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2008 Press Releases

January 2008

01/31/08 - Starr Center Donates 78 New Washington-Era History Books to Miller Library

01/29/08 - Baird Tipson Elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities

01/27/08 - Writer + Artist = Husband + Wife: 'He Said/She Saw' at Washington College

01/23/08 - 'Race in the New Global World' Explored at Washington College

01/21/08 - Flute-Piano Duo Comes '2' Washington College

01/21/08 - Furst Up: WC's 2007-2008 Sophie Kerr Series Continues with Acclaimed Author/Playwright

01/21/08 - Fairchild Discusses 'Ecology and the Human Spirit' at the Custom House

01/18/08 - From Eastern Shore Farm Field to Sold-Out Crowd at Wrigley Field: Washington College Alumnus Writes Biography of Washington College Baseball Legend 'Swish' Nicholson

01/18/08 - Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention Awards Regional Crime-Mapping Grant to Washington College

01/10/08 - Saving the Western Wilderness: 'Wild Utah' at Washington College

February 2008

02/29/08 - Interactive Video Artist Explores 'Non Unexpected Encounters' at Washington College

02/29/08 - Quest through the Past: 'Looking for Bijah and Lucy' at Washington College

02/22/08 - Washington College Announces $50,000 Book Prize Finalists

02/22/08 - Neil Simon's 'Fools' Staged at Washington College

02/20/08 - Civil Rights Pioneer, History-Making Senator, and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Honored at Annual Washington's Birthday Convocation

02/20/08 - From Southeast Asia to Eastern Shore: Cambodian Classics Ensemble Performs at Washington College

02/14/08 - Oral Historian/Radio Host Buckley Joins Washington College's C.V. Starr Center Team

02/08/08 - 'Crimes of the Heart' Staged at Washington College

02/07/08 - Modern Literature Meets Traditional Printing at Washington College

02/07/08 - African-American Poet Dudley Randall Remembered at Washington College

02/07/08 - Student-Curated Exhibition Opens at the Custom House

02/07/08 - Spike Lee's Acclaimed Katrina Documentary Screened at Washington College

02/07/08 - Idiots'Fest 2008 Celebrates Literature, Music In Chestertown

02/07/08 - Global Climate Change, 'Geo-Pragmatism' Discussed at Washington College

02/07/08 - Washington College, Smithsonian Museums Join Forces for 'American Pictures' Lecture Series

02/07/08 - Separate and Unequal: 'Dream Not of Other Worlds' at Washington College

02/06/08 - Freedom Summer '64 Remembered at Washington College

02/06/08 - Covering The Governator: L.A. Times Reporter Discusses Schwarzenegger at Washington College

02/04/08 - Allender Gift Brings More State-of-the-Art Scientific Equipment to Washington College

02/01/08 - Snow Trust Donates $50,000 to Washington College Arts Center Project

March 2008

03/31/08 - Priceless Artifacts and High Adventure: Indiana Jones Marathon Screened at Washington College

03/31/08 - Award-Winning African Novelist Presents 'Web of Words' at Washington College

03/27/08 - Gym Class Heroes to Perform at Washington College

03/27/08 - Janson-La Palme Lecture Addresses French Painting in the Age of Napoléon

03/26/08 - 'Miss Witherspoon' Staged at Washington College

03/26/08 - Philosophy, Rare Editions and 'Wit-Craft' at Washington College

03/26/08 - 'Green' Industry Initiatives Explored at Washington College

03/25/08 - 'Oyster Restoration' Explored at Washington College

03/25/08 - Insider's Advice on 'Getting Published' at Washington College

03/25/08 - 'In Search of Sepharad' at Washington College

03/25/08 - Eminent International Writer Begins Four-Week Residency at Washington College

03/25/08 - Poet/Alumna Erin Murphy Presents Reading at Washington College

03/21/08 - Cool Careers 101: Washington College Grads Present 'Fun Jobs Are Not Fiction'

03/21/08 - Calling All Poetry Lovers: Kent County Poetry Festival Wants You

03/12/08 - 'Enter Laughing' Staged at Washington College

03/12/08 - USC Professor Explores Colonial New England's 'Face of the Land' at Washington College

03/12/08 - John Page Williams Presents 'John Smith's Chesapeake' at Washington College

03/12/08 - Yale Historian Presents 'A Slave No More' at Washington College

03/11/08 - Land-Use Planning Meets Preservation: 'Reclaiming the Strip' at Washington College

03/11/08 - Middle-Class Insecurity: 'Unequal at the Start' Presented at Washington College

03/11/08 - Hip-hop Artist Will Power to Perform at Washington College

03/11/08 - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Jane Smiley Visits Washington College for Sophie Kerr Weekend

