An essay about death and dying by Washington and Lee alumna Kerry Egan, of the Class of 1995, touched a nerve on CNN.com over the weekend. Kerry, a religion major who received her master's of divinity from Harvard, is a hospice chaplain in Massachusetts. She spends her time talking with people who are dying. In her piece, […]
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Washington and Lee University's student political research team the 2012 Republican Mock Convention have concluded that Mitt Romney will claim a double-digit win over New Gingrich in Tuesday's Florida primary. That prediction is based on research conducted by Jeff Wieand, chair of the Mock Convention's Florida delegation and a second-year law student from Pottstown, Pa.; […]
For 20 years now, Washington and Lee alumna Adrienne Weatherford Howard, of the Class of 1991, has moved from base to base — 14 moves in all — as her husband, Navy Cmdr. Colby Howard, has received new assignments. Cmdr. Howard is now the commanding officer of the guided missile destroyer Dewey, based in San […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey will give a reading at Washington and Lee University on Thursday, Feb. 2, at 4:30 p.m. in Northen Auditorium of Leyburn Library. She will read from her earlier works and from her forthcoming collection Thrall. Trethewey’s reading is free and open to the public. A book signing will be held […]
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell will address students at Washington and Lee’s Republican Mock Convention on Friday, Feb. 10. McDonnell took office in 2010 after receiving the most votes of any Virginia governor in history. During his term, he has supported proposals to make the largest investment in Virginia transportation systems in a generation and announced […]
Household Internet connections in the Rockbridge area exceed the national average, but residents’ use of the latest online tools is unexpectedly low, according to a recent survey by a Washington and Lee University researcher. The survey by Claudette Artwick, associate professor of journalism and mass communications at W&L, was developed with students in her course […]
Washington and Lee's Japanese Tea Room has received a second gift from Sen Genshitsu, the 15th-generation Grand Master of the Urasenke Tradition of Tea. In October, W&L's Tea Room received its name — Senshin'an (Clearing-the-Mind-Abode) — as a gift from Sen Genshitsu. Tea room names are special gifts, as Janet Ikeda, associate professor of Japanese, explained […]
The second novel by Washington and Lee professor Domnica Radulescu, Black Sea Twilight (2010 Doubleday), a love story set amid the political turbulence of 1980s Romania, reached No. 40 on WH Smith's best-seller list in the United Kingdom a few months back. Domnica promoted the novel at a book signing and reading at the Romanian Cultural […]
Washington and Lee President Kenneth P. Ruscio on the complexities and contradictions of history.
Two Washington and Lee University faculty members — James R. Kahn, the John F. Hendon Professor of Economics, and Lesley M. Wheeler, the Henry S. Fox Jr. Professor of English — have won Outstanding Faculty Awards from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) for 2012. The award recognizes superior accomplishments in teaching, […]
Tom Sanford, a Washington and Lee University junior from New York City, was a special guest at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's 2012 State of the State address, in Albany, on Jan. 4, 2012. Sanford, a politics major, was the guest of Assemblyman Daniel P. Losquadro, a Republican from Long Island and the brother of […]
House Majority Leader and Virginia Representative Eric Cantor will address Washington and Lee University’s 2012 Republican Mock Convention on Friday, February 10, 2012. One of the most influential Republicans in Congress, Cantor has served in the House of Representatives since 2001 and was elected Majority Leader in 2010. A proponent of a strong national defense, Cantor […]
Washington and Lee University students Kelli Jarrell and Stephen Deyarmin will be recognized at the Generals of the Month presentation on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at noon in the Marketplace in Elrod Commons. Jarrell, a senior from Dry Creek, W.Va., is a biochemistry (pre-med) major with a minor in poverty and human capability studies. She is […]
A recent edition of the Greenville, S.C., News reported on the cool gig that Washington and Lee alumna Angie Littlejohn, of the Law Class of 2009, enjoys on fall weekends. Angie's day job is as Furman University's legal adviser. On the weekends (and some weeknights) she can be found in Atlantic Coast Conference football press boxes, where […]
Edward Wasserman, Knight Professor of Journalism Ethics at Washington and Lee, appeared on NPR affiliate WMRA’s “Virginia Insight” show on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, to discuss political journalism as the current presidential campaign continues to heat up. Wasserman writes a bi-weekly column for the Miami Herald and McClatchy Newspapers and blogs at ewasserman.com. Mike Grundmann, […]
Bryan Stevenson, executive director and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and a professor of law at New York University, will deliver this year's Tucker Lecture at Washington and Lee University School of Law on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. The title of Stevenson's lecture is "Politics, Punishment and Reconciliation." The lecture is scheduled to begin […]
Andy Lark, a 1982 graduate of the Washington and Lee School of Law, won a 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service’s Keeper of the Dream Award, in Summit, N.J., on Jan. 17. The awards are given annually to Summit residents who honor the vision of Martin Luther King Jr. Andy was one of four honorees. He has a solo practice […]
Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review has named Margaret Mackinnon the winner of the 2011 Graybeal-Gowen Poetry Award for her poem, “Writing on the Window.” The 2011 Graybeal-Gowen Poetry Award, a $500 prize, is awarded to a poet born or living in Virginia. This year’s award was judged by the Poet Laureate of Virginia, […]
The student political research team for Washington and Lee University’s 2012 Mock Republican Convention has given a narrow nod to Newt Gingrich over Mitt Romney in predicting the winner of tomorrow’s South Carolina Republican primary. Writing on the Mock Convention’s blog last night, Connor Danielowski, a senior from Charleston, S.C., and chair of the Mock […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow discussed George Washington's leadership at Washington and Lee's Founders' Day/ODK Convocation.
