{ "title": "Magazine Feature", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/newsmagazine-feature.html", "language": "en-us", "description": "", "pubDate": "Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:04:31 EDT", "generator": "Cascade CMS", "posts": [ { "title": "Honors College Student Elisa Howansky Spends Summer Working with Giant Tortoises of the Galapagos Islands", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2023/07/Honors-College-Student-Elisa-Howansky-Spends-Summer-Working-with-Giant-Tortoises-of-the-Galapagos-Islands.html", "description": "Having also been accepted to two other colleges in South Carolina, Lander University wasn’t Elisa Howansky’s first choice. Deciding to major in biology, however, seemed like a no-brainer.", "pubDate": "Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "Graham Duncan", "category": [ "Academic", "Department of Biology", "College of Science & Mathematics", "Alumni", "Honors College", "General News", "Magazine Feature" ] } , { "title": "Lander Alumna Serves as Investigator with Lexington County Special Victims Unit", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2023/07/Lander-Alumna-Serves-as-Investigator-with-Lexington-County-Special-Victims-Unit.html", "description": "Deciding what to study in college is a difficult choice for many people, but not for Carleisha Gilliam ’15. Since early childhood, she knew that she wanted to go into law enforcement.", "pubDate": "Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "University Relations Staff", "category": [ "Department of Government, Criminology & Sociology", "General News", "Magazine Feature", "Alumni" ] } , { "title": "Inspiring Students Artistically, Athletically and Academically", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2023/07/Inspiring-Students-Artistically-Athletically-and-Academically.html", "description": "During her first run at college, Brittni Johnson’s primary focus at Lander University was on her stellar athletic career.", "pubDate": "Mon, 17 Jul 2023 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "Graham Duncan", "category": [ "Academic", "General News", "Magazine Feature" ] } , { "title": "President Biden Taps Lander Alumna for U.S. Marshal Service", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2023/07/President-Biden-Taps-Lander-Alumna-for-US-Marshal-Service.html", "description": "When U.S. President Joe Biden needed a U.S. Marshal for South Carolina, he chose Lander University alumna Chrissie Cofield Latimore ’11.", "pubDate": "Mon, 3 Jul 2023 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "Karen Petit", "category": [ "Magazine Feature", "General News", "Department of Government, Criminology & Sociology", "Alumni" ] } , { "title": "From Zimbabwe to Lander: Nathan Mugande Charts a Course of Success", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2023/06/From-Zimbabwe-to-Lander-Nathan-Mugande-Charts-a-Course-of-Success.html", "description": "Living 8,000 miles from his family in Harare, Zimbabwe, Nathan Mugande has become immersed in South Carolina’s life and culture as he’s charted his own course of success at Lander University.", "pubDate": "Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "Karen Petit", "category": [ "General News", "Academic", "Department of Biology", "Department of Physical Sciences", "College of Science & Mathematics", "Magazine Feature" ] } , { "title": "The College of Graduate & Online Studies: Providing an Authentic Experience from Enrollment to Commencement", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2023/06/Providing-an-Authentic-Experience-from-Enrollment-to-Commencement.html", "description": "The demand for online educational opportunities is on the rise.", "pubDate": "Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "Graham Duncan", "category": [ "Magazine Feature", "General News" ] } , { "title": "Ready for the Next Natural Disaster", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2023/06/Ready-for-the-Next-Natural-Disaster.html", "description": "Lander University alumnus Johnathan McAllister knew from an early age that he wanted to go into law enforcement after watching those he admired most lead successful careers in the field.", "pubDate": "Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:00:00 EDT", "author": "Graham Duncan", "category": [ "General News", "Magazine Feature", "Alumni" ] } , { "title": "Plugged In with the Community", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2020/06/plugged-in-with-the-community.html", "description": "Generally, when people hear different personalities on the radio, they aren’t too familiar with the face that sits behind the microphone. But when it comes to Austin Landers, almost everyone in Greenwood knows him on a first-name basis. ", "pubDate": "Mon, 8 Jun 2020 04:00:00 EDT", "author": "Graham Duncan", "category": [ "Alumni", "Magazine Feature" ] } , { "title": "A Rewarding Career in Public Relations", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2020/05/a-rewarding-career-in-public-relations.html", "description": "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. ", "pubDate": "Tue, 26 May 2020 04:00:00 EDT", "author": "Graham Duncan", "category": [ "Alumni", "Magazine Feature" ] } , { "title": "TV Broadcast Career Planted by Lander Student Media", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2020/05/tv-broadcast-career-planted-by-lander-student-media.html", "description": "As an anchor and reporter for FOX 54, WFXG-TV, in Augusta, Ga., Lander alumna Miya Payton does not take her job