[360 Degree Experience] Washington and Lee University School of Law Commencement 2026 Washington and Lee University 2026-09-26 | [360 Degree Experience] Washington and Lee University School of Law Commencement 2026
Mudd Center • Beneficence, Practicing the Ethics of Care speaker Oscar Jerome Stewart Washington and Lee University 2022-11-03 | Public Lecture Title: "The Hidden Curricula of Competitive Individualism and its Roots in Business Education""I will focus on problematizing the unstated norms, values, and beliefs imbedded within business education and incorporated more broadly into the neoliberal university. I introduce competitive individualism to characterize the hidden curricula that prepares students for a by-gone world, or at least one inconsistent with values of the Global racial and ethnic majority. I highlight and meld the hidden curricula across other academic disciplines to reimagine business education."Oscar Jerome Stewart is concerned with power within organizations and power of organizations, and how to create more equitable and cooperative power structures that bind members together in a beneficent mutuality. Currently, Professor Stewart is working on projects on corporate misconduct, discrimination in higher education, and critical business pedagogy.Before joining the College of Charleston's School of Business, he was an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Business at San Francisco State University (SFSU). His is an author of journal articles, book chapters, and case studies that address business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sociological and organizational theoretical perspectives. He has taught courses on Organizational Behavior, Business & Society, Business Ethics, Society, and Sustainability, Strategic Management, and Ethical Business Practices, and has served as a Facilitator for the Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Pedagogies of Inclusive Excellence in Online Teaching Institute at SFSU's Center for Equity & Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CEETL).Professor Stewart has been recognized globally for his teaching innovation. Most recently, he was awarded the prestigious 2020 Ideas Worth Teaching Award from The Aspen Institute Business & Society Program. Among other previous honors, he was awarded the 2019-2020 CEETL High Impact Teaching Award, was selected as a 2019 ELEVATE Fellow at the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions, was awarded the SFSU Affordable Instructional Materials (AIM) Grant, and was selected as one of three university attendees for the 2018 Aspen Institute Business & Society Program.In his spare time, Professor Stewart loves to rehabilitate troubled dogs and can be seen traversing the low country with his two dogs, Sho Nuff the Shogun of the Low Country and Assata Shakur.Professor Stewart earned a B.A. in Finance & African American Studies from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina Charlotte's Interdisciplinary Organizational Science Program.
Mudd Center for Ethics with Helen Weng Washington and Lee University 2022-10-04 | Public Lecture Title: "Intersectional Neuroscience: Bringing diversity, equity, and inclusion to the neuroscience of meditation""I will show step-by-step how the neuroscience of meditation can be re-imagined by changing our methods in communicating with diverse participants and using quantitative methods that honor brain diversity. These new perspectives can provide new measures and insights into understanding how meditation can change our brains, bodies, and how we interact with others."Helen Weng is a neuroscientist and clinical psychologist who studies how meditation may improve social and physical health using neuroscientific, behavioral, and psychophysiological methods. She has developed new ways to quantify meditation skills using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and machine learning to identify mental states of body awareness during meditation.Dr. Weng's graduate work at the Center for Healthy Minds and Department of Psychology (UW-Madison) showed that short-term compassion meditation may increase both altruistic and neural responses to suffering. Her clinical interests include integrating compassion and mindfulness meditation with psychotherapy to treat mood and anxiety disorders, particularly for LGBTQ clients.More recently, Dr. Weng's research has focused on the neuroscience of meditation through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion. As an Assistant Professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, a core faculty member of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and an affiliate faculty member of Neuroscape Center, Dr. Weng increased the diversity of meditators included in neuroscience studies using community engagement with the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, CA. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, UCSF, and the Mind and Life Institute.In recognition of her impact, Dr. Weng was named one of the 12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement at mindful.org in 2019. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post, and Mindful Magazine. She has given public talks at the California Academy of Sciences, TedxMarin, and the Exploratorium After Dark series. She had the honor of presenting to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2012 and 2016, and received the Mind and Life Institute Service Award in 2019.Dr. Weng earned a B.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed a clinical internship at Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute & Clinics and a Research and Integrative Medicine postdoctoral fellowship at the UCSF Osher Center.
