News
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Smaller and smaller: Biology student pushes electronic devices to molecular level
August 04, 2017
John Brumfield’s notebook looks like some kind of movie prop: pages and pages filled with molecules drawn out in hexagons and lines, each carefully marked with individual atoms neatly labeled.
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Longwood, Farmville group announce forums on potential downtown market
August 02, 2017
As Longwood and Farmville planners have been forging their common future, it's been on almost everyone's wish list: a boutique market, focused on selling fresh food, and situated within easy walking distance of campus and Main Street.
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Longwood music department unveils sensational fall performance lineup
July 31, 2017
Music lovers in Southside Virginia are preparing for another spectacular fall performance lineup at Longwood University.
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Social media use by Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street focus of student’s research
July 27, 2017
Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street have used social media to engage people in their movements. Katie Kinsey ’18 is researching exactly how they have used it.
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Summer residency for MBA program builds relationships, momentum for nationally-ranked degree
July 26, 2017
Longwood University’s nationally ranked MBA program is online, but over a long weekend every summer students gather on campus.
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Students tackle challenge of Lorentzian geometry in research project
July 19, 2017
So far there are no fatalities, but the research two math students are undertaking this summer may leave them “gasping for air” before it’s all over.
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Freshman English major ponders graphic novels’ place in the classroom
July 13, 2017
Keane’s goal: to prove that the graphic novel Watchmen belongs in the same conversation with classics like Grapes of Wrath and Pride and Prejudice.
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Gift from 1967 alumna establishes early-intervention preschool at Longwood SHLS
July 11, 2017
A gift from Carole ’67 and Rich Kraemer will expand Camp JumpStart, a summer literacy program for young children, to include two 12-13-week sessions and welcome those with language delays and disorders.
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Five authors shortlisted for 2017 Dos Passos Prize for Literature
July 05, 2017
Five authors have been shortlisted for the 2017 John Dos Passos Prize for American Literature, given annually by Longwood University.
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In summer chemistry fellowship, student seeks to improve the safety of parabens
June 30, 2017
Katelyn Jones is halfway through a paid summer research fellowship at Longwood, where she is investigating parabens—antibiotics that are used in everything from makeup to sunscreen to shampoo.