Transylvania community celebrates Rafinesque’s 240th birthday
While he didn’t exactly feel honored as a Transylvania botany professor (in fact, he cursed the school when he left), Rafinesque gets plenty of love today for his 240th birthday.
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Transylvania Rafskeller moves to new space, but tradition lives on
Outside the Transylvania’s Rafskeller is Raf’s Corner, which helps to carry on a campus tradition.
Celebrating Rafinesque on his birthday
The Transylvania University community delights in the tale of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque — the drama, the curse, the crypt. And with his 236th birthday being today, and this year being the bicentenary of his arrival on campus, let’s take the opportunity to reflect on the ardent, multi-dimensional fellow behind the caricature.
Transylvania’s Raf Week gets ‘amped up’ with haunted house, more funding
As is tradition, Transylvania University students next week will celebrate one of the school’s most peculiar professors: Constantine Samuel Rafinesque.