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Undergraduate Research Festival takes place in person and online for first time

April 20, 2021 by Genevieve Graessle

For the first time in a hybrid online/in-person format, the Office of Undergraduate Research hosted the Undergraduate Research Festival March 30. While most of the student presentations happened online - either asynchronous or live - some students in the conference were able to present their research in the Hunter Welcome Center that ... [Read More…]

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Midnight Worship gathering in-person for the spring semester

February 12, 2021 by Genevieve Graessle

After 12 active years of ministry, Midnight Worship was forced to transition to livestream in the fall semester to stay in line with COVID-19 restrictions. This spring, however, the group is holding in person gatherings with a capacity of 200 people every Friday night at 9:00 p.m. at Highland Church of Christ. Claire Shipley, spiritual formation ... [Read More…]

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Updated university website launches with positive feedback

January 29, 2021 by Genevieve Graessle

The Division of Marketing and Strategic Communications celebrated the launch of the new acu.edu website on Monday. The project’s team started working in the summer of 2020, managing about 2,200 pages for the new site. In seven months, hundreds of pages were rewritten to better serve their intended audience. Riley Wills, the director of web ... [Read More…]

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NSSLHA hosts Zoom event with augmentative communication advocate

November 9, 2020 by Genevieve Graessle

The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders  hosted a Zoom event with guest speaker Chris Klein, sponsored by ACU’s chapter of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association. Klein, a graduate of Hope College and the Western Theological Seminary, uses an augmentative communication device, or AAC, to talk with others and ... [Read More…]

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Professionals from New York City, Los Angeles assist musical production

October 15, 2020 by Genevieve Graessle

Due to COIVD-19, this year's Homecoming musical will not be performed live and instead prerecorded. The theatre department announced in February that they were going to put on Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Because of many restrictions in place for coronavirus precautions, they are no longer producing the musical but a modernized short ... [Read More…]

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Frater Sodalis purchases video message from ‘The Office’ actor

October 14, 2020 by Genevieve Graessle

The men of Frater Sodalis purchased a personalized video message from Brian Baumgartner to use at the fraternity’s The Office-themed rush.  Baumgartner, who plays Kevin Malone on the show, is active on Cameo - a website that sells video greetings from celebrities. The site hosts actors, comedians, athletes and musicians, many of whom often ... [Read More…]

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