
Gills previously participated as a General Fellow with the Society, which is dedicated to the discussion of economic, political, and social issues fundamental to a free society.

Gills previously participated as a General Fellow with the Society, which is dedicated to the discussion of economic, political, and social issues fundamental to a free society.

Washington and Lee was ranked sixth among the baccalaureate institutions recognized by the Fulbright Program.

The senior presented his work at the Computational Humanities Research Conference.

The junior explores resilience in individuals at risk for mood disorders.

The Elmes Pathfinder Prize recognizes a student who has shown extraordinary promise in psychological science through outstanding scholarship in basic or applied psychology.

The team secured its bid with a runner-up showing at the APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl regional competition in Baltimore.

The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards of up to $5,000 to U.S. undergraduate students who are Pell Grant recipients.

The junior shared her research on how to build an AI-ready career.

The group presented their research at the 2025 GSA Connects Annual Meeting.

Alex Hudson ‘26L and Tina Pham ‘26L were honored for their scholarly contributions to the Law Review.

Two Washington and Lee University graduates received scholarships from the National Leadership Honor Society to support graduate and professional study.

The sophomore shared her entrepreneurial journey launching her granola company.

Annelise Burgess '25L argued the case as a student attorney in the clinic.

Another record-setting year for nationally competitive fellowships at W&L can be attributed to students’ dedication and desire to pursue meaningful work on a global stage.

Evans received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Uzbekistan and plans to pursue a career in national security and diplomacy.

Murschell will teach English in Austria before working for an accounting firm in Philadelphia.

Drammeh will teach English in Austria before beginning graduate school at Duke University.

Anderson will teach English in Vienna before attending graduate school.

Elliott participated in the event while working as a summer associate in the Litigation Practice Group at the firm Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr.

Mittner will teach English in her grandmother’s Austrian hometown before attending law school.

Leggett received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Taiwan and plans to pursue a career in civil engineering.

The story focuses on the Bonner Program’s collaborative work with the Street Medicine Institute.

The recent graduate will serve a year-long fellowship studying Arabic in Morocco.

The rising sophomore completed a week-long program held in Washington, D.C.

Flynn will pursue a master’s degree in digital social science at LUT University in Finland.

Trinley was selected for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Moldova and plans to pursue a career in transnational litigation.

The rising junior was presented the award at the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio on June 1.

Moore will conduct biomedical research at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia.

Nannini was selected for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Germany.

Ayers was selected for the inaugural Fulbright/Netherlands-America Foundation Heersink Family Foundation Award to conduct public health research.

The Washington and Lee University School of Law celebrated its 170th commencement on Friday, May 16, recognizing 110 graduates earning Juris Doctor degrees.

George will teach English in Austria before attending medical school.

The accounting major will be presented the award at the Center for International Education awards ceremony on May 27.

This round of recipients marks a record-setting Gilman Scholar cohort for W&L.

Wagner will teach English in Austria before pursuing a career as a German language educator.

First-year law student Cassie Carr ‘27L helped the Generals Cross Country and Track teams rewrite the record books.

Patel plans to expand the reach of Wings of Women, the community-driven initiative she founded in her home country of India.

Evans will spend four weeks in an intensive learning experience focused on the most pressing national security challenges facing the U.S.

Annelise Burgess '25L argued the case as a student attorney in W&L Law’s Advanced Administrative Law Clinic, better known as the Black Lung Clinic.

Denby’s funded research will focus on erosional river processes.

Gibbs received the award for her article examining pre-trial solitary confinement.

The Critical Language Scholarship Program funds a summer of overseas language and cultural immersion.

Charlie Salome Sabines ’28 will participate in the program this summer at The University of Chicago.

Burgett will attend the PPIA Junior Summer Institute at Princeton University this summer.

Bryce Thornburg ‘25L won the competition for his paper on California’s resentencing and plea-bargaining procedures.

The team secured its place with a third-place finish at the APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl regional competition in Chicago.

The teaching assistants were provided the opportunity to learn about the American education system and connect with other language educators.

The Elmes Pathfinder Prize recognizes a student who has shown extraordinary promise in psychological science through outstanding scholarship in basic or applied psychology.

