In The News

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  Sweet Briar student-equestrian superstar on the rise
  (News & Advance) She was practically born in the saddle. At age 19, Makayla Benjamin-has been riding most of her life.
• The Story of Saving Sweet Briar – or Don’t Mess with the Vixen!
  (The Giving Institute) By now you may or may not have heard the saga of Sweet Briar College.
• 100 Most Influential Georgians
  (GeorgiaTrend.com) [Sweet Briar College grad Teresa] Tomlinson, in her second term, is leading an effort to thaw a property tax freeze in place for more than 30 years in Georgia’s second-largest city, which has seen much revitalization during her tenure.
• Sweet Briar student wins international riding competition
  (WSET 13, Lynchburg, Va.) A Sweet Briar College sophomore is now in the record books as a collegiate world champion rider.
• Sweet Briar College student places high in horse riding competition in Germany
  (WDBJ7, Roanoke, Va.) A Sweet Briar College student has a lot to be proud of. 18-year-old Makayla Benjamin from Leesburg, Virginia competed in a worldwide horse riding competition in Germany this week.
• Sweet Briar College rider topped league in show jumping at world finals
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College sophomore Makayla Benjamin out-hurdled her competition while helping to represent the United States in an international riding championship in Germany on Thursday.
• Person of the Year: Saving Sweet Briar
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) The women of the Saving Sweet Briar movement were hard to miss.
• The News & Advance's top stories of 2015
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College announces plans to close; alumnae rally to save school
• Top 10 most-read news stories of 2015
  (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va.) 1. Sweet Briar College’s decision to close stuns students
• AP Photos: Virginia’s year of tragedies and triumphs
  (WTOP, Washington, D.C.) The killing of two journalists on live TV, the sentencing of former Gov. Bob McDonnell for political corruption and his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, and a rescue package for struggling Sweet Briar College marked a year of tragedy and triumph in Virginia in 2015. See photos of the top stories.
• Sweet Briar rider for Team USA makes it to second round in Germany
  (WSLS10, Roanoke, Va.) A member of the equestrian team at Sweet Briar College has made it to the second round of the World finals in Germany.
• A reopened Sweet Briar finds confidence amid challenges
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Set up in an old cubicle with a list of names on a foggy winter’s night, Sweet Briar student Brittany Behrens studied her notebook before dialing.
• 2015: A year of tumult on college campuses
  (Washington Post, Washington, D.C.) On U.S. college campuses, 2015 was a wildly unpredictable year of reckoning. There were uprisings, shutdowns and lockdowns.
• Sweet Briar rider to compete in equestrian World Finals
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College sophomore Makayla Benjamin is one of three riders who will represent Team USA in Germany at the World University Equestrian Federation World Finals (AIEC).
• Land Conservationist to Lead Alumnae Relations at Sweet Briar
  (The Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington, D.C.) Before Mary Pope Hutson applied for an executive position at Sweet Briar College, her alma mater, she “really had to think long and hard” about leaving her 18 years of work as a land conservationist.
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  Small-College Savior: Tracy Stuart
  (The Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington, D.C.) “Is it weird to say that I want to sue my college?” Tracy Stuart, a 1993 graduate of Sweet Briar College, remembers asking her lawyer.
• Sweet Briar rider will represent team USA in World Finals
  (WSLS 10, Roanoke, Va.) Sweet Briar College sophomore Makayla Benjamin will get the chance to experience competing on an international level as she rides for the United States at the AIEC-SRNC World Finals.
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• Our view: Our Christmas wish list
  (The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Va.) A big incoming class at Sweet Briar College. The Sweet Briar saga was one of the most captivating stories of the year — first, the board announced the school would close, then alumnae rallied to fight the decision and, remarkably, won.
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  Fortune’s 2015 Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit: Who to Watch and When
  (Fortune.com) Check out our livestream to hear from powerhouses including retiring U.S. soccer star Abby Wambach, 23andMe co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcikci, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, actress and producer Alyssa Milano,designer Rachel Roy, Instagram COO Marne Levine, TaskRabbit founder and CEO Leah Busque and COO Stacy Brown-Philpot, and many, many more.
• Our view: Sweet Briar alumnae show their colors
  (The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Va.) On the morning of March 3, a news alert flashed across Wendy Warren’s phone: Sweet Briar College was closing. She thought it might be weather-related. It was not.
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  French exchange student: “I need to be over there to feel.”
  (ABC13, WSET, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College has been in crisis response mode since Friday’s attacks.The school had to track down all of its 36 foreign exchange students in Paris-most of whom are students from other universities.
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  Sweet Briar study abroad programs in France continue; plans put in place
  (WSLS 10, Roanoke, Va.) John Lambeth, the interim director of the JYF in Paris and Nice Program provided updates on the developing situation in Paris, France. According to Lambeth, the program is open and running in Paris.
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  Sweet Briar College students studying abroad in Paris safe and accounted for
  (WDBJ 7, Roanoke, Va.) All Sweet Briar College students studying abroad in Paris are safe and accounted for, according to a statement from the school.
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  Sweet Briar students studying abroad in Paris safe after attacks
  (WSLS 10, Roanoke, Va.) All Sweet Briar College students in Paris, France are safe and accounted for after reported terrorist attacks in the city.
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  EXCLUSIVE: Seth Meyers one-on-one with Dawn Jefferies at Sweet Briar College
  (WSLS 10, Roanoke, Va.) NBC’s Late Night host, Seth Meyers made a stop at Sweet Briar College in Amherst County Friday morning as part of a contest called ‘Professors of Entertainment.’  
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  Seth Meyers offers pearls of wisdom — and a few laughs — at Sweet Briar College
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Saturday Night Live alumnus Seth Meyers spoke with students at Sweet Briar College on Friday, taking their questions and sharing stories about his career.
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  Sweet Briar board OK’s 2015-16 budget; plan would draw $3.5M from endowment
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College doesn’t need to lean heavily on its endowment to make ends meet this year, Teresa Pike Tomlinson, chairwoman of the college’s board of directors, said Tuesday following the body’s unanimous adoption of a budget at this weekend’s meeting on campus.
• Solving a math problem
  (Virginia Business) Sweet Briar College’s rescue by its alumnae sparked national headlines in June, with television crews and print journalists descending in droves on the 3,250-acre Amherst County campus just north of Lynchburg.
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  Venom-spitting spiders hatching out all over Alabama make great mothers
  (AL.com) “The fact that spiders are talented predators is well known,” said Linda Fink, an ecology professor at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. “Less well known is how many species of spiders are excellent mothers.”
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  Where High School Girls Discover Engineering
  (The Huffington Post) Although the field of engineering offers women careers that are engaging and interesting, this career has not been a historically popular choice.
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  Why Campus Traditions Matter
  (The Chronicle of Higher Education) In her will, Indiana Fletcher Williams called for the creation of a women’s college on the family’s rural Virginia plantation in memory of her deceased daughter, Daisy. The near-closing and rescue of Sweet Briar College gives this year’s Founder’s Day a fresh poignancy.
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  Sweet Briar College has 240 Students and a Brighter Future
  (89.1, WVTF Public Radio) Last March Sweet Briar College’s then Board and President announced that due to insurmountable financial challenges the school was closing. The news not only shocked the small Amherst County liberal arts school but alumnae from across the country.
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  Virginia Tech expands research capacity to investigate forests from the atmospheric perspective
  (Augusta Free Press) Virginia Tech has increased its capacity to study forests and how such landscapes influence climate by adding Thomas O’Halloran to the forest resources and environmental conservation research faculty in the College of Natural Resources and Environment.
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  Seth Meyers to speak at Sweet Briar on Nov. 6
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Executives at NBC confirmed Friday comedian Seth Meyers will speak at Sweet Briar College on Nov. 6. The lecture is a part of NBCUniversal and Comcast Xfinity’s Professors of Entertainment contest promotion.
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  New Sweet Briar College President Ready To Take On Challenges
  (90.1 FM WABE, Atlanta, Ga.) Sweet Briar College is a small women’s liberal arts school located in Sweet Briar, Virginia.
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  My Horse Country
  (The New York Times) If I had been able to talk my mother into letting me go to Sweet Briar, the small women’s college outside of Lynchburg long known for its equestrian and liberal arts programs, instead of Vassar, I might have ended up in Virginia permanently.
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  Fascinating Finds, Randolph College students use radar to aid archaeologists in Nelson County
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Ruptured tomatoes oozing at her feet, Randolph College student Sara Woodward dragged a ground-penetrating radar across a recently ruined garden at the Cabellsville Archaeological Site in Nelson County on Friday afternoon.
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  Sweet Briar battle captured on film by students
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Within 30 minutes of announcement in March that Sweet Briar College would close, student Anna ten Bensel started filming.
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  New Sweet Briar radio station involves students, community
  (The Washington Post) The Briar, Sweet Briar College’s new radio station, is up and running at 92.7 FM and opening the airwaves to the Amherst, Nelson and Lynchburg communities with a palette of music, talk shows and community events.
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  Checking Up… on Sweet Briar DJs and a Local Teacher
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Thumbs up to all the students and staff at Sweet Briar College who are giving new life and new voices to Central Virginia’s newest radio station, The Briar, operating at 92.7 on the FM dial.
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  Sweet Briar Vixens Seizing Second Chance
  (Swimming World Magazine) When the Sweet Briar College Vixens dove into the pool on Monday, Sept. 14 it was for a practice that had seemed improbable the previous spring.
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  SBC to host weekend event for aspiring engineers
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College will hold an “Explore Engineering” weekend for high school women Oct. 16 and 17.
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  Can Small Colleges Save Themselves From the ‘Death Spiral’?
  (Bloomberg Business) Low student enrollment and revenue drops are putting pressure on small colleges and universities. It has become increasingly hard for small colleges in the U.S. to stay afloat, and a new report suggests the next few years won’t be any easier for the institutions.
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  Campus life support, A student body in crisis, and I’m the chaplain
  (The Christian Century) I am standing in the woods and smashing eggs against my forehead. Some of them are hard-boiled: a little painful on impact, but not so bad.
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  Revamped scorecard shows alumni earnings for colleges in Lynchburg area
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) A decade after entering school, undergraduate students who received federal aid to attend Liberty University, Lynchburg College, Randolph College and Sweet Briar College had a median salary slightly above the national average for other college entrants.
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  Sweet Briar College celebrates investiture of new president
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College celebrated the investiture of President Phillip Stone and the college’s Founder’s Day Convocation Friday.
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  New Sweet Briar radio station an ‘artistic springboard’ for students, community
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) The Briar, Sweet Briar College’s new radio station, is up and running at 92.7 FM and opening the airwaves to the Amherst, Nelson and Lynchburg communities with a palette of music, talk shows and community events.  
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  Liberty University to move online education operations to Graves Mill Road
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Liberty University will move its online education operations to the Nationwide Insurance building on Graves Mill Road, President Jerry Falwell announced Wednesday during a meeting with local college presidents and City Council members.
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  Staying relevant is gender-neutral: 3 college presidents on the state of women’s schools 
  (bizjournals.com) Sweet Briar College, a private women’s school in rural Virginia, brought a national spotlight to the struggles of a single-sex institution earlier this year when it announced it would be closing for good.
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  The school year that almost wasn’t
  (Politico) “I’d almost call it electric,” Sweet Briar College President Phillip Stone told Morning Education when asked about the campus atmosphere during the first week of classes.
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  5 Generations Of Grads On Why Women-Only Colleges Still Matter
  (Refinery29) A new class of young women just arrived on Sweet Briar College’s idyllic Virginia campus, just like they have each fall since 1906. But this year, their arrival was anything but certain.
