Brian Laubscher to Receive College Sports Communicators Lifetime Achievement Award
Laubscher will be recognized for over 25 years of service in the athletic communications profession.
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W&L Law’s Moliterno Publishes Article in Tennessee Journal of Business Law
Prof. James Moliterno published "Introducing Students to Ethics and Professionalism Challenges in Virtual Communication."
W&L’s Colbert Honored as Black Scholar
Cory Colbert was a recent "Honoree of the Day" on a website that honors Black scholars in the mathematical sciences.
Professor Doug Rendleman Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from AALS
Doug Rendleman, Robert E.R. Huntley Professor of Law Emeritus at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has been named the 2021 recipient of the Lifetime Scholarly Achievement award from the Remedies Section of the Association of American Law Schools.
Kerin Awarded Howard Foundation Fellowship
She is one of eight applicants to receive a $33,000 grant.
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Accounting Faculty and Students Represent W&L in U.S. and Denmark
This year, members of the accounting department and W&L accounting students attended conferences and workshops across the U.S. and Denmark.
W&L Law’s Jill Fraley Wins AALS Scholarly Papers Competition
Fraley won the award, one of the most prestigious in legal education, for her paper “An Unwritten History of Waste Law.”
W&L Law’s Margaret Howard Receives Inaugural Braucher Award from ABI
Washington and Lee law professor Margaret Howard has been unanimously elected to be the inaugural recipient of the Jean Braucher Memorial Award from the American Bankruptcy Institute.
W&L Law’s Margaret Hu Wins Young Scholar’s Award at Privacy Conference
Washington and Lee law professor Margaret Hu received the Young Scholar’s Award for her paper “Big Data Blacklisting,” which examines government use of database screening.
W&L Law’s Sally Wiant Receives Highest Law Library Association Honor
Prof. Sally Wiant has been selected to receive the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award by the American Association of Law Libraries
Muddying Waters of Religious Protection
Mark Rush, the Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Professor of Politics and Law at W&L's Williams School of Commerce, Economics and Politics, published an op-ed about the U.S. Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision in the July 1 edition of The Virginian-Pilot, Virgnia's largest newspaper.
Williams School Announces Three Term Professorships
Washington and Lee University's Williams School announces the appointment of three term professorships. Each professorship extends for three years and goes into effect July 1, 2014. Term professorships are given to mid-career faculty members who are exceptional teacher-scholars.
W&L's Abah Wins Scripps Howard Foundation/AEJMC Grant
Adedayo (Dayo) Abah is one of six recipients of the 2014/15 social media externship grants awarded by the Scripps Howard Foundation and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
Wheeler Wins Switchback Editors' Prize for Poem
Lesley Wheeler, the Henry S. Fox Professor of English, added another feather to her cap: the Editors' Prize for "the most inspiring, jarring, outstanding, or just downright brilliant" submission from the journal Switchback, for her poem "Epistolary Art."
Miranda's Book Wins IPPY Award
"Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir" (Heyday, 2013) by Deborah Miranda, professor of English, has won a gold medal for autobiography/memoir, in the family legacy category, in this year's Independent Publisher Book Awards, or IPPYs.
W&L Assistant Professor of Accounting Named Emerging Scholar
Ge Bai, assistant professor of accounting at Washington and Lee University's Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics, has been awarded the 2014 IMA Research Foundation's Emerging Scholar Manuscript Award by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).
W&L’s Foreign Language Futures Receives Braitmayer Foundation Grant
A grant from The Braitmayer Foundation will fund a new initiative at Washington and Lee University to establish Chinese language classes in two area high schools.
W&L Law’s Fraley Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant to Ireland
W&L Law professor Jill Fraley will spend next academic year in Ireland researching the development of property law in colonial Scotland and Ireland.
