Raf Week celebrates one of Transylvania’s most beloved — and unusual — professors
Transylvania’s Raf Week offers plenty of fun, spooky activities for students next week.
Constantine Rafinesque
“Honor to whom honor is overdue.” Transylvania remembers noted professor Constantine Rafinesque
Two hundred years ago, in 1819, Rafinesque arrived at Transylvania University, hired as a professor of botany and natural science.
Our Mascot
Today Transylvania announces a new Pioneer athletic mascot, Raf, who pays homage to the university’s legendary professor, Samuel Constantine Rafinesque, a charismatic naturalist whose tomb is on the first floor of Transylvania’s main administrative building, Old Morrison. The campus also boasts a café bearing his name. For nearly two decades Transy has been without a […]