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  Sweet Briar College leaders transition from sprint to marathon to secure school’s future
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Leaping ditches, thundering across uneven terrain – the past two months at Sweet Briar College have meant leadership at a metaphorical gallop, as the new leaders worked to turn around a school set to close and get it ready for a new fall semester.
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  Sweet Briar professor from Roseland nominated for conservation award
  (Nelson County Times, Nelson County, Va.) Sweet Briar College research professor Lincoln Brower has been nominated for a $250,000 conservation award for his work on monarch butterflies.
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  Nonprofit delivers final installment in $12 million drive to keep Sweet Briar College open
  (Fox News) The nonprofit formed to save Sweet Briar College says it has delivered more than $3.6 million to the private women’s college, topping the terms of a mediated settlement to keep the school operating.
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  All-Girls STEM Camps to keep in Mind for Next Summer
  (The Huffington Post) Summer STEM camps provide girls with an opportunity to experience the fascinating world of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
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  Saving Sweet Briar delivers final payment in agreement to keep college open
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Making good on its side of the deal to keep Sweet Briar College alive, the non-profit Saving Sweet Briar Inc. delivered $3.643 million in donations to the school Wednesday.  
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  Supporters make final payment to Sweet Briar College, with a little extra thrown in
  (The Washington Post) Supporters of Sweet Briar College made their third and final payment — the result of a settlement deal to keep the private school open — on Wednesday, with a little extra thrown in for good measure.
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  Founder of Saving Sweet Briar takes unpaid job at the college
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Tracy Stuart, founder of Saving Sweet Briar Inc., is taking on an unpaid job at the college assisting with its athletic program.  
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  Resilient and strong, students resume classes at Sweet Briar College
  (USA Today) The decline of small liberal arts colleges is no secret. Experts have watched the aging system wane since the 1990s as institutions of higher learning expanded course offerings beyond traditional liberal arts fields.
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  An especially welcome first day of classes, at a college slated to close
  (The Washington Post) When Brittany Agee moved back to Sweet Briar College this month, she joked that she could not stop running her hands along the red brick walls of the buildings on the idyllic campus.
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  Saved for now,  Sweet Briar College looks for a long-term fix
  (The Associated Press) Weeks into his presidency at Sweet Briar College, Phillip C. Stone still marvels at the energy of passionate alumnae who helped save the school just a few months ago from the fate of dozens of other women’s colleges: closure.
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  Meet President Stone; the new leader of Sweet Briar College
  (WSLS 10, Roanoke, Va.) “It’s going to be a legendary year,” is a quote hanging at the drive-up to Sweet Briar College’s campus as students move in for the semester that almost never was.
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  How Sweet Briar Plans to Keep Surviving (Interview Series 1 of 3)
  (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Sweet Briar survived a brush with death. Now the college needs to figure out how to survive in the world, something the previous administration thought impossible.
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  Fletcher family to gather at Sweet Briar to honor slave history, celebrate college’s revival
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) The Fletcher family – whose roots run deep at Sweet Briar College – had thought in the spring their annual reunion this week would be the last one on campus.
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• Sweet Briar College gets grant to conserve Soviet-era posters
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• Sweet Briar professor selected to participate in mapping study
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Tracy Hamilton, a Sweet Briar professor of Art History, recently was selected to be one of 16 fellows to participate in the first Kress Summer Institute on Digital Mapping & Art History.
• Sweet Briar names interim president
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) The retiring president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut this afternoon was named interim president of Sweet Briar College.
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• Sweet Briar College professor to study in Botswana
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) This summer, Sweet Briar College professor of anthropology Deborah Durham, is one of those select few.
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• Hillary Clinton's first book signing draws long lines in New York
  (Los Angeles Times) “The fact this country has gone this long without having a woman to represent a country where the majority of people are women is pretty incredible,” said Alexandra Grobman, who graduated from an all-women’s college, Sweet Briar, in 2012.
• New life for this old Sweet Briar house
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) A 260-year-old dismantled home stored in a Sweet Briar College barn will be reconstructed in a location similar to its original setting.
• Historic home to be rebuilt in Amherst County
  (WDBJ-7 CBS, Roanoke, Va.) An historic home is going to be rebuilt in Amherst County. Tusculum is the 18th-century home of Sweet Briar founder Indiana Fletcher Williams’ mother.
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• Sweet Briar grad Michelle Raymond coming home for White Hart show
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) … it wasn’t long before they started booking shows, which she had been doing for some time under the moniker Michelle Raymond Band, a group the 26-year-old Sweet Briar grad formed while attending college.
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• 130 students graduate from Sweet Briar College
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Retention of memories was a recurrent theme at Saturday’s commencement ceremony at Sweet Briar College.
• The jobs outlook for thousands of area students hitting the job market
  (RocketNews.com) … Sweet Briar College reported 92 percent of graduates found a job or furthered their education within six months of receiving their degree.
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• Alligator sighting turns out to be log, game department says
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar students were put on alert and banned from swimming in Upper Lake on Thursday after reports surfaced of an alligator seen skulking through the water.
• Update: Sweet Briar College Believes Debris in Lake, Not Alligator
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) Campus officials say they now believe there is no alligator at Upper Lake – that they believe it is debris. 
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• Sweet Briar College Plans 250 Acre Bio-Fuel Crop
  (WSET AC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College has entered into an agreement with FDC Enterprises Grassland Services to convert approximately 250 acres of its hayfields to native warm-season grasses with perennial borders.
• Sweet Briar plants native grasses to produce biofuels
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Conservation researchers set about killing the grass on about 500 acres of land at Sweet Briar College this spring in preparation for a multi-year study that could have implications for landowners and environmentalists nationwide.
• Sweet Briar's Project 306 serves to empower women
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) One simple quote captures precisely what Sweet Briar College’s fledgling Project 306 has done in a few short months.
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• Carnegie Museums' new female leader's charisma, collaboration trumpeted
  (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) Parker, the president of Sweet Briar College, a liberal arts institution for women in central Virginia, possesses charisma that sent her to the top of the list, Foster said.
• Sweet Briar's president leaving post
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) After five years at the helm and a contract extension that would have carried her to 2019, Sweet Briar College President Jo Ellen Parker announced Tuesday that she will leave the college in August.
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• Checking Up: Budding Startups and Local Colleges
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College’s linkage of entrepreneur courses with senior seminars is yielding fruit … and chips, snacks and cookies.
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• Amherst Students Order Groceries Online
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) Instead of settling for Pop Tarts and Ramen Noodles, four students at Sweet Briar College created a service, dedicated to delivering groceries to on campus students.
• Sweet Briar hosts multiple free spring concerts starting Friday
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College will host several free dance, orchestra and choir concerts in the coming week that will showcase the work of students and alumnae in the arts.
• Sweet Briar senior art majors display work in new exhibit
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar senior Maryam Rasoulian has been a comic book fan since she learned to read.
• Gathering 25,000 books
  (The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass.) Stephen Dankner of Williamstown sat at a desk in the artists’ colony at Sweet Briar College in Amherst, Va., …
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• Sweet Briar students develop web-based grocery delivery service
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) With an intimidating kind of efficiency, Sweet Briar College students Olivia Hurt, Caroline McMillan, Catherine Freeman and Murphy Owen flip open their laptops in unison and call up their new website for GroceWe …
• College senior earns Scholar of the Year Award
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) A Sweet Briar College senior has been selected as the first recipient of the Honor’s Scholar of the Year Award from the Virginia Collegiate Honors Council.
• Sweet Briar named ‘promising’ place to work
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) This month, Sweet Briar College was named one of the “30+Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs.”
• Central VA Boasts Some of State’s Favorite Architecture
  (WVIR-TV NBC-29) … The president’s mountaintop estate is the second favorite architectural site in the commonwealth, behind Sweet Briar House at Sweet Briar College.
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• Senior art show opens Friday at Sweet Briar
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Four Sweet Briar College students will present their final work during this year’s Senior Art Majors’ Show, which runs until May 17.
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• Checking Up: A Firefighter, a College and Dancers
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Thumbs up to Sweet Briar College for the inclusion of the Sweet Briar House atop the Virginia Center for Architecture’s online “Virginia’s Favorite Architecture” survey.
• Books: Virginia Book Notes
  (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va.) Lynn Rainville, a research professor in the humanities at Sweet Briar College in Amherst County, traveled through graveyards to recover information crucial to the stories of black families.
• Sweet Briar College recognized in "Virginia's Favorite Architecture"
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Online voters named Sweet Briar College’s Sweet Briar House their favorite piece of architecture in Virginia, according to the Virginia Center for Architecture’s online “Virginia’s Favorite Architecture” survey.
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• Sweet Briar House Voted ‘Virginia’s Favorite Architecture’
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) Fans of the Sweet Briar House have propelled it to the No. 1 ranking in an online poll conducted by the Virginia Center for Architecture last December.
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• Sweet Briar College staging historic opera 'Brundibár'
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) Czechoslovakian composer Hans Krása originally wrote the opera “Brundibár,” which will open at Sweet Briar College this week, for a competition at an orphanage in 1938 — the same year Hitler invaded the country.
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• ‘Saga of the Monarch’ Lecture to Be Held April 16
  (The Missourian, Washington, Mo.) A lecture on “The Grand Saga of the Monarch Butterfly” will be presented by Dr. Lincoln P. Brower, research professor, Sweet Briar College, Wednesday April 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Schoenberg Auditorium of Ridgway Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
• ‘Brundibár’ opera coming this week at Sweet Briar Theater
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar’s Performing Arts Division and the Sweet Briar Theatre next week will present Tony Kushner’s translation of “Brundibár,” the opera that originally was performed by Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
• ‘Romantic Music and More’ featured in Wednesday concert
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College’s Janet Lowrey Gager Concert Series will feature romantic music by the Rainier Trio at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, in Memorial Chapel.
• Historian to speak on ‘Gay Berlin’ at lecture this Thursday
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College will present a lecture by history professor Robert Beachy at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the 1948 Theater in the College’s Fitness and Athletics Center.
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• Board grants permit for educational research tower at SBC
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) The Amherst County Board of Supervisors last week granted a special exception permit for a 120-foot research tower on the Sweet Briar College campus.
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• Writers, students to gather for Sweet Briar writing conference
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) More than 70 students from 21 colleges and universities across the country will converge with writers and poets at Sweet Briar College on April 3 for an intensive weekend of reading, writing and mentoring.
• ‘On Paper’ author to visit Sweet Briar Friday
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) … The author will be at Sweet Briar College as the featured Friends of Library spring meeting speaker … at 7 p.m. Friday, March 21, in the Wailes Lounge at the Elston Inn Conference Center.
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• Our Powers Combined
  (Inside Higher Ed) … “It helps us go bigger by not going big,” said Jo Ellen Parker, president of Sweet Briar College.
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• Slavery's lasting impacts is topic of two-day symposium
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Lynn Rainville: archeologist, director of the Tusculum Institute and Research Professor in the Humanities at Sweet Briar College, chronicler of the Sweet Briar Plantation enslaved community, and author of “Hidden History: African-American Cemeteries In Virginia” (UVA Press, 2014).
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• Jamestown basket reborn through 3D technology
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Four centuries later, and through the combined efforts of an Amherst company that specializes in 3D scanning technology, a team of Jamestown archaeologists and Sweet Briar College, a recreation of that long-ago basket is being reborn.
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• 2014 Oregon Winery to Watch: Leah Jorgensen Cellars
  (Wine Press Northwest, Kennewick, Wash.) … Soon after graduating from Sweet Briar College in Virginia, she managed Chrysalis Vineyards near Washington, D.C., before working for a distributor in the nation’s capital.
• Sweet Briar announces commencement speaker
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College’s commencement speaker this spring will be Dr. Virginia Upchurch Collier, the college announced Wednesday.
