W&L's Kerin Awarded Mednick Grant to Study Tibetan Buddhist Shrines
Melissa Kerin, assistant professor of art history, has been awarded a Mednick Memorial Fellowship Grant to conduct research on an aspect of Tibetan Buddhist shrines in India.
View ArticleRockbridge County Universities Form Teacher Education Consortium
Washington and Lee and Southern Virginia University have partnered to form the Rockbridge Teacher Education Consortium (RTEC), the first new teacher education program to be approved by the State Board...
View ArticleU.S. Sen. Tim Kaine Urges W&L Law's 141 Graduates to be Heroes
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, of Virginia, had a simple message for the 141 students who received their juris doctor degrees from Washington and Lee University's School of Law on Saturday, May 11: "Be someone's...
View ArticleSchool of Law Honors Graduates at 2013 Commencement Ceremony
The Washington and Lee University School of Law celebrated its 158th commencement on Saturday, May 11, awarding 141 juris doctor degrees.
View ArticleDocumentary by John Dean '76 Tells Story of an Innocent Man
Recent headlines out of Texas tell the sorry tale of a former county district attorney under arrest for allegedly hiding evidence, thus convicting an innocent man of murder. Now free after nearly 25...
View ArticleW&L Tax Clinic Receives IRS Grant for Sixth Straight Year
The Tax Clinic at the Washington and Lee University School of Law has been awarded a multi-year matching grant from the Internal Revenue Service's Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic program (LITC).
View ArticleW&L Law Professor Jonathan Shapiro in Christian Science Monitor
Jonathan Shapiro, visiting professor of law at Washington and Lee, was cited in a Christian Science Monitor story that examined how media leaks might impact a trial of alleged Boston Marathon bomber...
View ArticleAlumni Named Finalists for Prestigious Business Award
Two members of Washington and Lee's Class of 2000, Stephanie Leffler and Ryan Noble, are Central Midwest finalists in Ernst & Young's 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year awards, which are billed as the...
View ArticleBethany Reynolds Awarded Fulbright to China
Bethany Reynolds, of Timonium, Md., a senior at Washington and Lee University, has received a Fulbright research/study grant to China for her project "Acquiring an Education for Migrant Children in...
View ArticleIsaac Webb Awarded Fulbright to Ukraine
Washington and Lee University senior Isaac Webb, of Portland, Maine, has received a Fulbright research/study grant to the Ukraine for his project "Disability and Invisibility: Human Rights for the...
View ArticleKendré Barnes Awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Panama
Washington and Lee University senior Kendré Barnes, of Omaha, Neb., has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Panama.
View ArticleW&L Senior Releases Dance-Beat EP
Closing in on their May 23 graduation from Washington and Lee University, every senior has a portfolio of accomplishments they'll take along when they leave Lexington. Joe Sussingham, of Lakeland,...
View ArticleMedia Coverage for W&L Aerial Dance Class
Several Roanoke media outlets featured Washington and Lee's Spring Term aerial dance class, which held its concert on the wall of Wilson Hall on May 15 and 16.
View ArticleW&L's Locy's MSNBC Column on Justice Department and AP
Washington and Lee University journalism professor Toni Locy is the author of a column on MSNBC in response to reports that the Justice Department examined phone records of Associated Press reporters.
View ArticleW&L's Ballenger Discusses Online Tax Debate on WDBJ
Robert Ballenger, professor of business administration and a specialist in e-commerce issues, discussed the Marketplace Fairness Act in an interview with WDBJ-TV in Roanoke on May 14, 2013.
View ArticleAlumni Bring Their Experience to Stroke Awareness Month
Two alumni, Rick Dunlap and Andrew Asimos, became acquainted while they worked out at the Harris YMCA, in Charlotte, N.C. Last December, they met up under more dramatic circumstancesat the Emergency...
View ArticleW&L's Warren Writes Introduction to Limited-Edition Book
A fine-press, limited-edition collection of six short stories by Barry Lopez, the prize-winning American author, essayist and fiction writer, features an introduction by Jim Warren, the S. Blount Mason...
View ArticleFrank O'Reilly '87 Lectures at VMI on May 19
Virginia Military Institute is hosting a lecture this Sunday, May 19, at 3:15 p.m, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Stonewall Jackson. The keynote speaker, though, is a...
View ArticleNPR Features W&L Visiting Law Professor Judy Clarke
Morning Edition Sunday on National Public Radio aired a profile of Judy Clarke, visiting professor of law at Washington and Lee who has been appointed to defend alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar...
View ArticleW&L Senior Jonathan Stutts Wins Boehling Memorial Award
Senior Jonathan Stutts, of Charlotte, N.C., has won the Alexander Thomas Boehling '10 Memorial Award at Washington and Lee University. The Boehling Award, selected by the vice president for student...
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