Sewanee News

'Tis the season for commencement speeches. Ever since Anna Quindlen's 'Get a Life' address written for Villanova University and Steve Jobs' amazing wisdom to the graduates at Stanford the bar has been set high for sage advice imparted to graduates.

Dr. William Green, Dean, Lee University School of Music, presents Erica Tipton with the Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award at the 2013 Honor Recital.

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will discuss "The Art of Power and Politics" at 4 p.m. on Friday, May 10, on the campus of the University of the South.

On the rear bumper of his Ford Ranger pickup truck, biologist Erich Eichler proudly displays a sticker that states "I Brake for Armadillos." "What most people don't realize is I brake for armadillos after they are already road kill," laughed Eichler, a recent graduate of the University of Tennessee Chattanooga.

In 2012, University of the South biology professor David G. Haskell published "The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature" after spending 12 months looking at a square meter of woodland near the Sewanee campus.

As a freshman lawmaker, state Sen. Steven Dickerson , R-Nashville, said he spent his first legislative session "pretty-tightly circumscribed." In part, this was because he was new.

Drew Smith stands in front of a pub that shares the name of his mother's maiden name in Dublin, Ireland.