Jamie Hayes '17, Alfred Rwagaju '18 and Rajwol Joshi '18 are applying electrical engineering to create a medical solution for affordable diagnoses.
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Kate McCreary and Kara Farroni spend their summer researching the endangered Peaks of Otter salamander.
Business Administration Professor Presents Research at Comic-Con.
Sophomore Rachel Steffen interns for the National Marine Mammal Foundation.
"One of my goals is to bring Hillel to the students — to show them that we're here, and that we're here for everyone. ".
"Friend groups are everywhere, traditions are most places, but the caring professors and impassioned students I have found in the German and History departments are one of a kind."
"The university has instilled in me a curiosity that expands beyond the classroom."
"My W&L experience is defined by a multitude of activities, academics, and opportunities."
The Long Road to Facebook.
"In those newsrooms surrounded by professional journalists, I still emailed my professors when I needed honest advice."
Sophomore Dominick D'Andrea interns with TOM FORD in New York City.
Maggie Voelzke '15 gets her start in television as a news associate in CNN's Washington, D.C. Bureau.
Politics Professor Bob Strong reflects on the educational experience of Mock Convention.
Katie Baird '10 connects with students interested in consulting careers.
Araba Wubah '17 conducts immunology research in Ghana.
Senior Thomas Pritchard tests the service life of parachutes at the Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center.
A Spring Term course helps students grasp the separation of powers in the U.S. Constitution.
Johnson Opportunity Grant Winner Stephen Himmelberg '17 Studies Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury.
"For me, W&L is limitless. This is a community that supports, and even encourages, its members to identify and pursue multiple passions."
Geology major Dan Claroni '17 interns for the Icelandic Meteorological Office in Reykjavík.
Business administration and art history major Sarah Williamson '18 interns in the finance department at the Guggenheim.
Art history and business administration major Sarah Wagner interns in the public relations department of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Computer science and mathematics major Jamie White interns as a software developer at Amazon.com.
Journalism major Leslie Yevak interns at Fox News Channel.
Kendrick Award winner Linda Gaida '16 reflects on her experience in the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico.
"Learning how to code is more like an exercise in design, engineering and detective work than an exercise in learning a foreign language."
The new bouldering wall isn't fancy and didn't cost a great deal, but it is being enthusiastically used by students, faculty and staff.
Shepherd Intern at Tapestri, Inc. in Atlanta.
"At W&L you learn so much more in your interactions with others than what you see in the classroom."
"One word can sum up my feelings about the last three years: Grateful."
Student Group Gets Messy for the Environment.
Abby Block '17 interns for the Cleveland Clinic.
Johnson Opportunity Grant winner gets a taste of state politics the Tennessee State Capitol.
"W&L manages to be a catalyst for adventure while still offering that 'welcome home' feeling."
"This university can open many doors for its students, most of them unexpected."
Crisis and charity bond Bonner Students during Washington Break.
Psychology major Lainey Johnson combines research and service for the benefit of a local non-profit.
Sophomore Brett Becker has started the Pre-dental Club for Washington and Lee students who want to study dentistry and to volunteer in the community.
"Both my academic and extracurricular involvement have fostered an interest in entrepreneurship, which has led me to work for a startup through Venture for America next year."
Kate LeMasters is a politics and economics major with a minor in poverty and human capability studies from Abilene, Texas. She studied global health and development policy in Geneva, Switzerland and Rabat, Morocco, with SIT Study Abroad.
The 2016 Washington and Lee University Entrepreneurship Summit, hosted by the J. Lawrence Connolly Center for Entrepreneurship at W&L, will take place Sept 23–24. The keynote speakers are Ben Sutton, co-founder and chairman emeritus of IMG College and Erika Hagberg, the head of Food and Beverage at Google.
The first exhibit of the academic year at Washington and Lee University’s Staniar Gallery, which will be on view Sept. 1–24, is “Geolocation: Tributes to the Data Stream,” photographs by Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman.
Tom Wolfe poses an interesting question in his newest book, “The Kingdom of Speech”: Why can’t science explain the origins of human language?
Ambassador Theodore Kattouf, the first speaker of Washington and Lee’s 2016-18 Center for International Educational Colloquium on “Borders and Their Human Impact,” will give a lecture on Sept. 14 at 5:15 p.m. in Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library.
The return of students in the fall elicits mixed emotions. We feel the absence of those who have moved on even as we welcome the fresh and eager, first-year (FY) students.
In February 2017, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will visit W&L Law and will give a seated interview in VMI’s Cameron Hall.