Mudd Center for Ethics with Karen Stohr Washington and Lee University 2022-10-04 | Public Lecture Title: "Good and Bad Helping: Moral Challenges with Beneficence""Sometimes helping people is straightforward. Often, however, it is not. We may be unsure what would be helpful, or how much help we need to provide. Maybe we don't feel like helping, or perhaps we don't like the person who needs our help. Helping actions can also sometimes be intrusive, condescending, misguided, or otherwise inappropriate. This talk will explore the moral challenges presented by beneficence, with an eye toward understanding what it means to help people well and how we can become better at this important moral task."Karen Stohr's scholarship focuses on how moral values and ideals get expressed in social life. Her published works address topics such as practical wisdom, moral imagination, beneficence, friendship, social conventions regarding disability, and the moral aims of dinner parties.Professor Stohr is the author of three books- On Manners (Routledge, 2011); Minding the Gap: Moral Ideals and Moral Improvement (Oxford University Press, 2019); and Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to Life (Oxford University Press, 2022). She often brings her work to public audiences as a guest on radio shows and podcasts. She recently co-authored a column for Washingtonian magazine called "Ask the Coronavirus Ethicist", and her work has appeared in a variety of additional public news outlets such as the New York Times.Professor Stohr is a frequent guest speaker on topics in bioethics, including embryonic stem cell research, end of life care, the principle of double effect, the Henrietta Lacks case, and respect for persons with disabilities. She has served on the ethics committee at Providence Hospital in Washington D.C.At Georgetown University, Professor Stohr teaches introductory ethics, bioethics, and undergraduate and graduate seminars in ethical theory, and she worked on the faculty team that developed and taught Georgetown's first bioethics MOOC. One of her favorite aspects of life at Georgetown is her work with the Engelhard Project for Connecting Life and Learning.Professor Stohr holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mudd Center 2022-23 • Beneficence: Practicing an Ethics of Care Washington and Lee University 2022-10-04 | Beneficence means to do good-to practice kindness, generosity, and charity toward others. It means actively promoting and safeguarding the well-being of others because it is morally right and because you care.Recent years have produced inspiring examples of beneficence as well as alarming manifestations of polarization and harm. In these challenging times, how should we think about our responsibilities to care for ourselves, for people that we know and love, and for others whom we don't know, disagree with, or have been harmed by? How are these responsibilities linked, in theory and in practice?If we aspire to practice beneficence and care within our personal, public, and professional lives, how can we translate these values into actions? How might we increase our capacity for care and compassion? What are some barriers to practicing care for self and others within complex and dynamic relationships and social systems?The Mudd Center's 2022-23 program will harness the wisdom of prominent and innovative thinkers whose work addresses concepts and practices of care. In addition to our traditional public lectures, this year the Mudd Center's program will include an interactive series of events - CareLab - that will personalize our year-long exploration of beneficence and care.
Mudd Center • Beneficence, Practicing the Ethics of Care speaker Helen Y. Weng Washington and Lee University 2022-09-22 | Public Lecture Title: "Intersectional Neuroscience: Bringing diversity, equity, and inclusion to the neuroscience of meditation""I will show step-by-step how the neuroscience of meditation can be re-imagined by changing our methods in communicating with diverse participants and using quantitative methods that honor brain diversity. These new perspectives can provide new measures and insights into understanding how meditation can change our brains, bodies, and how we interact with others."Helen Weng is a neuroscientist and clinical psychologist who studies how meditation may improve social and physical health using neuroscientific, behavioral, and psychophysiological methods. She has developed new ways to quantify meditation skills using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and machine learning to identify mental states of body awareness during meditation.Dr. Weng's graduate work at the Center for Healthy Minds and Department of Psychology (UW-Madison) showed that short-term compassion meditation may increase both altruistic and neural responses to suffering. Her clinical interests include integrating compassion and mindfulness meditation with psychotherapy to treat mood and anxiety disorders, particularly for LGBTQ clients.More recently, Dr. Weng's research has focused on the neuroscience of meditation through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion. As an Assistant Professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, a core faculty member of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and an affiliate faculty member of Neuroscape Center, Dr. Weng increased the diversity of meditators included in neuroscience studies using community engagement with the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, CA. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, UCSF, and the Mind and Life Institute.In recognition of her impact, Dr. Weng was named one of the 12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement at mindful.org in 2019. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post, and Mindful Magazine. She has given public talks at the California Academy of Sciences, TedxMarin, and the Exploratorium After Dark series. She had the honor of presenting to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2012 and 2016, and received the Mind and Life Institute Service Award in 2019.Dr. Weng earned a B.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed a clinical internship at Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute & Clinics and a Research and Integrative Medicine postdoctoral fellowship at the UCSF Osher Center.
