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Hello, Dolly!
Lynchburg College students and faculty will perform in the Academy of Fine Arts musical theatre production of Hello, Dolly! May 4-6 and May 12.
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MS Walk this Saturday
The annual MS Walk is this Saturday in the Dell with registration at 9 a.m. in Schewel Hall.
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Buckingham breaks records
Lesley Buckingham '12 scored six goals and assisted on five to break two school records for the women's lacrosse team.
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Fourth Straight Championship
The men's track and field team won the Old Dominion Athletic Conference outdoor track and field championship Saturday.
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Seniors exhibit art
The Annual Student Art and Thesis Exhibition will be in the Daura Gallery through May 11.
Read MoreTwo spring concerts on tap
LC instrumental and choral ensembles will perform on Friday, April 27, and Saturday, April 28, both at 7:30 p.m.
Read MoreEarth Day 2012
Join us for lunch in the cafeteria today as we celebrate the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day.
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Justice for People with Disabilities
Dr. J. David Smith, who started the special education program at LC, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday.
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Welcome Back for Westover
April 20-22 is Westover Alumni Society Weekend 2012 for members of the classes of 1927-1971 and their guests.
The classes of 1952, 1957, 1962, and 1967 will celebrate their class reunions and the 2012 Alumni Awards will be presented Saturday, April 21, at the Westover Alumni Society Dinner.
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Halo director to speak
James McQuillan '84, director of visual identity at Bungie, maker of the video game Halo, will give a talk on Monday.
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Reading at Riverviews
Dr. Casey Clabough and graduate student Ron Coleman '06 will read from their works at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Riverviews Artspace.
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Hoff breaks school record
Senior Dylan Hoff broke the school career point record April 11 with 229 points for the third-ranked men's lacrosse team.
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Relay for Life 2012
Dwayne Jones '13 has not missed a Relay for Life since the fifth grade, which is all the more remarkable since he wasn't supposed to make it to fifth grade.
Read MoreSerious about Syria
Students sporting green and black armbands will be spreading the word during lunch Friday in the cafeteria and Westover that Syrian President Bashar Hafez al-Assad must go.
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Medieval expert headed to Oxford
Dr. Elza Tiner, professor of English and Latin, was one of twenty academics selected worldwide to participate in the "Rhetoric in the 21st Century" Rhetoric Symposium at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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Choral Union turns 10
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the LC Choral Union will offer a free concert, Many Voices of Our World, April 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Snidow Chapel.
"This is our gift to the community," said Dr. Jong Kim, professor of music and founding conductor of the Choral Union.
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LC Day 2012
Join in the interactive fun on LC Day on Wednesday as we celebrate the myriad classes and extracurricular events that students enjoy in a typical day.
You can post photos or short videos directly to LC's Facebook page or photos on Pinterest.
You may also send your photos to the Office of College Communications and Marketing at ccm@lynchburg.edu. If you want to Tweet, use the hashtag: #LCDay.
We will also have a Dipity Timeline linked from our website of the day's events in real time.
Read MoreModel UN 2012
LC's delegation, representing New Zealand, won a Distinguished Delegation award and two Outstanding Position Paper awards at the 2012 National Model UN simulation in New York City.
Sixteen students participatied in the vigorous academic simulation of the United Nations in New York City April l-5 and received a briefing from New Zealand's ambassador to the UN.
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Leading by example
The School of Business and Economics (SOBE) was recently ranked No. 29 in the nation by Leadership Excellence magazine for its leadership development activities.
A list of the top 49 educational institutions can be found at 2011 - 2012 Top Leadership Development Programs. Lynchburg College is the only Virginia institution in the Top 30; SOBE shared this honor with business schools at University of Michigan, Harvard, MIT, Northwestern, University of Pennsylvania, and Duke.
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Excellence in teaching business
Dr. Eric S. Kyper, assistant professor of management information systems, has received the 2012 C. Raine Sydnor Sr. Professorship Award for Teaching Excellence in Business.
Dr. Kyper teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in information systems and business statistics. Awarded the PhD by the University of Rhode Island, he taught at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock before joining the Lynchburg College faculty in 2008.
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Scholarships for Leaders
Nigel C. Word '14 has received a 2012-2013 VFIC/Altria Leadership Scholarship administered by the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges.
Word is a business administration major with a minor in communications with an emphasis on social influence from Gretna, Va.
Tristan L. Boysaw '13, an accounting major from Wytheville, Va., received the scholarship last year.
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"The Laramie Project"
LC Theatre will present The Laramie Project April 12 - 15 in Dillard Theatre. The Laramie Project was written by Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project following the kidnapping, beating, and death of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming who was attacked because he was gay.
Read MoreIda Wise East Lecture
"Edward Young and Samuel Richardson's Correspondence" is the subject of a talk at 7:30 p.m. April 5 in Sydnor Performance Hall, Schewel Hall by Dr. James E. May, associate professor of English, Penn State University. The talk is co-sponsored by the Ida Wise East Memorial Lecture and Phi Beta Kappa and is free and open to the public.
Read MoreStudents Launch S.O.S. to Save Children's Lives
Lynchburg College students actively use Facebook, download videos, tweet, and search the internet. In their Social Media Marketing course in the School of Business and Economics (SOBE), students are using their digital savvy to help others.
They have formed Students Opposing Starvation (S.O.S) to help save the lives of malnourished children in East Africa and are organizing a social media campaign targeting LC students, faculty and friends.
Read MoreSenior accepted to Oxford program
Callom Harkrader '12 has been accepted into the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics at Wycliffe Hall for the 2012-2013 one-year certificate program. The OCCA is a fully accredited branch of Oxford University.
Callom will be seeking the Certificate in Theological and Pastoral Studies, designed specifically as preparation for Christian service in the office, church, or home. The course aims to combine serious study of the Bible and Christian doctrine with an opportunity to experience Christian apologetics in action.
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