Two of Washington and Lee's most distinguished alumni shared a special moment on Wednesday, Jan. 18, when the Virginia House of Delegates honored its longest-serving member. Lacey Putney, of W&L's Classes of 1950 and 1957 Law, this month began his 51st legislative session as an independent delegate, from Bedford, Va. To recognize Lacey's service, his former […]
Washington and Lee University's Alpha Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa recognized four honorary initiates in addition to 31 student initiates at the Founders Day/Omicron Delta Kappa Convocation.
Rebecca Connelly, a 1988 graduate of Washington and Lee's School of Law, has been appointed a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge for the Western District of Virginia. Appointed by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after being recommended by a merit selection panel, Rebecca is the first woman to serve as a bankruptcy judge in the district, […]
The Internet is being disrupted today as several of the major websites, including Wikipedia and BoingBoing, have essentially gone on strike to protest anti-piracy legislation that Congress is considering. Other sites, like Google, are making their protest known by graphically blacking out the name. Washington and Lee University business administration professor David Touve, who created […]
Washington and Lee Director of Athletic Jan Hathorn announced that Scott Abell has been promoted to head football coach effective immediately. Abell had previously served as the program’s assistant head coach and offensive coordinator. “It's not often that an institution is in the position of having the right person for the job already on our […]
A recent CBS News story that highlighted the national trend declared: “It’s true and it’s shocking. Just one in every 10 computer science graduates is a woman.” At Washington and Lee, however, the drive to recruit more women to study computer science has resulted in females comprising 31 percent of the University’s computer science majors […]
Randy Rouse, of the Washington and Lee Class of 1939, is the subject of a nice profile in the Jan. 16–23, 2012, issue of the Chronicle of the Horse. Titled “Randolph Rouse Has Ridden into Virginia History,” the piece, by Meghan Blackburn, describes him as a “sporting legend” for his career as an amateur steeplechase […]
Washington and Lee’s Frank Miriello has announced his retirement as the school’s head football coach effective immediately. Miriello will remain as an instructor of physical education through the remainder of the current term. "A few weeks ago I celebrated my 67th birthday and on that day I found myself pausing and reflecting on my life’s […]
Kelly Evans, the 2007 Washington and Lee alumna and Wall Street Journal columnist, will be one of the panelists tonight (Monday, Jan. 16), when the five remaining Republican presidential candidates take the stage in Myrtle Beach, S.C., for their latest nationally televised debate. Co-sponsored by the Wall Street Journal and Fox News, it will be […]
Virginia's largest solar-energy system is now up and running at Washington and Lee University, and visitors to the University's website can watch it working in real time. "We've been generating electricity from the two solar photovoltaic arrays since late last month, when we flipped the switch," said Scott Beebe, director of facilities and energy management […]
Fans of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" know that Thursday was a big night on that satirical news show. Host Stephen Colbert announced that he is forming an exploratory committee for a possible candidacy for president of the "United States of America of South Carolina." Moments after he made that announcement, Mike Allen, the Washington […]
Washington and Lee alumnus James W. Haley Jr., a member of the Class of 1964, will step down from the Virginia Court of Appeals in March after seven years. The Virginia General Assembly appointed him to a vacancy on the appeals court in 2005. He had been a judge on the Stafford Circuit Court for […]
Two members of Washington and Lee's Athletic Hall of Fame — Lisa Dowling Costello, of the Class of 1993, and the late Rob Lindsey, of the Class of 1976 — have been elected to the Hall of Fame of US Lacrosse's Greater Baltimore Chapter. The induction ceremony will be held Jan. 21. Lisa held 10 school records […]
Blog posts on developments with the Affordable Care Act authored by Washington and Lee law professor and health law expert Tim Jost captured three spots on Health Affairs 2011 Most-Read List. Jost's analysis of the arguments before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals over the Affordable Care Act's constitutionality was the most-read post. His posts […]
Fifty years ago this week, Washington and Lee was embarking on a new venture in intercollegiate athletics when the formation of the College Athletic Conference (CAC) was announced. Given both the recent shuffling of conference memberships on the NCAA Division I level and the serious conversations about paying D-I athletes $2,000 a year for "cost of […]
By William F. Connelly John K. Boardman Professor of Politics (Reprinted from the Jan. 9, 2012, edition of The Roanoke Times) Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich once dubbed himself "the most professorial politician since Woodrow Wilson." Like Wilson, Gingrich is a man both of theory and practice, an intellectual and a politician. These […]
