Cervera credits life-changing TROY experience with desire to give back

Nick Cervera, left, and wife Carmen Cervera. Cervera has worked at Troy University for more than 50 years.

Nick Cervera, left, and wife Carmen Cervera. Cervera has worked at Troy University for more than 50 years.

In the spring of 1961, when Nick Cervera and his best friend Al Sansone arrived in Troy, Alabama, to study at then-Troy State Teachers College, they found a very different world than the home left behind in Brooklyn, New York.

Cervera jokes that when they arrived at Troy’s only blinking traffic light they thought perhaps…

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Pre-Law scholarship established in honor of Dr. Fred Davis, former TROY faculty member, administrator

A new scholarship honors former faculty member Dr. Fred Davis and will benefit pre-law students with a preference for English majors.

A new scholarship honors former faculty member Dr. Fred Davis and will benefit pre-law students with a preference for English majors.

For 33 years, Dr. Fred Davis devoted his professional life to teaching and mentoring students and fellow faculty members at Troy University.

Davis joined the TROY faculty in 1970 and served for many years as an assistant professor and chair of the English Department. His service to the University didn’t stop there. As he admits,…

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Exhibit celebrates work of African American artists, provides new experiences for Valiant Cross students

Dr. Felicia Bell, director of the Rosa Parks Museum, addresses crowd at the opening reception for the Junior Curator exhibit.

Dr. Felicia Bell, director of the Rosa Parks Museum, addresses crowd at the opening reception for the Junior Curator exhibit.

A project representing a collaborative effort between students at Montgomery’s Valiant Cross Academy and Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum has resulted in an exhibit featuring the work of African American artists from Alabama.

On display now through April 1 in the museum’s exhibit hall, “Down South: From the Souls of African American Artists of Alabama”…

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TROY’s Department of Mathematics, women’s basketball staff team up for Mathsketball 2019

The Department of Mathematics is teaming up with TROY women's basketball for Mathsketball 2019 on Friday and Saturday.

The Department of Mathematics is teaming up with TROY women's basketball for Mathsketball 2019 on Friday and Saturday.

While the connection between mathematics and basketball might not seem like a slam dunk to some, a group of seventh- and eighth-grade girls from Pike County will take a shot at learning the role math plays in sports during Mathsketball 2019 this weekend at Troy University.

The event, made possible through a grant from the…

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