Turkish scholar and international musician Latif Bolat will present music, poetry, stories, and dance as part of a World Voices Series performance at Transylvania.
Each year at Transylvania, students spend Halloween night in a tomb. Although the experience is sometimes chilly and oftentimes creepy, students actually compete with each other for the honer, which is said to appease the spirit of the deceased—Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, a professor who cursed the school back in the 1800s.
The Earle and Cathy O’Donnell Endowment for Irish Studies will provide financial assistance for Transylvania students studying in Ireland during a new summer abroad program.
“One of the things I’m going to be talking about at Transylvania is that we learn how to have the most important conversation of all through reading and that conversation is the ongoing one we have with ourselves,” Mustich said.
Considering Matthew Shepard brought its national tour to Transylvania on Tuesday, Oct. 9.
Join our community discussion on the importance of journalism in maintaining democracy and an informed citizenry during an upcoming Kentucky Reads event.
On Tuesday, Transylvania and the Dorothy J. and Fred K. Smith Concert Series present Grammy award-winning Conspirare in a performance of “Considering Matthew Shepard.”
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University invites the community to campus for the eighth annual PumpkinMania on Oct. 30. Hundreds of jack-o’-lanterns will light up the Old Morrison steps and student groups and campus organizations will host trick-or-treating the night before Halloween. “Last year, we had more than 5,000 people participate in PumpkinMania,” said Hannah Piechowski, director of…
On the final day of the NCAA’s Diversity and Inclusion Week, Transy’s Pioneers are sharing their personal commitments to inclusive action.
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Professor Marcie Lenk—who is academic director of Bat Kol: Christian Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, Israel—will give this year’s Moosnick Lecture at Transylvania University on Wednesday, Oct. 24. Her talk titled “Truth and Faith: Can Jews and Christians Really Open Ourselves to the Truth of the Other?” will be free and open to…
