Did You Know: Brenau Offers an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Graduate Certificate
In May 2017, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges approved an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Graduate Certificate at Brenau University. The program, started in fall 2017, is run by lead faculty Jessica Pearson, who discussed the new program with Brenau Window. What is adult-gerontology acute care? The study covers different populations in different settings, and nurses with this certification are […]
Health Tips from the Ivester College of Health Sciences
JULIE BATTLE, chair, Department of Psychology Make good choices about where to exert your energy, and don’t get upset about things that really don’t matter in the long run. Take time to play and to give back. Both open up new possibilities, provide connections to others and add joy to your life. Read more about [...]International expert heads OT school
Dr. Nicolaas van den Heever, an international expert in occupational therapy administration and education, recently joined Brenau as the new director of the university’s School of Occupational Therapy. Van den Heever was recruited after a yearlong national search to replace the 22-year-old school’s founding director, Barbara Boyt Schell, who retired in 2016. Van den Heever served for the past five years as founding dean […]
Brenau ‘multiversity’ extends vibrant mission
From horses to pools, Walker Therapy uses a variety of techniques to help children
About 15 years ago, Brenau alumna Nicole Walker went into business with a couple of her old classmates to provide an unusual form of therapy for children in North Georgia. Today, Walker Therapy is a multicounty operation providing equine-based therapy, aquatic therapy and classic, clinical, physical and occupational therapy to children in need. Emily Moss, BU’ 16, supports her 10-year-old client with the help […]
Student Counselors Address a Need
Each of the past five years, the Brenau University Department of Psychology has received a grant from the United Way of Hall County to place student counselors in agencies that don’t have a mental health counselor on staff, yet have a need for it in their clientele. But the partnership has proven to benefit more […]
Doug and Kay Ivester: Changing Lives, Strengthening Community
Slice of Life: Brenau Makes its Mark in Stem Cell Research
Heather Ross is Brenau’s resident expert on neuroregeneration and neural injury. For years, she has been working on stem cell and rehabilitation research that is instrumental to her students and the field of research. Now partnered with certified cytotechnologist Jessi Shrout on a study of stem cells in rat brains, Ross is continuing a five-year […]
The Brave, The Bold, The Brilliant
Christopher Russell: Motivated to Succeed
After 10 years of service in the Navy, Christopher Russell, BU ’98, knew he wanted something more. He grew up in rural New Hampshire, and following in the footsteps of his father – a petty officer who had been in the Navy eight years – he enlisted at age 18. Although Russell scored well on […]