The Williams School and Department of Economics provided the opportunity for students to network and explore careers in the field of economics.

Kylee Cross ’27 received the Soldier Leader of the Cycle Award at her graduation ceremony on August 1.

Emma Marvelli ’27 garnered the award after honoring her former high school coach and bringing attention to the hammer throw.

Through hard work, supportive faculty and staff and an expanded Office of Fellowships, a record number of W&L students received nationally competitive fellowship awards in 2023-24.

Deyerle will teach English to French public school students before pursuing a career in special education.

The scholarship will support Wright’s future studies in urban sociology.

A note by recent Washington and Lee law graduate Scott Koven ‘24L was cited in a March ruling by the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Roberts will pursue her doctorate at Southern Methodist University through the selective leadership program.

Loth will teach English in Austria for nine months before applying for the Peace Corps.

Zia plans to continue his work with the PINK Center Project in his home country of Pakistan.

Kinney will teach English in Austria at an agricultural research institute, blending his interests in German and environmental studies.

The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards of up to $5,000 to U.S. undergraduate students who are Pell Grant recipients.

The David L. Boren Scholarship supports the intensive study of languages deemed important to U.S. interests.

Sai Chebrolu ’26 and Valentina Giraldo Lozano ’25 are among 13 students chosen for the Zero Hunger Internship program.

Yurechko’s award will support her post-graduate studies as the university’s first Marshall Scholar.

Haley Carter '24L argued the case as a student attorney in the clinic.

Mayer will teach English in Austria before pursuing a master’s degree in international relations.

The W&L Law chapter of the Black Law Students Association made an impact at 2023-2024 conventions.

Adotey will start her role in the Japanese Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program in early August 2024.

The mathematics and economics double major will be presented the award at the Center for International Education awards ceremony on May 28.

Taylor will work as an assistant language teacher in Japan before pursuing her teaching certification.

Maloy was selected for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Germany.

Hess will teach English in Austria and prepare for a career as an educator.

Alford will teach English at two secondary schools in Austria before attending Princeton Theological Seminary.

Morgan was selected for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in North Macedonia.

Haley Carter '24L argued the case as a student attorney in W&L Law’s Advanced Administrative Law Clinic, better known as the Black Lung Clinic.

McKean has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Germany.

Bosking has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Colombia.

Janae Darby ’25 will participate in the prestigious program this summer at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Holloway was selected for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Spain.

Fazal is one of only 34 up-and-coming legal professionals selected for the program.

Emma Aldrich ’22, Tanajia Moye-Green ’23 and Jules Seay ’24 have received pre-doctoral graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation to support their research.

Patrinos is one of three W&L students selected for the scholarship this spring.

Molitor is one of three W&L students selected for the scholarship this spring.

Sahin is W&L’s first sophomore to receive the scholarship since 2009.

Copeland has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Taiwan.

The Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Washington and Lee University welcomed 54 students into the prestigious honor society.

The team of Alexis Acosta, Simon Ciccarillo, and Christian Sanchez Leon received the top award for petitioner brief.

Maier has been named as the Distinguished Bankruptcy Law Student for the Fourth Circuit.

Six 2L students had their scholarly work selected for publication in the Journal.

The Critical Language Scholarship Program funds a summer of overseas language and cultural immersion.

Washington and Lee’s Center for International Education awarded deBuchananne funding to study Arabic at the University of Jordan this summer.

A four-person team comprised of John Schleider ‘24, Diwesh Kumar ‘24, Bradford Bush ’25 and Drew Thompson ‘25 claimed the $3,000 top prize for their pitch on CVS Health.

Jessica Pachuca ’25 and Gabe Miller ’25 will attend the PPIA Junior Summer Institute at Carnegie Mellon University this summer.

The team of Jack Perryman ‘25L and Jack Kellerman ‘25L won best brief and were the runners-up at the event.

The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards of up to $5,000 to U.S. undergraduate students who are Pell Grant recipients.

Josh Rassin ’24 will begin his two-year placement with a startup company following graduation.

Megan Dufault ’24 is studying the risks that environmental pollutants pose to fetal development.

