Close Call
Sometimes physical therapy doctoral candidates have to cross state lines to get clinical experience to reinforce their educations. At Brenau, all they have to do is walk across the hall. Early this year, the university physical therapy department established Brenau’s Rehabilitative Practice, which focuses on balance, fall prevention, bariatrics, sports medicine and other mobility issues. […]
Lynn Jones Wins National Interior Design Medal
The American Society of Interior Designers plans to present Brenau Chair and Professor of Interior Design Lynn M. Jones the 2016 National Educator Medalist award at its annual meeting in Minneapolis in July. The medal commemorates individual contributions to the body of knowledge that supports the profession. The organization specifically cited Jones’ leadership in developing […]
Creature Comforts
Students who occupy the new Women’s College general residence hall this fall will be surrounded works of art whose creator has an interesting backstory: a baseball bearing his signature sold on e-Bay for $33.95. Although the artist never played professional baseball, his grandfather certainly did. The collectible ball’s inscription reads: “Christopher Cobb. Ty Cobb’s grandson.” Grandfather […]
Brenau Art Emphasis Held ‘in High Regard’
Killin’ It in Comedy
Comedians often benefit from the cluelessness of others. Some white women have made the unwitting mistake of petting Dulcé Sloan’s Afro. They pay now for their presumptuousness by appearing live on stage as punch lines. “They don’t stay in the perimeter of the Afro and keep it Christian, no,” the wide-eyed Sloan gushes in a […]
A Tale of Two Surgeons: Capt. Joel A. Roos
A Tale of Two Surgeons: Capt. Christopher Culp
‘Matchmaker’ Clara Martin Created Job-oriented Student Experiences
With steely resolve and nurturing spirit, Clara Martin left a triad of indelible marks on the Brenau landscape and the professional psyches of a generation of students. On top of that, she was a pretty good matchmaker. In three decades at Brenau, she birthed a robust mass communications program and public radio station, both which […]
Let’s Take It Indoors
Shortly after university and city officials gathered in April around the Crow’s Nest on the historic Gainesville front campus to officially commemorate the naming of Golden Tiger Way, the four-year-old Tigers track and field team shot out of the blocks for a road trip to Mobile, Alabama, for the Southern States Athletic Conference outdoor championship […]
Six Weeks in Paris
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 […]
