Transylvania University News

Arizona Territory Representative Marcus Aurelius Smith fishes in Oak Creek in the 1890s.

Local high school students are spending their summer getting a taste of college life as they spend weeks living and learning on a university campus.

The second annual National Student Congress, hosted by the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship, released its index Friday of the top global threats facing the next generation.

Known as the Great Compromiser, little else is known about him. This week, Nathan Pesch, a senior at Colorado State University at Pueblo joined 49 college seniors from around the country to form a National Student Congress at the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship in Lexington, Ky.

The Carter Center in Atlanta has observed democratic elections in 30 countries in the past two decades.

Stephen Rolfe Powell is a self-proclaimed pyromaniac. The glass artist and Centre College professor started his career as a painter but later switched to glass, a medium that allowed him the spontaneity and physicality that he needed, he said.

Director/playwright Holly Henson shows an actor ideas for manipulating a corpse for a scene in The Infamous Ephraim.

Washington Post photos In 1981, Bond, then 17, killed his father, Mirko Rovtar Jr., in the garage at his grandfather's home in Bainbridge, Ohio.

For the past two summers, job-hunting was a cinch for Greg Tackett. After his freshman year of college, one easy application landed Tackett a full-time internship at The Lexington School.

Although Jennifer M. DeCoste-Lopez '09 said that she and her husband Cesar J. Lopez '09 were looking forward to being married, they were not looking forward to the wedding ceremony.

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It was the true story of how small-town people really do know their neighbors and really will do anything for them.

Ten Northern Kentucky students were named Tuesday among 2,800 national winners of college-sponsored scholarships in the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Program.

Even in a tough economy, new graduates should be picky about whom they work for, said veteran journalist John S. Carroll, who delivered the commencement address at Transylvania University Saturday.

ACHS standout Nick Fudge signs with Transylvania University Standout point guard holds career assists record at Adair County High School; as the 'Little General,' coach says he makes everyone around him look better.

When he was attending elementary school in war-torn Sudan, Lino Nakwa never knew when military incursions by the government would disrupt classes for weeks at a time.

Even in a tough economy, new graduates should be picky about whom they work for, said veteran journalist John S. Carroll, who delivered the commencement address at Transylvania University Saturday.

Newly elected Tabor College Student Senate President Andrew Wiens has been selected by Kansas Senator Sam Brownback to be the Kansas college student representative at the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship Student Congress, June 20-27, in Lexington, Ky.

Gov. Steve Beshear's prediction of a budget shortfall of $800 million to $1 billion in the upcoming fiscal year seems plausible, a leading economist said Monday after being briefed about Kentucky's economy by state budget officials.

Transylvania students, faculty and staff gathered for the dedication of the Transylvania University Community Garden Monday.