For proof that students in the spring term course, Photography and the City, taught by Washington and Lee art professor Christa Bowden are hard at work, look no further than their blog, W&L Photography. You will find a selection of the images they have taken since they arrived in the city — and the city […]
Archive ( Stories)
As members of Washington and Lee's Class of 2014 begin to prepare to enter the University in the fall, there is a great new website resource available to make that transition as smooth as possible. The New Student Dashboard, created by W&L's Web team and maintained by Kati Grow in the Division of Student Affairs, […]
Washington and Lee alumnus Jack Goldsmith of the Class of 1984 has just been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Jack is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University. He was among 229 leaders in the sciences, social sciences, […]
Chad Ellis, a 2003 Washington and Lee graduate and currently a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University, has been named the recipient of CMU's Graduate Student Service Award, which recognizes "service to his fellow students at Carnegie Mellon, and to his colleagues around Pittsburgh and the nation." Chad, a chemistry major at W&L, […]
Washington and Lee celebrated the careers of seven retiring members of the University staff at the annual Employee Recognition Banquet on Thursday. Altogether, the seven have a combined 253 years of service to W&L. The winner in that category, by quite a distance, is Kathleen H. Dunlap, or Miss Kitty as she has been known […]
During last weekend's School of Law reunion, returning members of the Class of 1960, back for their 50th, received special recognition during a Saturday morning gathering in the Millhiser Moot Court Room. Once they had been received a commemorative medal and greetings from W&L President Ken Ruscio and Law Dean Rodney Smolla, one of the […]
Denizens of pre-renovation Reid Hall from the mid-1980s can certainly relate to much of the portrait of Mike Allen (Class of 1986) that is painted in the fascinating cover story on Mike and Politico in the New York Times Magazine. You can read that piece online today, and it's worth every minute you spend. Here […]
Purchasing Power, an Atlanta-based company that has been ranked on Entrepreneur magazine's list of the Top 100 fastest growing companies, has added to its Washington and Lee connections with the announcement that Chad Delp of the Class of 1993 is the new chief financial officer. At Purchasing Power, Chad is joining fellow W&L alumnus Keith […]
Robyn O'Brien, the 1993 Washington and Lee alumna who has been labeled "food's Erin Brockovich" by the New York Times, earned another significant honor this month when Planet Green, part of the Discovery Channel, named her one of its 15 visionaries — people who are providing "big ideas that will shape our world going forward." […]
You know how when you’re spring cleaning, you find all kinds of interesting stuff you didn’t even know you had? Well, that happened the other day in the attic of Washington Hall. Mike Carmagnola, executive director of facilities and capital planning, was rummaging around up there in preparation for the building’s eventual renovation, part of […]
Congratulations to Brian Clarke, a 1999 graduate of the Washington and Lee School of Law, who was named one of the Charlotte Business Journal's 40 Under 40 last month. The annual feature in the special publication of the Charlotte Business Journal identifies 40 people under the age of 40 who are "making major strides in […]
"When Turtles Fly" is the name of the fascinating blog written by Deborah Miranda, associate professor of English at Washington and Lee. Deborah teaches composition, creative writing (poetry and memoir) as well as Native American, American ethnic and women's literature. She began the blog back in 2008 as a record of her sabbatical. The blog's […]
In late March, Adam Bradberry, catering chef in W&L’s Dining Services, won a bronze medal in the Regional Taste/Customized Competition at the National Association of College & University Food Service (NACUFS) Mid-Atlantic Culinary Challenge. The event is sanctioned by the American Culinary Federation. Adam, competing for the first time since 2001, was up against nine other chefs. […]
As a basketball player at Washington and Lee in the late 1960s, Mike Neer was part of some of the most successful teams in Generals' history. As a coach at the University of Rochester for 34 years, Mike led one of the most successful programs, on any level, in the country. Last week Mike announced […]
Two Washington and Lee student organizations that serve the Lexington and Rockbridge County community have joined forces for an inventive new program. The Campus Kitchen at Washington and Lee and the University's English for Speakers of Other Languages program are sponsoring “Lazos Más Fuertes” events this spring. Scheduled for the cafeteria of Waddell Elementary School […]
Within seven weeks of President John F. Kennedy's assassination on Nov, 22, 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy received more than 800,000 letters of condolence. One of those letters, dated Nov. 25, 1963, came from a Washington and Lee student—James S. Legg Jr. of the Class of 1965. And now Jim's letter is one of about 250 that […]
Readers of The New York Times may already be aware of the story in Wednesday's Business section about Washington and Lee alumnus Charlie Freret (Class of 1970), his federal income taxes and the Honor System. If you haven't read the whole story, here's the link. The bottom line is this: Charlie discovered a flaw in […]
Washington and Lee President Ken Ruscio and 10 other college and university presidents from around the country participated in Arizona State University's 10th annual Science and Science Policy Round Table, in New York last week. This was the second year that President Ruscio joined the select group for a wide-ranging discussion with national journalists. This time, […]
A story currently on the University of Virginia's news site, UVA Today, documents the work that Alison Bell, assistant professor of archaeology and anthropology at Washington and Lee, has done at U.Va.'s Morven Farm site. Here's a link to the story. Alison began her work at Morven when she was a graduate student at U.Va. […]
Attendees at the 2009 Washington and Lee commencement ceremony will remember one of the distinguished personages on the platform, Susan E. Tifft. The acclaimed journalist and educator, who received an honorary degree that day, died yesterday, April 1. Tifft and her husband, Alex S. Jones (a member of W&L's Class of 1968), co-wrote two books […]
In Washington last month, about 200 women who served during World War II as Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPS, received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor given by Congress, in a ceremony on Capitol Hill. And one of those pioneering women was Patricia Nuckols, the widow of the late Marshall Nuckols, '33, '35L, […]