News Releases

As the result of a recent agreement between Lander and Clemson universities, Lander's Department of Teacher Education has been granted a license to participate in South Carolina's Call Me MISTER program.

Lander University visual arts major Whitney Price, a junior from Pendleton, displays her untitled photograph, which won the best in show award at the 1st Annual Lander Student Showcase Exhibit.

For the second year in a row, Lander University's Physical Education and Exercise Studies (PEES) Club will host the Annual Bearcat Breakout 5K. This year's 3.1-mile run will begin at 9 a.m., on Feb. 23.

Middle and high school students and teachers from across South Carolina gathered at Lander University Jan. 19 for the presentation of the 2013 Scholastic Art Awards, an event which Lander has hosted for more than 20 years.

Thomas Covar has been appointed interim vice president of Business and Administration at Lander University.

Two members of Lander University's nursing faculty received doctoral degrees in 2012, and they agree it would have been impossible to successfully complete the demanding curriculum and study requirements without the support and encouragement of their families.

President Daniel Ball has welcomed Munavvar Zaripova of Tajikistan as a visiting scholar who will spend the spring semester at Lander University. From left: Dr. Sung Jae Park, dean of International Programs; Zaripova, with her nation's flag; and Ball.

Lander University has converted a little-used indoor swimming pool into an ultramodern fitness center that should see a lot of traffic. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on Friday, Jan. 4, to formally introduce the center, which became available for use with the start of the spring semester. The new facility is located in the Joe V. Chandler Center, home of the university's Department of Physical Education and Exercise Studies (PEES).

Four students were honored recently when Lander University's William Preston Turner School of Nursing held its annual Nursing Recognition Ceremony as a prelude to the university's December graduation.

In the summer of 2007, newly hired Lander University assistant librarian Mike Berry was working in the archives of the Larry A. Jackson Library when a volume with a white vellum binding caught his eye.