• Archaeologist digs up the past at Old City Cemetery, Historic Sandusky
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Over the years, Lichtenberger has lead educational workshops and was part of creating Sweet Briar College’s archaeology lab, which opened in 2011 and works closely with Hurt & Proffitt to give students hands-on experience.
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• Sweet Briar's theater renovations near completion
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College’s Babcock Fine Arts Theater’s new ticket booth, technical booth and sound stage are nearing completion. All three will be ready for use by March 31.
• Black and white: Sweet Briar’s journey beyond color lines
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Marshalyn Yeargin stepped onto a Lynchburg train platform in 1966, unsure of how she would be received at Sweet Briar College.
• Book looks at the hidden lives of black residents in Central Virginia
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Author Lynn Rainville hopes her newest book “Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia,” helps change that, by showing the connection between locals and historically significant events.
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• Emmy Award-winning dance group to perform at Sweet Briar Monday
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Pilobolus, a dance theater company named for a fungus and noted for its staying power, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, in Sweet Briar College’s Murchison Lane Auditorium.
• Sweet Briar hosts annual Gospel Fest on Sunday
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College will host its annual Gospel Fest at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23, in Memorial Chapel.
• Local Educators Honored by Gov. McAuliffe
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) … Dr. Raina Robeva is a Professor of Mathematics at Sweet Briar College.
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• Sweet Briar professor accepts award from governor
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College Professor of Mathematics Raina Robeva received her Outstanding Faculty Award from Governor Terry McAuliffe in Richmond today.
• Poet Laureate speaks at Sweet Briar
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Armed with copies of U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s award-winning writings, students, faculty and guests crowded into the heart of Sweet Briar College’s Pannell art gallery Wednesday eager for a glimpse into the mind of the Pulitzer Prize winning poet.
• Focus on: Sweet Briar senior Latoya Letmon stages directorial debut
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) The Sweet Briar College senior’s directorial debut, Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s “The Love Suicides at Amijima,” will open this weekend in the college’s Babcock Studio Theatre.
• Spring enrollment dips at area colleges
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) The increase in residential enrollment that local colleges experienced this fall has lessened this semester, as Liberty University and Lynchburg and Sweet Briar colleges collectively experienced a 6.5 percent decrease in spring enrollment.
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• Sweet Briar students add female artists to Wikipedia
  (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va.) SWEET BRIAR Women like famous Moroccan photographer Lalla Essaydi and contemporary Scottish painter Pat Douthwaite are now on Wikipedia, thanks to a handful of students at Sweet Briar College.
• Sweet Briar looks to sell 18th century Tusculum house
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College officials are hopeful that the dismantled Tusculum House, an 18th century structure lying in several hundred pieces in a barn, may soon have a buyer.
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• U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to read at Sweet Briar College
  (The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Va.) Sweet Briar College will host 2012-2014 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey for a reading and book signing at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, in Murchison Lane Auditorium in Babcock Fine Arts Center.
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• At Sweet Briar, documentary maker discusses danger of fracking
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Filmmaker Josh Fox encouraged the ladies of Sweet Briar College to get involved in the fight to ban fracking Tuesday evening, even if it took riding their horses to Washington, D.C.
• Sweet Briar professor receives 'outstanding' award
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College math professor Raina Robeva recently was named one of Virginia’s most outstanding collegiate faculty members.
• Renewable energy agreement fuels schools' green efforts
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) After a year of research and collaboration, Lynchburg, Randolph and Sweet Briar colleges — as well as Emory & Henry College and Hollins University — made a commitment in January to power their campuses with energy derived from landfill gas.
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• Sweet Briar College Joins Effort to 'Save the Next Girl'
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) A group of Sweet Briar College students is joining a national fight to protect women from predators.
• Monarch butterflies drop, migration may disappear
  (The Associated Press) Lincoln Brower, a leading entomologist at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, wrote that “the migration is definitely proving to be an endangered biological phenomenon.”
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• Maker of ‘Gasland’ to speak at forum
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College will host Josh Fox, maker of the documentary films “Gasland” and “Gasland Part II,” as the 2014 Julia B. Waxter Environmental Forum speaker.
• Sweet Briar College's Fringe Festival offers unique sounds, stand-up comedy and more
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Along with the sophisticated chime of classical guitarist Rafael Scarfullery’s technical bravura, Sweet Briar’s biennial Fringe Festival will yield another intriguing sound: the slapping and thumping of fingers on taut leather drumheads.
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• Landfill gas to power several Virginia colleges
  (The Washington Post) Several small colleges in Virginia are switching to landfill gas as their source of electricity. Emory & Henry College, Hollins University, Lynchburg College, Randolph College and Sweet Briar College are partnering with landfill gas energy operator Ingenco.
• Colleges Band Together to Save Energy Costs
  (WVTF Radio IQ) Hollins University along with Emory & Henry, Lynchburg, Randolph, and Sweet Briar Colleges are the first such institutions of higher education in Virginia to provide 100 percent renewable electricity to their campuses.
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• Sweet Briar hosts ‘FAFSA Frenzy’ this Saturday
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) To help college students and their families navigate the sometimes-complicated financial aid process, Sweet Briar College will host a “FAFSA Frenzy” event on Saturday, Jan. 25 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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• Lynchburg Area College Launches 'Save the Next Girl' Chapter
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) … Now, Sweet Briar College has become the first Lynchburg area college to launch its own chapter.
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• Sweet Briar starts chapter of Save the Next Girl
  (New Era-Progress, Lynchburg, Va.) The sprawling Sweet Briar College campus with its seclusion and privacy lulls many students into a false sense of security, Tyesha West, a senior at the college, said.
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• Cross-College Collaboration
  (Inside Higher Ed) Within the past year, Mellon awarded $75,000 planning grants to Sweet Briar College to partner with Hollins University …
• Some colleges in region are hit particularly hard as enrollment falls
  (The Washington Post) Sweet Briar College in Amherst County has 710, down 7 percent.
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• Sweet Briar librarian named one of 10 most beloved
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College’s Julie Kane was introduced to New Yorkers during a special ceremony Tuesday as one of the nation’s 10 most beloved librarians.
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• Sweet Briar engineers work to design low-cost, body-powered prosthesis
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … “It’s difficult to raise money a little at a time,” said Sweet Briar College professor Scott Pierce, who is leading the college’s “Sweet Prosthetics” project.
• Sweet Briar students work with kids to put on dance recital
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) After gaining knowledge from college-aged instructors, young dancers will demonstrate their skills this weekend at Sweet Briar College.
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• Sweet Briar hosts free play, concert events this weekend
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College will host a staging of “Odd Couple” as well as a holiday music concert program in several free events this weekend.
• Why are the monarch butterflies disappearing?
  (The Washington Post) To get a sense why the monarch butterflies are in decline, I called Lincoln Brower, a professor of biology at Sweet Briar College who has studied the monarch migrations for decades.
• Nelson County grad grows as dancer, choreographer
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Her dance is modern, beautiful and dramatic, capturing several characteristics of the Sweet Briar College sophomore from Arrington whose first two choreographed works were showcased in the school’s Fall Dance Concert on Nov. 15 and 16.
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• New Southeast music chairman delights in River Campus
  (Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, Mo.) “I had taught while working on my doctorate at a couple of community colleges and at a women’s liberal arts college in Virginia,” Hampton said, referring to Frederick Community College in Frederick, Md., and Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, Va.
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• Girls of the Run 5K at Sweet Briar
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar hosted its fifth Girls on the Run race Saturday morning.
• The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear
  (The New York Times) … “It does not look good,” said Lincoln P. Brower, a monarch expert at Sweet Briar College.
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• Student choreographers set to showcase their work
  (The Nelson County Times, Amherst, Va.) Local students from Amherst and Nelson counties will be in good company Friday and Saturday night when they take the stage along with their peers for Sweet Briar College’s Fall Dance Concert.
• Obama Officially Announces Bell As New U.S. Ambassador to Hungary
  (xpatloop.com) … Ms. Bell received a B.A. from Sweet Briar College.
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• Women’s colleges leverage their advantages
  (VirginiaBusiness.com) Virginia’s three women’s colleges — Hollins University, Mary Baldwin College and Sweet Briar College — have faced financial and enrollment challenges that might have led other schools to follow the coed trend.
• Double dose of spooky at Sweet Briar's ghost stories
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … On a hilltop overlooking the campus, a sentinel stands watch over Sweet Briar College.
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• All Three Gubernatorial Candidates Campaigning in Our Area
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) Steve Bragaw, a political professor at Sweet Briar College says some Virginia voters are frustrated with the two main party candidates, and they’re seeing a vote for Sarvis as a vote in protest.
• Sweet Briar College Students Use New Compost Program
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) A group of Sweet Briar College students are making sure their leftovers don’t go to waste.
• Two concerts upcoming at Sweet Briar College
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College will host two concerts this weekend.
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• Analysts Say Voters Not Excited About Gubernatorial Candidates
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) … “It’s enough to make your eyes and ears you know, want to bleed,” said Steve Bragaw, Carter Glass Professor of Government at Sweet Briar College.
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• “War of the Worlds” at Sweet Briar College on Halloween
  (Roanoke.com, Roanoke, Va.)
  Sweet Briar College’s Performing Arts Division is celebrating the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” with a dramatic reading of the infamous radio broadcast at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31 in Murchison Lane Auditorium.
• Daily Bread now delivers meals to Madison Heights twice a week
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … A collaboration with business students at Sweet Briar College helped bring the meal-delivery program to fruition.
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• Archaeologists, students seek clues about forgotten town
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Over the weekend, a team of around 30 archaeologists and Sweet Briar College students descended on a Nelson County farm to glean information on the lost village of Amherst Courthouse.
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• Slave Cabin Reopens for Visitors on the Campus of Sweet Briar College
  (The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Bartonsville, Pa.) Sweet Briar College in Virginia has reopened a small cabin on campus that once was a home to slaves.
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• City Officials Meeting With College Presidents
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) City Council members are meeting college presidents Wednesday at Sweet Briar College for the Town and Gown initiative.
• Emily Dickinson out and about in Amherst
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sally Southall, a Richmond-area teacher and actress who has performed for Endstation Theatre at Sweet Briar College, will portray Dickinson in a play, “The Belle of Amherst,” in November.
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• Sweet Briar College president's contract extended
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College’s Board of Directors on Wednesday extended President Jo Ellen Parker’s contract through 2019.
• Sweet Briar board extends president's contract
  (WRIC ABC-8, Richmond, Va.) Sweet Briar College President Jo Ellen Parker’s contract has been extended through June 30, 2019.
• College students, businesses pair up for intern match-up
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Randolph, Sweet Briar and Lynchburg colleges partnered with the Lynchburg Regional Chamber of Commerce to put on the first-ever Internship Match-Up.
• Battersea Speaker Series continues today
  (progress-index.com) … Tusculum Institute is located on the campus of Sweet Briar College, and is a historic preservation resource center, dedicated to preserving and studying the region’s historic assets within a context of environmental stewardship.
• Soup kitchen now serves Amherst
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) … According to Dixon, the Madison Heights food drive is a result of a senior research project done by a group of Sweet Briar College students.
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• Appalachian’s Steely Pan Steel Band performs Sept. 27
  (University News, Appalachian State University) … New on the program will be “Mambo” written by Dr. Jeff Jones, a former student of Meister who now teaches at Sweet Briar College. Jones was the first graduate to receive a Masters of Music in steel drums from Appalachian.
• Area colleges make U.S. News' best colleges list
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Liberty University, Lynchburg College, Randolph College and Sweet Briar College all made U.S. News & World Report’s list of “America’s Best Colleges 2014,” which was revealed on Tuesday.
