
Shenandoah Conservatory announces 2018/19 season
Shenandoah Conservatory announces its Conservatory Performs 2018/19 season.

Shenandoah Conservatory announces its Conservatory Performs 2018/19 season.

Paul Youngman, the Harry E. and Mary Jayne W. Redenbaugh Professor of German at Washington and Lee University, has been named associate provost of the university, beginning July 1.

Elizabeth Oliver, the Lewis Whitaker Adams Professor of Accounting and department chair at Washington and Lee University, is the new associate dean of the Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics, beginning July 1.

Taylor and Boody Organbuilders in Staunton has completed installation of a photovoltaic solar system to power their workshop. The 37kW, 109-panel system is expected to produce 46,251kW of power and offset approximately 75,885 lb. of CO2 emissions annually.

Washington and Lee University presents a public lecture with Shannon Bell ’00, W&L alumna and associate professor of sociology at Virginia Tech, on May 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Huntley Hall 327.

Washington and Lee University will host its 15th annual Tom Wolfe Weekend April 20-21. This year’s event will also be unique as namesake Tom Wolfe will be on campus to attend the weekend.

Washington and Lee University presents the annual Friends of the Library Symposium as part of Alumni Weekend on April 28 at 1:30 p.m. in Northen Auditorium.

Rod Smith, Washington and Lee University’s writer in residence and editor of the online literary magazine Shenandoah, will present his annual and final reading, before his retirement from W&L in June, on April 3 in Leyburn Library Book Nook at 4:45 p.m.

Shenandoah University will mark Women’s History Month in March with a series of events celebrating women’s leadership and empowerment.

Author Robert Macfarlane will deliver the Shannon-Clark Lecture in English at Washington and Lee University on March 1 at 7 p.m. in Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library.