News Releases

This semester nine Lander University students and two faculty members attended the South Carolina Council for Exceptional Children Conference in Myrtle Beach. Students held fundraisers to collect money to cover hotel costs and expenses related to the conference. During the conference several of these students and some Lander teaching education alumni made presentations, and received awards and scholarships.

Margaret Young Bennett, a 1997 graduate of Lander University, has won a WYFF-TV Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching. The television segment that aired in January shows Bennett working with 8-year-old Macy Storm, a special education student assigned to Bennett’s second-grade class at Lake Forest Elementary School in Greenville. Bennett was nominated by Macy’s parents, who appreciated her efforts to reach Macy and make her feel a part of the class.

The 3rd annual Peace Studies Conference gets underway at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 17, with an artists' reception at Lander University's Monsanto Gallery.

Lander University students rehearse for the Keyboard Festival Ensemble Recital scheduled for Thursday, March 17, at 8 p.m., in the Abney Cultural Center Auditorium. From left, are: Kevin Baggett of Greenwood, Matt Miller of Greenwood, Joseph Chabek of Anderson and Kelly Hammond of Greenwood.

Lander University is expanding its international academic programs to include colleges and university in the Pacific Rim region, specifically China, South Korea and Japan.

Students and alumni showed a bit of their wild side when the university hosted reunions, student competitions and family fun for the "Welcome to the Jungle" -themed Homecoming festivities this semester.

Ann NugentDuring a private ceremony in the F. Mitchell Johnson Board Room, Lander University officials awarded the top academic honor, the university's Thayer Award, for fall 2010 graduates to Ann Nugent of Greenville.

Dr. Kimberly Richburg, left, and Dr. Lucas McMillan, right, assistant professors of political science at Lander University, flank sophomore Ty Grogan of Greenwood, one of two Lander students who will present papers at the S.C. Political Science Association annual meeting at Lander on March 11 and 12. Richburg is the assistant program chair and McMillan is program chair of the event.

Mason's BonesThe public is invited to a closing reception for the "Mason's Bones" exhibit, featuring work by Lander University assistant professors of art Doug McAbee and Jennifer Stoneking-Stewart, at Lander's Monsanto Gallery, from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 10.

Dr. Roger Richardson, right, talks with students at a recent tea in his honor at Lander University. In six years, Richardson, recruited 34 Lander students for a semester of study at the University of Winchester in England where he was a faculty member. He is retiring as Winchester's director of Internationalization at the end of this academic year.