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Three Terriers earn Fulbrights

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:25:15 -0400

Godwins Tuyishime '24, Emma Rose Radcliff '26 and Reece McCarthy '26 are this year's Fulbright recipients. Bringing Wofford's total number of Fulbright recipients to 24, this class of scholars will teach around the world.

Behind the scenes of Wofford Theatre's spring production "Godspell"

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:00:59 -0400

Community is central to the story and production of "Godspell," which runs April 16-18 and 22-25 at 7 p.m. in the Jerome Johnson Richardson Theatre, Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts. The play, conceived by John-Michael Tebelak ...

Katie Stewart '26 wins research poster award

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:36:45 -0400

Last summer, Katie Stewart '26 created an experiment to investigate how rising temperatures and invasive species impact native crayfish abundance and behavior in Lawson's Fork Creek in Spartanburg County. In February, she took her findings to t...

Wofford students compete in Terrier Startup Challenge

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:43:49 -0400

Stan Zagrodnik '26 won the $5,000 first prize in the 2026 Terrier Startup Challenge with his mobile sauna and cold plunge business. In this annual competition, students pitch buisness ideas to a panel of alumni judges and network with local ent...

Joe Khalil '26 to take on 50-mile run for charity in April

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:09:11 -0400

Joe Khalil '26, an international affairs and Spanish double major from Boiling Springs, South Carolina, will take on a nonstop 50-mile run to raise funds for Miracle Hill Ministries and the Spartanburg Soup Kitchen on April 18. He and other Wof...

Joe Khalil '26 to take on 50-mile run for charity in April

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:40:02 -0400

Kyia Karvelas '27 named Wofford's Presidential International Scholar

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:14:44 -0400

Each year, Wofford's president chooses a student with "exceptional potential to benefit humankind as evidenced by a demonstrated passion for service learning combined with a globally minded intellectual curiosity" as the Presidential Internatio...

Chrisler White '28 selected for international internship.

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:00:17 -0400

Chrisler White '28 was selected for the Douglass-O'Connell Global Internship in Dublin. This program recieves over 500 applicants each year, and White was one of 14 students accepted nationwide.

Wofford students help make Ethics Bowl a success

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:01:47 -0500

Arvin Radfar '29 and Molly McMahon '26 joined over 30 members of the Wofford community in volunteering at the South Carolina High School Ethics Bowl, hosted at Wofford College.

Wofford cadets earn ROTC scholarships

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:29:14 -0500

Getty Page '28 and Jacob Raider '28 each earned a $169,000 U.S. Army Cadet Command scholarship to pay for their remaining two years at Wofford.

Wofford announces fall 2025 Dean's List

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:02:16 -0500

Wofford College Provost Dr. Timothy Schmitz has announced Dean's List students for the fall 2025 semester.

Wofford students share Interim travel abroad experiences

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:21:14 -0500

More than 30 international travel opportunities were available to Wofford students during the 2026 January Interim, including faculty-led programs and experiences offered through study abroad partners. Here are five snapshots from around the gl...

Lyrical Dream Gist '26 celebrates community in Whetsell Fellow exhibit

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:33:42 -0500

"The Garden We Grow," an exhbiition by Wofford's 2026 Whetsell Fellow Lyrical Dream Gist, is on display through Feb. 22 in the Richardson Family Art Gallery, Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts. There will be an artist talk and re...

Wofford announces fall 2025 Dean's List

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:12:01 -0500

Wofford College Provost Dr. Timothy Schmitz has announced Dean's List students for the fall 2025 semester.

Wofford students volunteer with Habitat for Humanity Spartanburg in Interim course

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:40:42 -0500

Students in Dr. Stephanie Holt's Build an Affordable House course help build a home for a Spartanburg family during January Interim

Wofford students take on Shakespeare in Interim production

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:16:46 -0500

Wofford's Pulp Theatre opened "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]", directed by Jack Tope '26, on Jan. 22. Pulp Theatre challenges students to create a complete theatre production in less than a month as part...

Wofford announces fall 2025 Dean's List

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:13:34 -0500

Wofford College Provost Dr. Timothy Schmitz has announced Dean's List students for the fall 2025 semester.

Jenna Huser '29 and Amelia Jones '29 plan themed meals as AVI interns

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:39:15 -0500

Jenna Huser '29 and Amelia Jones '29 have turned dinner in Burwell Dining Hall into an event. As marketing and social media interns for AVI Foodsystems, they organized hit events like TikTok Night and "Stranger Things" Dinner during fall semest...

Margeaux Stapleton '26 studies worldwide birthing practices as Presidential International Scholar

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:47:22 -0500

Margeaux Stapleton '26 is researching how cultural practices and traditions around birth impact outcomes for preterm babies and special needs children across three continents.

Wofford interfaith group attends national summit

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:48:12 -0500

Chaplain Fellows Mariam Ali '28, Jose Ruiz Torres '26 and Darcy Phillips '27 and Geneva Kowbeidu '26, Wofford's Campus Union president, are still processing their experience from August in Chicago at the Interfaith Leadership Summit 2025. ...

Caris Mitchell '27 opens Studio Smoothie at Wofford

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:23:12 -0500

Studio Smoothie, a smoothie shop founded by Caris Mitchell '27, is now open Mondays and Wednesdays from 7:30-10:30 a.m. in the Galleria in the Michael S. Brown Village Center. Studio Smoothie is an official limited liability company.

Joslyn Taylor '27 to document her study abroad experience for IES Abroad

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:48:33 -0400

Joslyn Taylor '27 used to scroll TikTok for hours watching "day in the life" videos of students studying abroad. Now she's sharing her own as an IES Abroad correspondent in Barcelona, Spain. Taylor, a sociology and anthropology major an...

Wofford students use dramaturgy to illuminate the world of 'The Drowning Girls'

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:47:53 -0400

Guided by Abigail Dillard, assistant professor of theatre, five students spent the summer as dramaturgs - analyzing texts, poring over journals and mapping Edwardian England - to inform their all-student production of "The Drowning Girls."

Wofford students study Tango6's role in embryonic development

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:13:14 -0400

Using zebrafish as a model organism, two Wofford students spent the summer studying a little-understood gene called Tango6 and the role it plays in embryonic development.

Devin Ruppe '26 works to save lives through research

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:26:13 -0400

Devin Ruppe '26 spent the summer at Emory University in Atlanta, where he's conducting research on a protein that could be used to treat triple negative breast cancer, the same aggressive disease that took his grandmother's life at the age of 4...