Takoma Park, MD. (February 15, 2019) The Washington Adventist University (WAU) Department of Music recently hosted the 2019 Choral Festival featuring over 100 attendees from eight private academies. Festival participants were Blue Mountain Academy, Highland View Academy, Shenandoah Valley Academy, Richmond Academy, Spencerville Academy, Spring Valley Academy, Takoma Academy, and participating for the first time, Tri-City …
Takoma Park, MD. (February 13, 2019) The Columbia Collegiate Chorale recently spent an afternoon in a choral clinic with an acclaimed and highly-sought after composer, Stacey V. Gibbs. Dubbed the new Moses Hogan, Gibbs is famous for rearranging familiar Negro Spirituals and providing them with a unique energy. With over 70 published arrangements, his music has …
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Takoma Park, MD. (February 7, 2019)—President Weymouth Spence has announced Monica Chica as this year’s Washington Adventist University Weniger Fellows Student Scholarship designee. Monica was selected for demonstrating excellence in the areas of spirituality, academics, civic service, leadership, and professionalism. Born in San Salvador, El Salvador, Monica moved to the United States in 2012 with her father …
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Takoma Park, MD. (February 4, 2019)— A group of Washington Adventist University (WAU) Social Work students recently attended the 39th annual Women’s Legislative Briefing with their professor Shauntia White. The briefing, hosted by the Montgomery County Commission for Women, took place at the Universities of Shady Grove in Rockville, Maryland. The featured speaker at the …
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Takoma Park, MD. (January 24, 2019)— Washington Adventist University welcomes Richard Castillo as the new Vice President of Integrated Marketing and Communications effective February 1. “I believe that Richard Castillo brings communication and marketing skills that will help integrate our departments and schools on campus,” said President Weymouth Spence. “His experience will set us on …
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Takoma Park, MD. (January 17, 2019)— Washington Adventist University’s (WAU) Compliance Specialist and Adjunct Faculty in the School of Graduate and Professional Studies Morris Thompson, completed the requirements for his Doctor of Public Administration and graduated from West Chester University in December. His dissertation “A Study on the Effects Community Partners Have on the Social …
Takoma Park, MD. (January 8, 2019)—Soprano Madison Leonard, a 2018 Grand Finals winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, will headline the next Anna H. Wang Presidential Concert Series performance on the campus of Washington Adventist University (WAU) on Saturday evening January 26. Spanning the last six centuries through song and spoken word, Ms. …
Takoma Park, MD. (December 11, 2018)—The Washington Adventist University Center for Law and Public Policy, in partnership with the Takoma Park community, marks the end of the Fall semester with the next installment of its film series, a screening of director Aviva Keempner’s 2015 film “Rosenwald”, the remarkable story of a Jewish partnership with …
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Takoma Park, MD. (November 28, 2018)—The Columbia Collegiate Choral, ProMusica, and New England Youth Ensemble of Washington Adventist University will headline WAU’s annual Christmas concert this Friday evening. The program promises to be a potpourri of festive works by composers past and present, including Delius, Glinka, and Stroope. WAU student soloists, carol arrangements by Director …
Takoma Park, MD. (November 5, 2018)—The Washington Adventist University Center for Law and Public Policy, in partnership with the Takoma Park community, marks the end of the 2018 election cycle with the next instalment of its film series, a screening of director Kimberly Reed’s 2018 Sundance award-winning documentary, “Dark Money”. This political thriller examines the …
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