Editor’s Note: Rep. John Lewis died of pancreatic cancer shortly after this article ran. The office serving his constituents is now named The Office of Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District. Marcus Sawyers ’18 works there as a staffer, having assumed the new title of Senior Confidential Advisor.

Pfeiffer University recognizes that students may have incurred unanticipated expenses related to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are pleased to announce that Pfeiffer University received a limited amount of emergency grant funding from the United States Department of Education and the state of North Carolina.

Dr. Michael Thompson, a long-time history professor and director of the Undergraduate Honors Program at Pfeiffer University, has been named the university’s interim provost. He succeeds Dr. Tracy Espy, who was recently appointed the president of Mitchell College in New London, Conn.

The new Master of Science in Occupational Therapy (MSOT) program at Pfeiffer University will hold its first classes in August at the university’s Center for Health Sciences in downtown Albemarle, having been granted “candidacy status” by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE).