Author Archive: Jennifer McManamay
Farm implement sets stage for Dance Concert
Sweet Briar dance program director Mark Magruder zipped into the Tractor Supply Co. store lot one day and saw a shipment of cattle feeders being unloaded. So he did what any tractor-loving modern dancer would do: He bought one.
Witt ’74 is UVa medical school’s Outstanding Alumnus
A Sweet Briar alumna is the first woman to be named Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association.
Sweet Briar riders receive ODAC honors
Sweet Briar senior Elizabeth Hansbrough has been named the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Scholar Athlete of 2013.
Butterfly expert to appear on NPR’s ‘Science Friday’
Sweet Briar research professor of biology Lincoln Brower will make an appearance on National Public Radio’s “Science Friday” on April 12. The approximately 20-minute interview with correspondent Flora Lichtman is set to begin around 3:35 p.m
Sweet Briar sends another rider to IHSA nationals
Sweet Briar’s Kathleen Drake ’14 is the zone champion in novice over fences after this weekend’s Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Zone 4 Finals at St. Andrews University in Laurinburg, N.C.
’07 dance standout to perform with PEARSONWIDRIG
Sweet Briar graduate Betty Skeen, Class of 2007, was present for the creation of “Oashisu,” one of the pieces PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER will present at the College on Friday, April 12.
Sweet Briar singers to join mass choir in state capital
Sweet Briar’s Chamber Choir is one of 21 choral groups from Virginia colleges and universities invited to perform as a 200-strong choir ensemble during a special concert to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Leading the charge in biology’s new frontiers
Raina Robeva has always appreciated applied mathematics in biology. It’s what she did when modeling the effects of radiation on cell cultures for her master’s degree at Sofia University in Bulgaria.
Waxter speaker lures readers to science with fiction
Writer Barbara Kingsolver charmed an audience of more than 600 people in Murchison Lane Auditorium Thursday night with the same grace and humor she uses to hook readers. Kingsolver presented Sweet Briar College’s 2013 Julia B. Waxter Environmental Forum, an annual lecture series focusing on environmental concerns.
Brower visits monarch colony with former president
Sweet Briar research biologist Lincoln Brower’s most recent trip to observe overwintering monarch butterflies in central Mexico included rewarding highs and distressing lows.
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