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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (courtesy smcsc.edu) — Opportunities for a four-year bachelor’s degree at Spartanburg Methodist College continue to expand, with SMC faculty voting in February to add a sixth concentration – criminal justice – to the program. “SMC is committed to expanding the programs we offer to fit students’ needs,” said Mark Gibbs, Provost and Executive …
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (courtesy wofford.edu) — Patrick M. Stanton, assistant professor of finance at Wofford College, will spend this summer applying and expanding his current research on microfinance into the Dominican Republic, where he will see first-hand how a nonprofit microfinance institution operates, selects and screens potential borrowers and how those institutions seek to alleviate poverty …
COLUMBIA, S.C. (courtesy Allen University Facebook page) — Allen University’s Honda Campus All-Star Challenge Team defeated Claflin University and others and is advancing to the national championship tournament in Torrance, California March 28-April 1. Dr. Fayaz Kabani and the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge team, comprised of Trevaris Brown, senior biology major, Ezekiel Hokett, junior mathematics …
DENMARK, S.C. (courtesy voorhees.edu) — Voorhees College founder Elizabeth Evelyn Wright was recently inducted posthumously into the South Carolina Hall of Fame Class of 2020 with Dr. Leo Twiggs, first African-American to receive a doctorate in art education from the University of Georgia, and Darius Rucker, multi-platinum, Grammy-award-winning country singer and frontman for the band …
ANDERSON, S.C. (courtesy andersonuniversity.edu) — Anderson University and Greenville Technical College have formed a partnership designed to further enhance the transfer opportunity of students from GTC to Anderson. The partnership is intended to serve students by providing program support and services through a seamless transfer pathway that prepares and acclimates students desiring to matriculate at …
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (courtesy converse.edu) — Converse is embracing its 55-year history as a graduate degree-granting institution with a name change from college to university effective July 1, 2021. Phyllis Perrin Harris, ’82 alumna and Chair of the Converse Board of Trustees, stated that the Board’s duty is to make decisions based on the best interests …
CENTRAL, S.C. (courtesy swu.edu) — Within the U.S. Marine Corps, the saying goes “leave no man behind.” Recent Southern Wesleyan University human services graduate Robert Colbert appreciates caring faculty and staff members who – in a similar sense – were there for him as he worked to complete his educational journey. “I had a stroke …
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (courtesy wofford.edu) — Wofford College is exhibiting “From Botticelli to Tintoretto: Italian Renaissance Art from the Tobey Collection and Bob Jones University Collection” through Sunday, May 17, on the upper level of the Richardson Family Art Museum in the Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts. A gallery talk by Dr. Nelda Damiano, …
DENMARK, S.C. (courtesy voorhees.edu) — Dr. Xiqiang Zheng, associate professor in mathematics and computer science, was recently awarded a Henry C. McBay faculty research fellowship (the year 2019 solicitation) from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) to support his research on computer simulation for CT image segmentation using morphological operations on hexagonal lattices. The fellowship …