Announcements

• Grants Orientation Workshop for New Faculty
  Smart Grant-Seeking: An Introduction for New Faculty Thursday, October 15, 2-3 p.m.
• The National Science Foundation Has Issued New Proposal Guidelines
  NSF Proposal Award Policies and Procedures Guide Effective January 5, 2009.
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In the News

• W&L Biologists to Determine if Rare Plant Deserves Protection
  First, the experts doubted it existed. Then, the federal government protected it under the Endangered Species Act. Now, that protection is in jeopardy, and the status of the rare herbaceous plant lies largely in the hands of a team of biologists at Washington and Lee University.
• W&L Receives National Grant for Faculty Career Flexibility
  Washington and Lee University has been awarded a $200,000 accelerator grant as part of the Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility.
• Uncovering the Graffiti of Pompeii
  Rebecca Benefiel, assistant professor of classics at Washington and Lee University, has spent the last three years studying the more than 11,000 graffiti in Pompeii.
• Timothy Lubin Receives Two National Fellowships
  Timothy Lubin, associate professor of religion at Washington and Lee University, has received two national fellowships for work on his research project “Authority, Law and the Polity in India, 300-1700.”
• Law Professor Russell Miller Receives Fulbright Research Grant
  Russell Miller, associate professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar senior research grant to conduct research in Heidelberg, Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Public International Law during the 2009-10 academic year.

Contact Us:

• Director:
  George Carras
  gcarras@wlu.edu
• Associate Director:
  George Graves
  ggraves@wlu.edu
• Mailing Address:
  Office of Faculty Grant Support
  Washington Hall, Room 38
  Washington and Lee University
  Lexington, Virginia 24450
  (540) 458-8977 / (540) 458-8117 FAX