Last month two Washington and Lee alumni, David Foster, of the Class of 1998, and Paul E. Wright, of the Class of 1995, were named to Philadelphia Business Journal's 40 Under 40 list. That caused us to start looking for other examples of alums who have been so honored recently. So far, we have located one […]
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A video created by Garrett Koller of Washington and Lee's Class of 2014 has won second place in a national contest to create awareness on information security. <p>The 30-second video is entitled "How to Create a Secure Password" and won second place in the public service category of the 2011 Information Security Awareness Poster & Video Contest. Koller earned $1,000 in the contest sponsored by EDUCAUSE/Internet 2 Higher Education Information Security Council, CyberWatch, and National Cyber Security Alliance.</p> <p>The video provides practical guidelines for creating a secure but easy-to-remember password. The video is featured on YouTube channel of Information Technology Services, which has promoted secure passwords as a vital part of an overall strategy to keep data private and secure. Koller, a computer science major, is a member of the Information Technology Advisory Committee, which advises ITS at W&L, and also works for John Blackburn, senior academic technologist for ITS.</p> <p>The video may be viewed here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPxPh-cYsgE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPxPh-cYsgE</a><br />Additional background on the contest is here: <a href="http://www.educause.edu/SecurityVideoContest2011">http://www.educause.edu/SecurityVideoContest2011</a></p>
Funny thing about Lexington and Washington and Lee — every year we're shocked by how quickly the campus becomes deserted after the last diploma is awarded and the last mortarboard is tossed. That was the case again yesterday, when 395 seniors received their degrees and headed out to, well, everywhere. To keep track of them, the Office of […]
Shortly after members of Washington and Lee's Class of 2011 receive their diplomas this morning, Beverly Lorig, director of career services at W&L, was part of a panel talking about their job prospects — and the prospects of all of this year's newly minted graduates — on the Washington Post's website. Beverly joined moderator Jenna […]
Anyone who has seen the images of devastation from Joplin, Mo., cannot help but be affected by the magnitude of the disaster caused by Sunday's tornado. For one Washington and Lee alumnus, Brent Beshore, of the Class of 2005, the scenes are personal. Joplin is Brent's hometown. It's where he was born and raised, and […]
College football fans know who Jim Tressel is. And they probably know that the embattled former Ohio State coach is charged with hiding information about players receiving impermissible benefits and with lying to the NCAA about his knowledge of those violations. They may not necessarily know, however, Gene Marsh, the man who will be sitting beside Tressel when the […]
Voting is now open for the 2011 Library of Virginia Literary Awards People's Choice, and one of the five finalists in the nonfiction category is The Horse in Virginia: An Illustrated History, by Julie Campbell, the associate director of communications and public affairs at Washington and Lee. Online voting can be done here. Voters may also cast their ballots at […]
Lee Feldman, a member of Washington and Lee's Class of 1984, was named the city manager of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., this week. Lee, who was selected from a competitive field of 90 candidates, will oversee 2,500 employees and a $600 million budget. Based on his track record, Lee is up to the challenge. He goes to […]
One member of Washington and Lee's entering Class of 2015 has won a singular honor. Thomas Day, of Nashville, is one of 141 Presidential Scholars in the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. Chosen from more than 3,000 candidates on the basis of superior achievements, leadership qualities, personal character and involvement in community and school activities, the scholars […]
This week the Wheaton edition of the Chicago Tribune related the story of Washington and Lee alumnus James Howard Monroe, of the Class of 1966, whose Medal of Honor will soon have a new home in a Chicago area middle school that bears his name. Known as "Jimmy" or "Jimbo" by his family, Monroe was […]
The Ledger-Enquirer newspaper in Columbus, Ga., published a major feature story this weekend on the first female prosecutor of the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit — Washington and Lee alumna Julia Slater, a 1993 graduate of the School of Law. The story was based, in part, on a guilty verdict that Julia had won in a 25-year-old […]
<p>Three members of Washington and Le's Class of 2011 have been named to the Japanese National Honor Society. They are Hannah Kollef from Summit, N.J., Lu Li from Tianmen, China, Paul Matteo from Philadelphia and Susan Taylor from Atlanta. This national collegiate honor society recognizes and encourages scholastic achievement and excellence in the study of the Japanese language.</p>
Later this month, the Philadelphia Business Journal and the Fox School of Business at Temple University will honor 40 people under the age of 40 for their professional accomplishments and community involvement. Two of the 40 winners are Washington and Lee alumni: David Foster, of the Class of 1998, and Paul E. Wright, of the Class of […]
Four alumni who distinguished themselves on the fields, courts and courses of W&L compose the 24th class to be inducted into Washington and Lee's Athletic Hall of Fame. They will be honored on Sept. 9 at the annual Athletic Hall of Fame dinner and then will be introduced at halftime of the Generals' football game on […]
Ashley Allen, a 1965 graduate of Washington and Lee, spent his entire working career with Milliken & Company in Spartanburg, S.C. When he retired in 2008, Ashley was president and CEO of the textile and chemical company, which is probably best known for its carpet but has a varied portfolio of products. A chemistry major at […]
