The Cousins Center for Science and Innovation has opened a new Makers Space, located on the Physics level. The space is open to all students and faculty, as well as classes with a curriculum calling for use of the equipment. The equipment and materials are currently free of charge—and students and faculty are encouraged to […]
Philosophy major Margaret Light ’20 is adding to her resume of nonprofit experience this semester with an internship at the John H. and Wilhelmina D. Harland Charitable Foundation. The senior is among nearly a dozen Oglethorpe students who have interned at the Harland Foundation in the last decade. Harland is an Atlanta charitable foundation that […]
Oglethorpe welcomed Christian Fischer, President & CEO of Georgia-Pacific, for a conversation with President Larry Schall on “leadership in a global world.” Fluent in four languages and born and educated in Germany, Fischer started his Georgia-Pacific career in 1989 as a sales manager in Europe, and relocated to Atlanta in 1992. He was named Group […]
The 2020 College Factual College rankings have Oglethorpe University among the top tier of schools nationwide in diversity and “focused” programs. Publications like U.S. News & World Report and Washington Monthly have recognized the university for its diversity, and now College Factual ranks Oglethorpe in the top 15% of colleges. The ranking measures ethnic, geographic […]
Oglethorpe has been recognized by Colleges of Distinction, a national guide to colleges that highlights innovative learning opportunities at top schools, for the 2019-2020 academic year, and its growing business program has earned the school further recognition among the nation’s top schools. Colleges of Distinction honors institutions whose business degrees are multidisciplinary in nature and loaded with […]
Hammack School of Business faculty and students were on hand in the I.W. “Ike” Cousins Center for Science and Innovation for the inaugural Q. William Hammack School of Business convocation Thursday. Dennis Kelly, Dean of the Hammack School of Business, Bill Hammack ’73, former President of C.W. Matthews Contracting Company, and Joe Lawrence, Executive Vice […]
The Decatur Book Festival—one of the largest independent festivals of its kind in the country—annually brings world class authors and thousands of book lovers together in celebration of ‘all things literary’. This year, Oglethorpe students Ivy Jones, Dani Lindmier, Kennedi Morgan, and Sophia Summerlin had the opportunity to present their own poems on the Local Poetry Stage. […]
The Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University has selected Dr. Kate Keib, assistant professor of communication studies, as a 2019 Kopenhaver Fellow. The fellowship program, designed for tenure-track women faculty members, focuses on advancing women in communications through mentoring, networking, and preparing for tenure, promotion, administration […]
PayScale, a data-driven software company focused on employee compensation, released its 2019 College Salary Report and rated Oglethorpe University in the top 13% of educational institutions nationwide in median salaries of graduates. Oglethorpe’s overall ranking combining both early career, 1-5 years work experience, and mid-career, 10+ years experience, salaries was above schools such as Georgia […]
‘Summer break’ was a bit of a misnomer for the Oglethorpe sciences, with professors busy over the past few months with research projects in biology, chemistry, and physics. They are also working to make undergraduate research part of the Oglethorpe culture, and ensure every student who wants to work with faculty has that opportunity. “This […]