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• Logging threatens Monarch butterflies in Mexico
  (WRAL-TV, Raleigh, N.C.) … Lincoln Brower, an entomologist at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, wrote in a statement to The Associated Press that “I am pleased to see a new willingness to address the continuing small scale logging …”
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• Enrollment is up at Lynchburg-area colleges
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Sweet Briar College, whose students begin class today, estimates its freshman enrollment increased by 13 percent this year and projects the total on-campus undergraduate enrollment to rise by 5 percent.
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• Skiffle goes on a musical journey
  (Trinidad and Tobago Guardian) Popular San Fernando steel orchestra Skiffle has forged a key linkage with US-based Sweet Briar College to establish a “Skiffle USA” branch.
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• Animal rescue group hosts fundraiser
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Save Our Animal Rescues, also known as SOAR, will host its inaugural fundraiser, Every Pet is Perfect Parade and Show, from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, at Sweet Briar College.
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• Why I Chose a Women's College
  (The Huffington Post) … Briana McCall decided upon Sweet Briar College; she says: “I never decided that I wanted to attend to a women’s college; I decided I wanted to attend Sweet Briar College. … ”
• The 20 Best College Campuses In The US
  (Business Insider) … Sweet Briar’s 3,250-acre Virginia campus may seem a bit large for its just over 700 students, but the women’s college is well known for its architectural beauty.
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• Amherst County winemaker brings regional flare to wines
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … There’s the Vixen Gris, a semi-sweet white suitable for sipping that can be paired with dessert and was inspired by Sweet Briar College’s mascot; …
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• Lynchburg, Sweet Briar, Randolph among nation’s best colleges
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) The Princeton Review’s 2014 edition of “The Best 378 Colleges,” released this week, includes Lynchburg, Sweet Briar and Randolph Colleges.
• College tuition on the rise again
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College has implemented a 4 percent increase, taking rates up to $33,130.
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• Teens try out active design at Sweet Briar camp
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) In a suite of classrooms at Sweet Briar College, the sounds of conversation and music merged with the whine of power tools.
• A reflection on Greece
  (The Sampson Independent, Clinton, N.C.) … She is majoring in archaeology and minoring in Gender Studies at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
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• Band camp teaches leadership skills
  (The Franklin News-Post, Rocky Mount, Va.) Two members of the Franklin County High School marching band developed their leadership skills at a training camp last week at Sweet Briar College.
• High School Girls Learn Engineering at Sweet Briar Camp
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) A group of high school girls put their skills and knowledge to the test Thursday at Sweet Briar College.
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• Paid and unpaid, Lynchburg-area interns gain valuable experience
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … That’s what Victoria Hall, a Bedford County native and rising senior at Sweet Briar College, did when she took her first internship at B&W’s Lynchburg-based Nuclear Operations Group.
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• Losing Our Monarchs: Iconic Monarch Butterfly Down to Lowest Numbers in 20 Years
  (WakingTimes.com) … We’re talking about hundreds of thousands of acres of land that are being sterilized, killing all nectar sources, killing all milkweed,” said Lincoln Brower, research professor of biology at Sweet Briar College.
• Students invited to tour state private colleges
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Locally, Liberty University, Lynchburg College and Randolph College in Lynchburg and Sweet Briar College in Amherst will provide tours to potential students and their families twice each day.
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• New Orleans Top Female Achievers 2013
  (New Orleans Magazine, New Orleans, La.) … After graduating from Sweet Briar College, Gambel taught English literature at the Academy of the Sacred Heart.
• Lynchburg man's quest to find author turns into mission of remembrance
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … The niece of U.S. Senator and News & Advance publisher Carter Glass, Banister graduated from Sweet Briar College and wrote only two novels and a handful of short stories in her career.
• VUL to submit documents for recertification
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Liberty University, Sweet Briar College, Randolph College, Lynchburg College and Central Virginia Community College are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and are exempt from the SCHEV certification requirement.
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• Young Writers take residence at Sweet Briar
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Hundreds of rising high school students will descend upon Sweet Briar College in the coming month as the school welcomes back the University of Virginia’s renowned Young Writers Workshop for its second year in residence.
• 'Random Acts of Culture' to appear at businesses this week
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) … Katie Bland performs a song from “Violet: A Musical,” which runs from June 28 through July 14 at Sweet Briar College.
• Lynchburg businesses experience random acts of culture
  (WDBJ-7 CBS, Roanoke, Va.) … Endstation members are acting out scenes from a play they’re putting on this summer at Sweet Briar College.
• Amherst native named principal of Goochland Middle School
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Jennifer M. Smith, a graduate of Amherst County Public Schools, completed her bachelor of arts degree at Sweet Briar College, her master’s in education at Lynchburg College and her Education Leadership Post-Master’s Certification at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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• 2014 Columbus Mayoral Race: Tomlinson vs. Baker — again?
  (Ledger-Enquirer, Columbus, Ga.) … Tomlinson, 48, holds dual bachelor’s degrees in government and economics from Sweet Briar College in Virginia and a law degree from Emory University.
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• County woman to run for school board
  (Nelson County Times, Nelson County, Va.) … She graduated from Sweet Briar College with a degree in mathematical physics and then went on to obtain master’s degrees in electrical engineering and management information systems from Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Virginia, respectively.
• Sweet Briar College VP begins appointment on commission
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) As Vixens departed Sweet Briar College this spring, Heidi Hansen McCrory was gearing up for the start of her year.
• Sweet Briar Workshop Highlights “Civil Rights in Education” June 15
  (WLNI-FM, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College will host the annual Teaching with Historic Places workshop, co-sponsored by the Tusculum Institute and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, on Saturday, June 15.
• Sweet Briar College Receives Grant to Preserve a Slave Cabin on Its Campus
  (The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Bartonsville, Pa.) The campus of Sweet Briar College in Virginia is located on the site of an antebellum plantation.
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• Canned lion hunting: a necessary evil?
  (Eyewitness News, Johannesburg, South Africa) … A report studying the possible impacts of the captive-bred lion hunting industry  … was a joint project between the University of Pretoria, the big cat conservation organisation Panthera, Sweet Briar College in the USA and the University of Cape Town.
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• Endstation offers a vaudevillian take on Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … This summer, two of the festival’s three shows will tour in Lynchburg along with regular runs at Sweet Briar College, Endstation’s home base.
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• Byrd appointed THMS principal
  (Gazette-Journal, Gloucester, Va.) … A 1989 graduate of Gloucester High School, Byrd received a degree in Spanish from Sweet Briar College.
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• Sweet Briar College Holds 104th Commencement
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College held their 104th commencement Saturday.
• Sweet Briar graduates urged to lead and help others
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Nearly 120 young women brightened a bleak Saturday morning as they became graduates of Sweet Briar College in Amherst County.
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• Condom vending machines coming to LC
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) At Sweet Briar College, Health Services Director Rosie Lewis said condoms are available to students through the health center and residential life staff.
• Sweet Briar appoints new director
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Melissa “Missy” Gentry Witherow ’80 has been appointed director of alumnae relations and annual giving at Sweet Briar College.
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• School Board chooses new middle school principal
  (The Goochland Gazette, Mechanicsville, Va.) Smith, a native of Amherst County, completed her Bachelor of Arts at Sweet Briar College, her Master’s in Education at Lynchburg College, and her Education Leadership Post-Master’s Certification at Virginia Commonwealth University.
• New owner sought for historic Amherst County home
  (CBS WDBJ-7, Roanoke, Va.) You won’t find cows inside the dairy barns at Sweet Briar College; just a lot of history, scattered in pieces.
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• Sweet Briar College Gets Grant for Cabin Preservation
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College is working to preserve a piece of history on its campus.
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• Sweet Briar seniors using social media to market local businesses
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) … One trademark and FDA-approval later, five Sweet Briar College seniors intend to intensify the power of that remedy through social media.
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• Slave Cemetery Highlights New Jersey's 'Ugly History With Slavery,' Ongoing Battle For Historians
  (The Huffington Post) … “South of the Mason-Dixon line, there were almost zero cases of slaves buying their own gravesites,” said Dr. Lynn Rainville, a historian at Sweet Briar College in Virginia …
• Tusculum is being offered for sale by Sweet Briar College
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Tusculum, the antebellum home that currently resides in hundreds of pieces in a Sweet Briar College barn, is being offered for sale by the college.
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• Attorney Explains Hazing Law
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) “Being in a student mentality, you can kind of see how those group bonding activities would encourage people to do things to bond them together, but could get out of hand,” said Sarah Lindemann, a senior at Sweet Briar College.
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• Old City Cemetery works to identify unmarked graves
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Sweet Briar College archaeology instructor Keith Adams uncovers the earth on top of grave sites discovered in Lynchburg’s Old City Cemetery …
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• Focus On: Sweet Briar College senior's play opening this weekend
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) When Sweet Briar College senior Molly Harper appeared in the school’s production of “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” last year, she often struggled to leave her character behind after each performance.
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• Dance Theater coming to Sweet Briar
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … The Pearson Widrig Dance Theater will perform in Sweet Briar College’s Murchison Lane Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
• Student from KI writes, directs college play
  (MyEasternshoreMD.com) Sweet Briar College senior Molly Harper of Kent Island literally stumbled into acting in high school.
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• Becoming a True Believer in the Value of International Education
  (The Chronicle of Higher Education) … My strong belief is, perhaps not surprisingly, rooted in personal experience: my year of study in the Sweet Briar College Junior Year in France.
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• College Campuses Show Stark Contrast With Liberty University Weapons Policy
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) … “Our students’ safety is our top priority,” said Sweet Briar College Communications Director, Christy Jackson.
• Va. Board of Education approves graduation requirements for special-education students
  (Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va.) … The board also supported accreditation of the teacher-education program at Sweet Briar College. Board member Darlene D. Mack of Lynchburg said that when she was a school principal, having Sweet Briar graduates in an applicant pool always set off a flurry of activity.
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• Slave burial database project launched
  (The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.) … It’s now a simple online form, said Lynn Rainville, an anthropology professor at Sweet Briar College and one of the project’s advisors.
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• 'In Sweet Remembrance': Endstation holds first public reading of Sweet Briar-set play
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) When Tearrance A. Chisholm first visited Sweet Briar College for Endstation Theatre Company’s Playwright’s Initiative, he was immediately intrigued by the college’s plantation cemetery.
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• Kingsolver reads from new book at Sweet Briar College
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) An audience of hundreds fell silent Thursday night as author Barbara Kingsolver cracked open her latest novel “Flight Behavior” and began to read, pulling listeners at Sweet Briar College into a fictional valley of butterflies.
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• Slaves’ Forgotten Burial Sites, Marked Online
  (The New York Times) … “There is certainly a very important national need; it’s more than just an academic exercise,” said Lynn Rainville, a research professor at Sweet Briar College in Virginia and an adviser to the database.
• Kate Haw named new Director of Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
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  … Haw received a bachelor’s degree in art history and religion from Sweet Briar College in Virginia and a master’s degree in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Monarch Butterflies Drop Ominously in Mexico
  (The New York Times) … Lincoln Brower, a leading entomologist at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, said in a statement that “the report of the dwindling Monarch butterfly winter residence in Mexico is ominous.”
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• Sweet Briar researcher documents slave history
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) “I’ve always been interested in cemeteries,” said Rainville, who’s been the director of the Tusculum Institute at Sweet Briar College for five years.
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• Sweet Briar to hold Creative Writing Conference
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College will hold its annual Creative Writing Conference March 21 through 24, bringing about 60 undergraduate students from across the state together with accomplished writers and poets.
• Authors Yann Martel and Barbara Kingsolver particpating in Lynchburg events this month
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) … Next week, “Life of Pi” author Yann Martel will participate in a live video chat broadcast at Randolph College … later in the month, “The Poisonwood Bible” author Barbara Kingsolver will speak at Sweet Briar College.
