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Macalester students Valeska Kohan ‘23 and Amanda de Souza ‘25 have been awarded $10,000 from Davis Projects for Peace to carry out their own project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where both students grew up. For over 15 years, Projects for Peace has worked with partner institutions to seek out young peacebuilders and encourage them […]
UC Berkeley African American Studies Professor Leigh Raiford and Berkeley Law Professor Saira Mohamed are among the 26 winners of the annual Berlin Prize, semester-long residential fellowships given to top scholars, writers, composers and artists from the U.S. Raiford, who is also the director of Berkeley’s . . .
By Emily InnesApril 12, 2023 Washington and Lee University senior Kamryn Godsey ’23 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to teach English in Taiwan. At W&L, Godsey is majoring in sociology and anthropology, with a double minor in entrepreneurship and poverty and human capability studies. Godsey is a native of Surry County, […]
By Emily InnesApril 7, 2023 Washington and Lee University senior Avalon Pernell ’23 has been awarded a Fulbright Young Professional Journalist Program Award to Germany. At W&L, Pernell is a Johnson Scholar majoring in journalism and German. She is a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and graduated from Tuscaloosa Academy. The Young Professional Journalist Program gives […]
By Emily InnesApril 3, 2023 Washington and Lee University senior Tanajia Moye-Green ’23 has been awarded a Fulbright Master of Sciences Degree Award to the United Kingdom. At W&L, Moye-Green is majoring in sociology and anthropology with a minor in data science and poverty and human capability studies. A native of Bartow, Florida, she graduated […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 60 years after he was recommended for the nation’s highest military award, retired Col. Paris Davis, one of the first Black officers to lead a Special Forces team in combat, received the Medal of Honor on Friday for his bravery in the Vietnam War. After a crowded White House ceremony, a […]
Col. Paris Davis: The interesting thing there was, the soldiers ere saying: “What’s going on here?” It brought to the fore racism and the different way whites are treated and Blacks are treated. They had never, to my knowledge, at that time lost a Medal of Honor citation that was lost by a white guy. […]
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(COLORADO SPRINGS) — A Colorado Springs native who has served in the Navy for 11 years was named the United States Navy Band’s 2022 Sailor of the Year. The award distinguishes 37-year-old Musician 1st Class (MU1) Adele Demi from 94 competitive peers of equal rank across the command. The U.S. Navy Band is the premier musical organization […]
By Erica TurmanFebruary 28, 2023 Posi Oluwakuyide ’24, a Bonner Scholar at Washington and Lee University, will attend the Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute Fellowship at the University of Washington in summer 2023. A native of Union, New Jersey, Oluwakuyide is majoring in economics and double minoring in poverty and human […]