year : 2016 166 results

CU Celebrates Its 120th Commencement

Cedarville University will celebrate its 120th annual commencement May 7, 2016, as several hundred students graduate with bachelor's, master's and, for the first time, doctorate degrees. However, the university – known as Cedarville College at the time – had just five students in its first graduating class in June 1887. Though Cedarville has grown greatly in the nearly 130 years since its founding, the path from charter to college to university has not been without its challenges. "There ...

CU Pharmacy Students Advise Patients through Call Center

Students in Cedarville University's School of Pharmacy gain experience in medication therapy management by working in Cedarville's Cedar Care Call Center. The Call Center opened recently and is led by Phillip Thornton, vice chair of experiential programs and associate professor of pharmacy practice at Cedarville. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rnYSA8jrrM Read more about the School of Pharmacy at Cedarville and its first graduating class in the April issue of Cedars, on newsstands April ...

Just Sayin’…On Uncertainty

The waters of the future are cloudy. Murky. Foreboding. If life were a 14th century map, the future would be the oceans labeled “Here be monsters.” As a senior, my future is especially unclear. I’m currently applying for jobs. Wyoming, Missouri, Idaho. Alaska and Maine and everything in between (except for the District of Columbia, Florida and California). I’m just throwing myself at walls to see which one I stick to best. Meanwhile, I’m working on a novel on the side. I don’t ...

Cedarville Sweeps Doubleheader

The Cedarville Yellow Jackets swept a doubleheader against the Ohio Valley Fighting Scots. The Jackets won the first game, 7-6, and the second game, 7-0. In the first game, which lasted seven innings, both teams had 11 hits each. Catcher Jaden Cleland, a junior, had three of Cedarville’s hits. Sophomore Thad Ferguson also added two hits and sophomore Colton Potter had a triple. Freshman pitcher Andrew Plunkett started the game. Plunkett pitched four and a third innings and allowed ...

STP Preview: ‘She is Fierce’

Senior theatre major Madison Hart is celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with her senior theatre project, “She is Fierce: A Study of Shakespeare’s Women.” Hart will perform her one-woman show on April 22 at the Old Woods Amphitheatre in Yellow Springs, one day before the the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. Hart’s production is unlike any other recent STP. Hart examines the impact Shakespeare’s female characters have on his plays. Hart will be ...

Movie Review: ‘The Jungle Book’

The newest live-action Disney movie, “The Jungle Book,” hit theatres April 15. It tells the same story as the classic film about a man-cub named Mowgli (Neel Sethi). The star-studded cast includes Bill Murray (Baloo), Ben Kingsley (Bagheera), Scarlett Johanson (Kaa) and Christopher Walken (King Louie). Mowgli has only known the jungle, but during the water-truce, Shere Kahn (Idris Elba), a tiger, threatens the wolves raising him. Shere Kahn threatens the wolves because he wants to ...

CU Launches Divinity, Ministry Programs

Cedarville University is accepting students into its new Master of Divinity degree program for the fall 2016 semester. Additionally, Cedarville's Master of Ministry degree program is also now available completely online. The new Master of Divinity program includes 98 credit hours and is being offered both as a traditional stand-alone, three-year program and as an accelerated five-year program for incoming freshmen and current sophomores in the Bible program. Students in the accelera...

STP Preview: ‘Leave it to Jeeves’

Senior theater major David Widder-Varhegyi presents his senior theatre project 8 p.m. April 15 in Alford Auditorium. “Leave it to Jeeves: An Evening With Me – Bertie Wooster, and My Man, Jeeves” is based on some short stories by the comedic British author, P. G. Wodehouse. Widder-Varhegyi said this is the first time this particular piece will ever be produced. After rejecting an earlier idea for his STP, Widder-Varhegyi found Wodehouse's short stories on a public domain site. He ...