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As we prepare to close the university for the holiday break and solidify our plans for the spring return, asymptomatic surveillance testing remains an important part of our preventative efforts to ... Continue Reading Spring Return and COVID-19 Testing…
As 2020 draws to a close, we’re taking a few moments to look back at Shenandoah’s top videos, posts and stories of the year. Here are our Top 10s, all of which reveal what an interesting and ... Continue Reading Shenandoah’s Top 10 of 2020…
Shenandoah University faculty and staff are volunteering on the front lines of the regional COVID-19 vaccination rollout — with many able to receive the vaccine for their efforts. Approximately 20 ... Continue Reading SU Faculty, Staff Share Their…
Dear members of the Shenandoah community, We began this semester with not only an abundance of planning but also a great deal of faith in our ability to work together as a community to provide a ... Continue Reading The Best Gift, Ever Holiday…
Congratulations! Please take a moment to rejoice, exhale, smile and pat yourself on the back for reaching the end of an unprecedented semester and doing so in the most Shenandoah of ways — through ... Continue Reading Congratulations: You Made It! Reaching…
Shenandoah University will aid in local vaccination efforts starting this week at the request of the local hospital system, Valley Health. Approximately 20 faculty and staff will help during the ... Continue Reading Shenandoah Aids in Local Vaccination…
A total of 361 faculty, staff and students filled out the Shenandoah Go app symptom checker for 125 days straight — what is considered a perfect streak. Those with unblemished records receive a blue ... Continue Reading 361 Hornets Completed their Symptom…
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre Production Beverly Jenkins, B.F.A., hosted two stage management masterclasses for theatre design and production students and alumni on Saturday, Nov. 14, and ... Continue Reading Jenkins Hosts Stage Management Masterclasses…
Seven Shenandoah University student-volunteers spent 448 hours this semester lending a listening ear to those calling into the community crisis organization, Concern Hotline. The seven students are ... Continue Reading Shenandoah Psychology Students Answer the…
Shenandoah Conservatory Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professor of Dance Ting-Yu Chen ’19, Ed.D., was invited to join the editorial board of the Journal of Performing Arts Leadership in ... Continue Reading Chen Invited to Serve on…
Shenandoah is offering a unique esports class this spring that invites students to explore music and its role in the broader spectrum of gaming and society while addressing global, cultural and social ... Continue Reading New Esports Course Explores Music…
A letter to the editor by Robert J. Spiers, Jr. (C ’69), “My Memories of Performing at Calvary Baptist Church,” was published in the Roanoke Times on Nov. 14, 2020. K & E Lawn Service, a ... Continue Reading December 2020 Class Notes
Shenandoah University's McCormick Civil War Institute (MCWI) has released the fourth volume of its Journal of the Shenandoah Valley During the Civil War Era. Published annually, the journal, governed ... Continue Reading College of Arts & Sciences…
Shenandoah’s iMLearning program will now provide most new incoming students with the state-of-the-art M1 MacBook Pro. Starting with certain models introduced in late 2020, Apple began the transition ... Continue Reading SU’s iMLearning Unveils New MacBooks…
Shenandoah University has entered into a partnership with the Washington Justice, the professional Overwatch League team representing the DMV region (D.C, Maryland, Virginia), that will provide ... Continue Reading Shenandoah & Washington Justice Team…
Kathy A. Perkins, M.F.A., a very well known and regarded lighting designer and scholar, taught a class for the theatre design and production program’s Design and Production Forum on Wednesday, Dec. ... Continue Reading Lighting Designer Perkins Guest Lectures…
Drummer Nick Kraemer ’21 (Master of Music in Performance) was featured in a virtual performance of “Carol of the Bells” with the Silver Line Sax ensemble produced by the 257th Army ... Continue Reading Kraemer ’21 Featured in 257th…
In November, Assistant Professor of Music Theory Rachel Short, Ph.D., presented at the virtual conference of the Society for Music Theory (SMT). She was part of the session “Theorists Talk about Sex . ... Continue Reading Short Presents at Society for…
Assistant Professor of Voice Fotina Naumenko, D.M.A., participated in two projects that received 2021 Grammy Award nominations: In the category of Best Choral Performance, “Kastalsky: Requiem.” This ... Continue Reading Naumenko Featured in Two Grammy…
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance Tiffanie Carson, M.F.A., performed live virtually in “Surveillance” with BARE Dance Company on Saturday, Dec. 5, in two shows at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. (EST). ... Continue Reading Carson Performs Live Virtually with…
Director of the Janette Ogg Voice Research Center and Associate Professor of Voice (Baritone) and Vocal Pedagogy David Meyer, D.M., co-authored an article for the January/February edition of the ... Continue Reading Meyer Co-authors Article for Journal…
Guest artist Michael Carlsen (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “30 Rock,” Tom Stoppard's “The Coast of Utopia,” Lincoln Center) spoke with the Acting for the Camera class in November. Carlsen’s visit was ... Continue Reading Carlsen Meets with Acting for…
The Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Academy (SCAA), in partnership with the family of Vivian Christy Sansoni, is pleased to announce the 2021 release of the Vivian Christy Sansoni Scholarship ... Continue Reading Nominations Sought for 2021 Vivian…
*Throughout 2020 the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of our director’s favorite regimental histories or collections of published primary sources. A native of ... Continue Reading publication of Note | December…
Division of Applied Technology Director Anne Marchant, Ph.D., (pictured) received the Dr. John Noftsinger Leadership Award at the Shenandoah Valley Technology Council's annual Tech Nite event this ... Continue Reading College of Arts & Sciences…
The SU Family, Students, Faculty, and Staff, are excited and proud to have made it through the Fall Semester. We knew there would be challenges and there were. We knew it would require resolve, ... Continue Reading Tuition Due Date has Changed…
“Uncertain times,” “unprecedented,” & “the new normal” Over the past nine months, it’s been nearly impossible to avoid these words/terms. They’ve become part of our societal lexicon to the ... Continue Reading Shenandoah University is test-unnecessary Not…
