Category: Academics
College recognizes faculty accomplishments
Sweet Briar professors are often praised for their excellence in teaching, but their commitment goes well beyond the classroom: They are also fully engaged in their disciplines as researchers, writers and artists.
Basbanes Award Recognizes Students for Book Collections
Sweet Briar College students Sarah Strapp and Laura Dietrich were recognized recently as winners of the College’s annual Nicole Basbanes Student Book Collecting Contest.
Wassell to Speak at L.C. Symposium
Steve Wassell, professor of mathematics at Sweet Briar College, will speak Saturday, April 25 at a daylong symposium sponsored jointly by Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest and Lynchburg College.
Students Inducted into Spanish Honor Society
Sweet Briar students Allison Garrison ’10, of Shipman, Va., and Emily Serba ’09, of Waynesboro, Va., were recently inducted into the Rho Omega Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society.
SBC Naturalist-in-Residence Talks about AT Adventures
At 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, Sweet Briar College’s naturalist-in-residence, Mike Hayslett will present, “Mountaintop Summer: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail.”
Lecture Explores Opportunities in Interdisciplinary Science
Sweet Briar’s math sciences department is hosting a lecture by Brett Tyler of the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 6 in Guion Room 202.
2009 Presidential Medal goes to scholar, athlete, leader
Like an exercise in free association, the conversation at table 17 during Sweet Briar’s Academic Recognition Dinner in Prothro on March 25 ping-ponged every which way.
Virginia Association of Museums Director to Speak at Sweet Briar
Margo Carlock, executive director of the Virginia Association of Museums, will be the guest speaker at the annual joint meeting of Sweet Briar College’s Friends of Art and Friends of the Library.Carlock will present “Museums as Community Spaces” at 8 p.m. Friday, March 27 in the Wailes Lounge at the College’s Elston Inn & Conference Center.
Witcombe Speaks to Friends of Library
Art historian Christopher Witcombe will speak about his new book, “Print Publishing in Sixteenth Century Rome: Growth and Expansion, Rivalry and Murder,” at 3 p.m. Friday, March 27 in the Browsing Room of Sweet Briar College’s Mary Helen Cochran Library.
Adams Named Howe Award Recipient for Sweet Briar College
Rebecca Adams of Amherst and formerly of Leesburg, Va., has been named this year’s James Lewis Howe Award recipient at Sweet Briar College. Adams will graduate in May with Bachelor of Science degrees in chemistry and mathematics.
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