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October 27, 2016Welcome FLTA Michiko Nakada

Michika Nakada is one of seven foreign language teaching assistants at W&L this year.

October 27, 2016Welcome FLTA Anna Jerusalem

Anna Jerusalem is one of seven foreign language teaching assistants at W&L this year.

October 27, 2016Welcome FLTA Lucía Cespedes

Lucía Cespedes is one of seven foreign language teaching assistants at W&L this year.

October 27, 2016Welcome FLTA Olga Dunaevskaya

Olga Dunaevskaya is one of seven foreign language teaching assistants at W&L this year.

October 26, 2016Welcome FLTA Imad Baazizi

Imad Baazizi is one of seven foreign language teaching assistants at W&L this year.

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May 26, 2016Washington and Lee Graduates 444 Students at 229th Commencement

Graduating seniors at Washington and Lee University today were asked to remember and live by the high ideals and standards that have guided them over the past four years, as they are leaving “a community that cares a great deal about these matters and entering a world that increasingly does not.”

May 25, 2016W&L Senior Charles Zachariades Awarded R&A Ransome Scholarship

Charlie Zachariades, of Chatham, N.J., a senior at Washington and Lee University, was awarded a 2016 R&A Ransome Scholarship for a one-year master’s program in global health implementation at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

May 19, 2016W&L Senior Athena Cao Wins First Place for Feature Writing in National Contest

Athena (Yue) Cao, a senior from Beijing, China, has won first place for feature writing (small school division) in the Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) 2015 national Mark of Excellence for college journalists.

April 12, 2016Pasquale Toscano Awarded Beinecke Scholarship for Graduate Study

Pasquale S. Toscano, of Kettering, Ohio, an English and classics double major at Washington and Lee University, has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship for graduate study.

April 7, 2016Meera Kumar Awarded Fulbright Research Grant to India

Meera Kumar, from Portland, Oregon, and a senior at Washington and Lee University, has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to India. Her project is "Artistic Depiction and Womanhood in Village Bengal."

April 1, 2016Ijezie Ikwuezunma Awarded Fulbright Research Grant to United Kingdom

Ijezie Ikwuezunma of Richmond, Texas, and a senior at Washington and Lee University, has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to the United Kingdom. His project is “Cardiovascular Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacokinetics of Warfarin (an oral anti-coagulant).”

April 1, 2016Anna Paden Carson Awarded Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Colombia

Washington and Lee University senior Anna Paden Carson of Roanoke, Virginia, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Colombia.

March 22, 2016Staniar Gallery Exhibits Senior Art Projects

Washington and Lee University studio art majors will present their senior projects in an exhibition that opens in Staniar Gallery on March 28 and runs until April 11. An opening reception for the artists will be March 31 at 4 p.m. in Lykes Atrium, Wilson Hall.

January 18, 2016David G. Elmes Pathfinder Prize in Psychology Awarded to Emma Swabb ’16

Emma Swabb, a Washington and Lee University senior from Erie, Pennsylvania, has been awarded the 2015 David G. Elmes Pathfinder Prize in Psychology.

May 25, 2015W&L Student Wins Regional, National Journalism Awards

Rachel Adams-Heard, a junior business journalism major at Washington and Lee University, has won first place for general news reporting-newspaper (small school division) in Region 2 of the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2014 college journalism competition.