University of Miami Professor John Kirby Lectures on "Why...
John Kirby, professor of classics at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, who will present his reflections on the intersection of history, folklore, high literary art and popular culture in a...
View ArticleMellon Foundation Grant Establishes Junior Faculty Fellows Program at W&L
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Washington and Lee University a $700,000 grant to establish a new Mellon Junior Faculty Fellows Program in the Humanities.
View ArticleW&L Student Wins $10,000 Projects for Peace Award
Uri Whang, a Washington and Lee University sophomore from Collierville, Tenn., has won a $10,000 grant from the Davis Projects for Peace 2011.
View ArticleW&L Awards Johnson Opportunity Grants to 15 Students
Washington and Lee University has awarded the second group of Johnson Opportunity Grants for the upcoming spring and summer to 15 juniors and seniors.
View ArticleW&L Announces Faculty Promotions, Tenure
Six Washington and Lee University faculty members have been awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor, and five others have been promoted from associate to full professor.
View ArticleTwo W&L Students Named Kemper Scholars
Two Washington and Lee University rising sophomores -- John Paul "JP" Beall of Redlands, Calif., and Trevor "Trey" Hatcher of Knoxville, Tenn. -- have been selected for the incoming class of the...
View ArticleGarrett Fagan to Discuss Infamous Roman Games in W&L Lecture
Garrett G. Fagan, associate professor of classics, history and ancient Mediterranean studies at The Pennsylvania State University, will give a lecture at Washington and Lee University on Monday, Oct....
View ArticleNew W&L Class Examines Rhetoric from Plato to Today's Politicians
What better time to teach the rhetorical principles of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian than during the heat of a presidential election?
View ArticleUNC Professor to Deliver Hoyt Lecture in Classics
Richard J. A. Talbert, the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will deliver the Hoyt Lecture in Classics at Washington and...
View ArticleComparing Financial Crises: From Antiquity to Today
Students in the Washington and Lee Spring Term course "Too Big to Fail: Commerce, Corruption and Crisis in Antiquity," have discovered how ancient financial crises really are.
View ArticleW&L Names 13 Faculty to Endowed Professorships
Thirteen members of the Washington and Lee University faculty have been named to endowed professorships-- two each in the School of Law and the Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics, and...
View ArticleW&L Professor's "Snake Goddess" Research Cited
Research by Washington and Lee professor Michael Laughy is featured by LiveScience.
View ArticleKevin Crotty to Give Childress Professorship Inaugural Lecture
Kevin Crotty, professor of Classics at Washington and Lee University, will give the J. Donald Childress Professorship Inaugural Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 6, at 5 p.m. in Northen Auditorium.
View ArticleCourse by W&L's Kirk Wins Award from Humane Society
Athena Kirk, Mellon Junior Faculty Fellow in the classics department at Washington and Lee University, has received the 2012 Distinguished New Course award from the Humane Society of the United States...
View ArticleW&L's Kirk on WMRA's "Virginia Insight"
Athena Kirk, Mellon Junior Faculty Fellow in the Classics Department at Washington and Lee University, appeared on NPR affiliate WMRA's "Virginia Insight" show on Monday, Feb. 25, to discuss humans,...
View ArticleW&L Faculty to Present Collaborative Project at LAWDI Institute
W&L professors Rebecca Benefiel (classics) and Sara Sprenkle (computer science) will present their prototype of a new web application involving the ancient graffiti of Pompeii at the Linked Ancient...
View ArticleW&L's Rebecca Benefiel on Roman Graffiti in National Geographic
Washington and Lee University classics professor Rebecca Benefiel comments on graffiti scrawled on the walls of the Colosseum in Rome in a National Geographic article. In her research Benefiel has...
View ArticleW&L Students Learn the Real Value of Money
We live in a society where using money is like breathing. It makes our lives easier, but we don't really understand why, according to Colin Elliott, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in classics and ancient...
View ArticleW&L Announces Final Winners of 2014 Johnson Opportunity Grants
Washington and Lee University has announced the final round of students who will receive 2014 Johnson Opportunity Grants. The grants cover living, travel and other costs associated with the students'...
View ArticleWriting on the Wall
W&L professors Rebecca Benefiel and Sara Sprenkle presented their latest projecta searchable web application on ancient graffitiat the 2014 EAGLE International Conference on Information...
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