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  Defenders of Wildlife Representative Presents Information on Endangered Red Wolves

  Office of University Communications and Mallory Moore

  Dr. Joseph Oyugi, Gardner-Webb University Associate Professor of Biology, invites the University community and the public to his ecology class on Oct. 25 at 11 a.m. for a special presentation by Christian Hunt, a representative from Defenders of Wildlife, a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities. The presentation will take place in Withrow 205, located on GWU’s main campus. Hunt will discuss the complex issues surrounding the red wolf, the world’s most endangered mammal of the dog family.

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  Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) Hosts Fields of Faith Event at Gardner-Webb

  Office of University Communications and Katie Furr

  Student-Athletes at Gardner-Webb University will share a night of encouragement and testimonies at Fields of Faith hosted by Gardner-Webb’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA). This event will take place on Oct. 11 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Stewart Hall in Tucker Student Center on the main campus. It is free and open to all GWU students and the community.

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  Gardner-Webb University Choirs to Present Concert

  Office of University Communications and Katie Furr

  Gardner-Webb University’s Concert Choir and Chorale will present a concert on Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. in Dover Theatre inside the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center. The concert is free and open to the public. The Concert Choir is directed by Dr. Paul Etter, professor of music and chair of the Department of Music. Dr. Morgan Soja, assistant professor of music, is the director of the Chorale.

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  Gardner-Webb Continues to Remember a Beloved Teammate and Friend

  Office of University Communications and Mallory Moore

  A GWU track athlete pursuing a criminal justice degree, known as strong friend with an uplifting personality, passed away in an automobile accident in May just after completing his sophomore year. Jalin Lawson’s life was honored both at his funeral in his hometown of Fort Gaines, Ga., and at a Celebration of Life service held at Gardner-Webb University at the start of the fall semester. Sophomore Amber Freeney stated, “celebrating Jalin’s life means remembering who he was and living the way he would want you to live.”

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  Alumnus Goes Back to GWU for Degree in Physical Education

  Office of University Communications

  Jody Brent Raduly of Boiling Springs, N.C., has three degrees from Gardner-Webb University. While his focus changed from studying business to physical education, he discovered that all of the professors at GWU cared about helping him achieve his goals. “I was not just taking a class that these individuals were teaching,” Raduly reflected. “They were placed in my path to guide me to meet my greatest potential as a future teacher in health and physical education as well as an industrious person in society. This guidance was not always just based on knowledge of content but also adoption of character.”

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  Gardner-Webb Celebrates National Physician Assistant (PA) Week

  Office of University Communications

  The Physician Assistant (PA) Studies Program at Gardner-Webb University celebrates National PA Week Oct. 6-12, recognizing the important contributions that PAs make to North Carolina’s healthcare system. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the profession, which was started by Dr. Eugene A. Stead Jr. at Duke University in Durham, N.C. In 2014, GWU established the PA Studies Program in the College of Health Sciences.

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  Former GWU Trustee Remembered for Contributions to the Community

  Office of University Communications

  A former member of the Gardner-Webb University Board of Trustees is being remembered for her contributions to the University, community and region. Nina Eloise Young Spangler of Shelby, N.C., passed away Sept. 24, 2017. Spangler and her husband, the late Royce Patrick “Pat” Spangler Sr., were avid supporters of Gardner-Webb.

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  Skills Learned in GWU Political Science Classes Prepared Alumna for Law School

  Office of University Communications

  Three times a week, Ivana Hughes ’13 is in court working on behalf of her clients. The Gardner-Webb University alumna is an associate attorney with King Law Offices in Rutherfordton, N.C., and Lincolnton, N.C. She practices family law, criminal defense, civil litigation, and wills and estates.

