News

• Knapp, Conner Appointed to New Posts at W&L
  Washington and Lee University has announced new appointments in the University administration. Elizabeth Knapp, associate provost and associate professor of geology, will become senior assistant to the president and director of the Johnson Program in Leadership and Integrity. Marc Conner, the Jo M. and James M. Ballengee Professor of English, head of the English Department and director of Spring Term, will become associate provost.
• Connors to Give Pritchard Professorship Inaugural Lecture at W&L
  Christopher D. Connors, professor of geology at Washington and Lee University, will give the William E. Pritchard III Professorship Inaugural Lecture on Thursday, March 14, at 8 p.m. in Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library.
• Interdisciplinary Research at W&L Helps Measure Health of Coral Reefs
  Two Washington and Lee faculty – geologist Lisa Greer and computer scientist Joshua Stough — combine on a new method for assessing the health of coral reefs.
• Terra Firma: Non in cautus praeteriti
  Forty returning Washington and Lee geology majors spent a daylong field trip in some familiar stomping grounds.
• New IQ Center Will Enhance Science at W&L
  The first phase of the new Integrative and Quantitative (IQ) Center at Washington and Lee University is underway, with a projected opening date of June 2013.