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PC students recently shared their weeks of research on the PC campus during the annual Summer Research Symposium. On Wednesday, July 24, more than 30 students from the College of Arts & Sciences and School of Pharmacy presented their work, which included research topics from the sciences, humanities and social sciences. “It was a great

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Robert Acunto has been named Director of Athletics for Presbyterian College, President Bob Staton announced today. Acunto brings more than 20 years of intercollegiate athletic experience to the position. He most recently served as senior associate athletic director for development and external relations at the University of Texas at El Paso. “We are excited that

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The traditional way to start a pipe band is not, “one, two, ready, play,” says Gary Hipp, pipe major for PC Pipes and Drums. It’s by the right — quick march. When the bagpipes are cued, it’s a signal that an important occasion or honoring is about to begin. The Highland Bagpipes, which have military

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Shannon Kimbrough started her morning commutes on the DC metro reading from the POLITICO Playbook, a popular newsletter about politics.  Two days during the week, Kimbrough traveled to her Politics & Policy, Political Institutions and DC Communications classes at American University. Her communications class, an elective, required her to read the Playbook each day. The

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A space beside a Pickens County library will soon be home to a Bell OH-58D Keowa helicopter, a model identical to one flown by an Easley woman who was the first American female pilot to die in combat. The hunt for that particular model of helicopter has taken nearly five years for Upstate resident Jim Garrison, local

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President Bob Staton and program director Dr. Joseph Weber learned today that the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) has granted Accreditation-Provisional status to the Presbyterian College Physician Assistant Program sponsored by Presbyterian College. Accreditation-Provisional is an accreditation status granted when the plans and resource allocation, if fully implemented as planned,

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by Zoe Montague ’20 Teaching history was always the plan for PC professor Dr. William Harris. The process of getting there, however, took longer than expected. Harris lived all over the country in his childhood. Harris’ dad was a historian as well, so he grew up in academics, moving to whatever town housed the university

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This summer, you can find Adrianna Cody, of Enoree, S.C., and Sharmila Samuel, of Greenville, S.C., either outside coring trees or in one of the labs of Lassiter Hall. They’re two of 19 PC students who are spending the summer months researching while regular classes aren’t in session. Cody and Samuel are working with biology

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Nationally, less than 2.5% of foster children who turn 18 and “age out of the system” will graduate from a four-year college or university. Less than 2% of those complete a bachelor’s degree before they turn 25. Compare that with 24% of the general population. Husband and wife Chad and Pam Prashad, both from the

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David Sellman ’14 fondly remembers his family practitioner growing up, so much so he looked forward to going to the doctor, even when he wasn’t feeling well. “When we got sick,” Sellman said, “we weren’t afraid of going to the doctor because he’d make you feel at home. I decided that’s what I’d like to

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