News

As part of an annual tradition, Soup Day, held on October 27, gave LR’s nursing professors an opportunity to share food, fellowship and the support of a warm bowl of soup with their students.

Lenoir-Rhyne University announced today a tuition reduction of 30 percent. The $13,000 drop in published tuition — from $43,000 to $30,000 — will apply to all new and returning, full-time undergraduate students beginning in fall 2023.

As a special events intern at the North Carolina Aquarium, Becca Fox ’23 traveled a path of career discovery, conservation and cute baby animals.

On October 21 — as part of 2022 Homecoming festivities — the class of 1972 marked its golden anniversary with a reunion in the Cromer Center banquet room, celebrating the community these classmates have built and maintained over 50 years and countless miles.

In October 2022, Lenoir-Rhyne named Leah Beth Hubbard the new assistant vice president for the Office of Mission, Engagement and Innovation, where she will manage the many ways the university engages with potential and current students as well as the larger community.

In a three-part lecture series sponsored by the Living Well Center for Vocation and Purpose, Vance Blackfox — Indigenous theologian and activist — reveals the history of Indigenous peoples in North America.

Growing up in Hickory, Jesica Trejo-Trejo ’24 has grown to love being from a smaller city. After earning her associate's degree from Catawba Valley Community College, she transferred to Lenoir-Rhyne to pursue a degree in biology.

“A Lenoir-Rhyne Christmas,” the university’s annual holiday concert, will be held Thursday, Dec. 1–3 with four showings. Tickets are available starting Oct. 20.

Jeni Wyatt has joined Lenoir-Rhyne as the university’s first assistant provost for undergraduate education.

With a love for Hickory and the culture at Lenoir-Rhyne, transfer student Aasia McNeil '24 found her home at LR with the volleyball team.

Kristi Hilton ’24 returned to college after a five year break to pursue a life-long goal of becoming an occupational therapist.

Throughout the month of October, the Office of Undergraduate Admission is leading a limited series of haunted campus tours.