Mudd Center • Beneficence, Practicing the Ethics of Care speaker Karen Stohr Washington and Lee University 2022-09-15 | Public Lecture Title: "Good and Bad Helping: Moral Challenges with Beneficence""Sometimes helping people is straightforward. Often, however, it is not. We may be unsure what would be helpful, or how much help we need to provide. Maybe we don't feel like helping, or perhaps we don't like the person who needs our help. Helping actions can also sometimes be intrusive, condescending, misguided, or otherwise inappropriate. This talk will explore the moral challenges presented by beneficence, with an eye toward understanding what it means to help people well and how we can become better at this important moral task."Karen Stohr's scholarship focuses on how moral values and ideals get expressed in social life. Her published works address topics such as practical wisdom, moral imagination, beneficence, friendship, social conventions regarding disability, and the moral aims of dinner parties.Professor Stohr is the author of three books- On Manners (Routledge, 2011); Minding the Gap: Moral Ideals and Moral Improvement (Oxford University Press, 2019); and Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to Life (Oxford University Press, 2022). She often brings her work to public audiences as a guest on radio shows and podcasts. She recently co-authored a column for Washingtonian magazine called "Ask the Coronavirus Ethicist", and her work has appeared in a variety of additional public news outlets such as the New York Times.Professor Stohr is a frequent guest speaker on topics in bioethics, including embryonic stem cell research, end of life care, the principle of double effect, the Henrietta Lacks case, and respect for persons with disabilities. She has served on the ethics committee at Providence Hospital in Washington D.C.At Georgetown University, Professor Stohr teaches introductory ethics, bioethics, and undergraduate and graduate seminars in ethical theory, and she worked on the faculty team that developed and taught Georgetown's first bioethics MOOC. One of her favorite aspects of life at Georgetown is her work with the Engelhard Project for Connecting Life and Learning.Professor Stohr holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Washington and Lee Welcomes the Class of 2026 Washington and Lee University 2022-09-09 | Over two weekends, our communications team talked a whole bunch of our incoming first-years, learning a bit about where they're from, and why they chose to join us here at Washington and Lee. We loved meeting you all – congratulations and welcome to the class of 2026.
Class of 2026: The One Minute Move Washington and Lee University 2022-09-09 | Libby Coppedge ’26 and Barclay McGinley ’26 set up their dorm in record-breaking time.
Washington and Lee University Fall Convocation 2022 Washington and Lee University 2022-09-07 | The W&L community is invited to celebrate a new academic year with Convocation on the Front Lawn on Sept. 7 at 5:30 p.m.This is a great opportunity to meet the first-year students, as well as to welcome seniors and third-year law students back for their final year.Provost Lena Hill will provide this year’s remarks. Hill is a passionate advocate of liberal arts education, and she serves on national boards and consortia including the National Humanities Alliance, the Modern Language Publications Committee, the Modernism/Modernity Editorial Board and the Consortium for Faculty Diversity Steering Committee. She is dedicated to working with faculty to deliver an academic experience to students that prepares them to flourish after graduating from W&L.
Mudd Center • Beneficence, Practicing the Ethics of Care speaker Seema Gajwani Washington and Lee University 2022-08-03 | Public Lecture Title: "Restorative vs Adversarial Justice: A New Paradigm for Addressing Crime and Conflict""The Restorative Justice Program at the DC Office of the Attorney General is the only such program within a prosecutor's office in the country. This talk will explore how cooperation, healing and redemption can operate within - and potentially transform - an adversarial system of justice."Seema Gajwani's work focuses on restorative justice practices, in which those affected by a crime - victim, offender, and other community members - are brought together to participate in a reconciliatory process, usually with the help of a facilitator. Restorative justice focuses on repairing harm and rebuilding relationships in the community. Its three interrelated and essential elements are to encounter, repair, and transform.Ms. Gajwani's career has addressed criminal justice from multiple vantage points. During law school she interned at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the King County Defender Association in Seattle, and the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana. She began her career as a trial attorney at the D.C. Public Defender Service and then ran the Criminal Justice Program at the Public Welfare Foundation in Washington, D.C. The latter position focused on improving criminal and juvenile justice systems across the country, particularly with regard to pretrial detention reform and prosecutorial culture change.Ms. Gajwani is a frequent public speaker and advocate for restorative justice practices. In 2019 she was selected to be an Obama Foundation Fellow for her work.Ms. Gajwani was educated at Northwestern University and the New York University School of Law.
