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Kentavius Jones ’04 M’15 is the executive director at Talbot Mentors, a youth organization that focuses on empowering young people by building strong mentoring connections. Read about his journey, and how he continues to embody the liberal arts ethos, in the new summer issue of ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Magazine.

Students Reveal a House’s Underground Railroad History

Undergraduate research wins federal recognition from the National Park Service.

Fulbright Award Winner Caps Successful Year for Competitive Fellowships

Sammy Segeda ’23 will be teaching English in Laos for the 2025-26 school year through the program. Three students and one other alumna also had impressive success in nationally competitive fellowships.

The new poetry collection from Alyse Bensel ’10, Spoil, explores remarkably personal wounds that remind us that life is lived, suffered, and celebrated on the individual level.

Professor provides students with real-life learning opportunities to dig into the numbers and make a difference.

Stephen Spotswood ’99 recently released the fifth installment of his Pentecost and Parker murder mystery series, Dead in the Frame. 

Major Gift Will Create Two Endowed Chairs, Support Athletics

Richard and Tara Wood give $4.5 million to Washington to further academic offerings in leadership and business and boost tennis and sailing.

In fall 2024, for the first time, 59 years after Kerr’s death, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ offered a course on her work, taught by English professor Elizabeth Foley O’Connor. The course, Feminist Modernism(s): Editing Sophie Kerr, analyzed six of Kerr’s short stories over the semester and contextualized her writing within the literary landscape of her era—literary modernism, a period spanning from the late 1800s through 1939.

Washington Celebrates the Class of 2025

A mix of elation and concern marked the College's 242nd commencement ceremony.

Prestigious Sophie Kerr Prize Goes to Sky Abruzzo '25

The Virginia native will take home $74k prize for showing the most promise as a writer in this year’s crop of finalists.