Piedmont University is thrilled to announce a once-in-a-lifetime event that will bring the magic of the tropics right to our campus and community. On Saturday, April 6, A1A – The Official and Original Jimmy Buffett Tribute Show will take the stage at the Arrendale Amphitheater for an unforgettable concert experience. Gates open at 5 p.m..,…
The Piedmont University Theatre Department concludes the 23-24 Mainstage season with Neil Simon’s murderous farce Rumors, performing April 11-14. The New York Times declares that Rumors “has nothing on its mind except making the audience laugh.” As their 10nth wedding anniversary party commences, the Deputy Mayor of New York City Charlie Brock lies bleeding in his bedroom, and his…
Since third grade, when Andrea Alvarez Guillen was learning multiplication tables, she was fascinated by numbers. Even then, she knew she would use that love in a career, maybe as a teacher, architect, or engineer. A couple of years later, Guillen narrowed it down to engineer. When she was a junior in high school, she…
This year marks the 80th anniversary of Smith’s debut novel Strange Fruit, the 75th anniversary of Killers of the Dream, and the 70th anniversary of The Journey. The Lillian E. Smith Center is scheduling various events over the course of 2024 to commemorate these anniversaries. “Celebrating Lillian E. Smith” is the first celebration this year of Smith’s legacy…
Join us for “Barq’s Root Beer: A History of Design” at Piedmont University’s Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art. The exhibition will be on view March 7-April 2. A public reception will be held March 7 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Introduced in 1898, Barq’s Root Beer originated in Biloxi, Mississippi. Edouard Barq, born in New Orleans, began experimenting…
Piedmont University has launched a new brand identity and university logo to better shape and convey our story to our students and community. Piedmont’s refreshed brand identity and new logo is student-driven and student-designed. It unifies a comprehensive brand strategy with recruitment, communications materials, and messaging and a new institutional logo that embodies our connections…
The community is invited to the voice recital of Dr. Andrea M. Price, Professor of Music and Department Chair on Thurs., Feb. 29, at 7:30 PM at the Piedmont University Chapel. The recital will feature pianist, Dr. Karen Sigers, Associate Professor of Music, and will include program notes narrated by Bob Glass, Dean of Libraries &…
Piedmont University will welcome more than 70 middle and high school students to its Demorest campus on Saturday, Feb. 3, as it hosts the Northeast Georgia Regional Science & Engineering Fair. Students will set up in the Commons to present original research on questions from “What Keeps Apples from Turning Brown?” to “Is Artificial Intelligence…
Piedmont University students participating in a new “Special Topics” course this semester will help community members in Habersham and Banks counties with federal and state income tax preparation at no cost to them. This new course is part of the Internal Revenue Service’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. Walker College of Business Professors Jay…
The Piedmont University Theatre Department continues the 23-24 Mainstage season with A Piece of My Heart, performing Feb. 15-18. “The play, A Piece of My Heart, by Shirley Lauro, has become the nation’s most enduring theatrical production that deals with the Vietnam War,” according to the VVA Veteran. A Piece of My Heart is the…