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Author Elizabeth Rush to Speak on Climate Change at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar College dedicates the Kelley and C. T. Fitzpatrick Center for Creativity, Design and the Arts

Community collaboration shines during Earth Week

“My Monticello” announced as Sweet Briar’s 2022-23 Common Read

Phi Beta Kappa scholar Adriana Zavala presentation on Frida Kahlo

Robin Wall Kimmerer on “Braiding Sweetgrass” and special events series

U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo discusses “An American Sunrise” as part of the NEA Big Read

Three students to perform their Senior Dance Concert

The Sweet Briar Train Station

Engineering students attend the 2021 SWE conference

Virginia Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources holds fall retreat at Sweet Briar

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

Sweet Briar to screen City of a Million Dreams and host Q&A with director and co-producer

An evening with Jia Tolentino, staff writer for The New Yorker

Visiting artist Hope Rovelto exhibits her work in the Pannell Gallery

VCCA Salon: Writer Christine Fischer Guy and master printer Susan J. Goldman

Ten students conduct summer research through the Honors Program

Willits Food Systems Summer Fellows gain a bounty of experience

Technology and music merge in this summer’s Explore Engineering program

Orange Grove Dance presents outdoor performance: Still Standing

Bringing Earth Day to life across campus

Babcock Season presents a conversation with composer Ellen Reid

‘The Sixth Extinction’ author Elizabeth Kolbert speaks at the 2021 Waxter Environmental Forum

University Business article shares how we found ‘gold’ in our roots

NRCS helps Sweet Briar rediscover its roots in agriculture

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

Engineering professor Bethany Brinkman shares current job market trends

NASA Engineer Russell Werneth to celebrate Hubble Telescope 30th anniversary with virtual lecture

An evening with The New Yorker staff writer Doreen St. Félix

Through Her Body, an exhibition of figurative works by Anne Doolittle ’78

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

Brewer Fund Challenge: Thank you!

$500,000 donation will support viticulture and provide a path to the future

Environmental sustainability is growing

Senior art exhibition goes virtual

Sweet Briar College and American Farmland Trust collaborate on programming

Fall Dance Concert at Sweet Briar features successful alumnae, faculty and students

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

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

Sweet Briar professor Erica Trabold wins Nebraska Book Award for essay collection

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

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

Registration now open for Sweet Briar’s 2019 Fall Explore Engineering Weekend for High School Girls

Sweet Briar’s Mary Pope Hutson ’83 to lead National Park System Advisory Board

VCCA Salon series kicks off Sept. 5 with mixed-media artist Laura Boles Faw and film critic Deirdre Boyle

Science for good: Sweet Briar STEM grad finds her path at Grassroots Cannabis

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

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

Admissions Blog: Highlights from my Sweet Briar field trip to Rome

Sweet Briar celebrates Earth Week with special guests

Iranian artist Morehshin Allahyari to speak at Sweet Briar College

Four Sweet Briar students to attend Google machine learning program

Panel of alumnae experts in conservation and agriculture to visit Sweet Briar

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

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

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

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

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

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

Getting to know Carrie Brown

Sweet Briar and Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation announce partnership

Core 110: Learning by design

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

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

Q&A: After five years in Alaska, Sweet Briar grad Alison Lifka gets ready for Iditarod

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

Musician, activist Erin McKeown to give free concert at Sweet Briar

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

Sweet Briar math professor Raina Robeva awarded 2018 IBA Distinguished Fellowship

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

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

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

Admissions Blog: My summer abroad in Spain

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to visit Sweet Briar College in October

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

Friends of Art award leads to VCCA dream internship for Sweet Briar grad

Sweet Briar awards prestigious Wyllie Scholarship to budding engineers

New joint Sweet Briar and VCCA fellowships announced

Google visits Sweet Briar to teach intensive computer science course

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

Sweet Briar awards 2018 Friends of Art prizes to student writers, composer and visual artist

Claire Porter brings ‘Grammar Glamour’ to Sweet Briar’s Babcock Season

Admissions Blog: Summer internship success stories

Spring Dance Concert at Sweet Briar promises emotional roller coaster

Sweet Briar sophomore wins One Teen Story contest

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

Gager Concert at Sweet Briar features internationally known pianist

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

Admissions Blog: How Sweet Briar grads are winning at outcomes

Sweet Briar invites high school girls to explore engineering for college credit

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

Admissions Blog: I might have been an engineer

NASA engineer’s talk at Sweet Briar sheds light on true story behind ‘Hidden Figures’

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts to hold salon at Sweet Briar

Sweet Briar’s engineering program receives ABET reaccreditation

Sweet Briar to host annual Gospel Fest on Saturday, Feb. 24

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

Sweet Briar Theatre tackles life’s big questions in ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’

Rachel Rogers ’18 to showcase work in Senior Dance Concert

New exhibit at Sweet Briar highlights local artist’s ‘passion for clay’

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

Renowned photographer, faculty member Medford Taylor to exhibit work at Sweet Briar

‘Beauty in the Beast’ opens in Sweet Briar’s Pannell Gallery

Sweet Briar presents weekly Faculty Research Seminar Series over lunch

National Engineers Week Banquet at Sweet Briar to feature Christine Darden of ‘Hidden Figures’

Sweet Briar invites high school girls to explore engineering and computer science

The Vivaldi Project to perform at Sweet Briar College

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

Sweet Briar’s campus is excellent ecosystem for grant-funded sustainability internships

Sweet Briar invites high school girls to second Explore Environmental Science Weekend

Sweet Briar’s first-ever Explore Environmental Science Weekend to give high school girls hands-on experience

Ancient forests can’t talk, so one determined scientist speaks for them

Fight for old-growth forests subject of Sweet Briar’s Waxter Forum

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

Grant to bolster Sweet Briar’s environmental programs

Sweet Briar biologist nominated for conservation prize

Student-faculty duo publishes paper in national geophysics journal

Sweet Briar to sell warm-season grasses for biofuel

Waxter speaker lures readers to science with fiction