One of my favorite Chowan days each year is the Sunday before Thanksgiving. On that evening, the annual Honors College Student Association Awards Dinner is held off campus. This year 122 students, administrators, staff, and faculty attended the dinner at John’s Seafood. Following the dinner, a faculty member and sixteen members of the Honors College […]
Academic Bowl All-Stars Announced
The 2015 Honors College Student Association Brown Lady Academic Bowl AllStar tournament team was announced on Monday, November 30. Ryan Harris (Religion) was named the Student MVP. The student all-stars are Daniella Aguilar (English), Austin Munden (History), Deja Christopher (Biology), and Crystal Sarnor (Biology). Honorable mention goes to Charles Mustian (Music), Zach Cooper (Criminal Justice), […]
A Wild Ending to Academic Bowl Game
The end of the championship game of the 2015 Honors College Student Association Brown Lady Academic Bowl on Monday, November 30 brought elation to the unpopular Department of History team and its fans, which are non-existent, and total devastation to the Department of Biology and its fans, who filled Vaughan Auditorium. The lead in the game […]
Retired DEA Agent Meets with Criminal Justice Majors
Retired Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent Brad Worrell, a native of Franklin, Virginia, gave advice to Chowan University's criminal justice majors on joining the agency, as well as sharing tales of his glory days as an undercover DEA agent in 1980’s Miami. The mission of the DEA is to enforce the controlled substances laws […]
Chowan Creates Marketing and Brand Management Committee
This is a time of great momentum at Chowan University. Coupled with a growing enrollment and an extreme since of pride permeating the campus, the University has decided this is an ideal time to launch a Marketing and Brand Committee, a committee with representation from Enrollment Management, Student Affairs, Development, Athletics, and Academic Affairs. “We […]
Sarnor & Jones Earn NSF REUs
Crystal Sarnor, a junior biology major, completed a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REU) at the Yale University School of Medicine in Summer 2015. She worked with Drs. Megan King and Paolo Columbi to study the function of protein complexes embedded in the nuclear membrane and their role in human genetic diseases, […]
Theatre@Chowan presents A Thousand Cranes
Theatre@Chowan will present three performances of Kathryn Schultz Millers’ play, A Thousand Cranes, on November 20, 21, and 22, 2015. A Thousand Cranes tells the story of a real little girl who lived in Japan from 1943 to 1955. Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. Now twelve years […]
Chowan to Gain Associate Membership in Conference Carolinas
HIGH POINT, NC- Chowan University begins a new era in athletic history after being accepted for associate membership in Conference Carolinas. The Hawks will compete in Conference Carolinas play in women's golf, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's lacrosse, and women's lacrosse effective January 2017. Chowan was unanimously approved for associate membership in October, and is […]
Brennan Receives Scholar Prize
The 2015 Chowan University McDowell Columns Scholar Prize was presented to Thomas P. Brennan, Associate Professor of Graphic Communications, during the Celebration of Faculty Scholarship and Creative Achievement on Tuesday, November 3. The prize consisted of a cash award and a book style clock, showcasing a photo of the historic McDowell Columns Building, and engraved […]
Academic Outreach Returns to Chowan
As part of Chowan’s mission of teaching, learning, and service, the university is relaunching its Academic Outreach Program, a program that operated under the guidance of John Hinton, Special Assistant to the President, from 2005 to 2011. Now guided by Brenda Tinkham, Associate Provost for External Relations, the program is a free service offered by […]