Fun Makes the Difference for Trustee Pete Miller

Cathy and Pete Miller pose for a portrait on the front lawn of Brenau's Historic Gainesville Campus. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)

Peter D. Miller, the 13-year veteran chair of the Brenau Board of Trustees, started his career in the Georgia banking world in the early 1970s when it was a relationships-based, person-to-person business. Bankers did deals with people they knew virtually on handshakes and promises – letting all the paperwork catch up later. Like the saying […]

Katy Clark, WC ’08

Katy Clark, WC ’08, has accepted the position as the controller for Crocodile Creek, Inc., a designer and international distributor of children’s toys and accessories based in Durham, North Carolina.

Finding Peace When There Is No Peace

A gathering of all participants and Drs. Kenneth and Mary Lou Frank from Brenau are on the back row

Brenau Professors Kenneth Frank, J.D., who heads the university’s conflict resolution and legal studies program, and Mary Lou Frank, Ph.D. in psychology, traveled to Greece in May to do training for and judge at a tournament for the world’s largest student mediation organization. The experience provided them with an eye-opening view into the seemingly unending chaos […]

A Tale of Two Surgeons: Capt. Joel A. Roos

U.S. 7th Fleet Surgeon Capt. Joel Roos poses for a photo. (U.S. Navy photo)
Different Lenses For Navy doctor Joel Roos, experience teaches what you like as well as what you don’t. But all of it build confidence and leadership abilities. In another life, U.S. Navy Capt. Joel A. Roos, BU ’09, might have enjoyed quietly peering through a microscope in an Ivy League university. His initial goal, he [...]

A Tale of Two Surgeons: Capt. Christopher Culp

Christopher Culp, fleet surgeon for the United States Pacific Fleet, plays the piano inside his home.
On the Move Throughout Chris Culp’s military career, the Navy has moved him and his family 25 times. That nomadic lifestyle provided the physician with a world of experience. On a parking lot at Pearl Harbor, the home of the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet in Honolulu, Hawaii, an imminent threat of rain compelled Capt. Christopher [...]

Six Weeks in Paris

Madison Kosater walks back to her seat after receiving the Outsanding French Student Award and the Denyse Marchesseau Endowed Scholarship for French and International Studies during Honors Convocation on Thursday, April 21, 2016, at Pearce Auditorium in Gainesville, Ga. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)

Madison Elizabeth Kosater, a junior history and political science major from Macon, Georgia, was awarded the Denyse Marchesseau Endowed Scholarship for French and International Study during Brenau University’s Honor Convocation on April 21. She is the fifth recipient to win the scholarship at Brenau. The scholarship was first awarded in 1999 and was established by […]

Rock Star

Birmingham City Schools Superintendent Kelley Castlin-Gacutan, or "Dr. G," speaks to a group of JROTC students Friday, April 8, 2016, in Birmingham, Ala. Castlin-Gacutan received a Master of Education in Early Childhood Education from Brenau's Norcross campus. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)

Dr. G rides shotgun with her linebacker-like driver at the wheel. We’ve just left the Jackson-Olin High School football stadium at 14th and F in Ensley, where 350 uniformed JROTC cadets passed in review before her, the celebrity dignitary. We’re about to hook a left on 20th Street for a quick run through Tuxedo Junction […]

Experience Counts

Brenau President Ed Schrader poses for a photo with retired Rear Adm. Annie Andrews, the 2016 commencement speaker, who engineered the experience of several college presidents aboard an aircraft carrier to encourage programs to recruit women into the U.S. Navy. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)

In early May, international news organizations reported that the Chinese government had canceled a scheduled visit to Hong Kong by the USS Stennis. The Navy supercarrier had been operating in the Asia-Pacific in the midst of ongoing tensions among the nations in the region over Chinese man-made islands in what otherwise would be considered international […]

Welcome (Pronounced Huan Ying)

Chinese welcome huan ying
A student ambassador program enabled Women’s College students to experience the other side of the world – and build a bridge between Chinese and American educational cultures. In May, eight Brenau University student ambassadors embarked on an 8,000-mile journey to Wuhu, China, to meet some of their future Brenau classmates: about two dozen early childhood education [...]

Stories We Wear

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By James Swift In late 2015 senior English major Tahimi Perez-Borroto’s keen eye for style and skill for visual and verbal storytelling earned her an internship with College Fashionista, a New York-based web publication that profiles campus trends around the globe. Some may look at Brenau Women’s College students and see simply an eclectic mix […]