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Sweet Briar alumna, CM Burroughs ’04, poetry included on the National Book Award longlist

A conversation with Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee

Opening Convocation sends a message of expansion, empathy, openness and truth

Ten students conduct summer research through the Honors Program

Willits Food Systems Summer Fellows gain a bounty of experience

Engineering students showcase their work at spring expo

112th Commencement celebrates the resilient Class of 2021

Nine students inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa

Meet librarian Lore Guilmartin: Beyond books

2021 Senior Art Show: Chaos, Order and the Mundane

2021 Presidential Medal awarded to Sydney Campbell ’21

Juried High School Art Exhibition celebrates talent and awards scholarships

Admissions Blog: Reesa Artz ’22 shares the Sweet Briar experience during COVID

Honors Summer Research Program explores various fields of study

Admissions Blog: Abby Cahill ’21 shares her experience in environmental science and summer research

Founders’ Day 2020: Roots run deep and wide

Sweet Briar again named among nation’s most innovative schools by U.S. News & World Report

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education spotlights Sweet Briar’s engineering program

The Washington Post on the advantage of Sweet Briar during a pandemic

First in Virginia to start classes early

Lacey Tucker ’20 announced as 2020 Presidential Medalist

Seventeen Students inducted into National Leadership Honors Society

Mark and Ella Magruder: A legacy of Sweet Briar dance

Sweet Briar College and American Farmland Trust collaborate on programming

Welcome, Dean Garrett!

Students attend Women’s Leadership Development Summit

A history of Boxwood House, a place to behold campus life

Sweet Briar leadership core takes young Vixen home to Guatemala

Opening Doors

John Nau joins two alumnae in $3 million gift for Sweet Briar College’s leadership core curriculum

$5 million gift to Sweet Briar College will expand its Presidential Scholars program

Sweet Briar student wins award at NFFTY, world’s top film festival for emerging directors

Sweet Briar to host virtual Q&A with best-selling novelist Madeline Miller Nov. 7

Sarah McConnell on lifelong learning and how to find what you love

Admissions Blog: 5 reasons to attend an open house at Sweet Briar this fall

Radio host Sarah McConnell to speak at Sweet Briar Oct. 24

New Yorker magazine staff writer Ariel Levy to speak at Sweet Briar Oct. 9

B.F.A. candidates present final projects Oct. 4 and 5

Multidisciplinary artist to unveil ‘Skin Piece’ Oct. 3 in Pannell Gallery

Outstanding Sweet Briar students honored during Founders’ Day Convocation

Founders’ Day 2019: About the Land

Local, state and federal leaders celebrate Sweet Briar as ‘a new model for higher education’ at ceremonial ribbon-cutting

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to visit Sweet Briar on Founders’ Day

Writers Series continues Sept. 18 with faculty member Erica Trabold

Admissions Blog: My first day(s) of class at Sweet Briar as dean 

Admissions Blog: 5 things to do your first year at Sweet Briar

New year, new dean, new charge: How to own the future?

Sweet Briar makes Forbes’ America’s Top Colleges list for 2019

Sweet Briar’s Common Read for 2019-2020 is a conversation between two books ‘across thousands of years’

Sweet Briar makes Princeton Review’s list of Best Southeastern colleges for 2020

Sweet Briar named on Kiplinger’s Best College Values 2019 list

Sweet Briar College and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts announce second SBC-VCCA Teaching Fellowship

Sweet Briar named a national college of distinction for student success, engagement

Sweet Briar to offer new undergraduate degree in elementary education

JYF in Paris: A Family Legacy

Sweet Briar Friends of Art awards 2019 student prizes

Science and history dominate 2019 Honors Summer Research Program

Deep Roots: Farming at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar offers two chances to Explore Engineering this summer

Vassar’s Associate Dean Teresa Garrett named dean of the College at Sweet Briar

Two Amherst students awarded scholarships from Al Stroobants Foundation to study at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa inducts three mighty 19s

