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Most general education students enter her classroom with a resistance to math, but Dr. Josie Ryan, professor of mathematics at Lander University, insists that almost anyone can develop fundamental mathematical skills with enough faith and effort.

Lander University Lecturer of Physics Dr. Michelle Deady, winner of this year's Young Faculty Teaching Award, "always enjoyed looking up at the stars."

Given the success of Lander’s nursing and health care management programs, Self Regional Healthcare is home to numerous Lander University alumni, many of whom have found exciting, long-term careers. But for Lander alumna Mary Lyle Cathcart, it was her mass communications degree that led her to the marketing department at Self Regional.

Jason Smith, of Greenwood, has been selected as Lander University's new director of Military and Veterans Services.

Lander University has named Dr. Susan Fernandez to serve as chair of its Department of Teacher Education.

Researchers from Lander University’s College of Business and the College of Charleston’s School of Business are currently studying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on restaurant small business owner and operators in South Carolina. 

A growing research program that focuses on the exercise response to bone adaptation through the molecular process is recognized in the Young Faculty Scholarship Award recently presented by Lander University to Dr. Pragya Sharma Ghimire.

Like several other spring semester events, Lander University’s annual Student Academic Research Symposium, sponsored by the Honors College, was yet another victim of COVID-19. Normally giving the university the opportunity to spotlight the insightful research of undergraduate students from various academic backgrounds, the in-person version of this year’s symposium was cancelled.

Lander University has announced that it will resume face-to-face instruction for the Fall 2020 semester.

Lander University and Midlands Technical College (MTC) have formed a partnership to enhance the transfer of students from MTC to Lander University. Articulation agreements will allow MTC students to easily transfer their credits to Lander, entering as juniors. Students who meet the requirements of the program will be guaranteed admission to Lander University and will receive priority acceptance into the major they have selected.