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• Sweet Briar stages 'Waiting for Godot'
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Samuel Beckett’s famously spare language and staging in “Waiting for Godot” leaves much to the viewer’s own interpretation. And that’s how J.T. Marlowe, who is guest-directing Sweet Briar Theatre’s production of the play, wants to keep it.
• Sweet Briar invites young artists to apply to program
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College is taking applications for the third annual Blue Ridge Summer Institute for Young Artists, known as BLUR, which will be held June 16 through July 7 on its Amherst County campus.
• Butterflies attract novelist to SBC
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver will speak about her latest novel, “Flight Behavior,” at 8 p.m. March 21 at Sweet Briar College in Murchison Lane Auditorium in the college’s Babcock Fine Arts Center.
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• Dinner in Lynchburg in Honor of Engineers Week
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) … Local Engineers dined alongside students from Lynchburg city schools, Sweet Briar College, Liberty University, and VMI — as they listened to roboticist Doctor Glen Henshaw from the Naval Research Laboratory.
• Sweet Briar commencement speaker announced
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Allida Black, a human rights activist and scholar, was chosen as Sweet Briar College’s 104th commencement speaker, school officials announced Wednesday.
• Local butterfly expert to speak at Sweet Briar
  (New Era-Progress, Amherst, Va.) A world-renowned monarch butterfly expert from Roseland will give vivid accounts of his 50-plus-years of research on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at Sweet Briar College.
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• New Covenant seventh grader wins N&A spelling bee
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Margie Lippard, director of major and planned giving at Sweet Briar College and Saturday’s pronouncer, bombarded the two with intricate words filled with silent vowels.
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• Sweet Briar College Getting Girls Enthusiastic About Engineering
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) … The event at Sweet Briar College was part of a series to get more girls interested in engineering.
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• Amherst artist Craig Pleasants shows work at Sweet Briar
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) His latest piece, a site-specific installation, will debut in Sweet Briar College’s Babcock Gallery, with an opening reception at 5 p.m. Thursday.
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• Work by Picasso on Display at Sweet Briar
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) Artwork from some big names is on Sweet Briar College’s campus right now.
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• Guide to the Best Women's Colleges
  (VitaminW) With approximately 650 undergraduates on its 3,250-acres Virginia campus, Sweet Briar College has one of the best acres-to-student ratios of all the women’s colleges on this list.
• The music world's fake Illuminati
  (Salon) … The involvement of pop culture just bolsters the “superconspiracy” aspect of the Illuminati, said end-times expert and academic Cathy Gutierrez, of Sweet Briar College.
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• Middle and high school students get a taste of intercollegiate equestrian competition
  (HorseChannel.com) Merrilee “Mimi” Wroten is the director of the riding program at Sweet Briar College and will be introducing American National Riding Commission (ANRC) at the 2013 CPI.
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• How Math Got Its Groove Back
  (pbs.org) Both teachers are part of Sweet Briar College’s STEM teacher education program, where they worked together to design “dance by numbers,” a lesson plan that relies on dance to teach pattern recognition.
• Sweet Briar announces development hires
  (New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College has announced the appointment of two key staff members in the Office of Alumnae and Development.
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• Picasso and other artists on display at Sweet Briar Jan. 24 – April 7
  (WLNI-FM, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College will open its exhibition “Material, Method, Medium: Relief and Intaglio Prints from the Permanent Collection” with a reception at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, in Pannell Gallery.
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• Propane blast damages Amherst shopping center, briefly cuts power to Sweet Briar College
  (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va.) Two explosions and a fire in the Ambriar Shopping Center Monday night backed up traffic on U.S. 29 and left Sweet Briar College without power briefly.
• One Firefighter Injured in Apparent Explosion, Fire at Ambriar Shopping Center
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) Power was knocked out to nearby areas, including Sweet Briar College …
• Christmas sounds on Harps of Gold
  (The News Leader, Staunton, Va.) Schweninger is an adjunct harp instructor at Sweet Briar College, Lynchburg College, the Music Emporium in Charlottesville and at her Nelson County home studio.
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• Stable manager finds her niche among horses at Sweet Briar
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) In an office tucked into a massive stable at the Harriet Rogers Riding Center at Sweet Briar College, Amie Chenault has found her niche …
• Sweet Briar presents ‘ASIA: An Evening of Performance’ Nov. 30
  (WLNI-FM, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College’s Division of Performing Arts will present “ASIA: An Evening of Performance” at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, in Pannell Gallery.
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• Sweet Briar event features theater, music and dance
  (New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College’s Division of Performing Arts will present “ASIA: An Evening of Performance” at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, in Pannell Gallery.
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• Local Girls on the Run embraces first participant in wheelchair
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) To the growing ranks of Girls on the Run – over 500 of whom participated in Saturday’s annual Celebration 5K Race at Sweet Briar College – you can add one Girl on a Roll.
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• Girls on the Run returns to Sweet Briar
  (New Era Progress, Amherst, VA.) Sweet Briar College will host the Girls on the Run of Central Virginia Fall 2012 Celebration 5K at 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 17.
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• Sweet Briar opens 19-century cabin to visitors
  (New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) A 19th-century cabin at Sweet Briar College will be open to visitors for self-guided tours in November and December.
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• Sweet Briar College opens historic slave cabin for tours
  (WDBJ-7 CBS, Roanoke, Va.) A building that was once home to slaves is now a tourist destination in Amherst County. Sweet Briar College is inviting the public to tour an old slave cabin on the school’s campus.
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  Civil War Era Cabin Opens For Tours At Sweet Briar (WLNI-FM, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar’s historic 19th-century cabin is open to visitors for self-guided tours for the next couple of months.
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  SBC Fall Dance Concert to be held Nov. 9 and 10 [break](New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College will present its annual Fall Dance Concert at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 9 and 10.
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  High Schoolers Get College Experience [break](WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) They visited two of the six Lynchburg-area schools, and one group was at Sweet Briar.
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  Project Launchburg gets students thinking about college [break](The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) he project is a collaboration between the Lynchburg City Schools and six area colleges and universities: Central Virginia Community College, Lynchburg College, Sweet Briar College, Liberty University, Randolph College and Virginia University of Lynchburg.
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  Southwest Airlines offers butterfly a lift [break](Times Union, Albany, N.Y.) Manos-Jones then conferred with Lincoln Brower, a leading etymologist at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, who specializes in the overwintering, migration and conservation biology of the monarch butterfly.
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  Campaign Rallies Roll Into Central Virginia, Residents React [break](WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) “The outcome in the state, it’s going to be so close. They aren’t sure,” said Steve Bragaw, political science professor, Sweet Briar College.
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  Meet Rev. Dori Baker: Mentor and Theologian (AAUW Dialog) Sweet Briar College’s Division of Performing Arts will present “ASIA: An Evening of Performance” at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, in Pannell Gallery.
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  Get a leg up at Equestrian College Fair [break](Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va.) Sweet Briar College has about 50 horses and 18 miles of riding trails on its 3,250-acre campus in central Virginia.
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  Area colleges report fall enrollment (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College’s overall enrollment dipped just one percent, as the school saw a significant uptick in the number of students enrolled in the study-abroad program for juniors in France and Spain.
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  Sweet Briar College Screening Documentary on Fairy Shrimp [break](WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) “Secret Pond: A Fairy Shrimp Documentary” was created by two Virginia Naturalists — one from Sweet Briar College and the other from the Homestead Resort in Bath County.
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  Sweet Briar College hires media director [break](New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) Christy Jackson, assistant director of university relations at Radford University, has been appointed Sweet Briar College’s new director of media, marketing and communications.
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  Sweet Briar to show fairy shrimp film [break](New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College will screen the 30-minute film at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, in Murchison Lane Auditorium.
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  ‘Dare, Dream, Do’ author to speak at Sweet Briar College [break](New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) Whitney Johnson, author of “Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream,” will speak about her book at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29 in Murchison Lane Auditorium at Sweet Briar College.
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  Sweet Briar to host zombie 5k [break](The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College will host “Run For Your Life,” a 5k zombie run, from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28 at the college.
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  Poet returns to Sweet Briar College [break](New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College will host a poetry reading by 2004 graduate CM Burroughs at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22, in Pannell Gallery.
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  Sweet Briar College Hosts Bi-Partisan Debate Party [break](WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) Forty women at Sweet Briar College, divided in their political philosophies, came together Thursday night. And while they may not agree on who should win this election, they do agree, there’s great value in watching, and learning.
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  Sweet Briar College to host college search workshop [break](New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College will host Know How: The College Search Process from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15, at the Elston Inn and Conference Center.
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  Sweet Briar College to present ‘The King and I’ [break](New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College will present the musical “The King and I” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18 through 20, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, in Babcock Fine Arts Center’s Murchison Lane Auditorium.
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  The Monarch Miracle [break](Patch.com) “This is one of the most extraordinary annual migrations on our planet,” says monarch expert Dr. Lincoln Brower of Sweet Briar College.
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  League of Women Voters to hold forum [break](The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Speakers include Sweet Briar College professor Steve Bragaw and Lynchburg city attorney Walter Erwin III, along with Pat Bower, the city’s former voter registrar.
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  The First College Stop of Joseph McGill’s Slave Dwelling Project Tour [break](The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Bartonsville, Pa.) Joseph McGill recently spent a night sleeping on the floor of a nineteenth-century cabin on the campus of Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
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  Slave Dwelling Project Spends the Night at Sweet Briar [break](WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) The school says the cabin used to house both enslaved and freed blacks who worked at Sweet Briar during its days as a plantation.
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  Glass Family Honored at Lynchburg Museum [break](WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) Robert Henry Glass Senior founded one of Lynchburg’s first newspapers. His children were a big success too: one was U.S. Treasury Secretary, another President at Sweet Briar …
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  Slave Dwelling Project Comes to Sweet Briar Oct. 7-8 [break](WLNI-FM, Lynchburg, Va.) Joseph McGill, creator of the Slave Dwelling Project, will make an overnight stop at Sweet Briar College on Sunday, Oct. 7 and Monday, Oct 8.
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  Re-enactor experiences slave life first hand (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Given all that, cabin No. 38 on his tour — tucked away behind the old Tusculum plantation on the Sweet Briar College campus — should be a treat.
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  Single-Gender Studies: Women’s and men’s colleges aim to maintain relevance
  (RichmondMagazine.com) … says Parker, the president of Sweet Briar College, which serves 760 female students in a bucolic campus setting near Lynchburg.
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  Sweet Briar College names new director of media, marketing and communications [break](VirginiaBusiness.com) Christy Jackson has been named Sweet Briar College’s new director of media, marketing and communications.
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  Coming full circle: Casey Reid returns to hometown to find vibrant city [break](GreenvilleOnline.com) Reid got her start in the event production world as an intern for MTV while attending Sweet Briar College in Virginia. After graduation, she moved to Newark, N.J., to work for MTV as a talent producer for the channel’s Video Music Awards.
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  Sweet Briar announces ROSE Awards [break](New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) During Sweet Briar College’s 107th Opening Convocation on Aug. 29, the college honored several staff members with the annual ROSE Awards.
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  Lynch’s Landing is gearing up for ‘Get!Downtown’ [break](WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar junior Ty Shreve was one of two local students interviewed for ABC 13′s “Living in the Heart of Virginia.”
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  Sweet Briar displays Asian art [break](New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College will open its exhibition, “ASIA: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” with a reception at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14 in Pannell Gallery.
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  Sweet Briar College begins $8-million library addition [break](WDBJ7 CBS, Roanoke, Va.) Sweet Briar College is adding a new wing to the Cochran Library.  Elevators and air conditioning will be added, along with a high-tech classroom and a small cafe.