Mudd Center • Beneficence, Practicing the Ethics of Care speaker Lynn Chin Washington and Lee University 2022-08-03 | Public Lecture Title: "Belonging in the Bubble: How to Transverse the Indifferences that Divide Us: Reflections on what caring as a community means at W&L"“What does it mean to care about others in a community? A sense of belonging is frequently rooted in our day-to-day relationships, but even in a small community like W&L, it can feel like we all exist in “bubbles within a bubble”, each with their own concerns. Does feeling comfortable in our own bubbles encourage apathy and indifference to the issues that exist outside our own spheres? Let’s explore the social factors that inhibit, but also incentivize us to step beyond ourselves as we construct a shared community together.”Lynny Gencianeo Chin is a sociologist whose main area of study is small group processes. She is interested in the structural factors that encourage people’s attachment to groups. For instance, does the way people divide labor affect their feelings about their group? A recent project examines whether people hold stereotypes, or schemas, about the structure of status hierarchies, such that we expect them to encourage smooth intragroup coordination. Professor Chin also studies students’ understandings of what it means to fit in and belong at college. She is particularly interested in how understandings of “fit”, in both the social and academic spheres, differ across race and type of institution.During W&L’s 2023 spring term, Professor Chin will teach her signature “Belonging in College”, where students will explore the questions of 1) what does it mean to “belong” in college and 2) how academic institutional structures shape inequalities in who gets to “fit in” and who “belongs”. The course aims to build a set of orienting tools that allow students to critically think about what schools have done to improve inclusion on campus and to reflect on how that itself changed the landscape of belonging in national discourse. If we believe that college is more than just about obtaining a degree to find a job, but is also about providing space for all, especially students, to explore and mature, then understanding the different types of struggles people have in feeling like they “belong” is of utmost importance for developing of successful inclusion interventions on campus.Professor Chin earned a B.A. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from the Sociology Department at Stanford University.
Mudd Center • Beneficence, Practicing the Ethics of Care speaker John Lysaker Washington and Lee University 2022-08-03 | Public Lecture Title: "Become Who You Aren't: Friendship as Spectacle""Friendship is a site of non-obligatory goodwill and care that shows us how a benevolent regard for others intensifies and expands a life, and in ways that expose series limits to standard distinctions between altruism and egoism."John Lysaker works in multiple areas including ethics, the philosophy of art and literature, philosophical psychology, and 19th and 20th Century American and Continental Philosophies. His interdisciplinary scholarship interrogates phenomena like the good life, the nature and social function of art, and the nature of the self and its fate in schizophrenia. He has a particular interest in friendship.Before joining the faculty at Emory University in 2009, Professor Lysaker taught Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon. He is the author of several books and some sixty-five articles and chapters, many of which explore the writings of various thinkers, poets, and artists such as Emerson, Adorno, Charles Simic, Anselm Kiefer, and Brian Eno. His most recent book, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press and entitled Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness: Essays in Finitude, explores ethical life from the vantage point of some of its most ambiguous affects. Earlier books include Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2018); Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports (Oxford University Press, 2018), After Emerson (Indiana University Press, 2017), Emerson and Thoreau: Figures of Friendship (Indiana University Press, 2010), and You Must Change Your Life: Poetry and the Birth of Sense (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002), among others.Future work will include two book length projects: an extended meditation on friendship entitled The Unqualified Good and Consider This: A Philosophy of Art.Professor Lysaker was educated at Kenyon College and earned his PhD at Vanderbilt University.
POSTPONED: Mudd Center • Beneficence, Practicing the Ethics of Care speaker Richard Weissbourd Washington and Lee University 2022-08-03 | This talk has been postponed. New date TBA.Public Lecture Title: "Raising Caring, Justice-Minded Children in a Morally Troubled Time""This talk will explore how we can raise children who care about others and about justice as well as the particular challenges of raising caring, justice-minded children in this time. These challenges include the degree to which parents have prioritized achievement and happiness over concern for others and the common good, moral corruption in our country and widespread political antagonism and polarization. How during this time can we raise children who are not cynical or detached in the face of these challenges but caring and committed to a better and more just world?"Richard Weissbourd‘s work focuses on moral development, vulnerability and resilience in childhood, and effective schools and services for children. He directs the Making Caring Common Project, a national effort to make moral and social development priorities in child-raising and to provide strategies to schools and parents for promoting in children caring, a commitment to justice and other key moral and social capacities. He leads an initiative to reform college admissions, Turning the Tide, which seeks to elevate ethical character, reduce excessive achievement pressure and increase equity and access in the college admissions process. He is also conducting research on how older adults can better mentor young adults and teenagers in developing caring, ethical, mature romantic relationships.Professor Weissbourd is a founder of several interventions for children facing risks, including ReadBoston and WriteBoston, city-wide literacy initiatives that were led by Mayor Menino. He is also a founder of a pilot school in Boston, the Lee Academy, that begins with children at 3 years old. He has advised on the city, state and federal levels on family policy, parenting and school reform and has written for numerous scholarly and popular publications and blogs, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today and NPR. He is the author of The Vulnerable Child: What Really Hurts America's Children and What We Can Do About It (Addison-Wesley, 1996), named by the American School Board Journal as one of the top 10 education books of all time. His most recent book, The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development (Houghton Mifflin 2009), was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 24 books of 2009.Professor Weissbourd earned a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University.
