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D&E Hosts 2026 American Legion Auxiliary Rhododendron Girls State

Elkins, W.Va. – Davis & Elkins College welcomes members of the American Legion Auxiliary Rhododendron Girls State to the College campus.  More than 200 rising high school seniors will be in attendance for the session spanning from Sunday, June 7 to Saturday, June...

President Chris A. Wood Signs Five-Year Contract Extension

Elkins, W. Va. – The Davis & Elkins College Board of Trustees, following a unanimous vote, has announced a five-year contract extension for President Chris A. Wood, securing his continued leadership through the 2031 academic year. This marks Wood’s fourth contract...

Feels Like Home

You might think, given her last name, that Chloe Travelstead would have come a long way to attend Davis & Elkins. Yet, it is just 74 miles from D&E to her hometown of Fairmont, West Virginia. Part of the reason for that is that both places give her a strong...

Rereading Nature

          Henry David Thoreau famously said that he “went to the woods” because he “wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if [he] could not learn what it had to teach.” Willow Ferguson has a similar goal, though her approach...