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Former Vice President Joe Biden sports a Lander Baseball cap during a recent visit to Lander University on Thursday, Nov. 21.

Lander University’s Assembly Plaza was filled with hundreds of community friends, students, faculty, staff and their families for the fifth annual Holiday Tree Lighting celebration.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was both “a true miracle” and an “accident,” according to Presbyterian College Associate Professor of History Dr. Stefan W. Wiecki.

During their clash with rival Erskine on Thursday, Nov. 14, the Lander University’s women’s basketball team hosted over 600 8^th graders from Greenwood School District 50 for an “education game.”

Lander University students gathered in the Grier Student Center on Tuesday, Nov. 12, for “Coffee and Conversation” on the potential health hazards associated with vaping, a popular social trend that has received high levels of national attention in recent months.

Six Lander University psychology students earned second-place honors in the highly competitive quiz bowl sponsored by the South Carolina Psychological Association (SCPA). The event was held during the SCPA’s Academic Day in Columbia on Nov. 7.

Linda Dolny Lister, the keynote speaker at Lander University’s 36th Annual Eleanor Shiflet Teal Donor Appreciation and Scholarship Dinner, is one of Lander’s most distinguished alumna, with a long list of accomplishments, but she shared a story about something that “shamed” her.

The next meeting of the Lander Foundation Board of Directors is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 14, at 11:30 a.m.

Lander University awarded student veterans and honored deployed students, faculty and staff during its annual Veterans Day ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 7.

A new Miss Lander University was selected at the conclusion of the 2019/20 Miss Lander Pageant on Monday, Nov. 4, in Lander’s Abney Cultural Center Auditorium.