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Transylvania publication receives regional award

Posted on March 16, 2011July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—The Transylvania University admissions viewbook received the Award of Excellence and was a Grand Award finalist in the student recruitment category of the 2011 Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s District III awards competition. The award winners were selected from entries submitted by public and private colleges and independent schools in nine southeastern states. The viewbook provides a comprehensive introduction to Transylvania for prospective students. It was produced in-house by the university’s publications staff: Martha Baker, director; William Bowden, writer/editor; Barbara Grinnell, graphic designer; and Tyler Young, editorial assistant. “Our publications team consistently produces award-winning work,” said Sarah Emmons, Transylvania associate vice president of communications and public relations. “I’m delighted that the viewbook has once again been judged among the top in the region.” Transylvania, founded in 1780, is the nation’s sixteenth oldest institution of higher learning and is consistently ranked in national publications as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country.

Transylvania honors 63 first-year students for academic excellence

Posted on March 3, 2011July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Sixty-three first-year students at Transylvania University were recently inducted into Alpha Lambda Delta, a national honor society that recognizes academic excellence. To be included, students must have maintained a 3.5 or higher GPA and be in the top 20 percent of their class during their first year or term of college. Vice President and Dean of Students Michael Vetter was initiated as an honorary member. The new inductees are: Justin Brown Apperson, Tyler Wittmer Arnold, Miriam Jane Barager-Kemper, Daniel A. Barber, Elizabeth Ann Barczak, Cody Steven Barnett, Ethan Wert Campbell, Ashley Elizabeth Carter, Michael Alan Chase, Malynda Judith Clark, Alexis Nicole DeCamp, Hamilton Edwin Del Grosso, Roshni Nitin Desai, Victoria Frances Dickson, Matthew Wilson Durr, Maggie Elizabeth Eakins, Victor Charles Ferguson, Ashley Marie Fox, Diana Marie Gooding, Mark Ashley Hatfield, Brianna Jordan Hill, Kathryn Elizabeth Hooker, Carolyn Rose Hubbard, Brian Patrick Hudson, Sarah Marie Jagielski, Meghan Fay Johnson, Kayarash Karimian, Stephen Joshua Kowolonek, Jantzen Lee Latham, William Paul Malicote, Nicholas David Marnatti, Kali Zoe Mattingly, Karah Elizabeth McDaniel, Kelsey Michelle Meece, Carolyn Elizabeth Meiller, Allison Shea Merritt, Melissa Rose Moberg, Colin Joseph Mong, Rebecca Kendall Oliver, Abigail Jeanette Overstreet, Anthony Joseph Pakozdy, Jordan Trace Perkins, Shelly Elizabeth Perkins, Anne Somers Preston, Alicia Marie Reinersman, Christian Nathaniel Rhudy, Karl Alexander Schmitt, Zoe Elizabeth Snider, Maria Angela Starck, Dylan Shane Stearsman, Amanda Mae Stoddard, Victoria Lee Sullivan, Raisa Olivia Tikhtman, Emily Marie Ullrich, Chad Michael Warner, Tara Katherine Werner, Anne Eugenia

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Transylvania professors find art and stories in curbside furniture

Posted on February 11, 2011July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—On January 8, 2010, Transylvania professors Kurt Gohde and Kremena Todorova took a photograph that would become the first of their 277 images for their exhibit “Discarded.” On that day, they spotted a sofa on the curb and asked the owners to sit on it one last time before it was taken away. One year later, they took the last photo. The photographs are labeled with the location, date, time and temperature. They offer glimpses into frozen moments in the lives of discarded pieces of furniture, and the people willing to pose – families, college students, couples, children, hipsters and tradesmen. A small collection of images from “Discarded” is on displace the Good Foods Co-op Café on Southland Drive through February 28 and the entire exhibit, which also includes music and poetry inspired by the photographs, will be on display at the Land of Tomorrow (LOT) Gallery beginning February 18. An opening reception will be held on February 18, from 7-10 p.m., featuring a song by Vandaveer and poems, including pieces written by Bianca Spriggs ’03, Eric Sutherland, Kenan Visiting Writer and former Kentucky Poet Laureate Richard Taylor and fellow Transylvania professors Martha Gehringer and Jeremy Paden. The installation at LOT will also feature some of the discarded pieces of furniture and floor-to-ceiling drawings of the locations where the furniture was found. For gallery information, visit www.landoftomorrow.org.

Transylvania accounting students offer free tax service to those with incomes under $40,000

Posted on January 31, 2011July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University accounting students will assist taxpayers with an income of less than $40,000 in the preparation of Internal Revenue Service income tax forms 1040, 1040A, 1040EZ and the Kentucky form 740. The service is free. Student volunteers will be available each Wednesday in February (2, 9, 16 and 23) from 3-5:30 p.m. on the first floor of Transylvania’s Cowgill Center for Business, Economics and Education on Third Street. This is a popular program and taxpayers will be served on a first-come, first-served basis. Transylvania accounting students, who have completed an income tax preparation training program, will work under the supervision of accounting professors to aid taxpayers. Individuals interested in this free service should bring with them all of the necessary information including: their W2s, 1099s (interest income), state and federal tax returns from last year, the IRS forms received in the mail and the birthdates and social security numbers for any dependents. Transylvania has offered this free program to the Lexington community for more than 20 years. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120 or Stephanie Coriale at (859) 233-8104.

Transylvania’s student newspaper shines in yearly Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association contest

Posted on January 26, 2011July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University’s student newspaper, The Rambler, was again a big winner in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association (KIPA) awards competition. Current and former staffers picked up four first-place awards and several second- and third-place honors at the group’s annual conference in Louisville this past weekend. The yearly competition for two- and four-year campus newspapers features a variety of categories designed to showcase the talent of student journalists throughout the state. The Rambler writers, photographers and page designers competed in the division for schools with fewer than 5,000 students. Among the top winners was sophomore Jake Hawkins, the paper’s news editor. Hawkins won two first-place awards in news-one for his story on Kentucky’s texting while driving law and the other for his work with 2010 graduate Kim Rodgers covering the university’s search for a new president. News judges Kevin Kelly and Brenna Kelly of the Cincinnati Enquirer had high praise for Hawkins and Rodgers in particular, saying they “did a great job of chronicling the school’s search for a new president. The paper covered the candidate forums with students, profiled each candidate, then interviewed the winner.”  The judges commented that Hawkins and Rodgers were very thorough in their coverage. Also bringing home a first-place award was photographer Ian Gerard in the feature photo category. His photo of Transy students marching in the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Freedom March in Lexington last year was deemed “a nice moment from an

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