Washington and Lee University will participate in the Commonwealth of Virginia’s statewide tornado drill scheduled for Tuesday, March 20. As part of the drill, Washington and Lee will test its emergency communications systems at approximately 10 a.m. that day. Those systems include the e2Campus text alert system as well as University mass email, electronic message […]
French majors from Washington and Lee University will perform at La Maison Française at the French Embassy for the Festival of Francophone Cultures (Festival de la Francophonie 2012) on Wednesday, March 21, at 5 p.m., in Washington. They will perform scenes in French from Eugène Ionesco's absurdist play La Cantatrice Chauve (The Bald Soprano), directed […]
R.T. Smith, editor of Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review, will present the annual Writer-in-Residence Reading at W&L on Wednesday, March 21, at 4:30 p.m. in the Hillel Multipurpose Room.
Marcus Borg, the Canon Theologian at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Ore., will give a lecture at Washington and Lee University on Monday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Lee Chapel. It is free and open to the public. The title of his talk is “Jesus in American Christianity Today.” Borg says, “The United States […]
Washington and Lee economics professor Mike Smitka, whose two primary research interests are the auto industry and the Japanese economy, appeared on the Canadian Business News Network last week to assess the current state of the Japanese economy. Mike, who taped the interview in Washington, told his interviewer that the Japanese economy is still about 4 percent […]
Lisa McCown, the senior library assistant in Special Collections at Washington and Lee's Leyburn Library, has received the Ruth Anderson McCulloch Award from the Southern Shenandoah Valley Branch of Preservation Virginia.
Harvey Markowitz, assistant professor of anthropology at Washington and Lee, describes the way Lakota Sioux adapted to various elements of Catholic beliefs and practices from missionaries sent to convert them in a new article.
Washington and Lee alumnus William B. Hill Jr. was one of the winners of the 13th Annual Justice Robert Benham Community Service Awards in Atlanta on Feb. 28.
Princeton sociologist Angel L. Harris challenged the new inductees into Washington and Lee University’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa to use their influence to change someone’s life.
A new study concludes that Washington and Lee University contributed more than $225 million to the Shenandoah Valley’s economy in 2010.
Brett Beshore '05 is ranked among top 10 entrepreneurs under 30 by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invitation-only nonprofit.
Dr. Mervyn Silverman, secretary of The American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) and a 1960 Washington and Lee graduate, will address AIDS prevention, awareness at his alma mater on March 19.
Washington and Lee women undergraduate and law students recently took part in a training program, "Elect Her: Campus Women Win," designed to encourage increased participation in the political process on campus.
As far as Washington and Lee University business administration professor Amanda Bower is concerned, a liberal arts education provides the very best preparation for a career in advertising and its related fields. To prove her point, Bower is bringing about a dozen Washington and Lee alumni who are currently working in advertising and marketing back […]
For a first-person account of legal operations in Afghanistan, read this fascinating interview in the March 11 Roanoke Times with Charles Carter Lee. The Roanoke, Va., attorney, a member of Washington and Lee’s Class of 2001, just returned home after a stint in Afghanistan with the Virginia National Guard as an operational law attorney, rule […]
Every now and then, the alumni magazine receives a photograph of wedding cakes designed to look like Washington and Lee’s historic Colonnade. Now readers of the online edition of Brides magazine can enjoy the view as well, in a March 6 blog item about the March 2011 wedding of Corbin Blackford, Class of 2007, and Kristin Hendee. […]
Dan Gillmor, the founding director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Walter Cronkite School for Journalism and Mass Communication, will give the keynote address for W&L's 53rd Media Ethics Institute.
Babukishan Das Baul and his wife, Sandra Ann Baul, will present “Mystical Songs of the Bauls of Bengal,” at Washington and Lee University on Wednesday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Hillel 101.
Washington and Lee will hold a major symposium on March 16-17 in recognition of the 60th anniversary of the publication of Invisible Man.
A Washington and Lee University law professor who has written extensively about child soldiers believes the Kony 2012 Campaign unduly simplifies the problem of child soldiering.
Janet Ikeda, associate professor of Japanese at Washington and Lee University, participated in a rare meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, of Japan, in Tokyo, on March 7. She belongs to a delegation of Japanese-Americans visiting Japan this month. The prime minister expressed his appreciation for the delegates’ contributions to U.S.-Japan relations, including their assistance […]
Shenandoah:The Washington and Lee University Review, has announced its prize winners for works published in the magazine during 2011-12.
Angel L. Harris, associate professor of sociology and African American studies at Princeton University, will address Washington and Lee University's Phi Beta Kappa Convocation on March 14, 2012.
