During Homecoming weekend, the Waldron Center for Entrepreneurship and Family Business organized the Bison Business Shark Tank event with a $10,000 cash reward for the first place team. The event encouraged student teams to develop a thorough actionable business plan and pitch it to a panel of judges. Brian Treusdell (’84) and his wife, Diane, entrepreneurs from Boerne, Texas, sponsored the event and funded the
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In September, the Waldron Center for Entrepreneurship and Family Business hosted the Bison Idea Pitch. The event is designed for undergraduate students to explore new ideas and take steps toward making those ideas possible. It is a spinoff of last year’s Bison Pitch, which was aimed more for students to pitch a thorough, well-designed plan. Open to both beginners and established entrepreneurs, the event invites
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June 22, 2018 | Pharmacy | The College of Pharmacy hosted its annual summer camp June 17-22, 2018. During the one-week camp on the University’s campus, 15 high school juniors and seniors interested in pharmacy explored the profession through classes and hands-on activities. Students learned about pharmaceutical research experiments and spent time shadowing professionals. Additionally, they interacted with College of Pharmacy faculty and students to
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April 19, 2018 | Music | The Harding University Symphony Orchestra will present “At the Movies,” its final concert of the 2017-18 season, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 24 in the Administration Auditorium. Admission is free. The orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Michael Chance, is made up of nearly 50 musicians, most of whom are University students, but also includes local professionals as well
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April 18, 2018 Harding University conducted its annual disaster drill Wednesday, April 18 in Benson Auditorium. This year’s exercise simulated the aftermath of a tornado. “Every year, Harding’s emergency management committee works hard to affect real improvements and make our campus safer through an annual disaster simulation,” Director of Public Safety Craig Russell said. “This year we are working to create positive change in an
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April 13, 2018 | ASI | Harding University President Bruce McLarty joined students at Searcy Head Start Center on Friday, April 13 for a reading of Our Great Big Backyard — a children’s book written by former First Lady Laura Bush and her daughter Jenna Bush Hager. The University donated copies of the book to libraries and elementary schools in White County in recognition and
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March 31, 2018 | Spring Sing | Thousands of students and hundreds of faculty and production crew members came together to perform Spring Sing 2018, “Heroes and Villains.” The show comprised eight different social club shows that featured a number of themes. After performances March 29-31, judges collaborated to announce the winners in individual categories and overall March 31. Total, clubs awarded $6,000 to chosen
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March 7, 2018 | Dr. C. Ben Mitchell, provost of Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, and editor of Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics, will guest lecture at Harding throughout the day Tuesday, March 13 regarding a Christian view of bioethics. Dr. Mitchell’s evening keynote presentation, “The Christian Way of Dying,” will address dilemmas such as physician assisted suicide and death-denying culture. The
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Feb. 23, 2018 | Music | The Harding University Symphony Orchestra will present its first concert of 2018 at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27 in the Administration Auditorium. Admission is free. The orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Mike Chance, is made up of nearly 50 musicians, most of which are University students, but also includes local professionals as well as advanced secondary students from
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Feb. 23, 2018 | Communication | More than 300 participants gathered on the Harding University campus for the Southeast Journalism Conference on Feb. 15-17, the first time in the conference’s history to be hosted in Arkansas. Students and advisers from 26 colleges and universities representing all aspects of student media — newspaper, yearbook, magazine, radio and broadcast — attended breakout sessions, panel discussions and awards
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