Category: Arts & Sciences

Meet the Social Team: Practicum Students to Provide Inside Look at Piedmont Experience

Piedmont University students will be sharing an inside look at their experiences during the spring semester. Students Noah Aaron, Maria Allocco, and John Dills are majoring in mass communications. Conner Jelley is majoring in sports communications. This semester, they are completing a practicum; a practicum is a one-credit-hour course that allows students to gain hands-on…

Five Questions with Zac Moore: How Safe Zone Training is Creating a More Inclusive Piedmont

Three years ago, Piedmont University implemented Safe Zone training for faculty and staff members. Since then, the training — offered through the Safe Zone Project to raise awareness of LGBTQ issues and create inclusive college environments— has been expanded, spurred campus events, and received positive feedback from current and prospective students alike. Director of Student…

Piedmont University Singers to Perform Wide-Ranging Repertoire for Audiences in January

The Piedmont University Singers will perform pieces covering a half-century of choral music history during a free concert at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 25 at the Chapel on Piedmont University’s Demorest campus. The Singers will then give the same performance on Jan. 29 in Athens for the Georgia Music Educators Association. The GMEA is an…

Mellichamp Family Establishes Scholarship Honoring Brother’s Love for Science, Education

Piedmont University students aspiring to become scientists or science educators will benefit from a new $200,000 endowed scholarship the Mellichamp family has established in honor of their late brother, Stuart, who passed away Sept. 18, 2021, at the age of 77. “I think he would be quite touched to know that subsequent generations of students…

For Piedmont Actuarial Science Student, Her Major Is ‘A Path to a Great Life’

As an actuarial science major, Jade Edwards is frequently asked this question: What is actuarial science? In response, Edwards explains that an actuary uses mathematics and statistics to assess risk in industries such as insurance and finance, but for her personally, the field is much more than this layman’s definition. “For me, actuarial science is…

Piedmont Professor Developing App to Prevent Speech-Language Disorders in Children

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Piedmont University’s Dr. Monica Harn is one step closer to developing an app that will help parents support their children’s language and literacy development. Harn, professor and director of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, is the co-author of “A Self-Managed Internet Parent Training Program for Interactive Storybook Reading: Extension to a Public School…

She’s 63 and has just been diagnosed with a learning disability. That’s not stopping Piedmont student Carmen Schuerman.

For 63 years, Carmen Schuerman struggled with mathematics. She failed the second grade. She needed fingers and toes to work problems others could solve with paper and pencil. When the math became too advanced, she had to draw dots contained in circles to help her “see” the sums and quotients. At one of her first…

Students: Apply Now to Participate in 2022 Piedmont Symposium

Poster presentations at the 2020 Piedmont Symposium.

Applications are now being accepted for the fourth-annual Piedmont Symposium, the university’s annual celebration of student research and creative inquiry. “The symposium is a highly anticipated event at Piedmont University,” said Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Julia Schmitz, who directs the university’s Quality Enhancement Plan, which promotes high-impact practices. The Symposium was created as part…

‘The Ferrari of Choral Singing’: Piedmont’s Cantabile Performs Oct. 28

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Piedmont University’s elite student singing ensemble, Cantabile, will perform a repertoire ranging from Estonian folk songs to pop hits during their Oct. 28 concert at the Demorest campus. Cantabile is a small ensemble comprised of only six performers. Students undergo a rigorous audition process before being invited to join Cantabile.  “It’s like the Ferrari of…