Introducing Sen. Fuller

Brenau Scholar Katherine Fuller

At 19, Brenau Scholar Katherine Fuller has mapped out a 30-year course to the U.S. Senate. At Harris County High School, the Ellerslie, Georgia, native was state governor in Key Club International. She worked in campaigns for State Sen. Josh McCoon and U.S. Sen. David Perdue. The political science and legal studies major is Student Government Association freshman class […]

Captain Courageous

Brenau Strong: Diversity. Yao Yao Zhu took an unusual path for a rising U.S. military medical officer. It went through Brenau, but it started in China.

Yao Yao Zhu took an unusual path for a rising U.S. military medical officer. It went through Brenau, but it started in China. Unless they’re trained a combat specialist and assigned to units whose main job it is to engage the enemy, military medical personnel, particularly those involved in long-term rehabilitative health disciplines, in the […]

China Influence Shapes Women’s College, Builds Loyal Global Alumni Base

From left, Jing Chen with fellow alumna Jennifer Lewis, WC ’02, at an alumni gathering in New York; Autumn Zhao with the Abbot of the Buddhist temple she is helping to build near her hometown in China; and U.S. Army Capt. Yao Yao Zhu in Norcross, Georgia, trying to recruit future occupational therapists to military service

When Jing Chen, BU ’99, left her Beijing home 21 years ago for the journey of more than 7,000 miles to start a new chapter in her life, she had no guarantees about the future. The narrative of her story put Chen in 1995 at Brenau University. Three and a half years later she graduated with a degree in business […]

Night Traveler

When U.S. relations with People’s Republic of China began the slow thaw in the late 1970s, only a handful of Chinese students – mostly older graduate students and researchers – studied in American colleges and universities. In the mid-1990s, Chinese students discovered Brenau. Jing Chen believes she was the first.  By Judy Cartwright When Jing […]

Rio Chattahoochee

WomenCan International, an organization working to get equal representation of women’s canoe sporting events in the Olympics, says that sprint canoe/kayak debuted at the 1924 Olympics as an exhibition sport with three events each, but of the 12 events now in the Olympics, nine are kayak events and three are canoe events – all three of which are men’s.

New Residence Halls Helps Attract Potential Olympics Athletes for 2016 Pan American Paddling Competition By Karen Rosen In May, 250 athletes and coaches from throughout North, Central and South America will come to the historic campus in Gainesville for the last qualifying event for kayakers seeking spots in the 2016 Olympic Games. Doubling as a […]

2014-2015 Donor Report

2014 – 2015 Annual Report of Donors July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015 The Order of Brenau Sustaining Benefactors $500,000 + A Friend of Brenau University Mr. and Mrs. William H. Shane The Order of Brenau Benefactors $100,000 - $499,999 Mr. and Mrs. John R. Cleveland Community Foundation of Central Georgia, Inc. Ms. Margaret Evangeline [...]

From Lake Lanier to the Yangtze River

Longtime Brenau professors Dr. Bryan Sorohan and Dr. Eugene Williams had an opportunity to visit one of the most prestigious colleges in China earlier this year. Under Brenau’s ‘two plus two’ partnership program with Anhui Normal University, more faculty and students – on and off campus – are set for similar international learning experiences. The […]

Amber Markmann Simmons, WC ’03

Amber Markmann Simmons, WC ’03, from Snellville, Georgia, was named the International Society for Language Studies’ 2015 Founders’ Emergent Scholars Award winner. Simmons has been invited to speak at the 2017 conference in Honolulu. She will have a paper published in Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, the peer-reviewed, quarterly journal in the fields of applied linguistics, language policy, language planning, modern languages and literatures, education, anthropology, sociology, history, […]

Danita Emma, WC ’01

Danita Emma, WC ’01, has been named a Fulbright specialist in dance. The Fulbright Specialist Program promotes linkages between U.S. scholars and professionals, and their counterparts at host institutions overseas. The program awards grants to qualified U.S. faculty and professionals in select disciplines to engage in short-term collaborative two- to six-week projects at eligible institutions in more than 140 countries worldwide. Emma has taught and coached […]

Alexandria Palamountain, WC ’97

Alexandria Palamountain, WC ’97, now lives in London with her husband, David, and son, Benjamin. Since graduation, she has spent the majority of her career in marketing and business development for international law firms based in the United States and United Kingdom. Palamountain is currently the head of business development and marketing for Bristows, LLP, a major British law firm based in London, and she loves […]