Sweet Briar News About: Faculty
Sweet Briar community mourns loss of former English professor, VCCA director William Smart
February 15, 2019
Sweet Briar says goodbye to much-loved Professor Emerita Gilberte Van Treese
February 14, 2019
College community mourns loss of poet Mary Oliver, former Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence
January 18, 2019
Sweet Briar community remembers beloved Professor Emeritus Glenn Van Treese
January 8, 2019
Getting to know Carrie Brown
December 12, 2018
Core 110: Learning by design
December 3, 2018
New student ensemble Daisy’s Harp bridges music and engineering, past and future
November 14, 2018
Sweet Briar math professor Raina Robeva receives VFIC award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
November 8, 2018
Dean Lynn Rainville completes series of public lectures about Virginians in World War I
November 5, 2018
Center for Innovative Technology to host session for entrepreneurs at Sweet Briar College
October 18, 2018
Sweet Briar College announces collaboration with Google
October 17, 2018
Sweet Briar math professor Raina Robeva awarded 2018 IBA Distinguished Fellowship
October 15, 2018
Sweet Briar among Princeton Review’s Best Southeastern Colleges for 2019
August 28, 2018
Admissions Blog: How to rock your first semester of college
August 24, 2018
Explore Engineering 2018 bridges music and science for high school students from across the country
August 7, 2018
Renowned monarch butterfly expert Lincoln Brower dies, but his legacy lives on
July 20, 2018
Rainville, Yochum appointed dean and associate dean at Sweet Briar
July 18, 2018
Sweet Briar announces new faculty hires in visual arts, history
June 22, 2018
Sweet Briar dance professors published in new book
March 7, 2018
Renowned photographer, faculty member Medford Taylor to exhibit work at Sweet Briar
January 24, 2018
Sweet Briar presents weekly Faculty Research Seminar Series over lunch
January 18, 2018
Lynn Rainville named associate dean of academic affairs at Sweet Briar
January 4, 2018
Sweet Briar engineering professor part of Fiat Chrysler team that wins Popular Science ‘Top Tech of 2017’ award
December 4, 2017
Admissions Blog: 5 things you can do right now to be ready for college
December 1, 2017
Sweet Briar professor shares research, College history at UVa slavery symposium
October 23, 2017
Two Sweet Briar professors win Library of Virginia Literary Awards
October 16, 2017
A writer’s encounter with iPhones, Instagram, and all that ‘clatter’ in his head
October 4, 2017
Sweet Briar professor a finalist for Library of Virginia’s 20th Annual Literary Awards
August 25, 2017
Sweet Briar professor composes score for indie film
July 14, 2017
Sweet Briar professor’s critically acclaimed novel a finalist for People’s Choice Award
May 18, 2017
Sweet Briar faculty present two of four foreign policy lectures in annual ‘Great Decisions’ series
February 2, 2017
Former longtime classics professor Reynold Burrows dies at 95
January 25, 2017
Third SBC professor in four years wins SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award
December 19, 2016
Sweet Briar professor wins VMNH Thomas Jefferson Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Natural Science Education
December 16, 2016
‘Edgy’ choreographies, a cow skull and an homage to Chihuly promise excitement for Fall Dance Concert at Sweet Briar
November 2, 2016
VFIC’s 2016 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award goes to revered Sweet Briar College professor
October 19, 2016
Professor gives plenary talk at International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research — known as BEER
October 12, 2016
Renowned monarch expert to speak at Sweet Briar on butterfly’s troubling decline
September 30, 2016
Carrie and John Gregory Brown to headline Writers Series together
September 8, 2016
Publishing deadline turns up the summer heat for anthropology professor
May 18, 2016
Nationally known photographer to teach at Sweet Briar this fall
April 6, 2016
SBC history class travels to Europe this summer
February 2, 2016
CIC grant brings online classes to Sweet Briar
January 14, 2016
SBC professor wins SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award
December 17, 2015
College history shines in SBC professors’ new book
November 30, 2015
Summing up Jim Kirkwood: Intuitive teacher, prolific author, mentor, family man
November 11, 2015
Professor Fink’s discovery makes news — again
November 3, 2015
Professors blog from Kazakhstan
October 26, 2015
Former student and professor collaborate on play translation
October 23, 2015
Creative writing faculty to read Oct. 7
September 29, 2015
Sweet Briar biologist nominated for conservation prize
August 18, 2015
Faculty appointment strengthens economics program
August 12, 2015
Classics professor notches fourth teaching award
May 11, 2015
SBC’s creative writing faculty to read at UVa
April 28, 2015
Researchers document upsides to online forums
April 23, 2015
TechTalk lecture series kicks off Feb. 12
February 6, 2015
Bunny snares professor, student
January 19, 2015
Student-faculty duo publishes paper in national geophysics journal
December 4, 2014
Professor lands third Fulbright
June 4, 2014
Bakich publishes book on ‘limited war’
May 28, 2014
Anthropologist awarded NEH stipend for field research
April 16, 2014
United Way honors Marcia Thom-Kaley
March 31, 2014
Robeva accepts SCHEV award
March 4, 2014
Sweet Briar professor wins highest state honor
January 23, 2014
Reuben George Miller, longtime economics professor, dies
January 20, 2014
Bakich to present at CIA roundtable
June 13, 2013
Retired economics professor dies
May 8, 2013
SBC’s Jones lands VFIC grant for research in Trinidad
April 24, 2013
Trip to Trinidad pans out for music professor
December 21, 2012
College recognizes faculty accomplishments
November 15, 2012
Witcombe named College’s first Barton-Laing Professor
September 12, 2012
Notes from Kazakhstan
August 8, 2012
Goulde to lecture on Korean art at LC
January 18, 2012
Bragaw named Carter Glass Professor of Government
August 25, 2011
Jonathan Green named as new provost at Illinois Wesleyan
March 21, 2011
Sweet Briar mourns professor
January 4, 2011
Faculty publications
October 29, 2010
Carrie Brown: The best American short stories
October 1, 2010
Robeva appointed editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Systems Biology
January 1, 2010
Math professor makes pedagogical case in Science magazine
July 30, 2009
Witcombe speaks to Friends of Library
March 19, 2009
New Witcombe book focuses on 16th-century print publishing, murder
February 17, 2009
Olivera’s latest book deals with tragedy
February 2, 2009
Lawson appointed to museum committee
December 15, 2008
‘Art History Resources’ celebrates 13 years
October 24, 2008
Olivera’s fifth book published
August 22, 2008
Professor translates Spanish novel
February 12, 2008
American Philological Association recognizes Casey for ‘Excellence’
January 11, 2008
Sweet Briar economics department makes the grade
January 3, 2008
Brown’s ‘The Rope Walk’ makes Chicago Tribune’s ‘Favorite Books’ list
December 19, 2007
New Witcombe podcast online
November 30, 2007
Retired faculty awarded emeritus status
November 12, 2007
Physics professor, collaborators awarded for paper on astronomical breakthrough
March 25, 2005
John Gregory Brown releases new novel, ‘Audubon’s Watch’
September 22, 2001