Gallery Talk/Reception for the artist May 15 Lexington, VA -- May 9, 2008 • On Thursday, May 15 at 5:30 p.m., sculptor Bob Trotman will give a lecture about his installation Business as Usual, currently on exhibit at Washington and Lee University's Staniar Gallery. The artist's talk will take place in the Wilson Hall concert hall, followed by a reception in Staniar Gallery and the Wilson Hall atrium.
Lexington, VA -- May 9, 2008 • Washington and Lee University senior Romance languages/journalism and mass communications major Emma Axt ’08, of Edina, Minn., has recently been awarded the distinguished Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to teach English in France.
Lexington, VA -- May 7, 2008 • Emerging poet Emily Rosko will give a reading of her work at Washington and Lee University on Tuesday, May 20, at 4:30 p.m. in Elrod Commons, room 216. The event will begin with an informal public interview of Rosko by Lesley Wheeler, professor and head of the English department.
Lexington, VA -- May 7, 2008 • Elizabeth Outland Branner has been named Director of Advancement for the Washington and Lee University School of Law, effective immediately. She succeeds Paul Gardner in this position following a nationwide search.
Lexington, VA -- May 5, 2008 • Debby Newell ’08 of Troy, Michigan, is a recent recipient of a Fulbright grant to teach English in Germany. A German literature and medieval and Renaissance studies major, Newell will teach the English language to 12-18-year-olds.
Lexington, VA -- May 2, 2008 • The faculty of Washington and Lee University School of Law has voted unanimously to include Transnational Law as a required first-year course.
Lexington, VA -- May 2, 2008 • Washington and Lee School of Law students Kiyomi Bolick, Kyu-Eun Lee, and Sara McManus, all members of the class of 2010, have been selected as the 2008 recipients of Virginia Law Foundation Public Service Internship awards.
Lexington, VA -- May 2, 2008 • Washington and Lee University's 2008 Reunion Weekend began with an Opening Assembly on Thursday, May 1, featuring a Welcoming Address from Executive Director of Alumni Affairs Waller T. Dudley ’74 and an invocation by William C. Datz ‘75, coordinator of religious life. The keynote address, “Reflections of Three Wise Men,” was given by three members of the class of ’58 celebrating their 50th W&L reunion--Farris Hotchkiss, Lewis G. John and Andrew (Uncas) McThenia, also a member of ‘63L.
Students, faculty and staff taking part in the second annual Gay? Fine By Me™ T-Shirt Project at W&L gathered for a group photo on Wednesday, April 30.
Lexington, VA -- May 1, 2008 • Bill Nye, scientist, engineer, comedian, author and inventor will speak at Washington and Lee University on Thursday, May 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Stackhouse Theater in Elrod Commons. The title of his talk is "Science Rules! An Evening with Bill Nye the Science Guy."
Lexington, VA -- May 1, 2008 • The Lessons in Leadership Series, sponsored by the Office of Leadership Development at Washington and Lee University, begins on Tuesday, May 6, at 6:30 p.m. in Elrod Commons, room 114. Coach Bobby Ross will provide insights about leadership he has gained from over 38 years in head coaching at both collegiate and professional levels.
Lexington, VA -- May 2, 2008 • Laura Nugent '08 has received a research Fulbright Fellowship to Romania for the 2008-2009 academic year. Nugent, a double major in economics and medieval and Renaissance studies from West Grove, Penn., will study the architecture of churches in Moldavia built from 1488-1609 with a history professor at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj.
Lexington, VA -- May 1, 2008 • Walter Davis, professor emeritus of English at Ohio State University, will give two public talks while at Washington and Lee University under the sponsorship of the Class of '63 Scholars in Residence program. Davis will meet with students and faculty and participate in a seminar in aesthetics.
Lexington, VA -- April 29, 2008 • Washington and Lee University's Panhellenic Association has been awarded the Gamma Phi Beta College Panhellenic Award by Gamma Phi Beta International Sorority. The award "recognizes the Panhellenic association that successfully develops and implements a program to enhance the Greek image on campus and in the local community."