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  A Life Devoted to ‘God and Humanity’

  Office of University Communications

  Bobby M. Pettyjohn was a man of prayer who spent his life witnessing to others about Jesus. When he passed away, his family wanted to honor his memory with a gift to Gardner-Webb, the University that helped Pettyjohn earn a college degree and the place where he met Carolyn, his wife of 55 years. “The things we learned there he used all his life,” shared Mrs. Pettyjohn, who lives in Camden, S.C. “He was a successful but humble person. I felt extremely blessed to be his wife.”

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  Educator Who Laid Foundation for GWU Noel Center for Disability Resources Passes Away

  Office of University Communications

  Dr. Jerry Potter, who helped Gardner-Webb University establish a program for the Deaf in the fall of 1977, passed away Sept. 14. His work on this program laid the foundation for what is now the Noel Center for Disability Resources. In the 40 years since its beginning, the program has provided necessary accommodations to thousands of students.

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  Gardner-Webb Music Department Hosts 40th Annual Choral Clinic

  Office of University Communications and Mallory Moore

  The Gardner-Webb University Music Department is pleased to host its 40th annual choral clinic on Oct. 12. Select students from local high schools will participate in a day of instruction under Dr. Phillip Copeland, this year’s guest clinician from Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. The students will then perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. in Dover Theatre, located in the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center on Gardner-Webb’s main campus.

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  Mental Health Advocate Coming to Gardner-Webb

  Office of University Communications and Katie Furr

  A man who is familiar with both perseverance and suicide will be speaking at Gardner-Webb’s Dimensions program on Tuesday, Oct. 3. This event will be held at 9:25 a.m. in Stewart Hall of Tucker Student Center on GWU’s main campus and is free and open to the public. Dennis Gillan lost two brothers to suicide and handled each one differently.

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  Gardner-Webb Volleyball’s Heather Feldman Rises Above in Battle With Cancer

  Office of University Communications

  The word has long been one of the most feared and devastating the English language has produced. Cancer. It is a diagnosis that is capable of breaking the strongest of us all.

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  GWU Honors Student Association Continues Big Sweep Tradition in West Jefferson, N.C.

  Office of University Communications and Sthefany Flores

  The Gardner-Webb Honors Student Association (HSA) participated in its annual Big Sweep camping retreat Sept. 8-10. For almost three decades, students in the Honors program have cleaned a section of the New River in West Jefferson, N.C. “We found less waste than the last few years and I think that’s a good thing,” observed Dr. Tom Jones, professor of biology and associate dean of the Honors program.

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  Tennis Alumni Serving Up Success

  Office of University Communications and Mallory Moore

  Gardner-Webb University takes pride in the triumphs of its dedicated student-athletes, both on and off the field. Several former GWU athletes have continued to find success even after graduation. Three GWU Men’s Tennis alumni, Andrew Veeder (’11), Adam Knutsson (’13) and Evgeny Slesarev (’12) have already made an impact as coaches at various schools and organizations over the past few years.

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  GWU Professor Dr. Tim Vanderburg Shares Insights on Cannon Mills Leader in New Documentary

  Office of University Communications

  Comments from a Gardner-Webb University history professor are included in a new documentary film on the life and work of notable industrialist, Charles A. Cannon. Dr. Tim Vanderburg, author of “Cannon Mills and Kannapolis: Persistent Paternalism in a Textile Town,” was interviewed on the GWU campus last November by the film crew. The 60-minute documentary, “Charles A. Cannon: A Mind for Business, A Heart for People,” takes an in-depth look at the life of the visionary whose leadership and philanthropy played out on a global stage.

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  GWU Dimensions Speaker Will Share How Helping Somalian Refugees Renewed her Spirit

  Office of University Communications and Katie Furr

  Sarah Thebarge, a breast cancer survivor and inspirational speaker, will be featured at Gardner-Webb’s Dimensions program on Tuesday, Sept. 26. This event will be held at 9:25 a.m. in Stewart Hall of Tucker Student Center on GWU’s main campus and is free and open to the public. Thebarge found her life uprooted after her battle with breast cancer, so she relocated to Portland, Oregon.

