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Student-aided research hopes to shed light on poison dart frogs’ defense mechanism
December 01, 2015
Every morning at 8 o’clock this semester, even weekends, one of five students from a Longwood University ecology class walks across campus with food on his or her mind. Pancakes at the dining hall? No—feeding poison dart frogs in the science building
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Pre-service teachers bring science, music to life in unique school outreach program
November 20, 2015
Three middle-schoolers crowded around a trough of mud in the middle of a lab in Chichester Hall. As if on cue, each of them dug his or her hands deep in the mud and pulled it to one side of the container.
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Longwood establishes Institute of Archaeology, will bolster undergraduate research, professional experience
November 18, 2015
Picture an archaeologist, and you’ll likely conjure an image of Indiana Jones, complete with a wide-brimmed fedora, sweeping away dust from an Egyptian tomb.
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Longwood theatre major working as assistant lighting designer on world premiere musical
November 04, 2015
In a theater-based class in the first grade, Matthew Brehm was allowed to operate the faders, which dim the lights, on a control board. "I was instantly hooked on theater lighting," he said.
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Interdisciplinary collaboration and student involvement aid Longwood environmental education project
October 28, 2015
When Longwood University faculty members needed technical help with an environmental education project, they found it across campus rather than across the country.
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Innovative Minecraft program brings together technology, reading at 2015 VCBF
October 23, 2015
In a classroom in Ruffner Hall, dozens of children sat at workstations, the familiar pixelated Minecraft landscape in front of them.
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Smooth as…: How students feel when they read Dos Passos Prize winner Paul Beatty’s poems [VIDEO]
October 22, 2015
There’s a lot of power in poetry—the medium has been used to bring life to love, loss, melancholy, ecstasy and countless other emotions. And for some, the voice of poets can become the voice of a generation.
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Teachers should use examples of good writing, not worksheets, to teach writing, expert says
October 19, 2015
Teachers, put away those worksheets when you’re teaching writing and instead show students examples of good writing, says an expert on teaching writing.
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Longwood photography professor brings history to the present in New York Times Magazine spread
October 18, 2015
When professor Michael Mergen moved to Farmville several years ago to begin teaching at Longwood, he was struck by the vibrancy of the town’s history.
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Top children’s literature authors to appear at Virginia Children’s Book Festival at Longwood Oct. 16
October 14, 2015
Two of the brightest stars in children’s literature will take the stage for a unique conversation about books, writing and broadening perspectives at the second Virginia Children’s Book Festival this Friday, Oct. 16.