Ferrum College is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Summer Enrichment Camp this week, June 23 – 29. The camp, located on the College’s campus, invites students ages 8 – 14 to enjoy a variety of fun activities and challenging projects ranging from crafting, cooking, all things Harry Potter, living 1800 style, play writing, and more. [...]
During spring semester 2019, 112 Ferrum College student-athletes earned academic honors: 33 student-athletes were named to the President's List (4.0 GPA for the semester), while 79 student-athletes earned Dean’s List recognition (3.40 GPA or greater for the semester). Women’s soccer had the greatest number of students on the President’s List, with six student-athletes reaching [...]
Associate Professor of English Melvin Macklin's proposal for a faculty Holocaust research project received a $30,000 professional development grant from Appalachian College Association. His project, Jewish Children Survivors of the Holocaust: Devastation, Re-humanization, and Recovery, will gather research on Jewish children who suffered the hostility of the Nazi war on East European Jews, and compile [...]
Rising junior Christian Haley of Boones Mill, VA, is Ferrum College’s newest McBroom student scholar. Set to graduate in 2021, Haley is a history major with a double minor in criminal justice and religion. He will spend this summer working at the College’s Blue Ridge Institute and Museum, the largest folklife museum in Virginia. The [...]
Ferrum College’s new honor society, National Society of Leadership and Success, won recognition from the national office for receiving accreditation as a leadership development program and achieving an induction rate of nearly 75 percent during its first semester. Ferrum College’s NSLS chapter saw its first inaugural class in spring 2019. Out of 66 students who [...]
Dig deep into nature's medicine cabinet at the Blue Ridge Herb Lore Gathering, which will be held 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 15, 2019, at the Blue Ridge Institute & Museum on the Ferrum College campus. This one-day wellness and healing experience is for everyone so take this unique opportunity to [...]
