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a group of mission volunteers
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September 10, 2025

Embracing Service

Chehalis Eno, senior English major

Southern Adventist University embraces wholistic education, and many students take advantage of all the school has to offer beyond earning a degree. Through service opportunities big and small, Southern students craft a lifelong love for serving,...

8 days ago
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News
September 3, 2025

Campus Collaboration Leads to Fully Produced Animated Short

By Isabele Barreto Freitas, sophomore nursing major

During the past school year, junior animation majors from Southern Adventist University’s School of Visual Art and Design (SVAD) collaborated with its School of Music to produce both the visuals and soundtrack for an animated short film.

15 days ago
a nursing student paints a picture
Feature
August 27, 2025

Positivity Through Painting

Alexis Dewey, ’24, and Tina Frist Smith, ’89 and ’23, communication manager

For nearly two decades, hundreds of students at Southern Adventist University have inspired positivity in long-term patients through thousands of bright, creative works completed during a simple art class.

22 days ago
Mamie Pruitt, '79
News
August 20, 2025

Divinely Driven

Chehalis Eno, senior English major

Southern alum Mamie Pruitt, ’79, knew she wanted to be a physical education teacher in fifth grade, when she was inspired by her own teacher. She’s been doing just that in the Atlanta metro area for 39 years.

29 days ago
Robert Cornado, pastor of the Chattanooga Hispanic Community Seventh-day Adventist Church, leads out in prayer.
News
August 13, 2025

Southern Partners with Community in Prayer

Isabele Barreto Freitas, sophomore nursing major

More than 300 Christians in the Collegedale, Tennessee, community gathered on the campus of Southern Adventist University for six consecutive evenings in May to pray for an outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit.

1 month ago
Stevenson Pangkey, campus safety patrol supervisor, shows one of the new trauma kits available on campus.
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August 6, 2025

Trauma Kits Enhance Medical Emergency Response on Campus

Isabele Barreto Freitas, sophomore nursing major

As a new school year approaches, Southern Adventist University has a valuable new health and safety resource on campus.

1 month ago
a group of summer camp workers
Feature
July 30, 2025

Camp Connections

Alexis Dewey, ’24, and Chehalis Eno, senior English major

There’s something special about summer camp, and Southern students know it. More than 350 university students worked at many of the approximately 60 Seventh-day Adventist camps across the United States during the summer of 2024 alone.

1 month ago
Student Cameron Guild running on Southern's track.
Feature
July 23, 2025

Running God's Marathon

By Alexis Dewey, ’24

Cameron Guild, sophomore nursing major at Southern Adventist University, shares how he realized that God wanted him to run a different race—not a marathon, but one of strengthening his faith.

1 month ago