The Johnson Program hosts gatherings and other special events for our Johnson Scholars on campus. Learn about these special events, as well as scholar highlights, messages from Elizabeth Knapp, the Director of the Johnson Program in Leadership and Integrity, and more.
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Georgetown Professor Continues Equality and Difference Series with Research on Pregnant Women
“We are very excited to bring a speaker to campus who can address issues of Equality and Difference in the clinical research context.” Maggie Little, professor of philosophy and director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE) at Georgetown University, is the fourth speaker in the 2017-18 Equality and Difference series, sponsored by the Roger […]
Psychologist Zanna Clay to Speak as Part of Questioning Intimacy Series
“Dr. Clay has extensive experience researching the communication and social development of one of our closest living relatives, the bonobo…She has recently expanded her research to include humans, and her work provides a comparison that helps us understand what it is to be human.” Zanna Clay, assistant professor in the psychology department at the University of […]
Poet Susan Stewart Second Speaker in Questioning Intimacy Series
“There is a distinctive, yet often inarticulate knowledge that comes from intimacy with things. Susan Stewart is an expert explorer of this, the mysterious, often dark, and sometimes challenging realm of intimate experience of life and the world.” Poet and critic Susan Stewart is the second speaker in Washington and Lee University’s Questioning Intimacy series. Stewart’s […]
W&L’s Williams School to Host Sixth Annual Entrepreneurship Summit
“The Entrepreneurship Summit is an amazing opportunity for W&L’s entrepreneurial alumni and students to share stories of success and of failure, to gain access to valuable resources.” Washington and Lee University’s Williams School will hold its sixth annual Entrepreneurship Summit Sept. 29-30 with keynote speakers Ben Johns ’78, founder and CEO of SCOUT Bags, and Warren Stephens […]
“Being deeply rooted in the Lexington/Rockbridge area through W&L and the Shepherd Program showed me the value of community and the importance of being involved in the intricacies of life beyond our individual fields of vision.” ~ Lainey Johnson ’16 Editor’s note: In this series, “Living the Shepherd Dream,” current students in the Shepherd Program for […]
The Intersection of Art and Science: Lauren Sturdy ’11
“I found W&L to be a close-knit community where professors care about students” Fans of the PBS program “Antiques Roadshow” know that the art experts often recommend to a guest that their painting be restored. What they might not realize is that there is a body of science behind the conservation of a painting. It […]
“Fish have amazing traits. I want to share that with people, help them feel connected to fish and help them understand how important fish are to the world we live in.” While she readily admits that she’s terrible at fishing — “I’ve only caught a handful of fish in my life,” Sasha Doss ’13 has made the […]
Matt Simpson ’12 Represents the U.S. at the 2016 Paralympics
Matt Simpson, a 2012 graduate of Washington and Lee University, posted a photo of himself and the U.S. men’s goalball team decked out in their Team U.S.A. uniforms just before the opening ceremonies of the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which runs Sept. 7 – 18.