The Elmes Pathfinder Prize recognizes a student who has shown extraordinary promise in psychological science through outstanding scholarship in basic or applied psychology.

The Williams School and Department of Economics provided the opportunity for students to network and explore careers in the field of economics.

Lucy Worthy ’24 assisted in the research and helped publish the results alongside two W&L alumni.

Katie Yurechko ’24 presented research related to content creators circumventing TikTok’s content moderation algorithms.

Jordan Hicks ‘24L and Fenja Schick-Malone ‘24L will be honored for their contributions to the Law Review.

Caraballo is one of 369 students from across the U.S. to receive the merit scholarship from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

De Zoysa is the university’s first recipient of the two-year scholarship for juniors interested in a public service career.

Mengying Liu will use the funds to research high-throughput crystallographic mapping in the United Kingdom.

The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards of up to $5,000 to U.S. undergraduate students who are Pell Grant recipients.

Stankewich has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Uganda.

Markley will start their role in the Japanese Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program by early August 2023.

Christy Childs ’26 and Griffin Conti ’26 will receive funding to study foreign languages this summer.

W&L Law student Charles Scharf '25L ran school best times in the 5K and 10K, all while dealing with the rigors of 1L year.

The David L. Boren Scholarship supports the intensive study of languages deemed important to U.S. interests.

The Washington and Lee University School of Law celebrated its 168th commencement on Friday, May 12, awarding 106 juris doctor degrees.

Professors Nadia Ayoub and Kyle Friend, and students Jamal Magoti ’23, Maria Luzaran ’23, Cooper Lazo ’24 and Eman Muamar ’24 all contributed to the paper that appeared in the open science platform Frontiers.

The Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Washington and Lee University welcomed 49 students into the prestigious honor society.

Katie Yurechko ’24 presented on how algorithm awareness impacts algospeak use on TikTok.

Seay has been selected for the Goldwater Scholarship to support a research career in science, mathematics and engineering, and also earned the Udall Scholarship in the environmental category.

Talton has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English to the Roma student population in Hungary.

Boussy has been awarded a Fulbright-Nehru research grant to study Buddhist shrines and temples in India.

Jana Hulsey ’25 and Jalen Todd ’25 will work with programs in Washington, D.C. for eight weeks over the summer.

Lakpa Sherpa ’25 and Ignas Volcokas ’25 designed a personal learning assistant that utilizes the power of artificial intelligence.

Rojas has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Mexico.

Professor Eric Moffa and Jake Winston ’24 penned the article which appeared in The Social Studies Journal.

Connor has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Germany.

Hawley has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Spain.

Godsey has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Taiwan.

Tartakovsky has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Azerbaijan, his parents’ homeland.

Pernell has been awarded a Young Professional Journalist Program Award to conduct research and gain career experience in Germany.

Dixon has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Taiwan.

Jackson Flower will share his research at The Virginia Commonwealth University on April 7.

Dylan Santella ’25 presented “Gender and The Face: Expanding Upon the Butlerian Model of Ethics” at the undergraduate conference held March 31 at Swarthmore College.

Moye-Green will pursue a master’s degree in criminal justice and penal change at the University of Strathclyde.

Mott will pursue a master’s degree in digital media and society at Cardiff University.

The teams earned honors for best petitioner and best respondent briefs at the NBLSA conference.

Washington and Lee's Center for International Education awarded two students funding to study Arabic at the University of Jordan this summer.

The Elmes Pathfinder Prize recognizes a student who has shown extraordinary promise in psychological science through outstanding scholarship in basic or applied psychology.

Scott Holcomb ’23 and Josh Fingerhut ’24 claimed a $2,500 prize for their pitch on Diamondback Energy.

Oluwakuyide will attend the PPIA Junior Summer Institute at the University of Washington this summer.

Charisma Hunter ‘23L and Kobie Crosley ‘23L took first place in the competition and also took top honors with the Best Petitioner Brief award.

Etter plans to attend graduate school and pursue a career in mathematics.

First-year Johnson Scholar to offer preliminary research on foot-limb dominance and neuromuscular asymmetry in pediatric soccer players.

