Galt Mile Media Group, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of its new product, The Psychology Research Symposium. The Psychology Research Symposium is intended to encourage students to actively participate in student initiated research. An important factor in gaining admission to graduate programs in psychology is demonstrating an active interest in research.

Every year, Galt Mile Media Group, Inc.  will host the Psychology Research Symposium in which students will have the opportunity to present what they have learned through their research experiences to a larger audience. In addition, this event is an opportunity for students, faculty, and the community to discuss cutting edge research topics and to examine the connection between research and education. The Symposium would include poster and presentation sessions by students majoring in Psychology and will encourage interdisciplinary discourse, allowing students to learn from each other about a broad range of exciting research topics. The Symposium is also intended to provide Psychology students’ the ability to utilize classroom knowledge to gain understanding of the world and affect change in the community, and the world at large. 

Psychology students at Liberty University will have the opportunity to attend and present research at an event held in Fort Lauderdale hosted by Galt Mile Media Group, Inc.  As a psychology graduate student myself, I find that it is challenging for distance learners to get the most out of their graduate studies. This event will allow Liberty University students the opportunity to discuss their research with faculty and students of Liberty University as well as from other research institutions.

The Psychology Research Symposium is open to both undergraduate and graduate psychology students at Liberty University. If you are a Liberty University Psychology Student and would like to be a part of the Psychology Research Symposium, email Nick at nick@galtmilemedia.com.

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This table simply shows the overall ranking of each college, with its average rank in the right-hand column reflecting the sum of all of its ranks divided by the number of metrics for which data was found for that particular college.

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Liberty University once hoped to build a 125-acre lake on Liberty Mountain for student recreation, but the dream seemed impossible when LU officials learned that Virginia would require them to spend millions in wetland credits to offset the environmental impact.

Now three generous donors are giving Liberty a lake for free.

Ivy Lake, located about 15 minutes from LU in Forest, Va., is a beautiful man-made lake with a mountain vista reflected in its waters — and it’s precisely 125 acres.

“That’s what’s so providential about this,” said Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Ivy Lake is the largest lake in the Lynchburg area. The donation, including approximately 4 acres with space for parking and lake access, comes from Lynchburg-area residents Tom DeWitt, Terry Dobyns and Richard Chaffin. DeWitt, the only Liberty alumnus among the group, transferred to LU in 1977 and earned a degree in Christian Ministries in 1979 before deciding to enter the real estate and development world.

“[I] love Liberty and everything they’re doing. We just want to be a part of what they’re doing,” said DeWitt, who fondly recalls his time spent on the LU baseball team. “Liberty’s influence has been tremendous on me, and I think tremendous on the community as well.”

DeWitt first contacted LU to ask if the school could use a lake. He figured it would be a win-win because LU could maintain the donated lake, allowing the surrounding homeowners to continue enjoying it. When LU responded positively, he made plans to sign the lake over by the end of 2008. No official estimates are in, but the property is believed to be worth up to $2 million.

“I think it’s a very healthy sign that alumni like Tom DeWitt… are starting to give to Liberty,” Falwell Jr. said. “Liberty doesn’t have that many alumni who are old enough to have accumulated significant assets, but the few who have are giving in a big way, and I think that’s very encouraging. That’s where our future endowments will originate.”

DeWitt said LU’s early alumni are finally getting to a position in life which enables them to give back.

“We’ve been in our business long enough. We’ve got our kids out of the house and those kinds of things,” he said.

Now that the lake is more than a dream for LU, officials are brainstorming all the possible ways students could use it. Rowing, sailing, kayaking, canoeing and fishing are just a few of the suggestions.

“We think this lake will be a real asset in recruiting students. It’ll be a real benefit to our existing students, and it will enhance student life and activities,” Falwell Jr. said.

Ivy Lake isn’t the only recent land donation at Liberty University.

Bob Hughes, the original developer of Candler’s Station shopping center across from the LU campus, gave the university a commercial lot adjacent to Applebee’s. Falwell Jr. conservatively estimates that this land donation is worth $1 million.

“It’s a wonderful contribution, and it is very generous of Mr. Hughes. We deeply appreciate the gift,” said Falwell Jr., who will consider whether to sell it to build the school’s endowment or use it for other practical purposes, such as a bus parking lot.

Thomas and Iris Tilley recently fulfilled their pledge to donate $250,000 for the construction of the Tilley Student Center. The student center, which opened in September of 2008, is a popular coffeehouse-style lounge where Liberty students can relax between classes, surf the Web and play a friendly game of pool. The Tilleys live in Durham, North Carolina and have supported Liberty University since the early 1970s. They are the parents of Becki Falwell, Falwell Jr.’s wife.

In addition, Glen Thomas recently donated nearly 6 ½ acres of land in the Mayflower Industrial Park on the U.S. 29/U.S. 460 Bypass just across the road from Candler’s Station Shopping Center and Liberty Mountain. Falwell Jr. estimates the land is worth more than $700,000.

“It may be a good spot for us to locate our central receiving functions,” he said.

Thomas, who briefly attended LU, also donated money for the university’s new indoor soccer field, which is now under construction near the LaHaye Student Union at Campus North.

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Liberty University School of Law now ranks No. 2 in the state for passage rates on the Virginia Bar Exam.  At 94.4 percent, Liberty is just behind the University of Virginia (96.8).

“That’s going to put us in the top 5 percent of all law schools in the country,” said Mat Staver, Dean of Liberty University School of Law.  Working out of his Orlando, Fla., office on Thursday, Staver was jubilant when he heard the news from Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr., who had received the call from members of the Board of Bar Examiners that afternoon.

 “He had a whole room full of people cheering,” Falwell said. “It’s wonderful news for the law school. It just means we’re achieving our goals much more quickly than we hoped.”

Liberty University School of Law opened in August 2004. With tracks in civil, criminal and constitutional litigation, as well as business planning, estate planning, real estate development and government administration, the school is equipping a generation of Christian leaders with skills that are on par with graduates of the nation’s top law schools.

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