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Students practiced stage magic, sculpted severed fingers and whipped up batches of fake blood in a Spring Term course on special effects for the theater.

Radulescu has received a Fulbright Research Teaching Fellowship to study and teach at the University of Bucharest.

Receiving a thunderous standing ovation after performing in the Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall in New York was “truly one of those great life events” for the University Singers, according to Director Shane Lynch.

Law students David Thompson and Michael Stinnett-Kassoff have been named co-directors for law admissions for Service 2 School, a non-profit organization that provides educational guidance and networking opportunities for U.S. military service members and veterans.

Annie Woodford, a community college teacher in Roanoke, Virginia, is the winner of this year’s Graybeal-Gowen Poetry Prize for Virginia Writers.

Briggs will speak on “James Dickey and ‘Life’: How Poems Are Made.”

Quincy Springs ’02 didn’t think college was in his future — until he spent a summer at W&L.

Pasquale “Paqui” Toscano, a classics and English double major, is Washington and Lee’s 16th Rhodes Scholar. The Rhodes Trust announced Sunday that Toscano, 22, of Kettering, Ohio, was one of 32 scholars chosen this year. The scholarships, valued at between $50,000 to $200,000, fully fund two to four years of study at the University of Oxford in England.

Ginsburg’s visit was a year in the making and came 20 years after she penned the majority opinion in United States v. Virginia, the landmark case that struck down VMI’s male-only admissions policy.

Sisters Chloe Burch ’14 and Neely Burch ’13, who have been named to the Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list, raised $1.25 million in seed funding to build their collection of leather handbags and shoes.

The Roanoke Times profiled graduating senior Matt Carl in today’s commencement story.

W&L’s undergraduate mock trial team is now ranked 16th nationally.

She begins her new job on July 17.