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LIFE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DR. MARLA THOMPSON HONORED WITH VULCAN TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD
Marietta, Georgia, July 18, 2019 – Life University’s (LIFE) Dr. Marla Thompson, Adjunct Professor of Business, was recently the recipient of the 2019 Vulcan Materials Company’s Teaching Excellence Award.
Established in 1991, the Vulcan Teaching Excellence Awards annually honor an outstanding professor on selected member campuses of the Georgia Independent College Association. The award recognizes an outstanding faculty member who demonstrates strong academic skills in the classroom and provides leadership and support in other areas of campus life.
LIFE UNIVERSITY’S LIFEFORCE TRIBE INVITES NEW MEMBERS TO JOIN ITS PRINCIPLED CHIROPRACTIC RANKS
Marietta, Georgia, July 16, 2019 – Life University’s premier chiropractic membership organization, LIFEforce, invites all who champion principled, vitalistic Chiropractic to join its ranks to help make positive changes to modern health care.
Life University is known as the not-so-little University that is changing the world, and as such they offer a pre-eminent vitalistic healthcare education that includes their esteemed Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) degree program.
LIFE UNIVERSITY’S DR. GILLES LAMARCHE SELECTED TO LEADERSHIP COBB’S CLASS OF 2020
Marietta, Georgia, July 11, 2019 – Leadership Cobb has selected 50 new participants for the 2019-2020 class, and Life University Vice President of University Advancement Dr. Gilles LaMarche is among the group chosen.
Leadership Cobb is a leadership development program focused on personal and professional growth through awareness, community resources and the social, political and economic needs of the community at large. Life University President Dr. Rob Scott is himself an alumnus of the Leadership Cobb program.
LIFE UNIVERSITY TO HOST FREE LIFE VISION RAW SEMINAR THIS JULY 26-27 ON ITS MARIETTA CAMPUS
Marietta, Georgia, July 9, 2019 – Life University invites chiropractors, educators, administrators, chiropractic assistants and students of Chiropractic to join them at the LIFE Vision RAW seminar this July 26-27 on their Marietta campus. Those seeking to connect and recharge with current and future chiropractic leaders of all perspectives will benefit from a powered-up conference format providing live advice for the modern chiropractor and chiropractic assistant.
LIFE UNIVERSITY’S DR. HOWARD WRIGHT PARTICIPATES IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY’S MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Marietta, Georgia, July 2, 2019 – Dr. Howard Wright, Life University’s Director of Institutional Research Operations, recently participated in the Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Management Development Program that ran from June 2-14 on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus. Each year, a cohort of higher education middle managers inclusive of deans, associate deans, chairs and directors from over the world are accepted into the program. This year’s cohort consisted of 115 participants from 14 different countries ranging from small nonprofit institutions to R1 flagship institutions.
LIFE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI HARLEY WHEELER AND CODY MELPHY TO REPRESENT U.S.A. AT 2019 PAN AMERICAN GAMES
Chula Vista, California, June 28, 2019 – USA Rugby announced the 12 players selected to the 2019 U.S. Pan American Games Men’s Sevens team earlier in the week, with Life University alumni Harley Wheeler (2019) and Cody Melphy (2017) both being chosen for the squad. Wheeler will be making his national team debut, while Melphy is already a senior player and will serve as captain.
LIFE UNIVERSITY’S NEWEST RESIDENCE AND DINING HALL, ‘THE NEW COMMONS,’ WINS DESIGN AWARD GRAND PRIZE
Marietta, Georgia, June 17, 2019 – Learning By Design magazine recently awarded Collins, Cooper, Carusi Architects, Inc., the firm that designed Life University’s ‘The New Commons,’ with its esteemed Educational Facilities Design Award Grand Prize.
Learning By Design’s prestigious jury of architecture and educational facility experts judged and scored various educational facility submissions based on specific broad-based criteria that represent tenets of contemporary planning, design and educational architectural practice.
CHAMPIONS! LIFE UNIVERSITY MEN’S CLUB RUGBY CAPTURES D1 CLUB NATIONAL TITLE
Fortress Obetz, Ohio, June 5, 2019 – The Life University men’s club rugby team defeated the Austin Blacks in the D1 Club National Championship 28-27 over the weekend. Both teams battled in the early minutes, as Sam Cowley put points on the board first to give Life U an early 3-0 lead 18 minutes into the game. Zac Mizell scored a try five minutes later with a successful conversion from Cowley to put the Running Eagles ahead 10-0.
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