Alumni College 2022 • The Harlem Renaissance with Lena Hill Washington and Lee University 2022-07-28 | America is a nation of many voices. At key moments in our history, when social forces, popular culture and political life have coalesced, these separate voices have come together to form new national expression, new artistic achievement. The Founding Era is one example; so too is the American Renaissance of the 1850s. The period of the Harlem Renaissance in the early 20th century is another. Within a few decades, American art and culture flourished in ways that are still influencing our understanding of ourselves as a nation.
Alumni College 2022 • Perspectives on the Middle East with Seth Cantey Washington and Lee University 2022-07-28 | History in the Middle East runs deep, and the variety of cultures, ethnicities and languages is vast. Islam is the dominant religion, but it means different things to different people in different places. The roles of women are constantly changing, and women are now competing with men across a range of societal spheres. Perspectives on the Middle East will offer an introduction to all of these themes and to the broader heritage of the region. Participants will gain a greater understanding of the cultural and political complexities of the region as well as some encouraging developments.
Alumni College 2022 • Poets of the Neighborhood with Jim Warren Washington and Lee University 2022-07-28 | The poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830-1885) and Robert Frost (1874-1963) is familiar to us not merely because it is distinctively American but also because it is local. While New England was their common ground, their most frequent subjects were found in their neighborhoods.As different as they are in style, vision and voice, Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost are good neighbors to one another, and also to the natural world they explore in striking ways. Helping us appreciate their remarkable poetry will be Jim Warren, Mason Professor of English emeritus.
The Harlem Renaissance with Lena Hill Washington and Lee University 2022-07-25 | America is a nation of many voices. At key moments in our history, when social forces, popular culture and political life have coalesced, these separate voices have come together to form new national expression, new artistic achievement. The Founding Era is one example; so too is the American Renaissance of the 1850s. The period of the Harlem Renaissance in the early 20th century is another. Within a few decades, American art and culture flourished in ways that are still influencing our understanding of ourselves as a nation.
Poets of the Neighborhood: Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost with Jim Warren Washington and Lee University 2022-07-21 | The poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830-1885) and Robert Frost (1874-1963) is familiar to us not merely because it is distinctively American but also because it is local. While New England was their common ground, their most frequent subjects were found in their neighborhoods. As different as they are in style, vision and voice, Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost are good neighbors to one another, and also to the natural world they explore in striking ways. Helping us appreciate their remarkable poetry will be Jim Warren, Mason Professor of English emeritus.
Perspectives in the Middle East with Seth Cantey Washington and Lee University 2022-07-11 | History in the Middle East runs deep, and the variety of cultures, ethnicities and languages is vast. Islam is the dominant religion, but it means different things to different people in different places. The roles of women are constantly changing, and women are now competing with men across a range of societal spheres. Perspectives on the Middle East will offer an introduction to all of these themes and to the broader heritage of the region. Participants will gain a greater understanding of the cultural and political complexities of the region as well as some encouraging developments.
Washington and Lee University Undergraduate Commencement 2022 Washington and Lee University 2022-06-02 | The 2021-22 academic year is the 273rd year in the life of Washington and Lee University and culminates with the Commencement ceremonies for the undergraduate College and Williams School.
Washington and Lee University School of Law Commencement 2022 Washington and Lee University 2022-06-02 | The 167th commencement ceremony for the Washington and Lee University School of Law was held on Friday, May 13, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. on the Front Lawn of the main campus.
Washington and Lee University Undergraduate Commencement 2022 Washington and Lee University 2022-05-26 | The 2021-22 academic year is the 273rd year in the life of Washington and Lee University and culminates with the Commencement ceremonies for the School of Law, and the undergraduate College and Williams School.
Washington and Lee Univeristy Undergraduate Baccalaureate 2022 Washington and Lee University 2022-05-25 | The Undergraduate Baccalaureate Service was held on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at 10 a.m., on the Front Lawn. The featured address was given by The Very Reverend Dane E. Boston ’08, Dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, South Carolina.
Washington and Lee University School of Law Commencement 2022 Washington and Lee University 2022-05-13 | The 167th commencement ceremony for the Washington and Lee University School of Law is scheduled for Friday, May 13, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. on the Front Lawn of the main campus.
