The Lynn J. Darby School of Psychology and Adolescent Counseling is the newest addition to Brenau University’s Ivester College of Health Sciences made possible through a generous gift of Doug and Kay Ivester. The naming honors a lifelong friend of both Doug and Kay, going back to their days working together at Ernst and Ernst, and is in recognition of Lynn’s tireless work as the president of the Melvin Douglas and Victoria Kay Ivester Foundation.
Georgia Army National Guard Sgt. Quantez Harper is a junior interior design major who was deployed to Kosovo in 2011 and Afghanistan in 2014 and 2019. When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp activated medical personnel to assist at Albany’s Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, a COVID-19 hotspot, Harper says he felt compelled to go.
Carysa Mattlin, assistant professor in Mary Inez Grindle School of Nursing, works as a labor and delivery nurse at an Atlanta area hospital. She never knows what she’s going to walk into when she goes to work. “These women may have COVID-19 and be asymptomatic, as may their spouses. We cannot maintain a 6-foot distance …
Huy Chu, studio art program director and ceramics professor, is going 3D in doing his part in addressing the critical shortage of personal protective equipment for frontline workers of the COVID-19 pandemic. He is making homemade face shields for frontline workers using Brenau’s 3D printers, which he took home when classes moved from on-ground to online.
Brenau University senior fashion design major Jordyn De La Rosa has been busy these past few months finishing up classes to graduate and participating in the Million Mask Challenge, a grassroots effort aimed at addressing the critical shortage of personal protective equipment for frontline workers of the COVID-19 pandemic.