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  The ‘best’ of the Princeton Review [break](Examiner.com)
  … while St. John’s College, Sweet Briar, and Richmond received high marks for classroom experience, good teaching, and accessible professors.
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  Three Lynchburg-area colleges make The Princeton Review’s list [break](The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) “The Best 377 Colleges” of 2013, released Monday, includes information on Lynchburg College, Randolph College and Sweet Briar College in several different categories … Lynchburg College received an academic rating of 77; Randolph College, 89; and Sweet Briar, 93.
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  College students move into campuses this week [break](The  News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College will welcome freshmen to campus Aug. 25; classes will begin Aug. 30.
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  Renovations underway on Sweet Briar College’s library [break](The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Efforts to renovate Sweet Briar College’s Mary Helen Cochran Library are well under way, with crews having cleared the landscape for the 2-year, $8.8 million construction project.
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  $8.8 million project begun on Sweet Briar library [break](virginiabusiness.com) Work is under way on an $8.8 million renovation project for Sweet Briar College’s Mary Helen Cochran Library.
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  Virginia’s Private Colleges roll out the Red Carpet [break](Collegeexplorations.blogspot.com) …Sweet Briar actively works to bring young women into the field of engineering by offering a strong engineering curriculum firmly embedded in the liberal arts tradition of the college.
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  Columbus mayor Teresa Tomlinson shares memories of her days at Sweet Briar College [break](Ledger-Enquirer, Columbus, Ga.) Tomlinson, who recently received the Distinguished Alumna of the Year award from Sweet Briar, said choosing the smaller school over a large university was one of the most important decisions she’s ever made.
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  Journalist Anne ‘Nancy’ Fontaine Maury Miller dies [break](Palm Beach Daily News, Palm Beach, Fla.) Anne “Nancy” Fontaine Maury Miller ’54, a longtime community news journalist who wrote for several newspapers in Palm Beach and Delray Beach, Fla., died Saturday, July 28, 2012. …
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  High school girls learn engineering skills through Amherst program [break](WDBJ 7 CBS, Roanoke, Va.) A program at Sweet Briar College is giving high school girls a hands-on opportunity to learn about engineering and design.
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  Area students invited to visit private colleges next week [break](The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Liberty University, Lynchburg College, Randolph College and Sweet Briar College, all located in the greater Lynchburg area, will participate.
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  Sweet Briar’s school spirits to be featured on SyFy episode [break](The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College’s Daisy Williams is about to get her 15 minutes of fame. The long-deceased daughter of college founder Indiana Fletcher Williams is the subject of many ghost stories at the college, though her actions tend to be more mischievous than threatening.
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  ‘Comeback Kid’ prepares for college [break](The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Seven years ago, Charley suffered a stroke … In June, she walked across the stage at Heritage High School, graduating 25th in her class with a 4.1 grade point average. She plans to attend Sweet Briar College this fall.
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  Sweet Briar will host historical conference [break](Nelson County Times, Nelson County, Va.) The Virginia Department of Historic Resources and Sweet Briar College’s Tusculum Institute will hold a workshop-based conference for historical societies from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 11, at the Florence Elston Inn and Conference Center at Sweet Briar.
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  Sweet Briar College to Appear on Sci-Fi Channel [break](WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) There are a lot of legends swirling around our area, and now one from Sweet Briar College landed it on a popular Sci-Fi Channel show this week…
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  With virtual campus tours, applicants explore colleges [break](Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.) For Sweet Briar College, this includes a map of the places on campus where ghost sightings have been reported.
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  Lynchburg health care providers express some relief at Supreme Court’s decision [break](The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Steve Bragaw, associate professor of government at Sweet Briar College, agreed and said with his decision, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is defending the court against charges of being overly political.
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  Officials release name of drowning victim at Sweet Briar [break](The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Family members huddled in the dark as rescue crews searched the Upper Lake at Sweet Briar College late Tuesday, searching for a man who fell into the water when a boat capsized.
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  Sweet Briar College hosts workshop for young writers [break](WDBJ-7 CBS, Roanoke, Va.) The University of Virginia is holding its annual “Young Writers Workshop,” but not in Charlottesville. Because of construction, the program has moved to Sweet Briar College in Amherst.
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  Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn June 22-July 1 [break](WLNI-FM, Lynchburg, Va.) Endstation Theatre Company is pleased to announce the opening of … “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”… Directed by Chad Larabee, this production will run June 22 to July 1 at Babcock Auditorium at Sweet Briar College…
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  Dormann Library to host book signing for Jini Jones Vail [’59] [break](The Leader, Corning, N.Y.) The Dormann Library in Bath will host a program and book signing with author Jini Jones Vail at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 28 … Vail is the author of “Rochambeau: Washington’s Ideal.” She is a graduate of … Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
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  Amherst theater company kicks off summer festival of shows [break](WDBJ-7 CBS, Roanoke, Va.) The tale of Huckleberry Finn and his friend, Jim, is coming to a stage at Sweet Briar College. “Big River” is one of three plays in the Blue Ridge Summer Theater Festival, a production of the Endstation Theater Company.
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  Get ready for the chilling class reunions of SyFy’s School Spirits [break](blastr.com) In the episode that explores paranormal events at Sweet Briar College, an all-girl school, “they believe that the spirit who is haunting this group of women in the school is actually the daughter of the founder of the university from about 150 years ago,” said Seth Jarrett.
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  High school girls explore engineering at Sweet Briar [break](WLNI, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College is inviting high school girls to sign up for its summer “Exploring Engineering Design” course to be held July 22-27.
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  A Glimpse of the Past at Sweet Briar

  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) The Tusculum Institute at Sweet Briar College may not reach its initial goal of reconstructing the plantation house of the 1750s that was home to the family of Sweet Briar’s founder.
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  Dismantled in 2005, Tusculum still awaits restoration at Sweet Briar
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) In a whitewashed barn at Sweet Briar College, a 360-year-old plantation home lays in pieces — a sprawling pile of wood and brick.
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  Sweet Briar College, Mayor Teresa Tomlinson’s alma mater, honors her with Distinguished Alumna of the Year award
  (Ledger-Enquirer, Columbus, Ga.) Mayor Teresa Tomlinson has been selected as Sweet Briar College’s Distinguished Alumna of the Year, the school has announced.
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  Mayor Tomlinson receives distinguished alumna award
  (WLTZ 38 News, Columbus, Ga.) The President of Sweet Briar College, Jo Ellen Parker, together with Board members, administrators, and alumnae, will be in Columbus, Ga., Monday, June 11, 2012, to present Mayor Teresa Tomlinson with the Distinguished Alumna Award of 2011.
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  Writers’ workshop moves to Sweet Briar
  (New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) After renovations at UVa put the 30-year-old workshop on hold last year, organizers decided to look for a new home, and Sweet Briar seemed like a good fit.
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  Gravestone’s three words speak loudly from past
  (The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Va.) Lynn Rainville is a research professor in the humanities at Sweet Briar College, a visiting scholar at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia and an expert about black graveyards in central Virginia.
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  Sweet Briar College alum to donate $500K
  (New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) A 1957 graduate of Sweet Briar College has committed $500,000 to establish the Ottaway Endowed Fund in support of the Tusculum Institute at Sweet Briar College.
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  Summer arts roundup
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Endstation Theatre’s Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival begins with “The Comedy of Errors” at 7 p.m. June 1 on the grounds of Sweet Briar College.
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  Is college too easy? As study time falls, debate rises
  (The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.) … At Sweet Briar College, a private women’s school in Virginia, students reported 19 hours of study in an average week.
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  ‘Wicked’ actress performing at Endstation Theatre fundraiser this weekend
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) Endstation’s Broadway in the Blue Ridge fundraiser is set for 8 p.m. Saturday in Sweet Briar College’s Babcock Fine Arts Center. Broadway performer Tory Ross will sing “For Good” from “Wicked,” as well as other songs from Broadway hits like “9 to 5,” “Sundays in the Park with George,” “End of the Rainbow” and “Once,” which was just nominated for a slew of Tony Awards.
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  Sweet Briar College Hires New Dean of Enrollment
  (WSET-TV ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College has hired a new dean in hopes of attracting more students. Dr. Steven Nape will make the move to Sweet Briar as the Dean of Enrollment at the end of this month.
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  Women’s health pioneer addresses Sweet Briar graduates
  (News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) A pioneer in the formation of a national research agenda for women’s health told Sweet Briar College graduates on Saturday to remember the value of a small gesture.
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  Sweet Briar names new enrollment dean
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  Sweet Briar College announced Thursday that Steven W. Nape, a longtime college administrator, will serve as the new dean of enrollment management.
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  Sweet Briar College to Cut Positions & Majors
  (WSET-TV ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College is making some changes to meet financial needs. It’s part of a five-year plan that was approved last year.
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  Cutbacks planned at Sweet Briar College
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Financial difficulties at Sweet Briar College have prompted its board of directors to approve plans that will reduce faculty size, eliminate two majors and downsize several academic programs.
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  Young Entrepreneurs Prepare for Cross-College Challenge
  (WSET-TV ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar student Barbara Regester is one of several college students in the area to participate in the Region 2000 Higher Education Entrepreneurship Initiative.
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  Princeton Review honors SBC professor
  (The Nelson County Times, Nelson County, Va.) Sweet Briar College professor of mathematical sciences Steve Wassell was named one of the country’s best undergraduate teachers by The Princeton Review.
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  Woman’s long odyssey ends at Upton library
  (The Milford Daily News, Milford, Mass.) Nicole Basbanes’ passion for books has taken her from her childhood home in Grafton to San Francisco, Washington, D.C., New York and now, to Upton.
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  Local schools to benefit from math and science partnership grants
  (WSLS-TV 10, Roanoke, Va.) The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is awarding grants totaling more than $2.5 million to 11 partnerships between school divisions, colleges and universities to increase content knowledge and sharpen classroom skills of teachers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics – subject areas known collectively as “STEM.”
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  Students create business to make roads safer for teen drivers
  (WDBJ-7 CBS, Roanoke, Va.) … Allissa Abdelwahed, who is now using her experience to help other drivers and start her own business, teamed up with a classmate at Sweet Briar College to start a company called “Sweet Drivers.”
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  Colleges band together for entrepreneurial ideas
  News & Advance (Lynchburg, Va.) … These are some of the entrepreneurship initiatives announced Tuesday by the partnership between Central Virginia Community College, Liberty University, Lynchburg College, Randolph College, Sweet Briar College, Virginia University of Lynchburg and Region 2000.
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  Dance event set for April 20
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College’s annual Spring Dance Concert will take place at 8 p.m. Friday, April 20, and at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 21, in Murchison Lane Auditorium.
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  Sweet Briar Makes Music Video

  (WSET ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) You’ve seen this before: a music video where the camera follows person to person lip syncing a song. Well, Friday Sweet Briar College made one of their own.
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  Sweet Briar president brings free-form fitness class to area
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Jo Ellen Parker, president of Sweet Briar College, teaches Nia to students and staff three times a week. Nia is a fitness practice that combines dance, yoga and martial arts.
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  Patricia T. ‘Patty’ Rouse [dies]
  (The Baltimore Sun) Patricia T. “Patty” Rouse, who with her late husband, Columbia developer James W. Rouse, co-founded Enterprise Community Partners Inc. and who devoted her life to making sure that decent and affordable housing was accessible to all Americans, died Monday afternoon.
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  Rising student loan debt fuels concern among Lynchburg-area colleges
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Local default rates are significantly lower. The range runs from Liberty’s default rate of 4.8 percent to less than 1 percent at Sweet Briar College.
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  Virginia Voters: Cheated by Two-Candidate Ballot on Super Tuesday?
