News
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Washington Post Journalist Sydney Trent to give MLK Week keynote address
January 14, 2019
The goddaughter of local civil rights heroine Barbara Johns will return to Farmville this month to mark Longwood’s annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Longwood Police again ranked among the best in the country
January 11, 2019
For an unprecedented ninth-straight year, Longwood’s police department has been ranked among the best university security operations in the country and as the top-ranked department among Virginia colleges and universities.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Frank Bidart to speak at Longwood
January 08, 2019
One of the most celebrated contemporary poets in America, whose turbulent works often use variations in form and punctuation to underscore physical and emotional turmoil, will anchor the Longwood Authors Series in an unmissable lecture this spring.
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Freshmen coaching groups find success in trial run
January 03, 2019
Jaelon Hariston is one of the students in Clint Wright’s first-year coaching group—an innovative new approach to helping freshmen acclimate to college life that Longwood introduced and piloted in the fall semester.
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Longwood student art show raises money for scholarship, food bank donation
December 20, 2018
More than 700 handcrafted items made by students and alumni went up for sale at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts at the end of the semester.
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Acclaimed Author Karen Tei Yamashita named 2018 Dos Passos Prize winner
December 10, 2018
Karen Tei Yamashita, a novelist, short story writer, playwright and professor known for her works of Asian American literature and magic realism, is the 2018 winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.
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New Brock Experience explores American territories
December 07, 2018
In just two years, groups of Longwood students will arrive in Puerto Rico—a Caribbean territory that has been the subject of intense debate since a devastating hurricane struck the island last summer.
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Art, biology collaboration produces glowing—but temporary—works of art
December 06, 2018
Introduction to New Media is a collaboration between Dr. Denis Trubitsyn’s upper-level microbiology class and Lauren Rice’s art class.
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Longwood unveils newest Joan of Arc monument on campus
November 16, 2018
The campus community gathered on Friday morning to get the first up-close look at Longwood’s towering new monument to Joan of Arc, the university’s patron hero.
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Q&A: Famed sculptor Alexander Stoddart talks about inspiration for Joan of Arc monument
November 15, 2018
As the crane slowly lifted off the top of the plywood box, revealing Longwood’s newest monument to its patron hero, Joan of Arc, sculptor Alexander “Sandy” Stoddart bounced around the construction site, buzzing with excitement.