Washington and Lee's 2012 Republican Mock Convention had a successful Spring Kickoff last weekend, with performances and presentations from the Capitol Steps, Mary Matalin and Karl Rove. And we already blogged about the Presidential Issues Panel. But one of the biggest hits of the weekend had to be the Colonnade Cake. It was created by Charm […]
<p>The June/July 2011 edition of EDTECH Magazine focuses on the work that Washington and Lee's Information Technology Services on the University's wireless network. The piece, "Wireless Insight," features interviews with Tom Tinsley, director of network and telecommunications, and Mike Courtney, network engineer, who describe how ITS is using Aruba's Airware software to support an averge 1,000 students, faculty, staff and guests who are accessing the wireless system at any time. <a href="Documents/public_affairs/edtechmag.pdf">You can read the article as a pdf.</a></p>
Washington and Lee's departments of music and East Asian languages and literature will present a concert in Wilson Concert Hall at 5:30 p.m. today to raise funds for the victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Julia Goudimova, cello, and Shuko Watanabe, piano, members of the W&L music faculty, will present works by Bach and […]
<p>Three members of Washington and Lee's Class of 2013 have won Shirley Hurt Brand Scholarships from the Cabell Brand Center for Global Poverty and Resource Sustainability Studies of Salem, Va. The $1,000 scholarships were awarded on the basis of essays the students wrote on what they plan to do with their studies and lives "For the Common Good."</p> <p>The winners are:</p> <ul> <li>Johanna Cho, a politics major from Wilmette, Ill.</li> <li>Kathryn Marsh Soloway, a journalism and art history double major from Woodbridge, Conn.</li> <li>Danielle Breidung, a sociology major from Waunakee, Wis.</li> </ul>
When ABC-TV's popular series The Bachelorette begins its new season on May 23, one of the bachelors will be West Lee, a 2007 graduate of the Washington and Lee School of Law. West is one of 25 who will vie for the affections of Ashley Hebert, the 26-year-old bachelorette from Philadelphia who was a former […]
David G. Elmes, professor emeritus of psychology, has published the ninth edition of <em>Research Methods in Psychology</em> (Wadsworth, Cengage Learning) with his co-authors Barry H. Kantowitz, professor of psychology and professor of Industrial and operational engineering at the University of Michigan, and Henry L. (Roddy) Roediger III '69, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. Kantowitz, Roediger, and Elmes have also co-authored <em>Experimental Psychology</em>, which appeared in its ninth edition in 2009. The 10th edition of <em>Experimental Psychology</em> is planned for 2013. Elmes taught at W&L for 40 years and was active in the Council of Undergraduate Research, serving as president of the organizaiton.He is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Virginia Academy of Science.<br /><br />
Ed Wasserman, the Knight Professor of Journalism Ethics at Washington and Lee, has been elected to a four-year term on the executive board of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE). The organization encourages interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching of high quality in practical and professional ethics by educators and practitioners who appreciate the practical-theoretical aspects of their subjects. The association facilitates communication and joint ventures among centers, schools, colleges, business and nonprofit organizations and individuals concerned with the interdisciplinary study and teaching of practical and professional ethics. In addition to Wasserman, the other newly-elected executive board members were Lisa Parker, Center for Bioethics and Health Law , University of Pittsburgh and Rosemarie Tong, Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.<br />
Washington and Lee's 2012 Republican Mock Convention is 279 days away. Thursday night, as part of the quadrennial event's Spring Kickoff, and just before the first GOP presidential debate aired on TV, four seasoned political observers offered some valuable advice to the student conventioneers during a panel discussion in Wilson Concert Hall. The conversation was […]
Need some poetry today? If so–and really, any day is a good day for poetry–here are two semi-new blogs worth a visit. First, "Fresh, Local, Wild: The Poetics of Food" is the blog of a Spring Term poetry workshop at Washington and Lee, taught by English professor Deborah Miranda. As the title suggests, the subject of the […]
Congratulations to Rob Ashford, a member of Washington and Lee’s Class of 1982, for the two Tony nominations he received Tuesday. The director of the current Broadway revival of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” won nods for best direction of a musical and best choreography. And there’s more — two of his stars were […]
Congratulations to David R. Dougherty, a member of Washington and Lee's Class of 1968, who has announced his retirement as headmaster of The Hill School, a 160-year-old prep school in Pottstown, Pa. David will step down in June 2012, which will be his 19th year as the school's headmaster. He made the announcement last month. […]
Sports agent Malik Shareef, a 2006 graduate of the Washington and Lee School of Law, had an interesting few days last week as he waited to see where one of his clients, Virginia Tech running back Ryan Williams, would go in the National Football League draft. In a story published this past Saturday, The Washington […]
Molly Michelmore, assistant professor of history at Washington and Lee, appeared on NPR affiliate WMRA’s Virginia Insight show Monday (May 2) to discuss her research into the way that liberals have gone out of their way to avoid raising taxes how, over the past 50 years. Molly's new book, “Tax and Spend: Welfare, Taxes and […]