03/10/08 - Performance Artist Laurie Anderson Deconstructs Warhol's "Little Electric Chair" in Second 'American Pictures' Lecture at the Smithsonian

03/10/08 - Dark Visions and Internet Artistry: 'Literature at the Margins' Comes to Washington College

03/07/08 - 'Atlantic Monthly' Editor Describes 'Magazine Scene' at Washington College

03/03/08 - From Washington College to Washington, D.C.: 'American Pictures' Opens with Author Allan Gurganus at Smithsonian, March 8

03/03/08 - Board of Visitors and Governors Approves Tuition Increase for the 2008-2009 Academic Year

April 2008

04/25/08 - Maryland Crime Mapping and Analysis Grant Goes to Washington College

04/22/08 - Washington College Writing Talent on Display: Annual Senior Reading, April 24

04/17/08 - Pooches on Parade and Eco-Awareness: 'Mutt Strut' and Earth Day

04/17/08 - 'Green Friday' at Washington College, April 25

04/17/08 - 'Juvenilia' Staged at Washington College

04/15/08 - 'Chronotopes: Where Time and Space Meet': 2008 Student Art Exhibition at Washington College

04/14/08 - Harpist Elizabeth Hainen Performs at Washington College

04/12/08 - Culture Night 2008: Sights, Sounds and Tastes From around the World, April 19

04/11/08 - Chevy Chase Bank CEO Presents 'Banking and Real Estate' at Washington College

04/10/08 - From Washington College to Washington, D.C.: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Garry Wills to Appear at Smithsonian, April 26

04/08/08 - Spring Book Sale at Washington College's Miller Library

04/07/08 - 'An Evening with Nuruddin Farah' at Washington College

04/03/08 - Washington College Presents Multicultural Awareness Week

04/02/08 - Washington College's Afro-Cuban Ensemble, Jazz Combo to Perform

04/02/08 - Early Music Consort, Vocal Consort Perform at Washington College

04/02/08 - Rededication Ceremony Slated for Washington College's Rose O'Neill Literary House

04/02/08 - 'Road to Nirvana' Staged at Washington College

04/01/08 - Washington College Dance Company Presents Spring Concert

04/01/08 - 'George Goes Green' Revolution Continues at Washington College

04/01/08 - Visiting Historian Conjures 'Metropolis of a New World' at Washington College

04/01/08 - Shakespeare Scholar Discusses 'Nature of Norms' at Washington College

May 2008

05/29/08 - $50,000 George Washington Book Prize Awarded to Marcus Rediker for The Slave Ship

05/18/08 - Sarah DeVan Awarded Washington College's 2008 Frederick Douglass Fellowship

05/18/08 - Maryland College Awards Nation's Largest Undergraduate Literary Prize at 225th Commencement

05/14/08 - Jeremy Rothwell, Recently Returned From Service in Iraq, Selected as Washington College's Presidential Fellow

05/14/08 - History Lives Online: Washington College's 'Revolutionary College Project' Site Launched

05/01/08 - NEH Chairman Bruce Cole, "Wire" Creator David Simon, Singer-Songwriter Patty Griffin to Address Washington College's 2008 Graduating Class, May 18

05/01/08 - From Washington College to Washington, D.C.: Tony-Nominated Actress/Playwright Anna Deavere Smith to Appear at Smithsonian, May 10

June 2008

06/30/08 - Washington College to Acquire Land for Expansion of Waterfront Programs and to Invest in Quality Development at Stepne Manor Site

06/23/08 - Poplar Grove Project: Details on the Trove of Recently Discovered Historic Documents

06/06/08 - 'Sankofa' Screened at Washington College

06/03/08 - Alonzo and Virginia Decker Bequeath $4.3 Million to Washington College

06/01/08 - Open Letter to Members of the Alumni Community

July 2008

07/30/08 - Washington College Rallies Support for Relay for Life

07/23/08 - Friends of Eastern Neck Join Forces with Washington College

07/09/08 - Award-Winning Historian Henry Wiencek Named Washington College's First Patrick Henry Fellow

August 2008

08/28/08 - Distinguished English Scholar to Discuss 'Shakespeare and The Canterbury Tales' at Washington College

08/27/08 - 'Slave Ship' Author Rediker, 2008 George Washington Book Prize Winner, to Make Special Appearance at Washington College

08/22/08 - New Visiting Historian Speaks on 'Jefferson and Slavery' at Washington College

08/22/08 - Benefit Concert for Gibson Center for the Arts

08/19/08 - Statement from Washington College President Baird Tipson regarding the Amethyst Initiative