The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards of up to $5,000 to U.S. undergraduate student recipients.

Brun-Ozuna received the Hobbs Fellowship from the National Consumer Law Center.

Maan received support for her summer placement with the UN Office of Drugs and Crime in Fiji.

Jonathan Thomas, a member of the Law Class of 2024, has been chosen for a 2022 Disaster Resilience Program Fellowship through Equal Justice Works.

After his USTA program orientation in September, Tinsley will teach in a secondary school in Austria through May 2023.

Kingwill has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Uzbekistan. He will depart in September 2022 for his 10-month program.

After her USTA program orientation in September, Joey Dickinson will be teaching in a secondary school in Austria through May 2023.

Tara Blackwell, a member of the Law Class of 2024, has been chosen for a 2022 Rural Summer Legal Corps Fellowship.

The Williams School congratulates the Class of 2022 graduates who received awards and honors for academic excellence during their time at W&L.

Mosher has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Kazakhstan. He will also spend this summer receiving intensive Russian language training in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Bernard has been selected as a 2022 Udall Scholar in the environmental category.

"Classroom Insiders," a podcast produced by Prof. Karen Woody and her students, has been honored by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts.

Elizabeth Grist has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to Melbourne, Australia, to study the stigma and barriers associated with receiving medication for opioid use disorder.

Three members of the Class of 2022 will spend seven months in the Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF) teaching English to public school.

The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards of up to $5,000 to U.S. undergraduate students who are Pell Grant recipients.

Johnston was recently awarded a fellowship to the Center for Arabic Study Abroad at the American University in Cairo.

Carley will serve as an English language teaching assistant in a school in the former Soviet republic.

Stankewich received a David L. Boren Scholarship from the National Security Education Program to study abroad in Tanzania in fall 2022.

Wilkerson received an All-American Attorney Award from the American Mock Trial Association.

Townsend won the competition for her paper "Second Middle Passage: How Anti-Abortion Laws Perpetuate Structures of Slavery and the Case for Reproductive Justice."

After her USTA program orientation in September, Shugart will team teach in a secondary school in Austria through May 2023.

Addison has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Uruguay, where she will teach English to primary or secondary school students and serve as a cultural ambassador for the United States.

Tripathi will teach English to students in Colombia for 10 months.

Lee has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Costa Rica starting in early 2023.

Maggie Hardin '22 has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany.

The Beinecke Scholarship Program provides funds for post-graduate study to students of unusual promise.

The Leadership Excellence Awards give recognition and thanks to nominated students and organizations for their many efforts that contribute to making W&L the special place that it is.

W&L’s Alpha Circle of ODK, the national leadership honor society, inducted 50 new members in its private spring induction ceremony on campus April 1.

Each scholar is awarded $7,500 to support undergraduate research in their junior or senior year.

The Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Washington and Lee University welcomed 57 students into the prestigious honor society.

Riter will spend the next academic year volunteering with a community organization, working as an English teaching assistant and taking courses at the University of Graz.

McMaster has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to Italy to complete a hybrid art history and computer science project.

Larsen will spend the next academic year studying at the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics and participating in a research group at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics.

Research by Alexander and Williams on Thomas Jefferson’s “Manual and the Modern Rules of the U.S. Congress” is featured in the spring 2022 edition of Fine Books & Collections magazine.

Moye-Green will attend the PPIA Junior Summer Institute at Princeton.

Kristin Barkemeyer ‘22L and Max Blumenthal ‘24L were semifinalists in the competition, and Barkemeyer was named Best Oralist.

The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards of up to $5,000 to U.S. undergraduate students who are Pell Grant recipients.

Performance at the VMEA conference is the highest honor for a university choir student in Virginia. This is the second time W&L has made VMEA.

Seay's business, GOES, involves using specialized greenhouses as a form of carbon capture technology.

Charisma Hunter '23L becomes first African American Woman on Law Review.

Huber is one of 20 members of the cabinet's sixth cohort, representing diverse Jewish backgrounds and experiences globally.

Campbell has won a Gilman Scholarship to do an internship in Barcelona, Spain.