Mighty Class of 2019 graduates under sunny skies

All-College awards honor four outstanding graduates from Class of 2019

From the arts to STEM, awards honor Class of 2019 for academic excellence

Admissions Blog: 5 things I will miss most about Sweet Briar

Centra award for student excellence at Sweet Briar goes to engineering major

Student visions come to life in VCCA fellows’ CORE 150 art class

Capstone project with UVa gives Sweet Briar engineering seniors field experience

S&P Global raises Sweet Briar College bond rating for third straight year

Sweet Briar announces two new faculty hires in economics

Iranian artist Morehshin Allahyari to speak at Sweet Briar College

Four Sweet Briar students to attend Google machine learning program

Senior art major’s show inspired by a love of books

Sweet Briar College announces 2019 commencement speaker

Sweet Briar eases requirements for transfer students with associate degrees

Sweet Briar inducts first class into Kappa Pi international honor society

Admissions Blog: A major change

Spring Dance Concert at Sweet Briar weaves Beethoven, ‘apocalyptic feel’ and teamwork into new vision

Sweet Briar’s 2019 Presidential Medal goes to dual-sport athlete, SGA president from Appomattox

VCCA Salon to feature documentary film screening of ‘Instructions on Parting’

Sweet Briar’s director of student life wins statewide award at Virginia conference

Sweet Briar president speaks at Higher Education Innovation conference

Iditarod rookie musher, Sweet Briar grad Alison Lifka to speak at alma mater April 2

Admissions Blog: If you want to be a leader, try a women’s college

Former ACLU president to speak at Sweet Briar on March 23

Sweet Briar goes to Washington

Poetry reading concludes Sweet Briar’s 2018-2019 Writers Series

Admissions Blog: 5 fierce women leaders in Sweet Briar College history

Sweet Briar College announces additional Girl Scouts scholarships

Admissions Blog: How I experienced National Engineers Week 2019 at Sweet Briar College

A Nobel laureate, black holes and Hollywood: Engineers Week at Sweet Briar celebrates engineering and physics, science and art

Sweet Briar’s Spring 2019 Explore Engineering Weekend for High School Girls is taking applications

Admissions Blog: 5 grads, 5 stories — How Sweet Briar impacted my life

Senior Dance Concert to celebrate Sweet Briar memories Feb. 8 and 9

VCCA Salon series returns to Sweet Briar on Feb. 7 with visual artists, ‘Cost of Living’ author

College community mourns loss of poet Mary Oliver, former Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence

Admissions Blog: How a campus job can help you manage your time

Al Stroobants Foundation renews promise to fund tuition for two local Sweet Briar students in 2019-2020

Nobel laureate Kip Thorne to speak at Sweet Briar’s 2019 Engineers Week Banquet

From Sweet Briar to Europe to Texas: The success story behind Céleste Wackenhut’s French & Michigan

Sweet Briar offers new transfer opportunities for Harford Community College graduates

Admissions Blog: 5 favorite study spaces at Sweet Briar

Getting to know Carrie Brown

Sweet Briar and Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation announce partnership

Sweet Briar’s first Grant for Engaged Learning leads student to D.C.

Core 110: Learning by design

First-year honor society Alpha Lambda Delta gains 13 Sweet Briar members

Admissions Blog: What it’s like to be a non-traditional student at Sweet Briar

Admissions Blog: 7 steps to managing stress in college

New student ensemble Daisy’s Harp bridges music and engineering, past and future

Admissions Blog: The power of a single story

Sweet Briar math professor Raina Robeva receives VFIC award for excellence in undergraduate teaching

Dean Lynn Rainville completes series of public lectures about Virginians in World War I

Admissions Blog: How I got paid to do summer research (and you can, too)

Admissions Blog: 5 questions to ask when you visit campus

Center for Innovative Technology to host session for entrepreneurs at Sweet Briar College

Sweet Briar College announces collaboration with Google

Sweet Briar College, VCCA select inaugural SBC-VCCA fellows

Best-selling author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to visit Sweet Briar College Nov. 1

