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St. Andrews University announces their Baccalaureate and Commencement services for May 5 and 6. Baccalaureate will be held in Harris Courts at 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 5.  The speaker is the Rev. W. Robert Martin III, St. Andrews Class of 1986.  He has recently returned to Laurinburg to become the Pastor of Laurinburg Presbyterian Church after serving as Senior Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Palo Alto, CA, for the past 15 years.  He holds a Master of Divinity degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary. St. Andrews choir and

St. Andrews University hosted The North Carolina Poetry Society’s Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series Dinner, April 12, which brought together distinguished poets and student poets from the central regions of North Carolina.  Student poets were selected from middle school, high school, college, and adults not currently enrolled in school. Distinguished poets mentor selected student poets in writing and revising a dozen pages of poetry and coach them in the craft of oral presentation. Camryn Massey is a 15-year-old sophomore attending Scotland Early College High School.  She is a member of the

St. Andrews University has been selected as one of 19 recipients for the 2017-2018 PepsiCo Recycling Zero Impact Fund and up to $10,000 in funding. With the help of PepsiCo Recycling’s Zero Impact Fund, St. Andrews is beginning their project titled the Green Knights Initiative to fund a recycling project on its campus. The challenge and application was to acquire funding for a collaborative venture among the Student Government Association, Office of Student Affairs and SAU Leadership. The grant will be used to initiate a recycling project that the Green Knights Initiative Committee will

The Regional Science Olympiad held March 17 at St. Andrews University has proven to be a positive experience for area middle school students. Designed to enhance the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) experience, seven teams competed in a variety of competitive events under the supervision of the science staff at St. Andrews. The varsity team from Parkwood Middle School (Monroe, NC) finished first in overall competition with wins in Battery Buggy, Crime Busters, Hovercraft, Optics, Road Scholar, Rocks and Minerals, Roller Coaster, Solar System, Thermodynamics and Towers. Second place

29 March 2018 While out cataloging plants on the St. Andrews University campus in Laurinburg, ecology professor Dr. Tracy Feldman came across an intriguing group of leaf miners on an evergreen tree. Curious about what species he had found, Dr. Feldman sent the specimen to the Plant Disease and Insect Clinic at North Carolina State University where they could not identify the leaf miners. Dr. Feldman then sent the specimen to a freelance naturalist to whom he had been introduced, Charley Eiseman, who then informed Dr. Feldman that he had

Members of Granville Hall came together to give Suite 4 an uplift with new lounge painting. The student initiative was drawn up and executed by the Granville Dorm Council. Two sides walls were painted blue and the back wall white. Tri shields will be painted later on the blue walls. The Dorm Council plans to continue spreading spirit by painting other suite lounges! Those who came to help were: Taylor Fowler ’20 Lily Grace Sager ’20 Destiney O’Kane ’19 Jason Lawyer ’16 Brandon Standridge ’15 Conor Moloney ’15

A St. Andrews junior majoring in Art, Rina Suzuki (Shizukuishi, Japan), has been chosen as a semi-finalist for the Nikon Storytellers Scholarship. The contest was open to undergraduate and graduate students at an accredited, non-profit college/university or vocational/technical school in the United States or Canada pursuing degrees in visual arts, fine arts, journalism, film, photography and multimedia/content creation who will have completed their freshman year of college or academic equivalent before Fall 2018. Ten winners will each receive a $10,000 academic scholarship as they continue to pursue their creative field

21 March 2018 Award recipients of the annual Ethel Fortner and Sam Ragan Arts Awards at St. Andrews University were presented March 15 to Ms. Janet Kenworthy and Dr. Douglas Orr. Ms. Kenworthy, Aberdeen, NC, started and runs the musical theater known as The Rooster’s Wife. She was presented with the Ethel Fortner award by St. Andrews University president Paul Baldasare for her active role in the arts including music, literature and cinema. Settling in Aberdeen with her family in 1991 following work and living in New York City, she