Students Earn a Place on the LRU President and Dean’s Lists for Fall 2012

Mon Feb 18 2013

Lenoir-Rhyne University has announced the President and Dean’s Lists for the 2012 fall semester. Students qualifying for President’s list must be undergraduates with a semester grade point average of 3.9 or better on a 4.0 scale, provided the student carried at least 12 hours of letter-graded courses.

Qualifying students on the Dean’s List posted a semester grade point average of 3.5 or better, provided no grade was below a “C”. He/she must also have carried at least 12 hours of letter-graded courses.

Note: We are pleased to publicize the President’s List and Dean’s List as a service to our students and their families. If you feel you have been omitted from this list in error, please read the frequently asked questions before you call and email. Thank you!

For information on submitting your student’s name and honor to your local newspaper, click here.

LRU President’s List – Fall 2012 (N.C. Only)

LRU President’s List – Fall 2012 (Outside N.C.)

LRU Dean’s List – Fall 2012 (N.C. Only)

LRU Dean’s List – Fall 2012 (Outside N.C.)

President’s List and Dean’s List FAQ

Tue Jan 31 2012

We are happy to publish the President’s List and Dean’s List as a service to our students and their families. Before you call or e-mail about these lists, please read the following:

Q: I’m a graduate student and my name is not on the list, but it should be.
A: Graduate students are not eligible to be on these lists.

Q: I’m a part-time student and my name should be on the list, but it’s not.
A: To be eligible for inclusion, students must be undergraduates taking at least 12 semester hours for which they receive letter grades.

Q: I still think I should be on the list, but I’m not.
A: Carefully re-read the first paragraph of the posting, which explains who is eligible for these honors and make sure you are qualified. If you still feel you should be on the list, but aren’t, please contact Jean Beaver at jean.beaver@lr.edu or 828-328-7112. (more…)

LRU, We Have An App For That!

Thu May 19 2011

Available this week in the Apple App Store is the official Lenoir-Rhyne University app. The free app is designed to provide an abundance of information to prospective students, current students, alumni, and the Hickory community. The app can be downloaded on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.

The app is well timed as summer finds new students preparing to come to campus in August and they want to explore their new university.

“Though the official campus visit is an important tool, it was a logical step to create an on-line self guided tour and offer other information geared toward a generation that thrives on technology,” said Mike Langford, director of marketing and communications at L-R. The app was developed by the L-R marketing office in collaboration with Slicker Interactive, a Charleston, SC based company that specializes in innovations for Apple products. (more…)

Best-selling author to speak at LRU Visiting Writers Series

Fri Mar 11 2011

Internationally acclaimed best selling author David Baldacci will be the guest author at the Lenoir-Rhyne University Visiting Writers Series on Thursday, March 31 at 7:00 pm, in the P.E. Monroe Auditorium on campus.

This event is co-sponsored by the Hickory Public Library. A book signing will be held prior to the reading at 5:00-6:00 pm at the Patrick Beaver Memorial Library in Hickory. The book signing and reading are free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are required or offered.

Baldacci shocked the publishing world when he burst on the literary scene with his incredible first novel, Absolute Power. Since then he has written eighteen additional best selling works including Total Control, The Winner, The Simple Truth, Saving Faith, Wish You Well, Last Man Standing, True Blue, and his latest blockbuster, Deliver Us From Evil. (more…)

Teaching Fellows make study trip to Germany

Mon Jun 21 2010

Fourteen N.C. Teaching Fellows from Lenoir-Rhyne University recently returned from an eight-day study trip to Europe.

The students and four chaperones met with their counterparts at the University of Magdeburg-Stendal in what was formerly part of East Germany. They also visited elementary and secondary school classrooms in Germany.

The students who participated in the trip, and their hometowns, are as follows: Desirae Ball, Mooresville; Krysten Bolick, Conover; Tyler Bumgarner, Taylorsville; Aaron Campbell, Roxboro; Leia DeWald, Washignton; Sarah Grier, Moooresville; Kelley Hensley, Asheville; Brittany Keaton, Tobaccoville; Brian Mulligan, Claremont; Leah Staton, Cherryville; Chase Tutttle, Winston-Salem; Laura Waller, Sneads Ferry; Stephanie Watts, Statesville; Kimberly Wood, Elkin.