Sweet Briar math professor Raina Robeva awarded 2018 IBA Distinguished Fellowship

Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of Undergraduate Scholarship (MARCUS) celebrates 20th year

Rebecca Mead, staff writer for The New Yorker, to speak at Sweet Briar

Author Tessa Fontaine to visit Sweet Briar as part of Writers Series

Academic and College awards presented to students at Founders’ Day Convocation

Founders’ Day 2018: sunrise to sunset events honoring our history

New curriculum early insights: Sweet Briar’s Leadership Core Curriculum and 3-week courses make their mark on students

Admissions Blog: What I love about Founders’ Day

New ‘female-centric’ art exhibit at Sweet Briar highlights immigrant experience

Sweet Briar’s three-week session an opportunity to learn with President Woo

Admissions Blog: 3 reasons why Sweet Briar is my happy place

Lynchburg Beacon of Hope announces Promise Scholarship with Sweet Briar College, area schools

Sweet Briar launches Explore Entrepreneurship Weekend for high school girls

New York Times best-selling author Beth Macy to visit Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar named among Most Innovative Schools in nation by U.S. News

Registration opens for Sweet Briar’s Fall 2018 Explore Engineering Weekend for High School Girls

Horses, medicine and music lead Sweet Briar’s 2012 Presidential Medalist to England

Admissions Blog: My summer abroad in Spain

Filmmaker and novelist open 2018-2019 VCCA Salon series at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar among Princeton Review’s Best Southeastern Colleges for 2019

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to visit Sweet Briar College in October

Admissions Blog: How to rock your first semester of college

Sweet Briar’s 113th academic year begins with unusual charge: Be courageous, not perfect

Afghan children’s art exhibit opens at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar honored among national Colleges of Distinction

Six Sweet Briar athletes named to VaSID Academic All-State team

Sweet Briar places 42 student-athletes on ODAC All-Academic Team

Renowned monarch butterfly expert Lincoln Brower dies, but his legacy lives on

Rainville, Yochum appointed dean and associate dean at Sweet Briar

How the liberal arts and origami helped one Sweet Briar engineering grad land the perfect job

Two local students awarded scholarships from Al Stroobants Foundation to study at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar announces new faculty hires in visual arts, history

Sweet Briar opens doors for 2018 Virginia Private College Week

Sweet Briar awards prestigious Wyllie Scholarship to budding engineers

Honors Summer Research scholars to delve into Sweet Briar history, land resources

New joint Sweet Briar and VCCA fellowships announced

Google visits Sweet Briar to teach intensive computer science course

Sweet Briar chapter of Phi Beta Kappa inducts new class

Tears of joy and perseverance for historic Class of 2018 at Sweet Briar’s 109th Commencement

2018 all-College awards announced at commencement

Outstanding seniors honored at 2018 Awards Convocation

Admissions Blog: Sweet Briar College graduation moments we won’t forget

Sweet Briar named among ‘Best Women’s Colleges for 2018’

Admissions Blog: How to survive finals week

Living-learning community at Sweet Briar aims to help students thrive in and outside of class

Centra award for student research at Sweet Briar goes to psychology major

Virginia secretary of agriculture and forestry to speak at Sweet Briar College on Earth Day

‘Jersey Brothers’ author Sally Mott Freeman ’76 to speak at Sweet Briar

Senior Art Major’s Show at Sweet Briar is quiet exploration in still life

Nella Barkley ’55 to speak at Sweet Briar College commencement

Sweet Briar awards 2018 Presidential Medal to Amherst native, legacy student Ashton Mays

Sweet Briar dance professors published in new book

Ginette Hemley to headline 2018 Waxter Forum at Sweet Briar

Pannell Scholar turns lifelong passion for fantasy into first stab at novel

Sweet Briar leadership holds panel discussion following board meeting

Admissions Blog: I might have been an engineer

Sweet Briar’s engineering program receives ABET reaccreditation

Admissions Blog: Building bridges to South Korea

Celebrating Black History Month at Sweet Briar: Rachel Woods ’20 forges her path

Admissions Blog: “I’m a minority student. Why should I come to Sweet Briar?”

