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Hunter and Owens-White Receive Awards

Join Chowan University for the Rouson Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, February 4th at 11:00 am in Turner Auditorium as we celebrate the winners of this year’s Minnie Wood Perkins Humanitarian Award, Howard Hunter III, and the Futrell-Ruffin Community Service Award, Lillie Owens-White. Reverend and Mrs. Rouson were noted Hertford County religious leaders whose legacy of […]

Lewis to Headline Rouson Lecture

Join Chowan University on Wednesday, February 4th at 11:00 am in Turner Auditorium in the McDowell Columns Building for the annual Reverend George T. and Luvenia B. Rouson Memorial Lecture. This year’s special guest lecturer will be the Honorable W. Rob Lewis II, former Hertford County chief district court judge for the past 19 years. […]

CIAA Tournament Ticket Sales

Chowan University is your home for CIAA Basketball Tournament tickets! We are here to serve you in all your CIAA Basketball Tournament ticket needs. This year’s tournament at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, NC will be held from February 23rd through 28th, but tickets are going fast now! Chowan University still has a […]

A Letter from Palestine: by Chowan Alumnus George Zeidan

I am Palestinian, born in the Old City of Jerusalem and raised in its smal streets as well as in Bethlehem, where my dad is originally from. Straight after high school, I was told about an opportunity to attend an American university in North Carolina. When I started at Chowan back in 2009, it was my first experience travelling outside my small community. Moving […]

A Letter from Palestine

I am Palestinian, born in the Old City of Jerusalem and raised in its smal streets as well as in Bethlehem, where my dad is originally from. Straight after high school, I was told about an opportunity to attend an American university in North Carolina. When I started at Chowan back in 2009, it was my first experience travelling outside my small community. Moving […]

Music Students Receive National Recognition

Two students from the Chowan University Department of Music have been selected to perform with the 2015 National Small-College Intercollegiate Band to be held March 25-28 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Junior Music Education major Nick Gaffney (saxophone) of Waldorf, MD has been fully accepted to perform with the ensemble, while fellow Junior Music […]

Chowan Scores High in National Survey

According to the official results of the National Survey of Student Engagement, Chowan University’s survey scores place the historic institution above the average of other private colleges in the southeast region. Chowan University rises above the survey averages in learning strategies, quantitative reasoning and effective teaching practices in comparison with other southeastern private colleges. Chowan […]

Parker Family Establishes Scholarship

he Parker family of Williamston, NC has always held their church close to heart. As senior pastor of Williamston Memorial Baptist Church, Robbie and his wife Malinda have often felt God’s call, guiding them in the right direction throughout their lives. That calling has now led the Parkers to Chowan University where they want to […]

Parker Family Establishes Scholarship

The Parker family of Williamston, NC has always held their church close to heart. As senior pastor of Williamston Memorial Baptist Church, Robbie and his wife Malinda have often felt God’s call, guiding them in the right direction throughout their lives. That calling has now led the Parkers to Chowan University where they want to […]

Doane to Research Cyberbullying with US Army

As a special appointment through the Consortium Research Fellows Program, Chowan University’s Assistant Professor of Psychology Dr. Ashley N. Doane now has the distinguished accolade as a Senior Research Consortium Fellow assisting the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. According to their website, the Consortium Research Fellows Program, or CRFP, is […]