The trip is part of a recently formed partnership between Lenoir-Rhyne University and the German university that provides for student exchanges as well as short-term visits. Three students from the University of Magdeburg-Stendal were students at LRU last fall.

Dr. Joyce Davis, director of the Teaching Fellows at LRU, said research and global education are important parts of the university program. She plans to continue the partnership with the University of Magdeburg-Stendal by taking each class of L-R Teaching Fellows to Germany during their junior year. (more…)

Communications students meet with Chinese professor

Thu Mar 4 2010

The Internet is helping to expose the Chinese people to more foreign ideas, said Visiting Professor Cui Ping of China.

Her comments were made during a discussion with Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Communications Club. She was invited to speak to the group of communications majors about the differences between U.S. and Chinese media. She said she is not an expert in this subject. But she answered questions about Chinese culture, media and government.

Ping’s one-year stay in Hickory is being co-sponsored by Lenoir-Rhyne and Catawba Valley Community College. She is teaching Mandarin Chinese at the two schools and is also speaking to local groups about Chinese life and culture.

Access to foreign newspapers, magazines and television programming is restricted in China, she said. In China, the news media are considered the voice of the government. However, she said TV hosts are now more likely to ask tough questions of government officials than in the past.

Access to the Internet is widely available, and it has made many Chinese people more aware of ideas and attitudes outside their own country, she said. Although China has been historically cautious about contact with foreigners, that attitude is beginning to change. (more…)

President’s List and Dean’s List FAQs

Mon Feb 22 2010

We are happy to publish the President’s List and Dean’s List as a service to our students and their families. Before you call or e-mail about these lists, please read the following:

Q: I’m a graduate student and my name is not on the list, but it should be.
A: Graduate students are not eligible to be on these lists.

Q: I’m a part-time student and my name should be on the list, but it’s not.
A: To be eligible for inclusion, students must be undergraduates taking at least 12 semester hours for which they receive letter grades.

Q: I still think I should be on the list, but I’m not.
A: Carefully re-read the first paragraph of the posting, which explains who is eligible for these honors and make sure you are qualified. If you still feel you should be on the list, but aren’t, please contact Jean Beaver at jean.beaver@lr.edu or 828-328-7112.

Q: My name is on the incorrect list.
A: Carefully read the first paragraph of the posting, which explains who is eligible for these honors and make sure you are qualified. If you still feel you are on the wrong list, please contact Jean Beaver at jean.beaver@lr.edu or 828-328-7112.

Q: My name is listed under the incorrect city or state.
A: The President’s List and Dean’s List are compiled using the “hometown” or “preferred address” you gave to the Registrar’s Office. If you want the list to contain a different address, you will need to change this information with the Registrar’s Office.

Q: Can I have press releases sent to more than one newspaper?
A: Due to time and staff limitations, we do not provide this service. If you want additional newspapers to publish this information, we suggest you contact these newspapers directly. Any publication wishing to publish this information is welcome to download it from our website.

Q: Why hasn’t my local newspaper published my name yet?
A: Check the date that this item was posted on our news website (at the top of each posting), then add two to three more weeks. This is the average time it takes most newspapers to publish these news items, but some take longer.

Many larger newspapers do not publish Dean’s List or President’s List news items.

Q: I’ve waited 2-3 weeks, and my local paper still hasn’t published this item. What should I do?
A: Call your local newspaper and politely ask if they publish these types of releases. If the answer is yes, ask if they have received this release from Lenoir-Rhyne. If not, it is possible it has been accidentally deleted or lost in cyberspace. It is also possible we were unable to determine which paper we should send your release to, or that we do not have a correct e-mail for that paper.

Ask the person at the newspaper for the e-mail address where these items should be sent. Then e-mail the name of the newspaper, newspaper e-mail address, plus your name, and the name of the list you are on, to maggie.greene@lr.edu. Most newspapers will not publish the names of out-of-area students.