lightly. “I consider it a privilege to exercise my rights and encourage others to do the same,” she said. “I believe that knowledge is power, and many of the stories I tell inform our viewers of what’s going on in the world around them.” ", "pubDate": "Mon, 4 May 2020 04:00:00 EDT", "author": "Graham Duncan", "category": [ "Magazine Feature" ] } , { "title": "Lander Voice Heard Across the Country", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2020/04/lander-voice-heard-across-the-country.html", "description": "When highlighting successful Lander University mass communications alumni, one graduate’s voice can be heard across the country every day. ", "pubDate": "Mon, 13 Apr 2020 04:00:00 EDT", "author": "Graham Duncan", "category": [ "Alumni", "Magazine Feature" ] } , { "title": "Paying it Forward", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2020/03/paying-it-forward.html", "description": "At least once a week, you can head over to Montague’s or The Mill House in Greenwood for an early lunch and find retired Lander University professors Jerry Wilson and Bruce White dining together. It’s a tradition between the two academicians that is rarely broken. ", "pubDate": "Mon, 30 Mar 2020 04:00:00 EDT", "author": "Graham Duncan", "category": [ "Magazine Feature", "Scholarships/Foundation" ] } , { "title": "Communicating from Day One", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2020/03/communicating-from-day-one.html", "description": "When asked to describe their program, Lander University’s mass communications faculty will all respond with the same phrase: “hands-on.” ", "pubDate": "Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:00:00 EDT", "author": "Graham Duncan", "category": [ "Magazine Feature" ] } , { "title": "Top Secret Summer", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2020/03/top-secret-summer.html", "description": "Lander University student Maddie Hudlow, a history major from Alto, Ga., had an up-close look at the real-life spy intrigue while interning with the museum during the summer. With Russia at the forefront of American pop culture and current events, the response about the museum’s existence has been mixed. ", "pubDate": "Mon, 2 Mar 2020 05:00:00 EST", "author": "University Relations Staff", "category": [ "Magazine Feature" ] } , { "title": "Lander’s B.F.A. Professional Art Degree is Preparing Artists for Careers in Any Type of Studio", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2020/02/landers-b.f.a.-professional-art--degree-is-preparing-artists-for--careers-in-any-type-of-studio.html", "description": "Lander University’s Art Department recently unveiled a new professional art degree for the University’s growing academic palette. ", "pubDate": "Mon, 3 Feb 2020 05:00:00 EST", "author": "University Relations Staff", "category": [ "Magazine Feature" ] } , { "title": "Lenti Begins 5oth Year at Lander", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2019/09/lenti-begins-5oth-year-at-lander.html", "description": "Lander Emeritus Professor of Music Dr. Tony Lenti retired in 2009, but that hasn’t stopped him from teaching. ", "pubDate": "Fri, 13 Sep 2019 04:00:00 EDT", "author": "Jeff Lagrone", "category": [ "Magazine Feature", "General News", "Department of Music" ] } , { "title": "Wohlwend ’81 and Wife Create Scholarship Endowment", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2019/08/wohlwend-81-and-wife-create-scholarship-endowment.html", "description": "As a teenager, Steve Wohlwend was recruited to play golf for then-Lander College following a successful career at Irmo High School. His high school teammates John Atkinson, Mel Gaddy and Rex Johnston attended Lander, and after a recruitment trip to Jackson Station, Steve was sold. ", "pubDate": "Mon, 19 Aug 2019 04:00:00 EDT", "author": "University Relations Staff", "category": [ "Magazine Feature", "Scholarships/Foundation", "Alumni" ] } , { "title": "A Calling to Protect and Serve", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2019/08/a-calling-to-protect-and-serve.html", "description": "Chrissie Cofield had dreams of being a law enforcement difference-maker early in her life. “One of my high school classmates wrote in my ninth grade yearbook that she hoped I became the police officer I always spoke of being,” she recalls. ", "pubDate": "Mon, 12 Aug 2019 04:00:00 EDT", "author": "University Relations Staff", "category": [ "Alumni", "Magazine Feature" ] } , { "title": "Meet Greenwood's New City Manager", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2019/08/meet-greenwoods-new-city-manager.html", "description": "Rewarding careers are always within reach with a degree from Lander University. That reach now includes the City of Greenwood’s top executive post. ", "pubDate": "Tue, 6 Aug 2019 04:00:00 EDT", "author": "Graham Duncan", "category": [ "Magazine Feature", "Alumni" ] } , { "title": "Doing Great Things: Lander History Faculty Achieving at a High Level", "link": "https://www.lander.edu/news2019/07/doing-great-things-lander-history-faculty-achieving-at-a-high-level.html", "description": "Lander’s recent symposium on the South and World War I was a resounding success, drawing large audiences and attracting scholars from across the country, but it might never have happened without the publication of The American South and the Great War, 1914-1924, by Lander’s Dr. Ryan Floyd, associate professor of history. ", "pubDate": "Mon, 29 Jul 2019 04:00:00 EDT", "author": "Jeff Lagrone", "category": [ "Department of History & Philosophy", "Academic", "Magazine Feature" ] } ] }