  (Huntington-BelleHaven Patch, Alexandria, Va.) … “It’s odd for major candidates to not make the ballot, but voters shouldn’t feel ‘cheated.’ We’re all going to get a lot of attention come the fall,” said Stephen Bragaw, a government professor at Sweet Briar College near Lynchburg.
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  Raising Money Smashing a Car
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) We stopped by Sweet Briar College Thursday and found the Car Smash fundraiser going on.
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  St. Mary’s welcomes new board members
  (The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.) … Margaret Frazier Gardner is a 1985 graduate of St. Mary’s and earned her B.A. in art history and French from Sweet Briar College.
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  Girls put their skills to the test to celebrate engineering
  (New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) Twenty-five sixth-grade girls from Nelson Middle School in Lovingston came to Sweet Briar last week for the first Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.
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  Hampden-Sydney wins 13th annual Ethics Bowl
  (Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va.) …Hampden-Sydney defeated Sweetbriar College in the final round of the Ethics Bowl, a program of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges.
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  Sweet Briar Facebook efforts lead to application increase
  (News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College experienced a 20 percent rise in applications this year, thanks, in part, to a semester-long effort to expand recruitment efforts on Facebook.
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  Pat Oliphant political caricatures on display at Sweet Briar
  (The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Va.) Sweet Briar College over in Amherst College is showing off a collection of political caricatures drawn by Pulitizer Prize-winning cartoonist Pat Oliphant.
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  Sweet Briar College to showcase ‘Entangled Lives’
  (New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College will host “Entangled Lives,” a presentation by two women who share an extraordinary and complicated history, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, in Memorial Chapel.
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  Farmer shares unusual approach with college audience in Amherst County
  (WDBJ-7 CBS, Roanoke, Va.) … Salatin is offering a public lecture on his approach to food at Sweet Briar College.
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  Apple rolls away
  (The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.) I bought my first Macintosh computer in the bookstore at Sweet Briar College, because it was the only place around to find Apple products.
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  Liscouski hones her foucs on homeland security at Rockville contractor
  (The Gazette, Gaithersburg, Md.) Suzanne Petrie Liscouski was in the Pentagon that Sept. 11 when the jetliner struck.
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  Subculture of Americans prepares for civilization’s collapse
  (Reuters) … A sense of “suffering and being afraid” is usually at the root of this kind of thinking, according to Cathy Gutierrez, an expert on end-times beliefs at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
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  Most Accessible Professors: Princeton Review List
  (The Huffington Post) The Huffington Post recently noted the Princeton Review ranks Sweet Briar among the top 11 colleges for most accessible professors.
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  John Duffy creates opera in Hampton, honored in New York
  (The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.) … “It turned out that Joan went to Sweet Briar, where Dorothy went to college, and was in the class after Dorothy,” he said. “She knew Dorothy’s reputation” as a scholar. …
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  On a high note
  (Northern Virginia Daily, Strasburg, Va.) … Formichella was studying biology and music at Sweet Briar College near Lynchburg while Scharf was pursuing geography at the University of Maryland, but …
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  Recognition for a Teacher and Mentor
  (The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.) In the days when she pedaled her bike five miles each way from home just so she could clean a stall, groom or watch a lesson at someone’s backyard barn, Kit Baker Sydnor laid the groundwork for a life devoted to horses, rather than just focusing on riding.
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  Chicopee resident works to save stingray population
  (Chicopee Register, Chicopee, Mass.) Maryanne Grey chooses lunch carefully on days that she is working on her senior research.
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  Sweet Briar professor raises and studies chain catsharks
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Morrissey, a biology professor at Sweet Briar College, is raising about 100 of these sharks in a windowless room in the Guion Science Center.
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  Jump Rhythm Jazz Project at Sweet Briar, and other weekend events
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College will host a performance by the Jump Rhythm Jazz Project at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Murchison Lane Auditorium.
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  Sexually harassed interns often feel they have nowhere to turn
  (The Chicago Tribune) … Before they begin an internship, students at Sweet Briar College, a small, all-women liberal arts school in central Virginia, must sign a form that defines …
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  Girls on the Run heads to Sweet Briar
  (WVTF Public Radio, Roanoke, Va.) A new partnership was forged over the weekend between Sweet Briar College and Girls on the Run, the international organization that uses running and a life skills curriculum to educate and empower young girls, ages 8 to 13. Libby Fitzgerald reports.
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  Nearly 500 People Participate in Girls on the Run 5k
  (WSET ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) Girls on the Run is a program for 8 to 13 year old girls that gets them ready for the teen years, and it really focuses on building mental and physical strength.
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  Rough ride south for monarch butterflies
  (Express-News, San Antonio, Texas) Nourished by the most available nectars, bolstered by the most favorable genetics, the first butterflies of the annual monarch migration are filling the skies of their Mexican wintering grounds with flutters of orange and black.
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  Sweet Briar students to assist Girls on the Run 5K
  (The New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.) Sweet Briar College students have teamed up to help the Girls on the Run of Greater Lynchburg’s Celebration 5K.
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  Monarch butterflies decline at wintering grounds in Mexico, Texas drought adds to stress to migration
  (Mongabay.com) Every fall, millions of monarch butterflies travel south to Mexico and take refuge in twelve mountain sanctuaries of oyamel fir forests.
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  Republicans Win Across State, Set Stage for 2012
  (WSET ABC-13, Lynchburg, Va.) … “It means a lot because it shows this shift in Virginia, electoral politics back towards the Republican party as strong,” said Steve Bragaw, a government professor at Sweet Briar College.
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  Teaching tolerance
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Ameka Cruz is no stranger to teaching teenagers about tolerance.
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  Civil War diarist’s photos back with journals
  (The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, N.C.) Nearly 200 photographs that famed Civil War diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut collected to illustrate her epic account of that conflict have been reunited with her original journals, 125 years after her death.
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  Novelist behind Afghan Women’s Writing Project comes to SBC
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) One Afghan woman walked for four hours from her home in Logar Province so she could email a poem to the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, a literacy project founded by American novelist Masha Hamilton.
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  Online calculators aim to ease burden of choosing college
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) With tuition and student loan debt on the rise, choosing an affordable college can prove a daunting task for prospective students.
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  Local College Dives into Diet of Cownose Stingrays
  (WSET ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) A local college is trying to solve a Chesapeake Bay controversy by finding what cownose stingrays eat. The answer could be the key to saving the animals from the bay workers trying to get rid of them.
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  Night of Arts in Sweet Briar College’s Gallery
  (WSET ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) If you want to take in the arts this Friday night, then Sweet Briar College may be the place to be.
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  Global Warming: Does albedo offset CO2?
  (Summit County Citizen’s Voice, Summit, County, Colo.) “This decreased absorption of heat by the land surface is a local atmospheric cooling effect,” said Tom O’Halloran, a recent postdoctoral research at OSU who is now with the Department of Environmental Studies at Sweet Briar College.
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  The Buzz: Gearing up for Halloween
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) It’s been about a month since I wrote about Sweet Briar College’s Gods and Monsters exhibit, a collection of images of sinister and benevolent beings from the school’s permanent collection.
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  Students Build New Weather Station
  (WSET ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) … Environmental science students at Sweet Briar College helped build the station. It’s part of a hands-on Environmental Studies class.
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  Focus On: Ellen Reid
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) The Sweet Briar College senior is gearing up for a performance that combines installation sculpture and dance …
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  Gerber will lead mayor’s Workforce Investment Council
  (The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.) Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) named Allison Gerber, a graduate of Sweet Briar College and Tulane Law School, as executive director of the D.C. Workforce Investment Council.
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  Monarch butterflies face tough trip through Texas
  (The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.) … A critical problem is the widespread adoption throughout North America of herbicide-tolerant corn and soybeans, said Lincoln Brower, a professor of biology at Sweet Briar College who has been studying monarchs for decades.
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  Funeral services set for Sweet Briar’s ‘Bird Man’
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Edwards, who died on Sept. 27 at age 92, became a world-renown ornithologist, writing numerous books and field guides. He was best known locally, however, as Sweet Briar College’s “bird man.”
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  Liberty University a popular spot for presidential candidates
  (WDBJ7 CBS, Roanoke, Va.) … “Coming to Liberty for a Republican presidential candidate is kind of like the East Coast version of speaking at the Reagan library,” said  Sweet Briar College Political Science Professor, Steve Bragaw.
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  Local colleges pitch in on entrepreneurship initiative
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College President Jo Ellen Parker said the college recently created a new strategic plan and part of that involved educating more people on entrepreneurship.
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  Sweet Briar receives engineering accreditation
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) In the male-dominated field of engineering, Sweet Briar College is an anomaly.
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  John Casteen
  (The Southeast Review, Tallahassee, Fla.) John Casteen is the author of For the Mountain Laurel (2011) and Free Union (2009) … He teaches at Sweet Briar College, where he founded and directs the Sweet Briar Undergraduate Creative Writing Conference.
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  Rediscovering Wetlands at Sweet Briar College
  (WVTF Public Radio, Roanoke, Va.) That gurgling sound is the reemerging of one of many very old springs on the campus of Sweet Briar College in Amherst. It turns out that the 3000 acre campus, once a plantation, is a veritable laboratory of old wetlands, …
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  ‘Gods and Monsters’ exhibit opening at Sweet Briar
  (The Burg, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College’s latest exhibit might just have you looking underneath your bed or checking your closet before bedtime.
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  LU to Host Presidential Candidate Gov. Rick Perry
  (WSET-TV ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) … “It’s definitely a place where conservatives, or socially conservative candidate come and develop a sense of legitimacy,” said Steve Bragaw, a government professor at Sweet Briar College.
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  Sweet Briar Engineering Programs Accredited
  (WSET-TV ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College’s engineering program was accredited for the first time this year.
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  Area colleges report rising enrollment
  (News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Five Lynchburg-area colleges reported a rise in student enrollment this fall, boosting the total number of students in the region to more than 21,500.
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  Dance transforms emotions about 9/11
  (Washington Post, Washington, D.C.) Sept. 11 commemorations are often predictable. Powerful, but predictable.
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  Sweet Briar engineering program receives ABET accreditation
  (Virginia Business, Richmond, Va.) The engineering program at Sweet Briar College has received accreditation from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
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  Muscle Memory: Several choreographers and companies will commemorate 9/11 through dance
  (New York Press, New York) … Sarah Skaggs’ “9/11 Dance: A Roving Memorial,” performed by 20 dancers (including herself), will migrate through lower Manhattan with performances in three parks during the afternoon.
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  Westminster grad lands job as Sweet Briar women’s lacrosse coach
  (Carroll County Times, Westminster, Md.) As soon as Eboni Preston walked onto Sweet Briar College’s campus, she had an idea it would be a good fit.
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  Sweet Briar and Girls on the Run Announce Partnership (The Rockbridge Weekly, Lexington, Va.) Sweet Briar College and Girls on the Run of Greater Lynchburg have announced a partnership aimed squarely at achieving their shared goals: educating and empowering young women.
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  Sweet Briar sponsoring Girls on the Run 5k
  (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College has teamed up with Girls on the Run of Greater Lynchburg in the effort to promote “self-esteem and healthy living” for girls 8 to 13 years old.
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  Bestselling college guide features 12 Virginia colleges (The Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg, Va.) This year 12 colleges in Virginia have been included in the resource that millions of parents, counselors, and college-bound students have turned to for more than 25 years—Fiske Guide to Colleges.
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  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Announces New Deputy Director for Advancement (artdaily.org) The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced today the appointment of Linda Lipscomb as the new deputy director for advancement beginning September 1, 2011.
