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Lynchburg College graduates will be sporting caps and gowns made from recycled plastic bottles during commencement exercises for the Class of 2010 at 10 a.m. May 15 in the Dell. A total of 531 degrees are to be awarded, including 419 bachelor's and 112 master's.

Oak Hall, a leading manufacturer of academic apparel based in Salem, Va., produced the eco-friendly caps and gowns made from 100 percent, post-consumer recycled plastic bottles. The "GreenWeaver" fabric is spun from molten plastic pellets. It takes an average of 23 bottles to make each gown.

Dr. Georg Schwarzmann, assistant professor of Spanish at Lynchburg College, has published his first book, The Influence of Emerson and Whitman on the Cuban Poet José Martí (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010).

The book is drawn from research on his doctoral dissertation, "Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Americas: José Martí Reads Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman." (University of South Carolina, 2006)

Lynchburg College is offering a five-week Summer Reading Clinic for students struggling with reading. The clinic will run June 16 - July 20 to provide individualized remediation programs for children in grades K-12. Students must be recommended by their classroom teacher to be considered for the program.

Senior guard Steven Echols (Martinsville, VA/Carlisle) was just named First-Team All-State for men's basketball by the Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID).

Echols was named First-Team All-ODAC and Third-Team All-South Region on D3hoops.com earlier this year. He will go down as one of the best players to ever play at LC as he finished ninth in LC history in points (1,305), second in steals (217), second in assists (325), ninth in free throws made (246), and third in three pointers made (125).

More than 200 trees will be planted at LC's Claytor Nature Study Center on Monday, April 19 by area high-school students and 4-Hers.

About 30 ninth-graders from Virginia Episcopal School (VES) and 12 younger 4-Hers from Campbell and Appomattox counties will provide the muscle to plant 50 hawthorns, 50 mulberries, and 100 chestnut oaks, all species for wildlife food.

Felix Mendelssohn and Maurice Duruflé will be the featured composers for the Lynchburg College Choral Union's concert on Saturday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Snidow Chapel.

The 70-voice choir will perform Mendelssohn's Te Deum (To God) and Hymn Hör mein Bitten, Herr (Hear My Prayer, O Lord) and Duruflé's Requiem, Op. 9.The choir is under the direction of Dr. Jong H. Kim, professor of music and director of choral activities and graduate studies in music. Rose M. Peak and F. Johnson Scott III will accompany on organ.

Students will tackle such topics as humor, grief, brain injury, the sexualization of young girls, and gerrymandering during the Student Scholar Showcase April 14.

The thirteenth annual event provides students with an opportunity to present their scholarly research, and creative and/or service-learning projects to the campus community in the Daura Gallery, Sydnor Performance Hall in Schewel Hall, and the Memorial Ballroom.

Should a purple toilet or pink bra appear in your yard, don't panic. Lynchburg College students are doing a variety of fundraisers to battle cancer.

LC professors and students were recognized for their scholarship at the Virginia Social Science Association annual meeting March 27, 2010 at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Va.

Dr. Kimberly McCabe, professor of sociology and dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, was the recipient of the VSSA 2010 Scholar Award in Sociology at the annual meeting's plenary session where she delivered a talk on what inspired and led her to a life of scholarship.

Lynchburg College has received a $20,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation through a program of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges for enhanced use of technology in K-12 education.

LC is one of five Virginia schools to receive a $20,000 "Teaching with Today's Technology" grant. Lynchburg College will use its grant to:

• Enhance technology training for education faculty. This specialized training will feature Verizon's educators' website Thinkfinity;

Louis M. Alvey, a graduate student at Lynchburg College, has been awarded the 2009 NBCC Foundation (NBCCF) Military Scholarship.

The scholarship is awarded to service members and veterans enrolled in a CACRE- accredited counseling program during or after military service who commit to serving military personnel after graduation.

The lights on Shellenberger Field will be turned off for Earth Hour at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 27. Thanks to the efforts of the student-led Alliance for Energy Awareness, Lynchburg College is joining the worldwide effort.

Students will be meeting in the Dell at 8:30 p.m. to celebrate Earth Hour with the rest of the world, and many lights around campus will be doused.