
Bridgewater College Alumni Association awards scholarships
The Bridgewater College Alumni Association recognized a number of students in the campus community at the annual college awards ceremony on April 22.

The Bridgewater College Alumni Association recognized a number of students in the campus community at the annual college awards ceremony on April 22.

Bridgewater College’s Teacher Education Program presented two awards at the college awards ceremony on April 22.

Washington and Lee University’s first annual Glasgow distinguished visiting writer, Luisa A. Igloria, will give a public reading on May 1 in Leyburn Library’s Book Nook.

Perfect writing skills could be acquired only by constant practice and diligence. No one was born a great writer. Every person may become a writer if he or she is enough studious and decisive.

Virginia Tech was host last week to more than 400 talented, accomplished women who convened in Blacksburg for the sixth annual Faculty Women of Color in the Academy National Conference.

SWAG Writers (The Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Virginia Writers Club) Reading Series continues in April with a reading by poets Susan Facknitz, Stan Galloway, Leona Sevick, Michael Trocchia, and Lesley Wheeler

Attorney General Mark R. Herring commemorated National Crime Victims’ Rights Week by honoring ten victims’ advocates at the second annual Unsung Heroes Awards ceremony in Richmond.

Shenandoah University music education major Drake Stoughton ’18, of Manassas, Virginia, and global studies and Spanish alumna Niulka Franco Marin ‘17, of Winchester, have received prestigious Fulbright Awards.

New Dominion Bookshop (404 E Main St., Charlottesville) has announced its schedule of events and specials for National Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 28.

Shenandoah University’s English Department and the Willa Cather Endowment will host “Writing for Computer Games,” a discussion featuring award-winning science fiction writer and computational linguist Tracy Canfield.