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Apr 13, 2020
Alumni
It is with great sadness that Pfeiffer University announces the death on April 9 of Dr. Joel E. Vickers, who served with distinction as a professor and founding chair of the university’s Department of Health Administration from 1997 to 2016. Vickers was 81.
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Apr 7, 2020
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Before Abigail Peck ’18 BSN, RN begins a shift as an oncology nurse on the Hematology-Oncology floor of Duke University Hospital, she has read through three or four emails detailing how her employer is trying to stop the spread of the Coronavirus. She is also asked questions: Have you traveled outside the country? Do you have a fever?
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Mar 27, 2020
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As part of his studies in Pfeiffer University’s Counseling and Human Services program, Chad Leonard of Lexington is interning through early May at Child Protective Services (CPS) of Stanly County. He couldn’t be happier.
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Mar 19, 2020
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It is with great sadness that Pfeiffer University announces the death on Wednesday of Joseph S. Ferebee Sr, Pfeiffer’s beloved and highly successful baseball coach who served for over three decades.
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Mar 1, 2020
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Shortly before the celebrated author, Pat Conroy, died in 2016 of pancreatic cancer, his wife promised him she would go back to writing after he was gone. Cassandra King Conroy – an award-winning author of essays, articles, and such novels as Making Waves, The Sunday Wife and Queen of Broken Hearts – did just that.
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Feb 10, 2020
Alumni
It is with great sorrow that Pfeiffer University announces the death of Gene Earnhardt, who taught history at Pfeiffer from 1966 until his retirement in 1996. He was 85.
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Feb 4, 2020
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Pfeiffer University’s STEM camps program, aiming to recruit science students for Pfeiffer from the Stanly County area, will offer its first programs for rising 10th-12th graders when the camps begin June 15 on the university’s Misenheimer campus.
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Jan 13, 2020
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The Goal is to Get More PAs Practicing in Rural Areas
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Nov 12, 2019
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The Pfeiffer University Master of Physician Assistant Studies program has received provisional accreditation from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc (ARC-PA).
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Nov 4, 2019
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Pfeiffer University Announces 2019 Sports Hall of Fame Inductees