News | Lenoir-Rhyne University

Dr. Lesser with students around a table discussing stocks and the market

The university gave the investment club a $50,000 endowment to manage, which the club used to buy stock in companies such as Amazon and Gilead. At one point, the club had more than tripled the initial investment.

World War II veterans at the showing of a documentary about D-day directed by an LR professor

WWII vets attend LR professor's D-day documentary

Professor Mark Hager directed and produced the documentary, which featured North Carolina World War II veterans Harold Frank, James Deal and Kenneth "Rock" Merritt, and he held a showing on campus at LR.

LR grad builds, sails solar-powered boat to Cuba

Polich and his friends built their own solar-powered sailboat and sailed to the Caribbean to explore clean energy sites and communities working toward energy independence.

LR football players working in the engineering lab

NFL prospect, teammates engineer laser timer

Kyle Dugger, Demarius Hampton and Saaehim Brooks coded and engineered a laser-timed 40-yard dash machine for their research physics class project.

LR students Yer Vang, Chase Griffin and Lupita Sanchez Rojas in Washington, D.C.

LR students gain experience in Washington, D.C.

LCWS brings students together from across the country for experiential learning opportunities in Washington, D.C. Students intern four full days per week for 14 weeks, take classes and tour national monuments.

An LR student works on building a rocket

LR Rocket Team to compete in Spaceport America Cup

The LR Rocket team was selected as 1 of 150 teams across the globe to compete in the 2020 Spaceport America Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico against teams from Russia, Brazil, Pakistan, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Switzerland and more.

A Hickory police vehicle with an LR decal

LR partnering with Hickory Police Department

Hickory Police Department officers will join LR's 10 security officers in providing 24-hour coverage to campus. The initial agreement between LR and the HPD features a three-year contract with up to four HPD officers assigned full time to the LR campus.

An LR student teacher smiles at children

LR's teacher prep program ranked Top 15 in U.S.

The National Council on Teacher Quality recognized LR as 1 of 15 schools out of 1,000 nationwide, and the only in North Carolina, for its ability to produce highly qualified teachers of reading.

An LR student looks in a bird box in the nature preserve

Campus nature preserve offers field opportunities

With more than 40 acres available with a wide range of habitat, biology students at Lenoir-Rhyne have an opportunity to gain experience in field research.

LR adds sports teams for 2020-21

The university is adding women's triathlon as a varsity sport, while men's triathlon and men's and women's weightlifting will launch as club sports.

LR student studies a chimpanzee at the North Carolina Zoo

LR student blazing trails with North Carolina Zoo

Fox studied chimpanzee behavior for the zoo to document how they interact within a group structure in order to help the zoo better care for the animals. One chimp he studied had actually appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show prior to arriving at the zoo.

Former LR basketball and volleyball standout Jackie Denny.

LR star beats 3 torn ACLs, stars in 2 sports

Jackie Denny overcame three torn ACLs to star in two sports for the Bears. Denny ranked second in the conference averaging 1.21 blocks a game for LR's volleyball team, while her 56.3 percent shooting from the floor led the women's basketball team.