Word of Mouth Fall 2015/Winter 2016 Class Notes

Dr. Steve Holcomb (’74) is the 2015-16 executive chairman of dental examinations for Central Regional Dental Testing Services in Topeka, Kansas; the 2015-16 president of the Georgia Board of Dentistry; and a national...

The Sky’s the Limit

New president Brooks Keel is bullish on the university he leads. It’s 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 18, and President Brooks Keel is in his office in the Kelly Administration Building on the Health Sciences Campus getting...

For Budding Artists, a Gift of Faith

Iconic American writer Kurt Vonnegut once said of artists, “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” Creativity has always required the willingness to take risks. So when...

‘Whoa Death’

Historian’s Look at Folk Religion Unearths Fighting Spirit In the sweet by and by, we shall meet on that beautiful shore. Oh Death, whoa death, won’t you spare me over ’til another year? If your roots are in the rural...

The Law of the Land

Nationwide Headlines Inform Perceptions at Local Level It may have been hard to imagine when the United States inaugurated its first African-American president almost eight years ago that convulsive racial unrest would...

Growing Pains

Augusta University Builds On Pioneering Role in  Reproductive Endocrinology Dr. Lawrence Layman is an expert at treating scars. And not just the physical kind. When a patient comes to him because of delayed puberty –...

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