Sweet Briar recognized for excellent business, education and engineering programs with solid liberal arts foundation

Grant to fund full tuition for two Virginia students at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar EXPLORE weekends let high school girls try arts, sciences and more

Admissions Blog: Top 5 campus resources at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar presents weekly Faculty Research Seminar Series over lunch

Admissions Blog: Why I transferred to Sweet Briar from a large school

Lynn Rainville named associate dean of academic affairs at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar ranks ahead of peers in student engagement, leadership and high-impact learning

Sweet Briar reveals academic investments in liberal arts and sciences including core curriculum focused on leadership

Admissions Blog: 5 things you can do right now to be ready for college

College inducts 18 students into first-year honor society Alpha Lambda Delta

Sweet Briar initiates top business students into newly founded chapter of Sigma Beta Delta

Admissions Blog: How to write an amazing admissions essay

Pannell Scholars bridge the arts, humanities, social studies and STEM in 2017 projects

Sweet Briar and CVCC announce dual-enrollment agreement

Sweet Briar professor shares research, College history at UVa slavery symposium

Students present undergraduate research at Sweet Briar’s MARCUS conference

Admissions Blog: Top five highlights of my summer in Oxford

Sweet Briar ‘Explore’ series for high school girls adds creative writing, music

Sweet Briar Theatre stages concert version of ‘Avenue Q,’ a funny musical

‘Keepers of hope’: Sweet Briar celebrates 2017 Founders’ Day

Students receive academic and College awards at Founders’ Day Convocation

Sweet Briar’s beloved Fletcher Oak lives on in academic mace

Sweet Briar among BestValueSchools.com’s ‘30 Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the South’

Admissions Blog: Why the liberal arts? Let’s start with what it really means

Visual, performing arts intersect in final B.F.A. projects by Sweet Briar seniors

Sweet Briar moves up in U.S. News & World Report’s ‘Best Colleges 2018’ ranking

Sweet Briar adds archaeology to October ‘Explore’ weekends for high school girls

Sweet Briar resets core curriculum and tuition for excellence, relevance and affordability

Women authors dominate Writers Series at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar professor a finalist for Library of Virginia’s 20th Annual Literary Awards

Sweet Briar opens 112th academic year with new president, new look and new ideas

Butterfly garden fuels migrating monarchs and student research

Interactive exhibit challenges students to explore Sweet Briar campus

Sweet Briar named to Princeton Review’s ‘Best Southeastern’ colleges list

Sweet Briar among America’s Top Colleges for 2017, says Forbes

ODAC All-Academic Team features 31 Sweet Briar student-athletes

Blue Ridge Summer Institute for Young Artists kicks off seventh year at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar launches Explore Chemistry Weekend for High School Girls

Sweet Briar’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter welcomes new members

Against predictions, sun shines on Sweet Briar’s 108th commencement

Awards Convocation celebrates exceptional achievement among seniors

Faculty, employees establish White & Case Award to recognize pro bono work

From Pannell to Peace Corps: Honors student seizes Sweet Briar opportunities and finds her calling for international aid work

From NAFTA to nanostructures: Sweet Briar announces 2017 Honors Summer Research fellows

Friends of Art student prizes awarded to outstanding writer, painter and songwriter

Budding scientist finds perfect chemistry at Sweet Briar, presents research at national conference

SGA president to perform in senior recital

Trinidad’s Skiffle Steel Orchestra returns to Sweet Briar for concert, student workshops

Virtual and physical worlds meet in senior art majors’ exhibit at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar College awards 2017 Presidential Medal to Camp Hill senior for service and leadership

Pannell Scholar captures firsthand glimpse of World War II history

NFHCA taps three Sweet Briar players for academic achievement

Googler spotlights the meaning of work at second annual engineering banquet

Sweet Briar swimmers honored as Scholar All-America team

Sweet Briar makes ScholarMatch’s 2016 Honor Roll of best colleges nationwide for low-income students

