Transylvania alumnus advocates for Peace Corps on Capitol Hill
William Burriss ’13 grew up in a family dedicated to service. So the ideal of working for the greater good has been ingrained in him since an early age.
Published alumni find inspiration in liberal arts background
The following feature article appears in the Spring/Summer 2019 issue of Third + Broadway magazine. Billy Reed’s path seemed clear right out of high school. The future Hall of Fame sports writer already was covering games for two daily newspapers, and he had a journalism scholarship in hand to the University of Kentucky. Reed instead chose…
Doctor, actor, attorney, diplomat: The Bofill sisters lead multifaceted lives
Lora Bofill ’94 and Mariju Bofill ’99 learned from their parents to ask what they could do for others and they chose Transylvania University as the place to build their futures.
Moving the field forward: the role of writing in science at Transylvania
The following feature article appears in the Spring/Summer 2019 issue of Third + Broadway magazine, scheduled for delivery in June. Mark Sirianno ’19 remembers his eureka moment. Alone in the lab one evening, a few years into his work with Associate Professor of Biology Paul Duffin, he opened the incubator and found that the Neisseria sicca…
The faces behind Transylvania’s acclaimed Writing Center
Transylvania’s Writing Center is a campus hub of creativity and mentorship located in the library’s Academic Center for Excellence.
A reflection on writing
Transylvania exemplifies the very best of liberal education by guiding the attention of students to the richness of the world and encouraging them to stake their claim on the future tense.
How Cole Rucker ’85, co-founder and CEO of Paradigm Malibu, fixes broken systems
“At Transylvania, we always had this great history to fall back on, a solid academic foundation to stand on, yet we were encouraged to be innovative, to look at things differently and to take chances.”
Transy grad looks for big answers to society’s big issues
Perhaps even more important than teaching health, Lissanu shares fundamentals from her own education at Transy.
How can we land on an asteroid? Les Johnson ’84 has an idea
The many challenging dimensions of Les Johnson’s productivity relate directly to his liberal arts grounding at Transylvania.
Tackling hunger on a grand scale
“Transy was the place to help grow my abilities to execute, lead and learn the importance of knowing other people.”