Published on May 2, 2016  

We heard a few days ago from Dr. Joe Creech, Director of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts that our own Sam Hahn, Samford Class of ’16, has been named a member of the ninth cohort of Lilly Fellows, a distinguished program for graduate students.  He follows Nathan Smolin, named last year to the eighth cohort.  Dr. Joel Davis of our School of the Arts was our first Lilly Fellow, several years ago.  Sam follows within a long Samford tradition of producing graduates with a unique blend of heart, soul, and mind.  

 The world is better because of Sam Hahn and the members of the Samford faculty who helped to nurture his soul and sharpen his mind.

 
Samford is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford enrolls 5,791 students from 49 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Samford fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and ranks 6th nationally for its Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.