News
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Joe Gills '15 Recognized for Work in Iraq
December 06, 2022
For Joe Gills '15, a computer scientist at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), it was an email that popped into his inbox that shifted his focus, enabling him to pursue new opportunities around the world.
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Longwood alum Travis Lyles ‘15 named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list
December 02, 2022
Travis Lyles '15, deputy social director at The Washington Post, recently was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List, which recognizes trailblazing innovators across North America.
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Yearly kiln firing brings Longwood pottery community together
November 28, 2022
Tucked in the woods just outside of Farmville is perhaps the best-kept secret of the arts community at Longwood: a wood-fired kiln large enough to turn hundreds of clay pots, sculptures, vases, and mugs into ceramics at once.
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41st Annual Dos Passos Prize Finalists Announced
November 16, 2022
Longwood University is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2022 John Dos Passos Prize, the oldest literary award given by a Virginia college or university, which honors one of America’s most talented but underappreciated writers.
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‘Generation gap’ disappears as therapeutic recreation class brings students and older adults together
November 15, 2022
Encouraging students to get to know older adults like these women is a key component of Longwood’s Leisure and Aging class, which is part of the therapeutic recreation program.
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American flag flown in 9/11 destruction journeys through Longwood
November 10, 2022
A group of veterans has been transporting the Ground Zero Flag Team–an American flag and marble cross shaped from the ruins of the World Trade Center towers–around the world in remembrance of the lives lost and as a tribute to the first responders who gave their lives more than two decades ago.
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Longwood Spanish professor emeritus awarded statewide lifetime achievement award
November 09, 2022
Dr. Lily Anne Goetz, professor emeritus of Spanish, recently received the Dr. Helen Warriner-Burke Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA) Distinguished Service Award.
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In an election year, Longwood’s political clubs from both sides of the aisle find common ground
October 31, 2022
Amid all the mudslinging of election-year politics, two Longwood students have found that working together is better than working against each other.
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Acclaimed writer Sandra Cisneros to visit Longwood next month
October 19, 2022
Sandra Cisneros, a nationally acclaimed poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, performer and artist whose work explores themes of multiculturalism and the lives of the working class, will speak at Longwood University in November as part of the Longwood Authors Reading Series.
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PRISM: Biochemistry research focuses on platinum drugs for cancer
October 17, 2022
Jammie McMurtry ’24 is working with Dr. Jonathan White, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, on studying platinum-based cancer treatments in an effort to improve them.