News
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Longwood and PECPS partnerships support local teachers, students
September 11, 2024
At the end of August, first-year teachers from Prince Edward County Public Schools (PECPS) and their mentors, also PECPS teachers, gathered in the Upchurch University Center’s Soza Ballroom to kick off the second year of the New Beginnings Mentor Program.
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LCVA’s Alex Grabiec ’07 appointed to Virginia Commission for the Arts
September 05, 2024
Alex Grabiec ’07, curator of exhibitions at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA), was recently appointed to the Virginia Commission for the Arts by Governor Glenn Youngkin.
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PRISM project uses computational chemistry to research new electronics technology
September 05, 2024
This summer, Ashley Seiders ’25 and Ben Benke ’26 worked with Dr. Ben Topham on a computational chemistry PRISM project related to single molecule electronics.
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Students beat the S&P 500 average with collaborative strategy for investing $1.65 million fund
September 03, 2024
When Longwood’s Student Investment Fund members decided to buy Nvidia stock in 2022—and then sold a sizeable chunk of it earlier this year for a more than 200 percent return—it wasn’t play money they were using.
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Faculty Research: Diverse leaders bloom with mentorship in graduate school
August 28, 2024
Nationally, leadership in our PK-12 schools and university communication sciences and disorders programs have a common problem: lack of diversity.
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Freshman move-in: Class of 2028 arrives ready to embrace new beginnings
August 23, 2024
An eager and excited Class of 2028—along with totes full of their personal belongings, essential snacks and reminders of home—arrived on campus this week ready to make their mark on Longwood and embark on their next life chapter.
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Specialized skills training gives student nurses confidence in providing care for patients with dementia
August 08, 2024
As a nursing student at Longwood, Annie Devine ’26 has learned how to offer a sense of safety to counter the pervasive fear people with dementia can feel as they navigate each day.
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Summer Scholars program gives local high-school students hands-on STEM experience
August 06, 2024
Seth Kindall was one of 10 high-school students who spent eight weeks on Longwood’s campus this summer learning about STEM fields and getting hands-on laboratory research experience that usually isn’t available until college.
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Class of 2028: ‘Dedicated, compassionate and ready to lead’
August 01, 2024
The incoming freshman class paints an impressive picture academically—the average GPA is 3.67.
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Faculty Research: What pity meant to Shakespeare
July 16, 2024
“The word ‘pity’ has negative connotations in modern English,” said Dr. Shawn Smith. “It suggests some kind of inferiority and a power dynamic, but in Shakespeare’s time it didn’t really mean that.