
Education awards presented at Bridgewater College
The Virginia Scholars Award was presented to Bridgewater College senior Rachael Sloan during the annual awards convocation on May 6.

The Virginia Scholars Award was presented to Bridgewater College senior Rachael Sloan during the annual awards convocation on May 6.

It was a simple photo: Short Sleeve Sampson at ringside hours before the WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view smiling for the camera not far from where he’d be set up as an announcer for the WeeLC match that night.

Mariah Fortman and Shannon Regen, both interns with Valley Program for Aging Services and seniors at James Madison University, presented a program at East Rockingham Senior Center on the benefits of water and the role it plays in the body.

Bridgewater College announced today it will partner with Akademos Inc. – a leading provider of integrated online bookstores and marketplaces for educational institutions – to make textbooks fully available online.

Dr. Nancy B. Klancher, an assistant professor of philosophy and religion at Bridgewater College, has been selected from a nationwide pool of nominees to participate in a faculty seminar on the teaching of interfaith understanding.

Virginia’s Tidewater region — where the Chesapeake Bay, the James River, and the Atlantic Ocean meet — is home to the largest concentration of military bases and facilities in the world.

Christian Sheridan, an associate professor of English at Bridgewater College, is one of a select group of faculty members nationwide chosen by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Center for Hellenic Studies to participate in an Ancient Greece in the Modern Classroom seminar on Homer’s Odyssey.

Dan Reed, director of the Planet Forward project at The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs, will speak at Bridgewater College’s Earth Day convocation on Tuesday, April 22, in Cole Hall.

The Rev. Dr. Jeffrey W. Carter, president of Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Ind., will provide the 2014 commencement address at Bridgewater College on Saturday, May 17, at 10 a.m.

Our company depends on clean water for our success. That’s why we’re pleased that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued new draft rules for enforcement of the Clean Water Act last month.
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