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Transylvania dedicates renovated laboratories in Brown Science Center

Posted on October 18, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.-Transylvania University dedicated the renovated and refurbished laboratories of Brown Science Center today. During the ceremony, President R. Owen Williams emphasized the importance of the project for the university’s science faculty and students. “This major project enhances teaching and learning in our already very distinguished science programs,” Williams said. “Our labs are now the kind of physical spaces that encourage the high degree of collaboration among professors and students that is characteristic of modern scientific investigation.” William T. Young Jr., chairman of the Board of Trustees, was on hand to welcome everyone to the dedication and express gratitude to the donors who made the project possible. “It took a broad and supportive group of very generous donors to fund what is truly one of the most meaningful projects in the university’s recent history,” Young said. “Each and every one who supported this initiative has our deep appreciation.” Highlights of the multi-phase renovation include new fume hoods and other scientific equipment, along with moveable furnishings that make lab spaces more flexible. The addition of windows, brighter lighting, and lighter colors for walls and floors combine to make exceptionally appealing spaces for the study of science. The $9.2 million project is one of three main components of Transylvania’s 225th Anniversary Campaign, which concluded in June with a total of $47.3 million raised against a goal of $42 million. Thus far, nine of 11 labs have been completed. The work began in

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“Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers” is topic for fall Kenan lecture to be given by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Posted on October 17, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—The fall Kenan Lecture at Transylvania University will be delivered on Wednesday, October 20, by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurence S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. The title of his presentation is “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.” His book by the same title won the 2007 Arthur Ross Award from the Council on Foreign Relations. Cosmopolitanism is the name given to Appiah’s new system of ethics, which examines competing philosophical claims of various civilizations on the one hand, and groundless moral relativism on the other. He then arrives at an ethics that celebrates our common humanity while offering practical ways of managing our differences. Appiah holds an appointment in Princeton’s University Center for Human Values and is associated with the Center for African American Studies, the programs in African studies and translation studies and the departments of comparative literature and politics. He has taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke and Harvard. He joined the faculty of Princeton in 2002. Born in London, but raised in Ghana by his African father and English mother, he earned B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from Clare College, Cambridge University. He is the author of numerous articles and books, notably “Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race” (1996), “The Ethics of Identity” (2005), “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers” (2006) and “Experiments in Ethics” (2008). The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be in Haggin

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Transylvania enrollment at 1,110; most academically-talented entering class in Transy’s history

Posted on October 8, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

The class of 2014 poses on the steps of Old Morrison. LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University has enrolled 1,110 students for the 2010-11 academic year, including an entering class of 314 made up of 303 first-year students and 11 transfers. “This is a class about which we can be very excited,” said Brad Goan, director of admissions. “The academic quality of this group is outstanding. Moving forward, we want to accelerate the pace of diversification, but we made some excellent progress this year in recruiting students from outside Kentucky, and we held onto previous gains in the enrollment of minority and international students.” The entering class is the most academically-talented class in Transy’s history, with an average ACT of 27 and an average high school GPA of 3.8. Thirty-four are Kentucky Governor’s Scholars and Governor’s School for the Arts participants and six are National Merit Finalists. Twenty-one percent of the class comes from outside Kentucky and there are four international students from Korea, China, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom. Eight percent identify themselves as members of a racial or ethnic minority, and 34 percent are first-generation college students. Transylvania, founded in 1780, is the nation’s sixteenth oldest institution of higher learning and is consistently rankedin national publications as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country.

Leading world authority on the Gnostic Gospels will speak at Transylvania Thursday, Oct. 14, at 7:30 p.m.; free and open to the public

Posted on September 23, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, will speak at Transylvania University’s Carrick Theater Thursday, Oct. 14, at 7:30 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public. Pagels is considered a leading world authority on the Gnostic Gospels. The topic of her talk at Transylvania will be “The Discovery of the Secret Gospel of Thomas,” also the subject of her New York Times bestseller “Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas” (2003). Other books by Pagels include “Adam, Eve and the Serpent” (1988), “The Origin of Satan” (1995), “Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity” (2007) and “The Gnostic Gospels” (1979), which was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best books of the twentieth century and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. Pagels’ current project is a new book titled “Revelations” which will explore the New Testament Book of Revelation and other Jewish, Christian and Pagan books of Revelation written around the same time. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.

Transylvania offering five concerts during WEG, four as part of Alltech Fortnight Festival

Posted on September 17, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—As guests from around the world arrive in Lexington for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, Transylvania University will offer five concerts, four as part of the Alltech Fortnight Festival. September 27 and September 287:30 p.m., Carrick Theater, Mitchell Fine Arts Center Gregory Partain with Transylvania University artists Music professor and pianist Gregory Partain will perform solo masterworks of Beethoven and Ravel and collaborate with colleagues in ensemble music of the Baroque era. In his 23 years on the concert stage, Partain has appeared as recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist throughout the United States, and has performed overseas in Poland, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Russia, Greece and Germany. Part of the Alltech Fortnight Festival. $20 at the door or pre-purchase tickets available at the Downtown Arts Center, in person or online at www.lexarts.org/participate/box-office (processing fee applies). October 4 7:30 p.m., Carrick Theater, Mitchell Fine Arts Center Transylvania Faculty Showcase Concert Faculty members will perform in a variety of solos and ensembles. Free and open to the public. October 6 7:30 p.m., Carrick Theater, Mitchell Fine Arts Center Orchid Ensemble with the Transylvania University Choir Ensemble consists of Lan Tung on the erhu/Chinese violin, Haiqiong Deng on the zheng/Chinese zither, and Jonathan Bernard on percussion. Acclaimed as “one of the brightest blossoms on the world music scene,” the ensemble tours regularly across North America. Recent venues include The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer

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