Stern will travel to South Korea this summer to study in Seoul, South Korea.

Watt has received a Fulbright grant to support his research on the importance of small-scale fishing for livelihoods, culture and well-being in Vanuatu, an island nation in the South Pacific.

The faculty and staff of the Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics congratulate our 2021 graduates who have received awards and honors for academic excellence during their time at W&L.

Johnston has won a Gilman Scholarship to study abroad with Middlebury Abroad at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco.

Hatfield will travel to Denmark for the fall semester and take multiple psychology classes.

Hughes’ award is part of ODK’s 2021 General Russell E. Dougherty National Leader of the Year competition.

The program offers participants the opportunity to work in France for seven months, teaching English to French students of all ages.

Bui’s USTA position with Fulbright Austria starts in September 2021.

Estrada Hamm recently received a David L. Boren Scholarship from the National Security Education Program to study abroad in Jordan.

James Ricks ’21 has received a Fulbright creative grant to Nepal to photograph patients and healthcare providers at a one-of-a-kind health clinic.

Tanner Hall ‘21 was recently awarded a fellowship to the Center for Arabic Study Abroad program at the American University in Cairo.

The award will support a nine-month research project in India investigating intervention service access for individuals with disabilities.

Lorena Terroba Urruchua '21 has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Spain.

Ramonah Gibson '20 has received a Fulbright United Kingdom (U.K.) Partnership Award to complete her master's degree in creative writing scriptwriting at the University of East Anglia.

Her project, “Age and Growth of Fan Mussel (Pinna nobilis) in Mar Menor,” will take her to Calpe, in Spain this fall.

"Intimate Violence," a documentary about domestic violence by W&L professor Stephanie Sandberg and junior Nolan Zunk, has been recognized by three film festivals.

Clay Chadwick ’22, Demmanuel Gonzalez ’21, Caleb Peña ’21, Carolina Rubio Regalado ’22 and Pamela Steimel ’22 were recognized in March by the Virginia Teachers of Promise Institute.

Kathryn Muensterman ’22 has won a $34,000 Beinecke Scholarship to help fund her graduate studies.

James Ricks ’21 plans to work this summer with the Oda Foundation in Nepal.

Julienne de Vastey '23 and Jamal Magoti '23 have won a Davis Projects for Peace grant for their project "Tokomeza Kata Kimeo."

Each scholar is awarded $7,500 to support undergraduate research in their junior or senior year.

Noriya Shahadat '21L and Tomi Akinmola '21L also won best brief and best oral advocate in their last ever moot court competition.

Under Ellen Mayock's direction, student members of W&L's English for Speakers of Other Languages group will present at the virtual conference on March 25.

Matt Kaminer ’22L, Carson Cox ‘22L, and Rich Gilliland ’22L are headed to Nationals after winning the Washington D.C. Regional ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition

Six undergraduate students received Critical Language Scholarships, which will provide them the opportunity to study language intensively during summer 2021.

On March 7, Lebsack will perform selections by George Frideric Handel, Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Francis Poulenc and others.

Five students from W&L received Fulbright awards for academic year 2020-2021.

The W&L Law team of of Noriya Shahadat ‘21L and Tomi Akinmola ‘21 won the award for best brief in the national Thurgood Marshall Moot Court competition, and Shahadat was named best oral advocate.

Zach Baldridge ’22, Bri Mondesir ’22 and Blake Sanchez ’23 received the prestigious award.

Cage Tevis ’21, Bo Garfinkel ’21, Jeremiah Kohl ’22, Collin Frazey ’23 and Tanajia Moye-Green ’23 will study abroad.

Sadlowski has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany starting January 2021.

Avalon Pernell, a rising sophomore from Alabama, appeared on a “College Roundtable” segment that featured college journalists interviewing the mayor of Pittsburgh.

Nickodem’s USTA position with Fulbright Austria starts in September 2020.

The recent graduate of Washington and Lee University won a combined scholarship of $8,500 for her second-place win and article of the year award in the 60th Annual Hearst National Writing Championship.

Keller has received a USTA position with Fulbright Austria starting in October 2020.