A group of theatrical folk from New York, including three alumni of Washington and Lee University, are on campus this week working on the James Baldwin Project. Their efforts will culminate on Friday, March 9, with a work of theater based on Baldwin’s writings and on what the participants describe as “conversations we feel are […]
Restaurateur Richard Moncure, a member of Washington and Lee’s Class of 1979, isn’t one to let a natural disaster keep him down. In 2003, he lost his popular Happy Clam restaurant in Colonial Beach, Va., to Hurricane Isabel. Now he’s prepping a new restaurant in Fredericksburg, Va., dubbing it the Happy Clam at Barefoot Green’s. As […]
Severn Parker Costin Duvall, the Henry S. Fox Jr. Professor of English Emeritus at Washington and Lee University, died at his home in Lexington on March 2, 2012. He was 87. He served on the W&L faculty for 33 years, from 1962 to 1995.
Thomas Wiseman, an attorney with Wiseman Ashworth Law Group, in Nashville, Tenn., has just been named the 2011-12 Lawyer of the Year in the area of medical malpractice defense by Best Lawyers. The 1979 graduate of Washington and Lee University has taken the occasion to muse on his practice and the jury system. “Every case […]
Eight Washington and Lee University students have been selected for the spring/summer 2012 Johnson Opportunity Grants.
Ayşe Zarakol, assistant professor of politics at Washington and Lee University, has been awarded a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) International Affairs Fellowship for the 2012-2013 academic year.
President Barack Obama will be nominating Edward (Ned) Alford, a member of Washington and Lee’s Class of 1977, to be ambassador to the Republic of the Gambia. Ned has a long and distinguished career in the foreign service, a rank of minister counselor and, since 2009, the post of consul general at the U.S. Consulate […]
New Yorker media critic Ken Auletta told a Washington and Lee audience that today’s journalists, faced with the uncertainty wrought by rapid technological change, must believe in themselves.
Christopher Lamberson, a member of Washington and Lee’s Class of 1995, describes his “roundabout” route to his career as a transactional attorney—and as a new member of the management committee of his Memphis law firm, Glankler Brown P.L.L.C.—in a March 1 interview with the Memphis Daily News. Christopher first explored business and finance during high […]
Listeners of radio stations WGCV-AM and WFMV-FM in Columbia, S.C., have heard host Kaela Harmon engage them in discussions of politics, community news and current events. Now the citizens of Columbia will be hearing from the member of Washington and Lee’s Class of 2005 in her new role: as the public relations and government affairs manager for […]
Balentine L.L.C., the investment advisory firm headed by Robert Balentine, a member of the Class of 1979 and a member of the Washington and Lee Board of Trustees, recently broke the $1 billion barrier of assets under management. And while Robert clearly knows the investment business, he also knows a thing or two about biology and […]
Five members of Washington and Lee's Class of 2014 are among 5 million people celebrating their birthday on Leap Day, Feb. 29.
Land Not Lost: Contemporary Views of the Virginia Landscape, an exhibition of paintings and photographs, opens at Washington and Lee’s Staniar Gallery on March 12 and will be on view through March 23.
World War I is having a moment in popular culture these days, what with the movie “War Horse” and the PBS series “Downton Abbey.” Another example comes from the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary, and on Feb. 26 published a look at Tennessee veterans of WWI, one of them a Washington and Lee alumnus: Kiffin Yates Rockwell, […]
W&L law students Steve Harper and Lauren Meehan earned the Best Draft award for regional Transactional LawMeet
Congratulations to Louise DiMatteo, a 1989 graduate of the Washington and Lee School of Law, who has gotten the nod for a circuit court judgeship from her local delegation to the Virginia General Assembly. As icing on the cake, she also received the highest possible recommendation for the post from the Arlington Bar Association Judicial […]
George Washington University professor David Shambaugh to give Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar lecture at W&L on March 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Northen Auditorium of Leyburn Library.
Matthew J. Lister, a visiting assistant professor at Villanova University School of Law, will give a lecture on Monday, March 19, at 5 p.m. in the Hillel Multipurpose Room. The talk is free and open to the public. The title of Lister’s lecture is “Who Are Refugees?” He will discuss the definition of refugees, what […]
Playwright C. Rosalind Bell her play, “New Orleans Monologues,” on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. in Northen Auditorium of Washington and Lee's Leyburn Library.
Not that there was ever any doubt about its benefits, but it was nice to see a video mentioning Washington and Lee's Elrod Fellows Program down in Houston. That's where three of the fellows, all 2011 graduates of W&L, are program coordinators with Genesys Works, a non-profit that trains and employs disadvantaged high school students by enabling them to […]
Rick Williams, of Washington and Lee's Class of 1977, has dubbed himself the "pit bull of 10th Street" because of his passionate pursuit of issues in that Roanoke, Va., neighborhood. The Sunday, Feb. 19, edition of the Roanoke Times wrote about Rick's latest efforts to alter the Roanoke landscape. He recently purchased a three-acre plot of land in […]
New study by Washington and Lee psychology professor Dan Johnson finds connection between reading fiction and empathy.
