AU School of Theology honored Dr. John D. Fozard with the 2009 Distinguished Ministries Award, Norberto and Julie (Beam) Kurrle with the 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award, and Dr. James W. Lewis with the 2009 Distinguished Service Award at the annual SOT Alumni & Friends Annual Awards Luncheon on Monday, June 29.

A man who helped hundreds of students find a way to pay for college was honored alongside his wife at Anderson University’s Heritage Award Luncheon Sunday.

Bible major Haley McCracken was named the 2008-09 recipient of the Jeeninga Fellowship in Archeology.

AU will host “One Lord, One Faith” to kick off the North American Convention of the Church of God at the Madison Park Church of God tonight, June 26, at 7 p.m. The evening worship services of the 2009 North American Convention of the Church of God will be available via live streaming. Click here for more information.

The Anderson University men’s soccer team will have a 20-year celebration event on Homecoming Weekend.

The 2009 team will be hosting the reception, which will honor all the past players and teams and be proceeded by a short program on Friday night in the Kardatzke Wellness Center at 7:30 p.m.

On Saturday, Oct. 10, there will be an alumni game at 9:30 a.m. The men’s game against Transylvania will be at 3 p.m. At halftime of the varsity game, the first varsity team (1989) will be recognized.

A short film edited by Anderson University alum Chris Witt, BA 2003, recently received a gold medal prize in the 36th annual Student Academy Awards for “Kavi,” a short film about an Indian boy forced to work. “Kavi” was directed by Gregg Helvey of the University of Southern California as his USC graduate thesis film. The film is qualified for the 2010 Academy Awards - Short Film Competition.

AU will host “One Lord, One Faith” to kick off the North American Convention of the Church of God at the Madison Park Church of God on Friday, June 26, at 7 p.m.

What was once an idea for several years is now a reality: the Falls School of Business will host its first Summer Entrepreneurship Camp.

The fact that she is a published author has not yet sunk in for Daria Barwinska, a 2009 Anderson University graduate. Yet here she is, a native of Poland, holding a book she wrote in English based on a trip she took to Kenya, a trip she never would have taken had she not discovered Anderson University while researching colleges online.

For many incoming students at AU, there is a strong family or church connection, but for Barwinska, there was no prior connection. But in the course of her online research, she discovered a personal touch at Anderson University that led her to this campus.

Since 1983, Pat Griffin has worked in the education field of nursing. Starting as a part time clinical instructor at AU, Griffin had previously worked in Anderson at St. John’s in critical care, at Riley Children’s Hospital, and at Community East, both in Indianapolis. After her husband Gerry was relocated to Anderson, the couple moved to the Pendleton area with Griffin first learning about Anderson University.