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  Trips to Asia Give GWU Divinity Students Opportunity to Minister and Receive Blessings

  Office of University Communications

  Sleeping on the floor, listening to a blind man’s story and sampling kangaroo burgers—students in the School of Divinity at Gardner-Webb University participated in these immersion experiences while traveling in Asia over the summer. Dr. Hebert Palomino, professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling, led a group that focused on pastoral care, and students who traveled with Professor of Missiology Dr. Terry Casiño learned how to function, live, and work in different cultures. The first week Palomino’s group stayed at a refugee camp in Mae La, Thailand.

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  Alumnus Returns to GWU to Work on Master’s Degree

  Office of University Communications

  Tanner Burch, a 2015 graduate of Gardner-Webb University and football standout, is back at GWU to pursue a Master of Arts in Sport Education. A graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach, he works with GWU football, softball, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, cheer, and assists with wrestling. A native of Savannah, Ga., Burch knows firsthand the importance of strength training.

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  Gardner-Webb University Theatre Department Presents a Murder Mystery… With a Twist

  Office of University Communications and Mallory Moore

  Gardner-Webb University’s Theatre Department will present its first play of the season, Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Inspector Hound” on Oct. 5-8. The production will be at GWU’s Millennium Playhouse located behind the Communications Studies Hall on Main Street in Boiling Springs. “The Real Inspector Hound,” written in the early 1960s, is a comedy about two theatre critics, Moon and Birdboot, who become wrapped up in the plot of a murder-mystery play that they are watching and reviewing.

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  GWU Distinguished Artists Series Presents Special Opportunity for Aspiring Songwriters

  Office of University Communications and Mallory Moore

  Accomplished songwriters Glenn Selby and Steve Simpson will visit Gardner-Webb University on Saturday, Sept. 23 for a songwriting workshop and concert. This event is part of the GWU School of Performing and Visual Arts Distinguished Artist Series. The workshop will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Recital Hall of O. Max Gardner Hall, and the concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Blanton Auditorium, located in Hamrick Hall.

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  New Study by Gardner-Webb Political Science Professor Receives National Attention

  Office of University Communications

  A new study on the connection between police militarization and civilian casualties is receiving national attention, and Gardner-Webb University Assistant Professor of Political Science Dr. Casey Delehanty is at the center of it. The research is being publicized in the Washington Post and is being discussed among public policy organizations like the CATO Institute, based in Washington D.C. Delehanty, along with co-authors Jack Mewhirter (University of Cincinnati), Ryan Welch (Stanford University), and Jason Wilks (Harvard University), researched the effects of the 1033 Program, theorizing that increased militarization of police leads to an increase in civilian casualties.

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  Planning for Hurricane Irma

  Office of University Communications

  While the University continues to monitor the weather situation with Hurricane Irma, we anticipate a regular schedule on Monday, Sept. 11th. We urge students, faculty and staff traveling to campus to use your best judgment and be cautious. At Gardner-Webb, we continue to remember in our prayers everyone facing this extraordinary storm.

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  Alumna Developed Research Skills in Science Labs at Gardner-Webb

  Office of University Communications

  As a student in the Department of Natural Sciences at Gardner-Webb University, Amber Bellamy ’09 appreciated the various ways her professors gave her glimpses of her future career. Each class included several hands-on activities that sharpened her research skills and prepared her for graduate school. An environmental science major with a minor in biology, Bellamy took advantage of every learning opportunity.

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  Gardner-Webb’s “Release the Captives” Club Hosts Second 5K to Rescue Enslaved Children

  Office of University Communications and Mallory Moore

  Gardner-Webb University’s human-trafficking awareness club, Release the Captives, will hold its second annual 5K “Rescue Race” at 9 a.m. on Sept. 16 on Gardner-Webb’s main campus. The proceeds of this race will help rescue enslaved children in Ghana through the Challenging Heights organization. Registration is $15 for GWU students and $20 for community members and can be completed online at www.rescueracegwu.com, or on the morning of the race beginning at 8:15 a.m.