08/14/08 - Pre-Orientation Trip Documentary Premier Screening, August 20

08/04/08 - Oyster Float Workshop August 9

September 2008

09/25/08 - Poet Jehanne Dubrow to Give Reading at Washington College

09/24/08 - From Rwanda to Abu Graib: Award-Winning Journalist Gourevitch Visits Washington College

09/24/08 - Sarbanes, Maryland's Longest-Serving U.S. Senator, to Visit Washington College

09/23/08 - Illuminating 'Openings': Harvard Art Historian Visits Washington College

09/18/08 - Priestly Problems Explored in 'Doubt,' Staged at Washington College

09/09/08 - Latin American Scholar Discusses 'Public Policy, Poverty And Inequality' at Washington College

09/08/08 - Historic House Becomes Washington College's Patrick Henry Fellows' Residence

09/08/08 - Lacrosse Magazine Hails Roy Kirby, Jr. Stadium as One of Ten Best Venues for Collegiate Lax

09/08/08 - Get Ready For The Regatta: Build Your Own Cardboard Boat

09/05/08 - 'The Great Horse Race': Expert Panel to Discuss Presidential Campaign

09/03/08 - Groundbreaking Journalism, Award-Winning Poetry and More: Washington College's 2008-2009 Literary Line-Up Announced

09/03/08 - Celebrated European Author's First-Ever U.S. Book Tour Comes to Washington College

09/03/08 - Author/Wall Street Journal Staffer Discusses 'Sports Lit' at Washington College

09/03/08 - Chestertown Observes International Day of Peace

09/03/08 - CES and Friends Host Full Moon Paddle at Eastern Neck Island

09/02/08 - WC English Professor's New Book Introduces Readers to the Novels of a Legendary Austrian Writer

October 2008

10/30/08 - What Is in the Mysterious Time Capsule at Washington College?

10/30/08 - Washington College Panel Discusses Careers in Art

10/29/08 - Long History of Jews in Germany to Be Presented in Washington College Lecture

10/28/08 - Green Business Seminar at Washington College

10/27/08 - Prize-Winning Journalists Discuss Power, Politics and 'Pennsylvania Avenue' at Washington College

10/27/08 - Two Actors, Many Roles: Washington College Stages 'Tick My Box' at Prince Theatre

10/27/08 - Piscataway Nation Chief Visits Washington College in Honor of Native American History Month

10/27/08 - Camel's Foot Found in Chestertown

10/27/08 - Playwright J.T. Rogers Comes to Washington College as First-Ever Douglas Wallop Fellow

10/27/08 - U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Discusses Latin American 'Politics of Poverty' at Washington College

10/23/08 - Primitive Fishing and Net-Making Demonstrations at the Custom House

10/23/08 - Behind the Scenes of Master and Commander

10/23/08 - Washington College's Adam Goodheart Appointed to Maryland Humanities Council Board

10/21/08 - World Famous Freedom Schooner Amistad Vists Kent County

10/16/08 - Former White House Staffer Discusses 'Presidential Transition' at Washington College

10/14/08 - Washington College 2008-2009 Concert Series Goes for Baroque with Season Opener

10/14/08 - Watch What You Say in Front of the Parrot: 'Swearing in the American Age of Sail' at Washington College

10/01/08 - Love without Borders: 'Platanos & Collard Greens' Comes to Washington College

10/01/08 - Renowned Economics Professor to Discuss Meltdown, Bailout and More at Washington College

November 2008

11/19/08 - Massive Historical Research Databases Now Accessible to Washington College Community

11/17/08 - Washington College to Screen New Lyme Disease Documentary

11/12/08 - Piscataway Nation Singers & Dancers Perform at Washington College

11/11/08 - Treasure Trove at Poplar Grove: 'Tale of Historical Discovery' Presented at Washington College

11/11/08 - 100-Voice Choir Gospel Concert Set to Raise Spirits, Honor Alumnus Rev. Vincent Hynson '87, November 22

11/11/08 - 'Rock Lit With Dan Kennedy' Comes to Rose O'Neill Literary House

11/11/08 - Comic Nick Swardson to Perform at Washington College

11/11/08 - Legendary Beat Poet Remembered in World-Premiere Play at Washington College

11/11/08 - Campus Cracks Up with Comedy Week

11/4/08 - Historian Sets the Record Straight on the 'Whiskey Rebellion' at Washington College

11/4/08 - From Philly to C-Town: Rittenhouse Jazz Quintet to Perform at Washington College

11/2/08 - Art of Cuisine Meets Art of Words: Award-Winning Food Author to Visit Washington College

December 2008

12/17/08 - Higher Education Commission Awards Major Grant to Washington College for GIS Training Programs

12/12/08 - National Public Radio Features Washington College in "All Things Considered" Broadcast

12/08/08 - Green Student University Names Washington College "Sustainable and Eco-Friendly College"

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