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Associate professor of physical education Bonnie Kestner holds a sweet potato she dug up from her plot at the Sweet Briar Community Garden. The big yam weighed 5 pounds, 8 ounces and was 10 inches long and 6 inches in diameter. Kestner said the football-sized spud started off as a shoot that alumnae director Louise Zingaro gave her in May.
Biology Receives EPA Funding for Environmental Outreach
11/02/09
Sweet Briar College’s biology department has received a $15,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to support an outreach program called “Schools for Pools.”
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Biologist, Bestselling Author’s View of Planet Has Evolved Since Darwin
11/02/09
Evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson is working on her second book but she won’t be reprising the alter ego she created for her first, the bestselling “Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation.”
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Buck Edwards: Sweet Briar’s Bird Man
11/02/09
In the sepia-tone photo, two grinning, barefoot boys sit in a rowboat, side by side. They’re wearing knickers and short-sleeved, collared shirts, and their feet appear blackened, perhaps from running around shoeless on a warm summer day.more >>
Writers Series Welcomes Hannah Tinti
11/02/09
Hannah Tinti’s novel, “The Good Thief,” started to come to life when she read two words: resurrection men. She had unearthed the phrase in “Forgotten English,” a Jeffrey Kacirk book about words that have nearly expired from the vernacular.
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Ancient Japan’s Colorful ‘Tale of Genji’ Subject of Gallery Talk 11/02/09
Bands Rockin’ for the Smile Nov. 6 11/02/09
Sweet Briar House Gets New Table, Rocking Chair more >> Department News 11/02/09
Media Update 11/02/09
Casteen Named ‘Distinguished Judge’ for U.Va. Writing Contest 11/02/09
Bragaw’s Online Musings About Google Wave Help Spark Discussion 11/02/09
Berry’s Ride to Championship Recorded in Chronicle of the Horse more >> SBC Pets
Lucy Lou
Lucy Lou is a light honey golden retriever who belongs to adjunct instructor of government Larry Janow.She sometimes accompanies Janow to work on the second floor of Gray Hall. According to Janow, the students love Lucy and she’s very friendly, easy going and curious. She is teething, too, and with all of her youthful energy she can be a “pain in the neck” to his older retriever, Hannah.