Piedmont University’s basketball programs will host summer camps again this year in the Johnny Mize Athletic Center and Cave Arena on the Demorest campus. Piedmont Lions men’s and women’s basketball coaching staffs lead the three camps. Summer Basketball Camp for rising first-grade to sixth-grade boys and girls will be held 8 a.m.-noon, Monday-Thursday, July 31-Aug….
Natural Science students have been presenting their research at conferences all over the southeastern region. Rhylee Wittrock and Imani Vincent shared their research at Confluence 2023, Georgia Adopt-A-Stream’s Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Conference. Wittrock presented research on Assessment of Infrastructure Through Dye Tracing, and Vincent’s research was about Factors that Influence Groundwater in a Wetland Environment. Piedmont…
The sixth Piedmont Athletic Lions (PAL) Games were held on March 24 in the Mize Athletic Center on the Demorest campus. The PAL Games is a group project created by Piedmont students in 2015 to provide a special day of camaraderie and competition for Piedmont University students and elementary school students with special needs. Thanks…
This series spotlights the people who educate Piedmont University students. We ask them about their childhood, their first jobs, and why they love what they do. As the son of a public high school band teacher, Dr. Jaydn DeWald spent “countless hours in rooms crowded with teenagers overblowing saxes or banging on timpani like apes.”…
Last month, Piedmont University Walker College of Business alumna Brittany Latham started a new job as an auditor with a public accounting firm — or as she puts it, she started the path toward realizing her full potential. “Graduating from Piedmont was just the beginning,” she said. “I’ll be continuing my education to get my…
This series spotlights the people who educate Piedmont University students. We ask them about their childhood, their first jobs, and why they love what they do. New Jersey native Dr. J. Kerry Waller, Dean of the Harry W. Walker College of Business, is a New York Mets fan who loves the business of sports. Waller…
Sometimes I go to the grocery store, stand in front of the cereal aisle and feel completely paralyzed. “So many choices,” I tell myself. “This would be a lot easier if we only had two or three boxes to choose from.” Instead, there are dozens. Some of those choices are really good, like Lucky Charms….
Piedmont University will present a trio of performances on March 21, as the Piedmont University Singers, Pro Musica Choir, and Pro Musica Orchestra take the stage in the final large-scale performance conducted by long-time faculty member Dr. Wallace Hinson. The concert takes place at 7:30 p.m. at the Chapel on the Demorest campus, 1021 Central…
The Piedmont University Theatre 2022-23 mainstage season continues with Bright Star, March 30-April 2. Written and composed by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, and inspired by the Iron Mountain Baby folk story, Bright Star tells a tale of love and redemption set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in the 1920s and…
This series spotlights the people who educate Piedmont University students. We ask them about their childhood, their first jobs, and why they love what they do. Piedmont University English Professor Dr. Stephen Whited grew up enjoying the typical suburban experience: “school, church, and neighborhood kids playing all the seasonal sports in somebody’s backyard.” In high school,…