Mudd Center • Daily Ethics speaker Mark Coddington Washington and Lee University 2022-03-24 | Talk Title: "The Everyday Ethics of Scrolling Through Social Media: How to Avoid Getting Buried in an Online Information Avalanche""I will discuss strategies and habits for navigating the flood of misleading and distracting information on social media in order to find the quality news we need to be thoughtful, informed, and engaged citizens. I'll explore how our everyday digital media consumption embodies a liberal-arts philosophy and our values as members of the W&L community."Mark Coddington's research focuses on media sociology and networked journalism. As a professor and former journalist, he is working to understand our new journalistic ecosystem - not only the technical skills of engaging in it, but also the deeper concepts of what type of society it's helping to create.
Mudd Center • Daily Ethics with Katharine Hayhoe Washington and Lee University 2022-03-15 | “Climate is changing—throughout Virginia, across the United States, and for the planet as a whole. Temperatures are increasing, rainfall patterns are shifting, and extreme precipitation and heat wave events are becoming more frequent. In such a politically charged environment, how are we still able to act on climate? As a starting point, it is critical for us to talk about it: to consider why it matters to us here and now; explore solutions available to us today; and take action to address it at every level, from our families and communities to our institutions and businesses.”
Mudd Center • Daily Ethics speaker Neeru Paharia Washington and Lee University 2022-03-10 | Talk Title: "The Ethics of Consumer Choice""Consumption is one of the drivers behind significant world problems. The fashion industry alone contributes 10% of global carbon emissions. In this talk, we will consider the psychology of consumer behavior, and explore psychological strategies to enable more sustainable consumption."A primary focus of Neeru Paharia's research is political consumption, or the conditions under which consumers are likely to wield their buying power to express their political views and enact social change. A secondary focus examines how people signal their social status with alternative status signals, such as using well-resourced (or "top dog") brands or communicating how busy they are. She utilizes experimental methods to collect real-world data with an aim to impact practice and have a positive influence on business and society.
2022 Institute for Honor Symposium Keynote with Elizabeth Varon Washington and Lee University 2022-03-05 | ELIZABETH R. VARON is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia and a member of the executive council of UVA's John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History. Varon grew up in northern Virginia. She received her PhD from Yale, and has held teaching positions at Wellesley College and Temple University. A specialist in the Civil War era and 19th-century South, Varon is the author of We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (1998); Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy (2003), Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (2008) and Appomattox: Victory, Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War (2013). Southern Lady, Yankee Spy won three book awards and was named one of the "Five Best" books on the "Civil War away from the battlefield" in the Wall Street Journal. Appomattox won the 2014 Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction, the 2014 Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize for Civil War History (Austin Civil War Roundtable), and the 2014 Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies of the New York Military Affairs Symposium, and was named one of Civil War Monitor's "Best Books of 2014" and one of National Public Radio's "Six Civil War Books to Read Now." Varon's public presentations include book talks at the Lincoln Bicentennial in Springfield; and at Gettysburg's Civil War Institute; and on C-Span's Book TV. Her most recent book, Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War, won the 2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and was named one of the Wall Street Journal's best books of 2019. She is currently working on a biography of James Longstreet, forthcoming with Simon & Schuster in 2023.
Financial Realities, Episode Five of the W&L Lifelong Learning Webinar Sustainability Series Washington and Lee University 2022-03-01 | In this concluding session, we'll address the financial questions surrounding sustainability. W&L economics professor Jim Casey will survey the myriad components of a cost/benefit analysis of sustainable development, both nationally and globally. Kurt Harrison P'23, Co-Head of the Global ESG & Sustainability Practice at Russell Reynolds Associates, will review Wall Street's movement toward investments based on environmental, social, and governance considerations (ESG). Alex Prather '14 is currently earning a dual MBA/MPA at MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Kennedy School. She has extensive experience in the climate tech and climate policy sectors of the venture capital industry. Her special focus is on the assessment and funding of new technical innovations for carbon removal from earth's atmosphere.
Alternative Energy Sources, Episode Four of the W&L Lifelong Learning Webinar Sustainability Series Washington and Lee University 2022-02-24 | Bill Hamilton, Professor of Biology, will provide an overview of energy resources with questions concerning the supply of each resource and its impact on our global environment. Two W&L alumni with close interest in the field of energy will follow with insights on current developments in the decarbonization of energy and solar industries. In "From the Traditional Energy Complex to a New Energy Economy," Bryant Fulk '08 will discuss efforts by major commercial firms to achieve Net Zero in their impact on the environment. Erik Curren '87 will focus on the rapid development of solar technology in "The Promise of Solar Energy."