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  Newman will take reins for lacrosse at BC (Beloit Daily News, Beloit, Wis). Meredith Newman, a former Sweet Briar College lacrosse standout and a former Kenyon College (Ohio) assistant coach, has been named the first head coach of women’s lacrosse at Beloit College.
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  In Midwest, Flutters May Be Far Fewer (The New York Times, New York, N.Y.) … “It kills everything,” said Lincoln P. Brower, an entomologist at Sweet Briar College who is also an author of the paper documenting the decline of monarch winter populations in Mexico. “It’s like absolute Armageddon for biodiversity over a huge area.”
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  BLUR Tackles Creativity (WVTF Public Radio, Roanoke, Va.) WVTF reporter Libby Fitzgerald spoke with students and faculty of BLUR: The Blue Ridge Summer Institute for Young Artists.
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  The Mystery of the (Maybe) Missing Monarchs (Wired Science, wired.com) In March, ecologist Lincoln Brower of Virginia’s Sweet Briar College expressed concern that monarchs are perilously close to collapse.
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  Young artists find support at Sweet Briar’s BLUR summer program (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Some new blood has invaded Sweet Briar College. During one morning last week, a group of writers camped out in the courtyard of the library, writing furiously.
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  Endstation Theatre brings ‘Assassins’ to stage (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins” “has a lot to say,” says Chad Larabee, who is directing a production of it for Endstation Theatre’s Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival.
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  Summer Camp at Sweet Briar Uses Unique Form of Teaching (WSET-TV ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) The Blue Ridge Summer Institute for Young Artists launched their first camp this week at Sweet Briar College.
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  Saving monarch butterflies stirs the ‘poetical soul’ of Homero Aridjis (The Christian Science Monitor) … along with severe weather in recent years, have combined to threaten the monarchs, says Lincoln Brower, a biologist at Sweet Briar College in Virginia who is one of the world’s leading experts on the monarch – and a longtime friend and admirer of Aridjis.
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  Summer Arts Preview (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) The characters in “Good Good Trouble on Bad Bad Island,” which opens Endstation Theatre’s Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival Wednesday, are a fanciful sort.
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  Ghost tour offers historical look at Maplewood (The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va.) … Rainville, who is the founding director of the Tusculum Institute at Sweet Briar College, helped decode the worn grave markers that dot the cemetery during a tour Saturday in conjunction with the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society.
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  How Facebook Fueled Judgment Day (The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.) Predictions of the end of the world are nothing new. But, as Cathy Gutierrez, a religion professor at Sweet Briar College, points out…
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  Amherst chamber honors top member businesses (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College, Bank of the James-Amherst, Wes’ Muffler & Custom Pipe Shop and Mutual Telecom Services won the Businesses of the Year awards for their size categories.
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  Finishing college in four years? Rate varies at area schools (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … At Randolph College and Sweet Briar College, the graduation rate was 59 percent, while Lynchburg College came in at 54 percent, according to U.S. Department of Education data from 2009, the most recent year available.
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  Sweet Briar College Commencement Address (C-Span) Lara Merriken, creator of Larabar and Humm Foods, gave the commencement address at the 2011 Sweet Briar College commencement.
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  Sweet Briar College Bids Farewell to Graduates (WSET-TV ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) 140 women graduated from Sweet Briar College Saturday. The outdoor ceremony took place as scheduled despite the wet weather.
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  Sweet Briar College graduates 140 amid gray skies (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College’s graduating class, which included people from Afghanistan to California to Madison Heights, sat under a threatening sky Saturday…
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  Area Colleges Prepare for Rainy Graduations (WSET-TV ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.)
  All eyes are on the weather as three colleges in our area prepare for graduation Saturday. Liberty University, Lynchburg College and Sweet Briar college are holding graduation ceremonies at 10:00 a.m. Saturday- rain or shine.
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  Professor Discusses ‘End Times’ Predictions (WLNI FM 105.9, Lynchburg, Va.) Professor of religion Cathy Gutierrez was a guest on WLNI’s “Morning Line” about predictions of the end of the world. Click below to listen.
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  Divining Doomsday: An Old Practice With New Tricks (National Public Radio, Washington, D.C.) … “People have been predicting the end of the world in Christianity since the time of St. Paul,” says Cathy Gutierrez, a religion professor at Sweet Briar College.
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  County thanks local businesses
  (Altavista Journal, Altavista, Va.) … Keynote speaker at the Campbell County event was Dr. Jo Ellen Parker, president of Sweet Briar College.
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   ‘Phantom’ star to perform at Sweet Briar (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) A little piece of Broadway is coming to the Blue Ridge.
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  Amherst woman to fly with Blue Angels (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … Beasley attended Monelison Middle School, graduated from Amherst County High School in 1998, Sweet Briar College with a Bachelor of Science in biology …
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  For the Mountain Laurel, John Casteen, VQR Poetry Series (C-ville Weekly, Charlottesville, Va.) … But read the new collection from Casteen, a Sweet Briar College professor whose work has appeared in the Paris Review and Ploughshares, and you’ll realize the gossip is groundless: These poems pretty much kick ass across the board.
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  Sweet Briar receives grant to teach teachers (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) A partnership led by Sweet Briar College was awarded nearly $200,000 from the state of Virginia to train 138 fourth- and fifth-grade teachers to better teach science, technology, engineering and math.
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  Sweet Briar Students Helping Evolve Edison 2 (WSET-TV ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) Designers of the X-Prize- winning Edison 2 are working on mass producing it, and they’re getting a little help.
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  Area Colleges Celebrate, Reflect on Death of Bin Laden (WSET-TV ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) It was a more mellow scene at Sweet Briar College Monday, where about a dozen students gathered during lunch with an International Affairs Assistant Professor to put Bin Laden’s death into context.
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  Sweet Briar rose, once plentiful, is now rare (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Imported to Virginia by English settlers, the Sweet Briar rose once grew with abundance in parts of Amherst County. Early settlers used the shrub for livestock enclosures, said Christian Carr, director of the Sweet Briar Museum.
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  Sweet Briar College appoints new dean (WSLS NBC 10, Roanoke, Va.) Amy Jessen-Marshall, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Otterbein University, has been named vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Sweet Briar College. …
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  Sweet Briar College appoints new dean (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) Amy Jessen-Marshall, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Otterbein University, has been named vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Sweet Briar College. …
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  HORSE SHOWS IN THE SUN: HITS kicks off 2011 season (The Star Exponent, Culpeper, Va.) … The Horse Shows in the Sun 2011 season kicked off Wednesday morning with the Commonwealth Classic and continues for the rest of the week. … Alden continued her hot streak in the Second Year Green Hunter division, taking first place in the first over fences class. Jason Berry, of Sweet Briar, won the second class.
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  Bolling Speaks to Local Entrepreneurs (WSET-TV ABC 13, Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College honored the entrepreneurs in our area Thursday night. The school’s business department hosted a dinner that brought out Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling. …
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  Carnegie Mellon Researchers Build Time Machine That Allows Visual Exploration of Space and Time Time-lapse GigaPans Provide New Way To Access Big Data (CNBC.com) … Using a conventional GigaPan camera, Janet Steven, an assistant professor of biology at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, has created time-lapse imagery of rapid-growing brassicas, known as Wisconsin Fast Plants. …
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  USHJA Announces Sweet Briar College As Sponsor Of The Equine Junior Apprentice Program (The Chronicle of the Horse, Middleburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts and sciences colleges for women, has recently signed on as presenting sponsor of USHJA’s Equine Junior Apprentice Program: Your Backstage Pass.
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  Sweet Briar’s dance concert promises eclectic mix (The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Va.)   Bamboo harvested from the campus’ deep woods, vocals by women singing medieval texts — oh, and an Astroturf ramp and puffy plastic bags. …
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  Conference brings writers to Sweet Briar (The News Virginian, Waynesboro, Va.) Student writers who have been chosen from among their peers at colleges and universities across the country will gather at Sweet Briar College to take part in an intensive four-day workshop. …
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  Art Notes: New Orleans trio, Randolph radio fest and more (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) “Real Women Who Paint: Five Artists,” featuring the work of area painters Janet Dance, Cheryl Hawkins, Kaye Lipscomb, Kelly Mattox and Nancy McDearmon, will open at 4:30 p.m. today with a reception and gallery talk. …
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  A Creativity Crisis? (WMRA Public Radio, Harrisonburg, Va.) Sweet Briar assistant professors Dave Griffith and Tom Scott and Endstation Theatre Company founder Geoff Kershner appeared on the call-in talk show “Virginia Insight” on March 28. They discussed BLUR and the need to foster creativity.
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  Harvard brainiac to Berkeley radical: Pop culture’s college IDs (The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.) … Colleges “are talismanic in all kinds of ways, of course, signaling the final arc of adolescence, of freedom, of languor and the first or last sparks of intellectual promise,” said John Gregory Brown, an English professor at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
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  Lynchburg-raised Hollywood screenwriter to speak at Liberty commencement (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.) … At Sweet Briar, the commencement speaker will be Lara Merriken, …
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  Author to speak at Sweet Briar (New Era Progress, Amherst, Va.)
  Jean Carroon, author of “Sustainable Preservation: Greening Existing Buildings” will present a lecture at Sweet Briar College. …
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  Senior pitcher encourages freshmen with passion (The Nelson County Times, Nelson County, Va.) When 2007 Nelson High graduate Jordan Pugh left for college, she didn’t have to go far as she landed at Sweet Briar College in Amherst. …
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  “Real Women Who Paint” at Sweet Briar College The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Va. An opening reception and gallery talk by the artists of “Real Women Who Paint: Five Artists” will be held at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 31 in Benedict Gallery at Sweet Briar College. …
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  Mullen dealing with strengths and perceptions at Oregon College of Art & Craft
  (The Oregonian — Portland, Ore.)

  … [Mullen] attended Sweet Briar College in Virginia …
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  Sweet Briar students work with X Prize winners (The News & Advance — Lynchburg, Va.) The Very Light Car — winner of the $5 million Progressive Automotive X Prize — was parked in a grassy quad at Sweet Briar College on Thursday, its silver body glinting in the sun. …
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  Edison2 Very Light Car Visits Sweet Briar’s Campus (WSET-TV ABC 13 — Lynchurg, Va.) One of Edison 2’s Very Light Cars made its way to Sweet Briar’s campus on Thursday. …
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  Carrie Brown Featured in Web Interview (A Well-lighted Place.com, South Hadley, Mass.) Sweet Briar’s Carrie Brown was recently interviewed on the website awelllightedplace.com, which features webcam interviews with writers.
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  Sweet Briar College wins statewide college ethics bowl (The Roanoke Times — Roanoke, Va.) Sweet Briar College placed first in a statewide competition in which 15 college teams debated ethics and privacy.
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  Sweet Briar Professor Discusses Egypt’s Uprising on Local Radio (WLNI FM 105.9— Lynchburg, Va.) Padmini Coopamah, assistant professor of international affairs at Sweet Briar, was interviewed on WLNI’s “Morningline” about the history of Hosni Mubarak’s regime in Egypt and the current upheaval. Click the link above to listen.
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  Unbuilt Sweet Briar looks at campus that might have been (The News & Advance — Lynchburg, Va.) If architect Ralph Adams Cram had had his way, the campus of Sweet Briar College might be a very different-looking place. …
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  Sweet Briar digs new archaeology lab (The News & Advance — Lynchburg, Va.) Sweet Briar College senior Elizabeth Baker uses a toothbrush to scrub grime off a dime-sized ceramic shard. Within an hour, she has cleaned a few dozen pieces of glass …
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  Business partnership gives Lynchburg area students real world experience in archaeology (WDBJ7 — Roanoke, Va.) As students return for a new semester at Sweet Briar College, a new on-the-job training opportunity will be available. …
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