Washington and Lee Announces November Community Grants
W&L's Community Grants Committee made eight grants totaling over $25,000 to non-profit organizations in Lexington and Rockbridge County.
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New Podcast Episode Explores ‘Florence As It Was’
The latest episode of W&L's Lifelong Learning podcast takes listeners to Italy with George Bent, who describes his remarkable digital history project.
W&L’s Edwards Publishes Paper in Journal
Arabic professor Anthony Edwards recently published “An Incomplete Journey Away from the Past: The Life and Ideas of Antonius Ameuney (1821–1881).”
W&L’s Melissa Kerin Publishes Journal Article
Kerin recently published a paper titled "Cut, Tuck, and Paste: Repurposing Mass-Produced Imagery at Buddhist Shrines in Ladakh, India."
W&L Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
The Latin Student Organization planned and organized the events in collaboration with the Office of Inclusion and Engagement.
W&L’s Deborah Miranda Awarded VFIC Harris Award
Miranda was recently awarded the H. Hiter Harris III Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for 2021.
In Memoriam: The Hon. Abner Linwood Holton Jr. ’44
The former governor of Virginia received an honorary degree from W&L in 1971.
W&L’s Pinto-Bailey Publishes English Translation of Novel
The novel “Ursula” is Brazil's first abolitionist novel and the first novel by an Afro-Brazilian woman.
W&L’s Brock Presents National Humanities Center Lecture on Oct. 26
Brock's talk is titled "Speak of the Devil: Teaching Histories of the Supernatural."
In Memoriam: John McKenzie Gunn Jr. ’45
The Lewis Whitaker Adams Professor of Economics Emeritus was 97.
W&L Welcomes New Trustees Betsy Pakenas ’94 and Jonathan Wortham ’04
Pakenas and Wortham joined the W&L Board of Trustees on October 15.
New Podcast Episode Spins Web of Wonder
The new episode of "W&L After Class: The Lifelong Learning Podcast" features biology professor Nadia Ayoub, who explains her research with black widow spiders.
