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Todd Lee Goen, new director and senior international officer in the office of global education (formerly known as international programs) at Virginia Military Institute, recently won the coveted Lily von Klemperer Award bestowed by NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
![Dr. Duncan Richter](/media/content-assets/images/news/2022-23/RichterERHS-400x266.jpg)
Dr. Duncan Richter, Professor of Philosophy in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies and Charles S. Luck III ’55 Institute Professor, recently finished essays about Elizabeth Anscombe which will be published in two books.
![Col. Woodson “Woody” A. Sadler Jr. '66 and wife Lori, during a wheelchair distribution in Ancon, Peru during spring furlough.—Photo by Woody” Sadler](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/Woody_and_Lori_Sadler_during_recent_wheelchair_distribution_in_Ancon,_Peru.-1-400x266.jpg)
Col. Woodson “Woody” A. Sadler, Jr. '66, VMI adjunct professor of civil & environmental engineering, spent this year's spring furlough giving the “gift of mobility” in Peru.
![Portrait of S.A. Cobsy over photo of Marshall Hall at night](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/SACosby_Headline-400x266.jpg)
Cadets across post will have an opportunity to visit with award-winning, New York Times bestselling writer S.A. Cosby, from Southeastern Virginia. The visit was arranged by LTC Mary Stewart Atwell, an associate professor in the department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies.
![Page of Manuscript of “ Myrrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ” circa 1475](/media/content-assets/images/news/faculty-initiatives/FOF_ERHSManuscript-400x266.jpg)
MAJ Kimberly Anderson, Visiting Assistant Professor in ERHS, will bring together groups of cadets, faculty, and staff to make their own handmade paper using the techniques of medieval scribes and Renaissance paper-makers.
![Maj. Jonathan Jones, assistant professor of history receiving award.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/Jones_Awards-1-400x266.jpg)
Maj. Jonathan Jones, assistant professor of history, recently received two awards for his dissertation, "Opium Slavery: Veterans and Addiction in the American Civil War Era.”
![Post Briefs VMI overlay on fall foliage on post](/media/content-assets/images/news/faculty-initiatives/News-PostBriefsHeadlines-400x267.jpg)
Members of VMI's distinguished faculty have been hard at work not only on post, but also in the larger realm of academia, publishing essays, poetry, and cartoons.
![Col. Matt Swenty answers a question from Braden Kerr ’23 in Swenty’s civil engineering lab.—VMI Photo by Mary Price.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/CEBeam2021-400x266.jpg)
This academic year, 2nd Class cadets majoring in civil and environmental engineering (CEE) are the first to experience lab classes purposely designed to teach engineering as it’s encountered in the real world and make better use of the academic day.
![Col. Pongracz Sennyey](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/Col.-Pongracz-Sennyey-1-400x266.jpg)
On Sept. 16, Col. Pongrácz Sennyey began his new job as director of Preston Library. “When I saw the job ad for VMI, and it emphasized innovation and collaboration, it piqued my attention,” Sennyey explained. “I know for a fact that innovation cannot happen without collaboration.”
![Col. M. Houston Johnson V, professor of history, speaks to William Rich ’23 during the Constitution Day event held in Marshall Hall Sept. 20.—VMI Photo by H. Lockwood McLaughlin.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/ConstDay2021b-400x266.jpg)
On Monday, Sept. 20, the history department, in conjunction with the English department, sponsored a Constitution Day event supporting VMI’s emerging Constitutional history program. Constitution Day, which commemorates the signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787, is observed on post and