Lee University News

Christmas is coming in less than a month for Brice Marsh, now living in the Birmingham area.

A member of the City of Lexington Ministerial Association: The Reverend William M. Klein - A member of the Bar of Rockbridge County/City of Lexington: Donald Jackson Ellis, Esq.

I'm going to give everybody until 5 p.m. today to enter the contest to win Alton Brown's book, "Good Eats: The Early Years." The winner will be announced on this blog on Monday.

Disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair talking to college students about ethics? What's next? The former head of Lehman Brothers on financial risk management? Such was the blogosphere's snarky tone last week when Washington & Lee University in Virginia announced Blair would speak Friday at a journalism conference there.

If you organized a conference on marital fidelity and made Elliot Spitzer the keynote speaker, that would raise some eyebrows.

Dr. Kevin Brown was the featured writer in the first event of the Lee University Writer's Festival.

The Florida Board of Governors has appointed William R. Johnston and Felice C. Schulaner to the board of trustees at New College of Florida.

Thirty years after Iranian students, in the aftermath of the revolution of 1979, occupied the American Embassy and took American hostages, Hossein Sheiban, a professor of history and visiting scholar at Washington and Lee University, will give a talk that looks back over Iran's history and examines the country's situation today.

Some big international names in the theater world will be attending the 10th National Symposium of Theater in Academe at Washington and Lee University from November 11 - "14. Titled "Performyth," the symposium has expanded this year to include the First International Theater Festival.

LEXINGTON - Jayson Blair, who was at the center of a major journalism scandal as a New York Times reporter in 2003, will be the featured speaker at Washington and Lee University's 48th Journalism Ethics Institute on Nov.

LEXINGTON - Carolyn Denard, associate dean for undergraduate education at Emory University, will give a talk at Washington and Lee University at 7:30 p.m. Nov.

From the Civil War to civil rights, Southern newspapers have always played a major role in the region's history.

A symposium at Washington and Lee University's School of Law will explore recent violence on college campuses from the perspective of psychology, medical science and the law.

Hill International , the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that two executives have joined the firm as Vice Presidents in Hill's Washington, DC office.

Despite the changing seasons, there's been much recognition for all the green on campus.

The Campus-Community Coalition at Washington and Lee University will hold an open-forum discussion in Stackhouse Theatre in Elrod Commons Wednesday, Oct.

The art featured in the exhibit includes works completed during concerts held at Lee University.

Election 2009: Six people vying for three seats on the Board of Finance By CHASE WRIGHT Times Staff Writer STAMFORD -- Democrats have held a majority on the Board of Finance for about as long as Mayor Dannel Malloy has been in office.

Suzannah Lipscomb, a research curator at Hampton Court Palace, London, will give a lecture at Washington and Lee University on Tuesday, Nov.

Irish poet, playwright and teacher Paula Meehan will give a poetry reading at Washington and Lee University on Wednesday, Oct.