Rivers has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Mexico starting January 2021.

Peccie’s award is part of ODK’s 2020 General Russell E. Dougherty National Leader of the Year Competition.

Berger has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Spain starting January 2021.

Garfinkel will attend the PPIA Junior Summer Institute at Princeton

Achievements in academics and service are among the awards and honors announced by the School of Law.

Hundreds of teams participate each year in this competition focused on a dispute between nations.

Jessiah Hulle ‘20L and Tomi Akinmola ‘21L were the runners-up in the National Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition, held this weekend in Cincinnati during the National Black Law Students Association conference.

3Ls Whitney Davis and Mahalia Hall were runners-up in a regional ABA competition.

Mary Kate Nicholson ‘20L received second place in a national student legal writing competition sponsored by the Judge John R. Brown Scholarship Foundation.

The event celebrated many individual and student accomplishments.

Murtha is the first W&L men's basketball player selected to compete in the contest in program history.

His talk is titled “A Heartful Way of Living with Mindfulness, Compassion and Responsibility.”

Beck is the 22nd General to receive the distinction over the last 15 years.

The program helps American students secure three-month long business internships in Germany.

The national leadership honor society will welcome four honorary and 35 student initiates.

The William Jefferson Clinton Scholarship will allow Spiezio to attend the American University in Dubai during Winter Term 2018.

This marks the second ODAC title in program history and the first since 2005.

The Generals took the top spot out of 12 teams with 34 points to record the 17th ODAC title in program history.

The Generals registered 27 points, with four runners in the Top 6, to claim the 12th ODAC title in program history.

The prize recognizes a student who has shown extraordinary promise in psychological science through outstanding scholarship in basic or applied psychology.

W&L increases its STARS sustainability rating from a bronze to a silver.

The Tax Clinic at the Washington and Lee University School of Law has been awarded a matching grant from the Internal Revenue Service's Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic program (LITC). This is the tenth straight year that the Tax Clinic has received federal dollars to support its efforts.

Law students David Thompson and Michael Stinnett-Kassoff have been named co-directors for law admissions for Service 2 School, a non-profit organization that provides educational guidance and networking opportunities for U.S. military service members and veterans.

To be eligible for Phi Eta Sigma, a student must be in the top 20 percent of the class at the end of his or her first term.

Many individual and student accomplishments were recognized at this year's LEAD Banquet on April 2.

In addition to the team victory, law student Tamra Harris was named best oralist. The team won a $14,000 scholarship for the school.

W&L senior Harrison Westgarth has been awarded a Fulbright grant to Brazil, where he will study the “Development of an Animal Model of Direct and Congenital Zika Virus Transmission.”

W&L senior John Dannehl has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Spain.

W&L junior Angel Vela de la Garza Evia has won a $10,000 Davis Projects for Peace grant.

The Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Washington and Lee University welcomed 49 members of the junior and senior classes and seven graduates from the Class of 2016 into the prestigious honor society at the Phi Beta Kappa/Society of the Cincinnati Convocation on Sunday, March 19.

The work of four Washington and Lee University photography students was accepted in the 2017 Southwest Virginia Juried Student Photography Competition at the Radford University Art Museum Downtown.

The W&L Law team of Tejkaran Bains '17L and Caitlin Peterson '19L placed second in the NBLSA regional moot court competition, earning a spot in nationals next month in Houston.

Maureen Edobor, a 3L from Dallas, is serving this year as attorney general for the National Black Law Students Association.

Alpha Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership honor society, will welcome four honorary and 39 student initiates at Washington and Lee University’s annual Founders Day/ODK Convocation on Jan. 19 at 5 p.m. in Lee Chapel.

Witt Hawkins ’18, a global politics major and mass communications minor from Memphis, Tennessee, received a William Jefferson Clinton Scholarship to attend the American University in Dubai.

Campus Kitchen awarded a $15,500 grant from the Altria Companies Employee Community Fund to support its weekend backpack snack program and to help supply its mobile-food pantries.

Jake Burnett, a Washington and Lee University senior from Anaheim Hills, California, has been awarded the 2016 David G. Elmes Pathfinder Prize in Psychology.
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