Lexington, VA -- April 28, 2008 • The top-ranked Washington and Lee women's tennis team won its sixth-straight conference crown with a 9-0 win over Bridgewater in the finals of the 2008 ODAC Tournament. The Generals, who own an unblemished 24-0 overall record, will receive the ODAC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, where they will look to defend their national title.
Lexington, VA -- April 25, 2008 • Washington and Lee University's Tucker Multimedia Center (TMC) and the departments of modern foreign languages will again offer W&L alumni the opportunity to attend mini-language courses over Reunion Weekend, May 1-3, 2008.
Lexington, VA -- April 24, 2008 • Washington and Lee University has recently donated a parcel of land to the Rockbridge Historical Society. After lengthy negotiations, the 4,090 square foot sliver of land adjacent to Varner Lane was donated to the RHS for its continued use as a picnic area within downtown Lexington.
Lexington, VA -- April 23, 2008 • Toni Locy, a veteran of 25 years covering the American justice system at all levels, has been named Washington and Lee's first Donald W. Reynolds Professor of Legal Reporting.
Lexington, VA -- April 23, 2008 • Phylissa Mitchell ‘01L, visiting assistant professor of journalism, has been awarded a Fulbright to teach at a university in Ukraine, although the exact institution has yet to be announced. Mitchell will teach a comparative course on free-press constitutional guarantees, focusing on broadcast writing and public affairs.
Lexington, VA -- April 23, 2008 • Rebecca Benefiel, assistant professor of classics at Washington and Lee University, received the Olivia James Traveling Fellowship from the Archaeological Institute of America for 2008-2009. It's designed to support field research in the Mediterranean, and there is only one fellowship of this kind given out per year. The award is $25,000.
Lexington, VA -- April 23, 2008 • Washington and Lee students Eric Hamscher '11 and Chengpeng Mou '11 have been chosen to receive Kemper scholarships. They will join Steve Rivior '08, Becca Taylor '09 and Cale Grove '10 as W&L students participating in the program.
Lexington, VA -- April 23, 2008 • Dr. Robert Strong, William Lyne Wilson Professor of Politics in the Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics at Washington and Lee University, has been named Associate Provost at the University effective July 1, 2008.
Performance Event to have Students Lowered onto the Side of Wilson Hall Lexington, VA -- April 21, 2008 • Jenefer Davies, visiting assistant professor of dance at Washington and Lee University, has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Grant through the Associated Colleges of the South.
Lexington, VA -- April 22, 2008 • The 16th-ranked Washington and Lee men's tennis team defeated Hampden-Sydney, 9-0, to claim its 13th-straight ODAC championship. The Generals will receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Lexington, VA -- April 22, 2008 • The Washington and Lee golf team claimed its 10th Old Dominion Athletic Conference Championship and its first since 1999 after shooting a 313 in the final round on Monday at the Poplar Grove Golf Club in Amherst, Va.
Lexington, VA -- April 22, 2008 • Washington and Lee University has received a $1.3 million grant from the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to support the University’s undergraduate biological sciences programs. W&L was one of only 48 institutions out of 192 applicants to receive a grant.
Lexington, VA -- April 18, 2008 • Lesley Wheeler, Washington and Lee University professor and chair of the English department, will read from her recently published collection of poetry, "Scholarship Girl."
Lexington, VA -- April 18, 2008 • Washington and Lee School of Law student Charles E. Gates, Jr. has been named student editor of Student Lawyer magazine for the 2008-09 academic year.
Holocaust Survivor to Talk about "Death March" Lexington, VA -- April 17, 2008 • Washington and Lee University's Hillel presents Holocaust Remembrance Week from April 28 - May 2. The planned activities range from films to a vigil to a talk by a Holocaust survivor, the grandmother of a current W&L student.
