Record Attendance and Giving Define Alumni Weekend
Alumni returned to campus to celebrate W&L’s annual spring gathering.
People & News Archive (Showing 13-24 of 832 Stories)
W&L’s Hamza Zia ’26 Awarded FAO Schwarz Fellowship
Zia will complete a two-year fellowship at Reading Partners nonprofit in New York City.
Gene McCabe Earns Old Dominion Athletic Conference Men’s Lacrosse Coach of the Year Award
Washington and Lee University’s head men’s lacrosse coach garners the award for the fifth time after winning his sixth ODAC title.
W&L Economics Professor Co-Authors Paper in Science
Cal Bryan and colleagues from the University of California, Davis studied the costs and benefits of using fuel treatments as a land management practice in the Western U.S.
W&L to begin next phase of campus utility infrastructure project
The university prepares to extend its low-temperature hot water system into the heart of front campus with a second phase of work.
W&L’s Sandrine Uwantege ’27 Receives Davis Projects for Peace Grant
The grant will support Uwantege’s work to empower and expand opportunities for first-time teenage mothers in her home country of Rwanda.
W&L Welcomes New Trustee Rebecca Timmis Russell ’08
Trustee-elect Kevin Batteh ’95, ‘98L, winner of the 2026 Alumni Trustee Election, will be sworn in at the board’s fall meeting.
W&L’s Celeste Álvarez ’26 Selected for Fulbright to Guatemala
Álvarez looks forward to immersing herself in a different culture with the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship and will attend W&L Law when she returns, with plans to become an immigration lawyer.
W&L’s Juyoung Kim ’26 Earns Fulbright to South Korea
Kim will teach English in a Korean school before pursuing a master’s degree in quantum technology and engineering at a German university.
W&L’s Jonathan McEwen ’27 Selected to Represent Team USA in 2026 Arnold Palmer Cup
Junior golfer is the lone Division III representative on the 24-person roster.
Adam Scales Publishes Article in The Learning Assistance Review
The assistant director of academic success authored a paper titled “Redesigning a First-Year Experience Course to Support Students’ Transition to University.”
Ammar Alhajmee ’26 to Receive the Global Learning Leadership Award
The accounting and German double major from Iraq will be presented with the award at the Center for International Education awards ceremony on May 26.
