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Jason Derulo to perform
Jason Derulo will perform at Lynchburg College May 1. The concert is free for LC students; $15 for other college students (if tickets are purchased at the Office of Student Activities); $20 all others.
Read MoreThe eight rival religions
Stephen Prothero, professor of religion at Boston University and a recent guest on Stephen Colbert's show, will speak at 4 p.m. May 1 in Sydnor Performance Hall, Schewel Hall.
Read MoreTop rookie
Freshman James Womack (Lynchburg, VA/Heritage) nabbed the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) baseball Rookie of the Year honors and four other LC players were named to the All-Conference team.
Womack has a 6-3 record with a 2.32 ERA while yielding 29 hits and only 17 runs in 42.2 innings pitched. He has struck out 32 batters while holding opponents to a .191 batting average.
Read MoreTwo riders qualify for Nationals
Drew Nichols '11 and Kelly Gerland '12 have qualified to compete in the IHSA National Finals horse show May 4-6 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky.
Read MoreModel UN 2011
Lynchburg College students won the Distinguished Delegation Award at the annual National Model United Nations April 17-April 21 in New York City.
Eighteen of the LC students represented the Republic of Iraq while two represented the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Two LC students, Linda Anderson '13 and Nicholas Lequang '14, were recognized for Outstanding Committee Work on the Committee on the Status of Women.
Read MoreEarth Day 2011
In celebration of Earth Day, the LC community will have a special lunch in the cafeteria Friday and student organizations will be offering eco-friendly crafts and information in the East Room.
The Green Thumbs Club will be selling lettuce in pots and letting students know about their renovation of the greenhouse and their summer garden.
The Alliance For Energy Awareness (AFEA) will give students a chance to make their own body scrub and paint a reusable shopping bag.
Read MoreCSI at LC
The chalk outline of Dr. Priscilla Gannicott's body, with pools of blood at her wrists, remained in a chemistry lab for four weeks this semester. The ten students taking forensic science had to gather blood, hair, and DNA samples to figure out who her killer was.
Dr. Gannicott, professor of chemistry, is alive and well. In fact, she is having lots of fun with her colleague, Dr. Allison Jablonski, associate professor of biology and biomedical science, as they work through their fourth forensic science class.
Read MoreWhimsical, self-taught art
A leaping frog and flowers in a tea cup are among the 41 works of American folk art on display at Lynchburg College's Daura Gallery through March 4, 2011.
Reading from their work
Three Lynchburg College and three Sweet Briar College creative writing students will read from their work at 7:30 p.m. April 21 in the Craddock-Terry Gallery at Riverviews Artspace, 901 Jefferson St., for Third Thursday.
Each student will read poems, fiction, or nonfiction for ten minutes, with a question-and-answer period to follow. The event is the first joint-reading of its kind and is free and open to the public.
Read MoreSpecial Olympics 2011
The Speical Olympics Regional Area 24 Track and Field Event will be hosted by Lynchburg College on Saturday, April 16. Athletes from Bedford, Lynchburg, Campbell County, Nelson County, Central Virginia Training Center, Danville, and Farmville are participating.
The parade of athletes begins at 9:15 a.m. Miss Lynchburg will sing the National Anthem for the opening ceremony at 9:30 p.m. The Olympics will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Shellenberger Field. The rain location is Wake Field House.
Read MoreRaise Your Glass
Seniors Angela Massino and Annie Stokes have tackled the conundrum of the missing Fiesta dinnerware in the cafeteria, and turned it into a romp. Be sure to check out the dance moves of John Eccles, vice president and dean for student development, a.k.a. the Gnarly Beard, and Anne Gibbons, associate chaplain, a.k.a., Little Miss Sunshine.
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"Summer and Smoke"
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| A student paints the set for Summer and Smoke. |
The Theatre Department's production of Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams opens April 14 in the Dillard Fine Arts Center.
Read MoreStudent Scholar Showcase 2011
Students tackle such topics as breast cancer, water quality, faith in elections, and the physics of music during the Student Scholar Showcase April 13.
Read MoreLC Day 2011
Check out what we did on LC Day -- a day to celebrate the incredible number of things that happen on this campus in 24 hours.
Throughout the day, students, faculty and staff let us know what was happening at LC in real time!
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D-Day at Daura Gallery
"Their Finest Hour: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin and the End of World War II" is the subject of a semester-long project of 13 Lynchburg College museum studies students under the direction of Barbara Rothermel, assistant professor of museum studies and director of the Daura Gallery. The exhibition will continue through Friday, May 13.
Read MoreGreen thumbs
Green zebra tomatoes, jalapenos, and squash are just a few of the vegetables sprouting in LC's greenhouse, thanks to the Green Thumbs Club.
A corps of 10 to 15 students has resurrected the neglected greenhouse near Hobbs Hall and will soon be transplanting their young plants to a garden on Faculty Drive.
What species will survive?
Dr. Peter H. Raven, one of the world's leading botanists and advocates of conservation and biodiversity, will speak at Lynchburg College at noon April 11 in Memorial Ballroom, Hall 
Campus Center.
Dr. Raven, president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, will speak at the Senior Symposium on "How Many Species will Survive the 21st Century?" The lecture is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
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