Month: March 2018

Members of Granville Hall came together to give Suite 4 an uplift with new lounge painting. The student initiative was drawn up and executed by the Granville Dorm Council. Two sides walls were painted blue and the back wall white. Tri shields will be painted later on the blue walls. The Dorm Council plans to continue spreading spirit by painting other suite lounges! Those who came to help were: Taylor Fowler ’20 Lily Grace Sager ’20 Destiney O’Kane ’19 Jason Lawyer ’16 Brandon Standridge ’15 Conor Moloney ’15

A St. Andrews junior majoring in Art, Rina Suzuki (Shizukuishi, Japan), has been chosen as a semi-finalist for the Nikon Storytellers Scholarship. The contest was open to undergraduate and graduate students at an accredited, non-profit college/university or vocational/technical school in the United States or Canada pursuing degrees in visual arts, fine arts, journalism, film, photography and multimedia/content creation who will have completed their freshman year of college or academic equivalent before Fall 2018. Ten winners will each receive a $10,000 academic scholarship as they continue to pursue their creative field

21 March 2018 Award recipients of the annual Ethel Fortner and Sam Ragan Arts Awards at St. Andrews University were presented March 15 to Ms. Janet Kenworthy and Dr. Douglas Orr. Ms. Kenworthy, Aberdeen, NC, started and runs the musical theater known as The Rooster’s Wife. She was presented with the Ethel Fortner award by St. Andrews University president Paul Baldasare for her active role in the arts including music, literature and cinema. Settling in Aberdeen with her family in 1991 following work and living in New York City, she

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Gianico for her Psychology Research Night, March 20. “I estimate that 40 individuals participated in the event.  We actually had to end early and send an email to the student body at 8:15 because we ran out of pizza,” she said. Here is a snapshot of most of the PSY 202 Researchers, along with Phillip Alden and Gaby Stephens (Psych Club officers), and Psi Chi grant winner Reinatou Saidou.

St. Andrews University students, Dean of Students Dr. Tim Verhey and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Tanner Capps competed in February at the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities annual Ethics Bowl in Raleigh. Although not the eventual winner (Salem College/Winston-Salem), St. Andrews students distinguished themselves in a number of rounds among 24 college teams. St. Andrews competed against schools including High Point, Wake Forest, Methodist University, Campbell and Queens University of Charlotte. The goal of the NCICU Ethics Bowl is to emphasize applied ethics as a hallmark of the

St. Andrews, in partnership with NCWorks Career Center-Scotland County, will host a GREAT CAREER FAIR on campus in the Belk Center on March 15, 2018. St. Andrews students/alumni only from 9-10 a.m.; general public and others from 10-2 p.m. Employer registrations have begun and continue through March 9. Contact Annette Reed at Career Services at 901.277.5549 or reedam@sa.edu.