When Laura Henson, a 2008 graduate of Washington and Lee, began graduate studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in Monterey, Calif., she found herself in a challenging quantitative-modeling course required for all incoming students. Turns out, her professor was Jim Williams, of W&L's Class of 1980. Laura aced the course. “She got 100 […]
When Nicki Ross, a member of the Washington and Lee Class of 2015, and her teammate, Corey Delaney, captured the 2012 Girls 18 and Under Junior National Platform Tennis championship in Franklin Lakes, N.J., last month, they compiled a number of firsts. Nicki and Corey, who are from Chatham, N.J., have dominated their age groups in […]
Ken Auletta, one of America's premier media critics, will present the keynote address to Washington and Lee University's 12th annual Institute for Honor on Friday, March 2, at 4 p.m. in Lee Chapel. The institute is exploring "The New Conversation: How Are the News Media Shaping Our Political Beliefs." The title of Auletta's speech is […]
The Black Lung Clinic at Washington and Lee University's School of law has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to protect two provisions of the Black Lung Benefits Act that are included in the Affordable Care Act.
On Valentine's Day, a column in The Lima (Ohio) News headlined "Stray thoughts on life and love" carried the byline of Tom Harrison, of the Washington and Lee Class of 1983, a reporter with that newspaper. The second part of the two-part column was a love letter to the W&L Mock Convention and especially to […]
Women comedians today owe a great deal to the pioneering women in comedy in the 16th and 17th centuries in Italy and France, as demonstrated for the first time in a new book by Domnica Radulescu, professor of Romance languages at Washington and Lee University. Women's Comedic Art as Social Revolution (McFarland, 2011) is based […]
Campus Kitchen at Washington and Lee received a grant from Food Lion to support its Weekend Backpack Snack Program for local children.
Students Against Rockbridge Area Hunger (SARAH), a Washington and Lee student organization, raised $8,500 for local food organizations through the University's 26th annual Lip Sync Contest in late January.
Washington and Lee senior Jenks Wilson, a double major in history and philosophy from Charleston, S.C., spent the past summer conducting research for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as part of its Preserve America project, "Charting a More Perfect Union." That project collects electronic images of Civil War-era maps and charts for free use by the public. Back […]
Washington and Lee University seniors Bobby Rutherford and Caitlin Edgar will be recognized at the Generals of the Month presentation on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 12:30 p.m. in the Marketplace in Elrod Commons.
In her new book Washington and Lee history professor Molly Michelmore traces the development of taxing and spending policy.
A Roanoke Times feature focuses on W&L alumni John D. Bassett III and son Wyatt Bassett of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture.
Andy Clark of the University of Edinburgh will lecture on "Messy Minds" as the first visitor in Washington and Lee's new Living Philosopher Series.
The McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Ala., has just named Washington and Lee alumnus Tom Angelillo, of the Class of 1974, as its new president and CEO. The center, a cornerstone of Birmingham's downtown revitalization, is housed in what was previously Loveman's department store. As its new leader, Tom will oversee the opening of the Birmingham […]
W&L professor Janet Ikeda is part of a 10-member delegation of Japanese-American leaders who will travel to Japan next month.
John Dunne, associate professor of religion at Emory University, will give a lecture at Washington and Lee University on Thursday, March 8, at 4:30 p.m. in Parmly Hall 307. The talk is free and open to the public. The title of the lecture is “Derealizing Self: Frontiers of Contemplative Science.” Dunne’s talk is sponsored by […]
Scott Tinker, director of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin, will give a lecture on energy at W&L on Feb. 15, at 5:30 p.m. in Elrod Commons.
Washington and Lee University’s 2012 Mock Republican Convention awarded its nomination to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Saturday.
And It's Romney On the first ballot, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney got the Washington Mock Convention endorsement when Indiana's delegation gave him its votes. Coincidentally, the announcement that Romney had been put over the top came within minutes of a Washington Post News Alert that Romney had won the presidential straw poll of activists […]
James E. (Jed) Dunn Jr., of Greensboro, N.C., has been elected to the Washington and Lee University Board of Trustees.
J.C. Watts Has the Last Word Although Herman Cain was a last-minute scratch, the Mock Convention delegates got plenty of political rhetoric, with former Oklahoma Rep. J.C. Watts offering the final speech of the second session. Watts noted that he'd been in Lexington for the 2000 Republican Mock Convention. The strength of America, he said, […]
Mike Huckabee: Best Government is Self-Government After the dust settled from the Carville-Coulter debate, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee brought calm to the setting with a quietly passionate appeal to personal responsibility. The best government, Huckabee said, is self-government. "Freedom does not exist in a moral vacuum," he added. Huckabee told the crowd that he […]
Students from Washington and Lee University School of Law will be offering free tax preparation assistance for low-to-moderate-income taxpayers in the Rockbridge County area.
Members of the Washington and Lee University School of Law Black Law Students Association (BLSA) recently participated in the moot court and mock trial competitions at the organization's regional convention, placing second in both competitions. Those teams willl now move on to the national competition in Washington, D.C. in March. The team of Kassandra Haynes and Curtis […]