Planet Water: Pollution, Episode Three of the W&L Lifelong Learning Sustainability Series Washington and Lee University 2022-02-16 | Lisa Greer, Professor of Geology with research interest in coral reefs, will discuss how climate change and the increasing pollution of our oceans are affecting the health of coral reefs and why that matters to us all. Environmental Studies Director Robert Humston will discuss the threats to water resources and the health of freshwater ecosystems, and how these connect with the health of our coastal oceans. Laura Henson Strickler '08 will address "Protecting the Blue Planet through International Policy." She'll discuss the work of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the international challenges of monitoring the health of our oceans.
Daily Ethics Mosaic: Artist Talk and Reception with Jonathan Lee Washington and Lee University 2022-02-16 | The Daily Ethics Mosaic had been displayed in the Wilson Hall Atrium from January 10 - February 9, 2022.
Food, Farms and Fisheries, Episode Two of the W&L Lifelong Learning Sustainability Series Washington and Lee University 2022-02-16 | In this session, we'll focus on sustainable agriculture and the most prolific yet endangered source of food for the planet's population, the world's fisheries. We'll also take a look at sustainable practices at W&L. Chelsea Fisher, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies will explore the relationship between farming and the environment, not only currently but historically. Niquole Esters '04, Senior Director of Development for Conservation International, will focus on our global oceans and conservation measures to sustain and increase the world's fisheries. Kim Hodge, W&L's Director of Sustainability Initiatives and Education and member of the Virginia Department of Education's Environmental Education Advisory Committee, will discuss how W&L has adopted several examples of sustainable practices as well as how the university is educating its students on sustainability.
What Do We Mean by Sustainability?, Episode One of the W&L Lifelong Learning Sustainability Series Washington and Lee University 2022-02-16 | Jim Casey '91, Professor of Economics and faculty advisor for our sustainability webinar, teams up with Robert Humston, John Kyle Spencer Director for Environmental Studies and Professor of Biology, and Julianna Keeling '19, founder and CEO of Terravive, a manufacturer of biodegradable packaging and utensils, to introduce the concept of "Sustainability," how sustainable development has become increasingly important to the future of our planet, and how local initiatives are beginning to make a difference.
Mudd Center • Daily Ethics speaker Jay Whitacre Washington and Lee University 2022-02-10 | Talk Title: "The Criticality of Technical Honesty in Growing Energy Technology Companies: How Even the Best Intentions Can Lead to Ruin""In this talk I will discuss the ethical challenges encountered by leaders in small and growing energy technology firms that must show progress to survive and so face temptations misleading investors and/or customers when progress is slow (which is common). I will offer personal experiences and reflections from the energy storage world and suggest ethical best-practices to avoid conflict or worse."Jay Whitacre's work focuses on developing and analyzing new materials and systems for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. He also studies the policy aspects of materials and technologies for the energy sector, such as the economics of scaled production, lifecycle analyses (including analyzing the energy footprint of manufacturing energy-related products), the implications of broad adoption of new energy technologies, large-scale energy storage devices, and concurrent engineering analyses of power systems.
A Conversation with Krissah Thompson, The Washington Post Managing Editor of Diversity and Inclusion Washington and Lee University 2021-11-17 | Krissah Thompson, The Washingtonton Post Managing Editor of Diversity and Inclusion, in conversation via Zoom with Knight Chair in Media Ethics Aly Colón, about "New Ways to Tell Stories."
Mudd Center • Daily Ethics speaker Chantal Bilodeau Washington and Lee University 2021-11-11 | Talk Title: "Living in the Questions of a Climate-Changed World""Theatre can help us surface the questions that science doesn't have time to ask. Gathering around stories is one of the most powerful tools we have to strengthen our values and create a more just and sustainable world."Chantal Bilodeau is a playwright and translator whose work focuses on the intersection of science, policy, art and climate change.
Mudd Center • Daily Ethics speaker Andrew Chignell Washington and Lee University 2021-10-28 | Talk Title: "What to Do When You Don't Make a Difference""Those of us who relish certain products of the global industrial economy but also believe it is wrong to consume them are often so demoralized by the apparent inefficacy of our private, individual choices that we are unable to resist. My goal here is to explore the challenges that this sort of futility poses to our moral resolve and argue for an approach that is at once non-consequentialist but still sensitive to the role that consequences play in our moral psychology. Along the way, I examine a number of different accounts of what it means to ‘make a difference' before articulating my own."Andrew Chignell's (Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor, University Center for Human Values, Religion, and Philosophy, Princeton University) work focuses on 17th- and 18th-century philosophy (especially Immanuel Kant), the moral psychology of hope and despair, food ethics, and philosophy of religion.
