Recent News
Sweet Briar hosts national riding championship
Sweet Briar will host the 37th annual American National Riding Commission National Intercollegiate Equitation Championship Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27, at its Harriet Howell Rogers Riding Center.
Friends of Art honors students
The Friends of Art of Sweet Briar College has announced the 2014 recipients of several awards.
Spring concerts feature Broadway hits and student compositions
The Sweet Briar Chamber Orchestra and all three choirs will close out a busy month of spring events at Sweet Briar College, with the orchestra taking the stage at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 27, in Memorial Chapel, followed by the choirs at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, in the same venue.
Conservationist receives lifetime award
Research professor of biology Lincoln Brower was in St. Louis earlier this month to receive the University of Missouri-St. Louis Harris Center Conservation Action Prize for his lifetime work in monarch butterfly conservation.
Alumna finds herself on familiar stage in new role
Betty Skeen, a 2007 alumna of Sweet Briar’s Dance program, will direct the College’s Spring Dance Concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26, in Murchison Lane Auditorium.
Lacy to sing senior voice recital
Caroline Lacy will perform a senior voice recital at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 19, in Sweet Briar College’s Memorial Chapel.
Anthropologist awarded NEH stipend for field research
Professor of anthropology Deborah Durham has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend.
Mother’s gratitude to College shows
When Dee Branch Oliver’s husband, Johnnie, died suddenly at a young age, her family was not prepared — despite their years together working at H.D. Oliver, the funeral home business his family has operated in Virginia Beach since the Civil War.
’87 alumna appointed to Superior Court in Georgia
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed Sweet Briar graduate Verda M. Andrews Colvin ’87 to a Superior Court judgeship in the Macon Judicial Circuit.
Three riders advance to IHSA nationals
Sweet Briar is sending three riders to compete in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association National Championships.
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