Union marks two-year anniversary of Feb. 5 tornado with Founders Day observanceTwo years to the day after an EF-4 tornado caused massive destruction to its campus, Union University celebrated the opening of the facility that completed its rebuilding process.
More than 500 students, faculty and staff gathered Feb. 5 in the Bowld Student Commons for an evening of praise, Scripture reading and prayer as they remembered God’s protection the night when no students lost their lives despite the collapse of several buildings on campus.
The service was part of Union’s annual Founders Day observance. In a chapel service earlier in the day, the university installed biology professor Jennifer Gruenke as director of the Edward P. Hammons Center for Scientific Studies. Union Provost Carla Sanderson discussed some of the major calamities in Union’s 187-year history in her Founders Day address.
Faith and practice will be the topic for the next Town and Gown series at Union University on Tuesday nights Feb. 9-March 9.
The Town and Gown series is an opportunity for community members interested in various topics to attend lectures and participate in discussions in a classroom setting. The classes are free and open to the public.
The lectures in this Town and Gown installment w...
Shepherd wins $25,000 Rotary scholarshipUnion University senior Albert L. “Shep” Shepherd has received a $25,000 scholarship through the Jackson Rotary Club for one year of graduate study in Scotland.
“It definitely has given me a direction in which to move in after graduation,” Shepherd said. “It seems like God has given me a great opportunity and is kind of directing my steps with it.”
The Jackson Rotary Foundation Award ...
Union students complete study tour of ItalyTwo Union University faculty members, 30 Union students and six other travelers completed an 11-day art and literature tour of Italy Jan. 11-22.
Art professor Lee Benson, English professor Gavin Richardson and the students spent several days in Rome, Florence and Venice, with day trips to Pompeii, Pisa and Ravenna. Highlights of the tour included a visit to St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, a ...
Bowld Commons set for grand opening Feb. 2Union University students will celebrate the grand opening of the Bowld Student Commons building when they return for the spring semester Feb. 2.
The university will also hold a special worship service in the building Feb. 5.
The Spring 2010 Holla Back Party will begin at 8 p.m. Feb. 2 in the newly-completed commons building, the last of the structures to be replaced on the Union campu...
Six Union students present papers at Phi Alpha Theta conventionSix Union University students presented history papers at the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Biennial Convention Jan. 7-8 in San Diego, Calif.
Noah Arnold, Charles Googe, Micah Snow, Cameron White, Elizabeth Blevins and Kate Cline all made presentations during the convention, on such topics as the role of music in the French Revolution, Memphis during the Civil War and European re-ena...
Sanderson traveling to Iraq to help democratize Iraqi higher educationUnion University Provost Carla Sanderson is on her way to Iraq, where she will spend several days meeting with Kurdish government officials seeking to establish a democratic form of higher education in the Kurdistan region.
“It’s an overwhelming opportunity to be an ambassador for democracy in higher education,” Sanderson said. “Outside of spreading the gospel, education is the strongest too...
Wilson, Copeland to speak at Black History Month events Feb. 12Union University will recognize Black History Month Feb. 12 with a special chapel service and the third annual Black History Month program.
K. Edward Copeland, senior pastor of New Zion Baptist Church in Rockford, Ill., will speak in the G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel that morning at 10 a.m. Jeff Wilson, assistant professor of education for the University of Memphis higher education leadership ...
Union University will observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 18 with special worship services and service opportunities for students, faculty and staff both in Jackson and Germantown.
On the Jackson campus, David Carothers, Union’s assistant director of student mobilization, will speak in a chapel service at 10 a.m. Volunteer teams will also work at the Birth Choice Research Clinic and at T...
Brian Denker, assistant to the director of the R.C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union University, will travel to Ethiopia this month to teach in a Bible conference.
The conference, held in Ethiopia’s capital of Addis Ababa, is designed to provide indigenous Ethiopian ministers, church planters and missionaries with an opportunity to receive focused and intensive biblical teaching.
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Second volume of Smith's Isaiah commentary published by B&H AcademicA new commentary on Isaiah by Union University Christian studies professor Gary Smith is now available.
Published by B&H Academic, Smith’s commentary on chapters 40-66 of the book of Isaiah is part of “The New American Commentary” series. It follows the first commentary Smith wrote on Isaiah chapters 1-39, released in 2007.
“There’s a shift that takes place,” Smith said about the firs...
The Jackson, Germantown and Olford Center campuses will be closed during day time hours on Tuesday, February 9, 2010.
Decisions about evening campuses at the University’s various locations will be made by 2:00 p.m. Tuesday.
For up-to-date info about UU Wellness and aquatic hours, visit www.uuwellness.com
The Lex is closed, but UU Dining Services hours remain on schedule.
Please check back for more updates.
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