At Howard University in 1908, sisters Beulah and Lillie Burke helped to found Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority. At Washington and Lee University 103 years later, sisters Devin Cooper ’11 and Amber Cooper ’12 helped to found a W&L chapter of that Greek organization. “We tease them and call them the Burke sisters,” said Tamara […]
Washington and Lee alumnus Dr. Burke Steele, of the Class of 1955, loves to talk about history — especially the history of Petersburg, Va., where he has lived for 73 years, and worked in the same office, on South Market Street, for nearly 50 years. While he majored in history at W&L and had planned on […]
With polls in New Hampshire showing Mitt Romney with an insurmountable lead in the Republican presidential primary, the student researchers for Washington and Lee University's Mock Republican Convention are predicting that he will win between 38 and 42 percent of the vote, followed by Ron Paul in second place and Jon Huntsman in third. The […]
Alex Wachi, a Washington and Lee University junior from Honolulu, is one of 20 undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the United States to win a Bridging Scholarship for study abroad at Kansai Gaidai University in Japan. Wachi is the first W&L student to win the scholarship. He will receive up to $4,000 to […]
Washington and Lee law alumnus Terence F. Flynn was in the news this week, when President Barack Obama named him to a recess appointment on the National Labor Relations Board. The controversial announcement from the White House came almost one year to the day that Terry, a 1990 graduate of the School of Law, had been nominated to […]
Washington and Lee economics professors Arthur H. Goldsmith and Timothy M. Diette appeared on NPR affiliate WMRA’s “Virginia Insight” show Thursday, Jan. 5, to discuss their research about the hidden costs of unemployment. Goldsmith recently reported on his and Diette's findings during a congressional briefing on the psychological benefits of employment and the impact of joblessness, sponsored by […]
Songs and Wars and Wolves: Recent Photographs by Washington and Lee University Visiting Professor of Art Maury Gortemiller will be on view in Wilson Hall from Jan. 9 – Feb. 4. The exhibit features works from two series of color photographs. Both projects explore the medium’s unique capability to simultaneously communicate and obfuscate, shifting in […]
Roland S. Martin, an award-winning journalist, author and political analyst, will present the keynote address for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at Washington and Lee University on Monday, Jan. 16, at 7 p.m. in Lee Chapel. A reception will follow in Evans Dining Hall. Martin’s address, which is free and open to the […]
Andy Warhol was a prolific photographer, creating tens of thousands of images over the course of his lifetime as he documented the people, places and things around him. To commemorate their 20th anniversary, the Warhol Foundation donated nearly 30,000 photographs by the legendary pop artist to educational institutions across the country. Washington and Lee University, […]
Jim Gabler, a Washington and Lee alumnus of the Classes of 1953 and 1955L, has recently published two new e-books, and they could hardly be more different — a guidebook to wine and a novel about the first American pope. Be Your Own Wine Expert promises readers that in less than three minutes, they will learn to […]
Renowned biographer Ron Chernow, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2010 biography of George Washington, Washington: A Life, will address Washington and Lee University's annual Founders' Day/Omicron Delta Kappa Convocation on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, at 11:45 a.m. in Lee Chapel. The speech, also titled "Washington: A Life," is free and open to the […]
Washington and Lee alumnus Howard S. Kaylor, Classes of '50, '52L, has been named Hagerstown, Md.'s 2011 Person of the Year by the Hagerstown newspaper, the Herald-Mail. In the story announcing the honor on New Year's Eve, Howard was praised for his support of the local community — through both generous donations and service to […]
Greer Johnson, a 2005 Washington and Lee alumna, is one of the eight men and women featured by Charlottesville's news and arts publication, C-ville Weekly, because they are "making waves in their fields." As a way of looking to 2012, C-ville's editors decided to focus on young leaders and to give their readers "a look at the […]
Student organizers of Washington and Lee University’s Mock Republican Convention are predicting that Mitt Romney will win the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3 with Ron Paul and Rick Santorum finishing second and third, respectively. On a blog post announcing the prediction, Zach Wilkes, a senior politics major from Farmerville, La., and the convention’s political chair, […]
Lesley M. Wheeler, professor of English at Washington and Lee University, will give the Henry S. Fox Jr. Professorship Inaugural Lecture on Thursday, Jan. 12, at 4:30 p.m. in Northen Auditorium of Leyburn Library. Wheeler was named to the professorship at the beginning of this past summer. Wheeler’s illustrated talk, which is free and open […]
Early Decision I applications to Washington and Lee University increased by 20 percent this year, representing one of the highest totals in memory, according to statistics released this week by the University's Office of Admissions. W&L has two Early Decision deadlines. Both programs are binding, which means that applicants who choose to apply under Early […]