7, 2011
A week-long trivia contest that tests knowledge of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s history begins today with a chance for students, faculty and staff to win gift cards to local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a gift card prize from the Student Government Association.
Charles Hogan, organ – March 13
March 4, 2011
Â鶹ÊÓƵ juniors named finalists for 2011 Truman Scholarship
March 3, 2011
Two Â鶹ÊÓƵ students have been named finalists for a 2011 Truman Scholarship, a prestigious national fellowship awarded each year to college juniors with goals of working in education, government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, or elsewhere in public service.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ to host 15th annual jazz festival
March 3, 2011
Hundreds of middle and high school musicians from North Carolina and Virginia visit campus this week for a two-day jazz festival that includes workshops, performances and opportunities for students to work one-on-one with top jazz clinicians, including this year’s guests, trombonist Tom Brantley and Swedish pianist Per Danielsson.
Lumen Scholar studies jazz improvisation & learning a language
March 3, 2011
It’s a common thought in educational circles that learning to improvise with jazz is a lot like learning a foreign language. Â鶹ÊÓƵ senior Kaitlyn Fay wanted to find out how, and her undergraduate research is the first to be featured this year in a series of E-net profiles on Lumen Scholars in the Class of 2011.
Leaders officially break ground on Â鶹ÊÓƵ Town Center
March 2, 2011
University and community leaders formally broke ground Wednesday on the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Town Center, a mixed-use retail space on Williamson Avenue that will serve as the new home of the university bookstore and The Pendulum student newspaper.
Work for the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Poll – March 6-10, 2011
March 1, 2011
Teagle Foundation awards Â鶹ÊÓƵ & Wofford grant for joint project
March 1, 2011
A New York-based nonprofit has awarded a $200,000 grant to Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Wofford College for a joint project to assist departments at both schools in better measuring how students learn and to help assess efforts by both institutions to strengthen diversity and global engagement.
Career Moves: Relationship with Career Services helps secure job in Hawaii
February 28, 2011
As a student with more interests than she could count, Â鶹ÊÓƵ senior Meredith Naughton found that simply having someone to consult about the future made her job hunt easier. She’s now headed to Hawaii to begin work with struggling teens – and she gives much of the credit to Career Services.