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A world with fewer weapons

Stephanie Fedrigo ’13 has spent her last three summers working for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

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One Million Bones

Students in Mona Williams’ sculpture class started the semester making human bones from clay.

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Military Friendly

Lynchburg College is on the 2013 list of Military Friendly Schools compiled by G.I. Jobs.

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Schewel Hall

America's Best Colleges

U.S. News & World Report again ranks LC in the top tier of the "Best Regional Universities."

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Schubert and Schumann

Guest faculty tenor Robert Bracey and pianist Karen Beres will perform Saturday.

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Trying to save salmon

Pat Ferrer ’13 worked in Alaska this summer to study the collapsing salmon population.

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Interning with the Washington Capitals

A hockey fan since childhood, Cassie Phillips ’13, spent the summer in D.C.

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Fall exhibitions at Daura Gallery

Illustrations from "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" are at the Daura Gallery.

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Get!Downtown

Get!Downtown is designed to celebrate and showcase Downtown Lynchburg.

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"Sticking" with Patrick Dougherty

Jennifer Watlington ’13 spent three weeks working with an internationally known artist.

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Tires and tiles

All 530 first-year students participated in a day of service to start the year.

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An internship down under

Sarah Koehn ’13 spent her summer as an athletic training intern for Australian football.

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Class of 2016 arrives

About 530 first-year students and a record 102 transfers begin classes on Aug. 23.

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LC one of Best 377 Colleges

Lynchburg College is one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education.

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Get on the bus

Students, faculty, and staff can ride GLTC buses throughout the city at no charge.

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Check-in begins Aug. 16

The students are arriving! Check-in continues through August 21.

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Alum at the Olympics

Ashley Stern '09, pictured with Michael Phelps, was an athletic trainer for the Cayman Islands swim team at the London Olympics.

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Paddling into college

Fourteen first-year students will spend Aug. 16-20 paddling along the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia coasts.

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Predicting Olympic performances

How do physicists predict the winning times of Olympians or the Tour de France? One LC student learned this summer with Dr. Eric Goff.

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Roller coasters and solar ovens

Thirteen middle-school girls designed roller coasters and baked pizza in a solar oven of their own making at LC's first STEM camp.

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Caitlin Flathers

International pentathlete

When Caitlin Flathers graduated from LC in 2009, she was gunning for the 2012 Olympics.

“I didn’t quite make it as far as I had hoped … but I’m pretty impressed with myself for making it to the trials,” she said.

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Mike Solontoi

New Stargazer

Dr. Michael Solontoi, the new director of the Belk Observatory, sees lots of stars in his future.

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Summer Admission Tour

Virginia Private College Week

Rising high school juniors and seniors and their families are invited to LC and 24 other institutions July 30-August 4.

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Choral concert

Free summer concert

A concert will be held on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Sydnor Performance Hall to highlight graduate choral conducting students.

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Red chair, downed trees

LC is in recovery mode

With power out throughout the campus, LC maintenance and grounds crews are working feverishly to get things back to normal.

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Upcoming Events

Sunday, June 2, 2013
2 p.m. Children's Art Workshop at the Daura Gallery
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
8 a.m. Conference on Aging: Aging Well in Mind, Body, & Spirit
Monday, June 10, 2013 to Friday, June 28, 2013
Second Summer Term
Monday, June 10, 2013
4:30 p.m. Graduate Studies Information Session - 6/10
Friday, June 14, 2013
9:30 p.m. Observatory Open House: 6/14/13

LC in the News

The rain held off for commencement. Check coverage in The News & Advance and on WSET.

Check out local news stories on 2013 graduates Natalie Lombardo and John Pastorius.

Dr. David Perault weighs in on Lynchburg's excellent air quality. Check the WSET story.

The upcoming golf tournament to honor Frazier Sizemore '52, '81 MEd is featured in The Altavista Journal.

LC breaks ground on a new, expanded Student Center. WSET does preview; check out coverage in The News & Advance.

Break the Chains: Human Trafficking Awareness Week is featured in The News & Advance and on WDBJ7 and WSET.

LC's Bonner Leaders are the backbone of Puppets Alamode. Check out the story in The News & Advance.

Climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann spoke at LC April 8. Check out coverage in The News & Advance and on WSET.

Civil War historian Dr. Bud Robertson will speak at LC April 1. Check out this preview in The New & Advance.

Children's author Julia Cook gave the Rosel Schewel Lecture in Education and Human Diversity on March 21. Check out this article in The News & Advance.

Drs. Clifton and Bundy Potter received Mayor's Awards of Excellence for their work to bring the history of Lynchburg to life. Read The News & Advance story.

Pulitzer Prize winning author Douglas Blackmon's talk on the continuation of slavery after the Emancipation Proclamation was covered in The News & Advance.

President Kenneth Garren struts his stuff to engage students. Check out this WDBJ7 report.

Dr. Gerald Prante, assistant professor of economics, was quoted in The New York Times for his study on marginal tax rates for all 50 states. He was previously interviewed by The Sacramento Bee and on Sacramento Public Radio.

Jillian McGarrity '14 is the only college student on Gov. Bob McDonnell's Task Force on School and Campus Safety. Check coverage in The News & Advance and on WSET and WDBJ7.

Helen Mundy Witt '67,  '78 MEd, the first African-American to graduate from LC, is profiled in The News & Advance and her talk is covered by WSET.