Communication studies professor Jennifer Gauthier is one of the featured speakers for Lynchburg Public Library’s 2018 Great Decisions Lecture Series. Gauthier will give the presentation, “Media and Foreign Policy: Navigating a Changing Landscape,” at the library on Thursday, February 15 at 3 p.m. The Great Decisions Lecture Series is sponsored by the Lynchburg Branch of... READ MORE >>

Randolph’s first Visiting Writers Series event of spring 2018 will feature a reading by Kaitlyn Greenidge, a novelist and faculty member for the College’s new M.F.A. in creative writing program. The program is scheduled Monday, Feb. 5 at 8 p.m. in the Alice Ashley Jack Room of Smith Hall. Greenidge is a Whiting Award winner,... READ MORE >>

Randolph English professor Laura-Gray Street recently published a collection of poems in the chapbook, Shift Work. Printed by Red bird Chapbooks, the publication explores the often overlooked role of women and femininity in the historical struggle for dignity in work. In addition to her writing accomplishments, last fall Street received Randolph’s Kathryn Graves Davidson Service... READ MORE >>

Chemistry professor Jesse Kern co-authored a paper that was published this month in the journal, Chemical Communications. The paper is titled “Catalytic Aziridination with Alcoholic Substrates Via a Chromium Tetracarbene Catalyst” and gives examples of aziridination catalysis with a chromium complex. Kern began his research on the topic as a post-doctoral research associate at the... READ MORE >>

On Friday, Jan. 26 from 5-7 p.m., the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College will hold an opening for its two spring exhibitions, From Source to Surface: Randolph College Studio Art Faculty Exhibition and a sculpture and site-specific installation by Rebecca Smith, Atmospheric Conditions: Gathered and Unsettled. From Source to Surface is a group exhibition,... READ MORE >>

Kelley Deetz, a visiting sociology professor at Randolph, will speak about her new book, Bound to the Fire, at the 2018 Virginia Festival of the Book that takes place March 21-25 in Charlottesville, Va. The annual event is sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and draws more than 20,000 people from around the... READ MORE >>

  Emily Yap Chua, pianist and Randolph music professor, will perform alongside soprano Katherine Jolly in a special concert at Covenant College Thursday, Jan. 25. The concert is part of Covenant’s John Hamm Performing Arts Series. Chua has performed in multiple concerts both at Randolph and off-campus during the 2017-18 academic year. In September, she... READ MORE >>

Randolph mathematics professor Michael Penn co-authored a paper that will be published in the February 2018 issue of the Journal of Algebra. The paper concludes a series of four articles—three co-authored by Penn—which examine the principal subspaces of level one standard modules of twisted affine Lie algebras using vertex algebraic techniques. Vertex algebras are a... READ MORE >>

Randolph College’s new M.F.A. in creative writing program has added yet another nationally recognized and multi-genre author to its faculty. Erika L. Sánchez, a renowned and bestselling poet, novelist, and essayist from Chicago, joins the already stellar lineup. Sánchez’s debut poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion, was published by Graywolf Press in July 2017, and her... READ MORE >>

Acclaimed and award-winning writers will serve as first faculty for new program A new graduate program at Randolph will bring some of the hottest writers to campus beginning this summer. Starting in July 2018, Randolph will add a two-year, low-residency Master of Fine Arts in creative writing program, which is the first of its kind... READ MORE >>