As part of the Roanoke College Innovation Challenge, 15 students are tasked with building a business plan for three entrepreneurs. Plans must be extensive and include everything from structure and marketing to finance, accounting and strategic planning.

Stephanie Shields '17 has been selected for a 2017-18 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Germany. She will be doing research in Munich, Germany on vocal learning - the capacity to learn to produce new sounds through imitation - in the bat Phyllostomus discolor.

Students negotiate current issues in international relations simulations and learn that forming alliances is the cornerstone to small state diplomacy.

Brieanah Gouveia received Fulbright Study Award to Scotland's University of Glasgow for an art history program titled Collecting and Provenance in an International Context.

Kristen Wicander will be teaching English to children ages 6-12 in La Rioja, Spain. In addition, the Spanish and psychology major will be teaching social studies, science, and American culture.

Out of 48 students in the Lutheran College Washington Semester's fall program, Hayley Moe '18 received the Dean Nancy D. Joyner Spirit Award. 

Numerous students trekked to Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of Donald Trump, the 45^th president of the United States, on Jan. 20 and the Women's March on Washington, a grassroots rally, on Jan. 21.

This year, eight Roanoke College students were paired with eight first through fifth graders at East Salem Elementary School students as reading buddies.

Election Day 2016 is upon us and Roanoke College will be tracking the results in a variety of ways. WRKE election night coverage, Public Affairs Society Decision 2016 Watch Party and Dr. Wilson on WDBJ7. Next week, Bob Woodward visits campus for post-election analysis on Nov. 17.

Roanoke students interning in Washington, D.C., are gaining a unique perspective on the presidential election by living and working in the nation's political epicenter.