Q: Why is it taking so long for the President’s List and Dean’s List to be posted on the website?
A: We generate these lists as quickly as possible after the end of each semester. However, we have limited time and staff.

Thank you for reading this far!! You get an A+ for following directions and will do well in life!

L-R professor named to statewide policy board

Fri Feb 12 2010

Dr. Rand Brandes, Lenoir-Rhyne University Martin Luther Stevens Professor of English and director of the university’s Visiting Writers Series, has been awarded a GlaxoSmithKline Faculty Fellowship for 2010.

The GlaxoSmithKline Faculty Fellowship program works in conjunction with the Institute for Emerging Issues based at North Carolina State University to provide the incentive, mechanisms and support for faculty to apply their expertise to current public policy issues. Brandes is one of six GSK fellows this year and the first LRU faculty member to receive this honor.

Fellows work closely with Institute for Emerging Issues staff throughout the year to generate policy-relevant research and to communicate findings to key stakeholders and the general public.

Fellow activities include everything from writing opinion pieces for North Carolina newspapers, to shaping the Institute for Emerging Issues’ programs of work and offering expert advice to policy-makers. Brandes recently spoke at the institute’s Forum on Creativity in Raleigh on The Little Read elementary school literacy program. Other speakers included Gov. Beverly Perdue and former Gov. James Hunt, and creativity gurus Daniel Pink and Tom Kelley.

Deaf student conducts art therapy with deaf clients

Wed Oct 28 2009

Bethany Hickman, a junior at Lenoir-Rhyne University, is participating in an art therapy internship this semester at Broughton Hospital, a state psychiatric hospital in Morganton, N.C.

That isn’t unusual. What is out of the ordinary is that Hickman and the clients she works with are deaf. Hickman, from Marysville, Tenn., uses a sign language interpreter to communicate with most people. At Broughton, she communicates directly with her clients using American Sign Language. Robert Winter, professor of art at Lenoir-Rhyne, is supervising her internship. He said that having a deaf student participate in an internship with deaf clients is a first in his 28 years at Lenoir-Rhyne.

Hickman is majoring in human and community service and minoring in art therapy. After graduation, she plans to earn a master’s degree in counseling with the goal of becoming a school counselor.

She travels to the state hospital twice a week and works with two clients for approximately an hour each time. After each session, she analyzes the clients’ work and meets with her professor. Both of her clients are over the age of 30.

“When I come in, I give them a paper and pencil and a prompt (about what to draw). Then we talk about it,” she said through an interpreter. “Basically, it’s a way they express themselves through drawing. Sometimes art can help a person heal or understand a circumstance or situation.”

Connie King, program director for deaf services at Broughton Hospital, has been supervising Hickman’s work at the hospital. King reports that the patients are very pleased to be working with Hickman. “They love that they can directly communicate and don’t have to use an interpreter,” she said. Broughton has creative arts and recreation therapy but not art therapy.

“It is exciting to watch Bethany work with our patients with this new and creative approach,” King said. (more…)

Student documents recycling success

Mon Mar 2 2009

Erin from Reese Institute and LRU student Joseph White

Joseph White has been looking into campus dumpsters for more than a year now. No, he’s not a dumpster diver looking for treasure. He’s a conservation of natural resources major documenting campus recycling efforts.

Lenoir-Rhyne has had a limited recycling program for several years. But Dr. John Brzorad and Erin Seiling of the Thomas W. Reese Institute for Conservation of Natural Resources wanted to take it to a new level. To document the success of their efforts, they needed to establish a baseline level of recycling on campus.

That’s where White came in. He agreed to check campus dumpsters and recycling bins to determine how much waste was heading to the dump, and how much was being recycled. He first measured each container and calculated the number of cubic yards it could hold. He painted measurements on the sides of the dumpsters to help him estimate the level of trash in each one. Then, five to six days a week, he checked each dumpster and recycling station on campus and recorded his findings. (more…)