Lexington, VA -- April 10, 2008 • Sascha Goluboff, associate professor of cultural anthropology at Washington and Lee University, was selected as one of three new fellows in the "Engaged Scholars Studying Congregations" program coordinated through The Hartford Seminary.
Lexington, VA -- April 9, 2008 • Holly Pickett, assistant professor of English, has recently been awarded a nine- month National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) research fellowship to the Newberry Library in Chicago for the 2008-2009 academic year.
Geraldine Brooks to Give Public Lecture Lexington, VA -- April 9, 2008 • The opening talk of Washington and Lee University's fifth annual Tom Wolfe Weekend Seminar will be given by author Geraldine Brooks, on Friday, April 18, at 4 p.m. at the Stackhouse Theater in Elrod Commons. This talk is free and open to the public.
Lexington, VA -- April 9, 2008 • Lucas Morel, associate professor of politics at Washington and Lee University, has been named a Research Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University for the 2008-09 academic year.
Lexington, VA -- April 9, 2008 • Leslie Cintron, W&L assistant professor of sociology, has been awarded a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society to conduct archival research in England for her book "From Open Spaces to Popular Culture: The National Trust and the Transformation of British Heritage, 1895-2008," which looks into the genesis of Britain's national heritage preservation movement.
Lexington, VA -- April 9, 2008 • William W. Freehling, the Robert S. Griffith '52 Visiting Scholar in History at Washington and Lee University, will present a lecture on Monday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Lee Chapel. The title of Dr. Freehling's lecture is "Mysteries of the South's Secession."
Lexington, VA -- April 9, 2008 • W&L’s English for Speakers of Other Languages program (ESOL) recently received a Verizon Community Initiative grant of $500. The Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon Communications, awards grants to initiatives and non-profits that fall under its focus areas of education, literacy, domestic violence prevention or technology for healthcare and healthcare accessibility.
Lexington, VA -- April 8, 2008 • Joseph McDonald, a Washington and Lee University sophomore physics and mathematics major from San Antonio, Texas, has been awarded a prestigious Goldwater scholarship. His proposal was composed of research he participated in this past summer with physics professors Tom Williams and Paul Bourdon during the R.E. Lee Research Program.
Lexington, VA -- April 8, 2008 • Washington and Lee hosted this year's Region II Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Spring conference and won three of the Mark of Excellence awards handed out on March 29. Region II includes Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Lexington, VA -- April 8, 2008 • Drew McWay '08, an accounting and business administration major from Dallas, Tx., was recently awarded a grant from 100 Projects for Peace. This organization invites all undergraduates to submit a project proposal that enhances the idea of world peace. McWay will receive a $10,000 grant made possible by Kathryn Wasserman Davis, an accomplished internationalist and philanthropist.
Lexington, VA -- April 5, 2008 • Anna Pendley '09 has been named Keck Geology Consortium Project Fellow for 2008. Pendley, a double major in anthropology/archaeology and geology, will spend late June-late July with a team of students and faculty researching the geoarchaeology of the Poggio Colla near Florence, Italy.
Lexington, VA -- April 5, 2008 • Washington and Lee senior swimmer Alex Sweet has qualified to participate in the United States Olympic Trials held June 29 - July 6, 2008 at the Qwest Center in Lincoln, Neb.
Lexington, VA -- April 2, 2008 • The Washington and Lee women's lacrosse team moved up to fifth in the April 1st edition of the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA)/Under Armour National Poll for Division III.
Lexington, VA -- April 1, 2008 • Washington and Lee University has announced the 21st class to be inducted into its Athletic Hall of Fame. The class includes Dave Warfield '75, Jack Berry '76, Andrew White '88, Beth Stutzman '90 and the 1961 Football Team. The group will be recognized at the Athletic Hall of Fame dinner on Fri., Oct. 17 and at the Generals' football game against Hampden-Sydney on Sat., Oct. 18.
Lexington, VA -- April 1, 2008 • Mary Childs '08 has been named a Thomas J. Watson Fellow for 2008-2009. She is one of 50 students nationally to receive a Watson fellowship this year.
