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Judge Phillips to deliver keynote on Founder's Day

 

Judge Clarence “Bud” Phillips, a former Virginia lawmaker, will deliver the keynote address on Founder’s Day at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise on Friday, April 12.

American Chestnut and elm planted at UVa-Wise

Students plant seedlingsA year after the planting of American chestnuts on The University of Virginia’s College at Wise campus, volunteers continue to keep the restoration project going.

UVa-Wise students honored with Tice Total Achievement Awards

 

Five students at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise were honored with the Tice Total Achievement Award during the College’s 22nd annual Scholarship Appreciation Luncheon on March 23.

Brittni L. Altmann, Jordan D. Cole, Corbin F. Hayslett, Alana R. Parton and Madeline S. Stallard were each presented with a certificate of recognition and a $1,000 award.

‘Phantom of the Opera’ begins April 11 at UVa-Wise

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaption of “Phantom of the Opera” is the spring 2013 production of The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Visual and Performing Arts Department.

Webber’s musicalization of the Gaston Leroux novel won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical and is the longest running show in Broadway history.

PRISM 2013 set for April 27 at UVa-Wise

 

The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Department of Visual & Performing Arts is set to present its 8th annual PRISM Gala and Auction.

Coffee Night poetry and prose reading set for April 16

 

Virginia Poet Laureate Sofia Starnes is the key speaker at the spring semester’s Coffee Night, a reading and performing event dedicated to the poetry and prose of The University of Virginia’s College at Wise and community creative writers.

Astor to discuss Kentucky and Missouri in the Civil War

Aaron Astor, a history professor at Maryville College and an authority on Appalachia’s Civil War, will lecture at UVa-Wise on Friday, March 29.

 

Astor, an expert on the borderland region of the Civil War, will speak in the Slemp Student Center’s Dogwood Room at 1 p.m.  His lecture, “Rebels on the Border,” will introduce the audience to the work that has gone into his book. 

UVa-Wise history majors to present papers

 

Three history majors from The University of Virginia’s College at Wise will travel to Christopher Newport University on March 23 to present papers at the annual Phi Alpha Theta Conference.

Ashlee Childress, a resident of Appalachia, will present a paper on “Medieval Ethiopian Slavery and Medieval English Serfdom.”

UVa-Wise women compete in 5K Mud Run

 

Several women from UVa-Wise drove hundreds of miles to Memphis just to slip, slide, stride and just plain roll around in the mud, but it was all for a good cause.

The women, Erin Clem, Carlee Reiber, Brittanie Jones, Sarah Smith and Nichole Davis and Sydney Pack, participated in the Go Dirty Girl 5K Mud Run, a female only run for ladies of all ages and athletic abilities.

Entrepreneur Cameron Johnson featured in inaugural lecture series

Cameron Johnson, one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in the world, will visit The University of Virginia’s College at Wise on April 17 to discuss ways that college students can pursue their dreams and find success in tough economic times.