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  • U.S. News & World Reportranks Lynchburg College in the top tier of Southern universities and colleges that offer a full range of undergraduate programs and master's degrees in its America's Best Colleges 2010 publication. [More]

  • The Princeton Review recognizes the College in its publication, Best 371 Colleges (2010 edition). [More]

  • The College is one of forty colleges nationwide featured in Colleges That Change Lives by Loren Pope, former New York Times education editor. [More]

  • Lynchburg College is one of only 100 American colleges and universities namColleges that Encourage Character Development book covered to the Honor Roll of Character Building Colleges in The Templeton Guide: Colleges That Encourage Character Development. LC's volunteer service program is one of sixty in the nation recognized in the publication. [More]

  • The National Review College Guide recognizes LC as one of America's top fifty liberal arts colleges and one of the best buys in higher education.

  • President Kenneth Garren serves as one of seven elected Virginia commissioners with the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges & Schools (SACS).

  • Lynchburg College is one of fifty institutions nationwide participating in the Bonner Leaders Program sponsored by The Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation through which selected students receive scholarships to engage in community service, service learning, and community-based research.

  • Over a four-year study period, Lynchburg College seniors performed 42 percent better than their peers at other four-year institutions in a Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) by the Council for Aid to Education. [More]

  • Dr. Dan Messerschmidt, professor of economics, serves on Virginia Governor Tim Kaine's Governor's Advisory Board of Economists. He was first appointed to the board by former Governor Mark Warner.

  • Ashley Schmidt '10 (Jarrettsville, Md.) was one of 15 students selected from 300 applicants across the nation to be a History Scholar at the prestigious five-week program sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute in New York City. Samantha Bryant '11 (Lynchburg, Va.) was one of fifty finalists selected for a one-week program at the institute. [More]

  • A delegation of 20 LC students won the Distinguished Award for Position Papers and an Honorable Mention for the Delegation at the National Model United Nations simulation in New City. [More]

  • Dr. Atul Gupta, professor of management, has been inducted into The Business Strategy Game Hall of Fame as a "Master Professor" and Reese Thompson III '10 (Lynchburg, Va.) was named a Best Strategy Invitational Grand Champion. [More]

  • Dr. Eric Goff, associate professor of physics and author of Gold Medal Physics: The Science of Sports, is the recipient of a Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges Mednick Fellowship and a Bridging the Gaps fellowship from the University of Sheffield, England, for research on sports physics and engineering with a colleague at the university.

  • Jennifer Hamlet '09 (Hampstead, Md.) was one of six national winners of a 2008 Future Professional Award from the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD).

  • Lynchburg College's recently renovated Shellenberger Field received one of six merit awards from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Virginia.

  • Dr. Woody McKenzie, associate professor of education and human development, was one of 76 educators selected from 1,300 applicants as a 2008-09 SENCER (Scientific Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) Leadership Fellow.

  • Dr. John Styrsky, assistant professor of biology; Loriann Garcia '10 (Germantown, Md.); and Helen Wolfe '10 (Sterling, Va.) received funding from the Jeffress Memorial Trust of Virginia to research the never-before-studied symbiotic relationship among a Neotropical acacia, ant, and spider in Panama. [More]

  • Dr. Sally Selden, professor of management, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

  • Dr. Scott Amos, assistant professor of history, was among 23 scholars nationwide selected to participate in "Homer Across the Curriculum: The Homeric Hymns and the Poetry of Hesiod," a seminar sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges and the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University in Washington, D.C. [More]

  • Nearly 700 students contributed 48,000 hours of community service to gain Lynchburg College recognition on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. [More]

  • The Virginia Theta Chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity at Lynchburg College received national awards for outstanding improvement, ritual, community service, and recruitment at the 2008 Phi Delta Theta General Convention. [More]

  • Nancy Schneider, professor of accounting, was selected a winner in the educator category in Virginia Business magazine's "Super CPA" contest, sponsored by the magazine and the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants. [More]

  • The Warrior's Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Routeby Dr. Casey Clabough, associate professor of English, was a finalist for the 2008 Appalachian Book of the Year and is a Library of Virginia's Book of the Year finalist. Another book, The Art of the Magic Striptease: The Literary Layers of George Garrett (2008), was nominated for the 2009 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book of the Year and the 2009 C. Hugh Holman Award. [More]

  • Dr. Nancy Cowden, associate professor of biology; Dr. Priscilla Gannicott, associate professor of chemistry; and Jennifer Thurman '10 (Roanoke, Va.) are the recipients of funding from the Perkin Fund, the American Orchid Society, the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges (VFIC), and Lynchburg College for research on how a local native orchid attracts pollinators. [More]

  • International relations majors Megan Celuck '10 (Moseley, Va.) and Chelsea Parker '09 (Branford, Conn.) were among 200 students nationwide selected to attend the Third Annual Global Forum at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C. [More]

  • LC's Hornets earned 2008-09 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) titles in field hockey, women's soccer, men's cross country, men's indoor track and field, men's outdoor track and field, and softball. The field hockey, women's soccer, and softball teams all advanced to the NCAA Division III tournament. For the 64th time, athletic director Dr. Jack Toms '69 was named ODAC Coach of the Yearfor men's cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field, and Enza Steele (field hockey), Dr. Todd Olsen (women's soccer), and Dawn Simmons ‘97 (softball) were each named the top coach in the state in their respective sports. Four student athletes earned All-American honors: Ashley Hoath '11 (women's soccer), Allie Weir '11 (field hockey), Ricky Flynn '11 (cross country, indoor track, twice in outdoor track), and Brandon Edwards '09 (indoor track).