Mudd Center • Daily Ethics speaker Cheshire Calhoun Washington and Lee University 2021-09-27 | Talk Title: "Responsible Persons in Everyday Life""We approach those with whom we share everyday interactions with the presumption that they are responsible persons in three senses: they can be held accountable for what they do, they are disposed to comply with minimal normative expectations, and they ought and sometimes will take responsibility. Attending to these three conceptions of responsible persons helps explain the centrality of resentment, trust and hope in everyday life."Cheshire Calhoun, Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University, works in the areas of normative ethics and moral psychology, addressing topics such as civility, common decency, integrity, hope, meaningful living, appreciation and taking on responsibilities.
Roger Mudd Center for Ethics 2021-22 • Daily Ethics Washington and Lee University 2021-09-24 | Daily Ethics: How Individual Choices and Habits Express Our Values and Shape Our WorldWe have shared a year in which rhythms of our daily lives were deconstructed. What has this experience helped us to understand about our values and priorities? What new perspectives has the past year offered regarding the kind of world we want to live in? How will we use these insights to craft our lives, moving forward?The Mudd Center for Ethics is embracing this liminal moment to present a program about intentions and practices that comprise a meaningful life. How should we make sense of and carry out our responsibilities to ourselves, each other, ideals, society, and our world, now and in the future? How should we actualize our values on an individual scale - the decisions we encounter as we move through our days - and on a collective scale - actions that address systemic injustices, maximize health and well-being across the globe, and sustain resources to serve future generations? This series will prompt introspection and discussion about personal morality and agency: how our daily lives manifest who and how we strive to be in our days and in our lives.
Washington and Lee University • Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards 2020 Washington and Lee University 2021-09-22 | Julio Hidalgo Lopez and Joëlle Simeu, recipients of the 2020 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, speak at Washington and Lee University's class of 2020 commencement exercises.
Washington and Lee University Fall Convocation 2021 Washington and Lee University 2021-09-17 | Our academic year begins with Fall Convocation, where President Will Dudley, who became W&L’s 27th president in January 2017, will provide this year’s remarks.
Washington and Lee University Class of 2020 Commencement Ceremony Washington and Lee University 2021-09-17 | The official commencement celebrations for the undergraduate and law classes of 2020.
Washington and Lee Welcomes the Class of 2025 Washington and Lee University 2021-09-15 | Over two weekends, our communications team talked a whole bunch of our incoming first-years, learning a bit about where they're from, and why they chose to join us here at Washington and Lee. We loved meeting you all – congratulations and welcome to the class of 2025.
Class of 2020 Commencement Ceremony Washington and Lee University 2021-09-11 | We are pleased to announce that the official commencement celebrations for the undergraduate and law classes of 2020 will take place on Saturday, Sept. 11.The commencement ceremony will take place at 10:30 a.m. on the Front Lawn.
Washington and Lee University Undergraduate Commencement 2021 Washington and Lee University 2021-05-27 | The 234th undergraduate commencement will be held on Thursday, May 27, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. on Wilson Field. The Baccalaureate Service scheduled for Wednesday, May 26, is cancelled.
Washington and Lee School of Law Commencement 2021 Washington and Lee University 2021-05-07 | The 166th commencement ceremony for the Washington and Lee University School of Law will be held on Friday, May 7, at 10:00 a.m. on Wilson Field. The annual law awards ceremony will take place virtually.
Stop API Hate Washington and Lee University 2021-04-01 | Since March of 2020 the number of reported hate/bias incidents against Asian and Pacific Islander (API) people has increased exponentially. However, we cannot truly quantify the number of hate/bias incidents as many incidents go unreported. Members of the API community at W&L encourage you to stand up and speak out to #StopAPIHate. Video: Dani RobertsMusic: Warm Memories by Keys of Moon MusicStudent Speakers: Adrian Lam, Alice Chen, Hellen Li, Natalie Gresham, ToniAnn Wong, Catherine McKean, Katana Evans, Sarah Concepcion, Andrea LevanStaff Speakers: Dani Roberts and Erin NessFaculty Speakers: Dr. Lynny Chin, Dr. Hongchu Fu, Professor Janet Ikeda, Dr. Afshad Irani
Mudd Center/CIE • Global Ethics with F. Kwame Yeboah Washington and Lee University 2021-03-15 | Prof. Kwame Yeboah is an Assistant Professor of International Development and a member of the Food Security Group at Michigan State University. He joined the department in December 2014 under the Guiding Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Africa grant.Talk Title: "Africa's Youth and Agrifood System: Pathways for Job Creation and Economic Transformation."
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