Sweet Briar professor wins VMNH Thomas Jefferson Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Natural Science Education

Sweet Briar snags 2016 Dive Award for ‘Turnaround of the Year’ in higher ed

Sweet Briar celebrates International Education Week with food, games and a panel

Sweet Briar names outstanding underclasswomen to Alpha Lambda Delta

VFIC’s 2016 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award goes to revered Sweet Briar College professor

Anthropologist to speak at Sweet Briar on women, gender and religion in Iran

Sweet Briar student awarded U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship

History a popular theme for Sweet Briar College’s 2016 Pannell Scholars

Sweet Briar College deepens already strong STEM curriculum with new computer science program

Renowned monarch expert to speak at Sweet Briar on butterfly’s troubling decline

Undergrad scholars return to Sweet Briar for annual MARCUS conference

Academic awards honor Sweet Briar students at Founders’ Day Convocation

Sweet Briar College welcomes record number of honors students

Five academic resources you should know about

Five tips for rocking your first semester at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar opens 111th session with resolve to keep the miracles rolling

Beijing native won’t start classes until fall, but she’s already an ambassador for Sweet Briar

Summer honors students use history to navigate a current policy debate

Transfer student follows passion for design and business in summer internship

Graduate teaching program at Sweet Briar boasts strong year, happy alumnae

One year later, Sweet Briar celebrates 107th commencement

All-College awards, faculty and staff honors announced at commencement

Leah Busque ’01: ‘Now, We Are All Founders’

Sweet Briar inducts newest Phi Beta Kappa members

Sweet Briar seniors honored at end-of-year Awards Convocation

From the watery depths of Lower Lake to the center of the Milky Way, HSRP scholars delve deep into summer research

New and returning professors to bolster Sweet Briar College faculty

For promising young scientist, a year of discovery leads to Research Experiences for Undergraduates internship at Arizona’s Biosphere 2

Friends of Art announces annual student awards

Sweet Briar to partner with online textbook giant Akademos

Aspiring anthropologist and radio DJ finds honors thesis amid Croatia’s abandoned resorts

Academic fair for high school girls zeros in on liberal arts

Sophomore researchers present work at annual Pannell Honors Scholars Fair

Five reasons to visit Sweet Briar now

Award-winning author and anthropologist to speak on how the Iranian Revolution shaped a small village

Nationally known photographer to teach at Sweet Briar this fall

Sweet Briar is one of Forbes’ 300 Best Value Colleges

TaskRabbit founder and CEO Leah Busque ’01 is Sweet Briar College’s 2016 commencement speaker

Award-winning poet Lisa Russ Spaar and newcomer Jim Whiteside to read at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar launches Women’s Leadership Program for exceptional Chinese students

Twins thrive in Sweet Briar’s JYS in Seville program, make most of the experience

Modernism and World War I expert Vincent Sherry to speak at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar’s JYF in Paris – America’s oldest coeducational intercollegiate study abroad program in Paris – names French woman as new director

‘Girls in STEM’ science day draws high school students to Sweet Briar

’09 grad co-authors journal’s 2015 outstanding paper

Environmental history, science and technology converge in lecture on George Washington

NPR host Lulu Miller returns to read at Sweet Briar

Senior Dance Concert should have a lot to like

Sweet Briar’s Wyllie Program to host Engineers Week dinner

Alumna tapped to attend AATF Future Leaders program

Two Sweet Briar seniors stage their own story

Sweet Briar students debate ‘Ethics and Civic Responsibility’

SBC history class travels to Europe this summer

Grant to bolster Sweet Briar’s environmental programs

Five study-abroad programs to get excited about

Sweet Briar named 2016 BRAID Affiliate

Musicologist explores relationships among music, the natural world and environmental awareness

Five things to know about academics at Sweet Briar

CIC grant brings online classes to Sweet Briar

Explore Engineering is taking applications

SBC professor wins SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award

Business students report on successes, lessons learned

College history shines in SBC professors’ new book

Cabaret highlights senior’s college journey