News
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Walkathon will raise scholarship funds for new Andy Taylor Center
October 10, 2017
As the Taylor Center opens its doors and welcomes its first group of students, organizers are raising tuition-assistance funds for families of students.
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Meet Kate Colley: scholar, star field hockey midfielder, Rhodes Scholarship nominee
October 06, 2017
It’s been a busy fall for Kate Colley ’18. A full courseload for the chemistry major from Fredericksburg with a 3.92 GPA. Research work with her professor. And countless hours on the field hockey field, where the star midfielder has helped lead Longwood to a 10-2 start, the best in program history.
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Virginia Children’s Book Festival plans exciting, interactive programming with star-studded author lineup
September 28, 2017
The 2017 Virginia Children's Book Festival will again bring some of the most acclaimed authors and illustrators of children's and young adult books to Longwood University on October 19-21.
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NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik to speak at Longwood Oct. 11 on the media’s role in democracy
September 26, 2017
National Public Radio’s David Folkenflik, the four-time winner of the Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism from the National Press Club, will speak Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Longwood University’s Wygal Hall on “Believe Me: The Media, The Public and The Presidency in the Trump Era.”
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Longwood 2017-18 theater season begins with a Shakespeare classic, culminates in a Pulitzer Prize-winner
September 25, 2017
It’s a season full of sound, fury and a lot of laughs as the Longwood University theater department gets ready to kick off 2017 with a trip to 12th-century Scotland—where murder, war and madness rule the day in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
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Three Caldecott-Winning Illustrators Join for Keynote Conversation at 2017 Virginia Children’s Book Festival
September 15, 2017
Three of the nation’s most sought-after illustrators—each of them recognized with a Caldecott Medal in the last three years—will appear together for the first time at the 2017 Virginia Children’s Book Festival.
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Longwood climbs again in latest national rankings
September 12, 2017
Longwood is rising in national prominence, with increased application numbers and graduation rates among the factors helping to fuel a jump in two important new national rankings.
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Portrayal of disabilities in children’s Halloween books researched by student
September 07, 2017
One of the most popular Halloween characters, a pirate, is often portrayed with an eye patch, a peg leg or a hook in place of a hand. But good luck finding characters with real disabilities in children’s books on the holiday—just ask Brooke Parsons ’19.
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Longwood aids state agency in assessing erosion threat to coastal archaeological sites
August 30, 2017
Two prehistoric camps—one dating from as early as 16,000 BC—are among more than 150 archaeological sites on the Chesapeake Bay that could soon disappear due to coastal erosion and sea-level rise, according to a study conducted by the Longwood Institute of Archaeology.
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Student’s research takes him to Caribbean island
August 29, 2017
Research doesn’t always take place in a laboratory reeking of formaldehyde or a dusty room in a library. Sometimes the backdrop is clear blue waters and palm trees.