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Martin Agency chairman to speak at Longwood Nov. 18
November 06, 2014
John B. Adams Jr., chairman of The Martin Agency, will speak Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Longwood University’s Wygal Auditorium.
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Richmond Symphony to perform at Longwood this Friday, Nov. 7
November 03, 2014
The program, which begins at 7:30 p.m. in Jarman Auditorium, will be conducted by Steven Smith and will include Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony and the Horn Concerto No. 1 by Richard Strauss.
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Folk Art Society of America enters into agreement to transfer to Longwood University
October 30, 2014
Longwood University is becoming home to an invaluable collection of academic materials in a burgeoning field of scholarly research: folk art.
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Technology executive to speak at Longwood Nov. 6
October 21, 2014
Technology executive Dr. Val Rahmani will speak Thursday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Longwood University’s Wygal Auditorium on "Leading in a Digital, Risky World."
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Robert Kennedy’s evolution as civil rights champion the subject of Longwood’s C.G. Gordon Moss Lecture
October 16, 2014
Robert Kennedy’s May 1964 trip to Farmville is a watershed moment in the local history of the civil rights movement.
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From passenger pigeons to endangered species: Longwood students to present on extinctions
October 15, 2014
When John J. Audubon watched a migrating flock of passenger pigeons fly overhead in 1813, he wrote that the sky was "black with birds" for three days. He could not have imagined that just over a century later, the bird would be extinct.
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Academy Award-winning screenwriter and activist Dustin Lance Black to speak at Longwood Oct. 7
October 02, 2014
Dustin Lance Black, a screenwriter, producer, director and social activist who won an Academy Award for his biopic on the late civil rights activist Harvey Milk, will speak Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m. in Longwood University’s Jarman Auditorium.
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Cross country coach finds new gear after cancer battle
October 01, 2014
The water was cold, and Catherine Hanson knew that better than anyone. Standing among a field of hundreds of triathletes, each one encased in the comforting compression of a neoprene wetsuit, there stood Hanson in a tissue-thin singlet.
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Microaggression study: Problem widespread on campuses
September 30, 2014
It's a statistic that may raise eyebrows: More than 80 percent of college students say they have been the targets of microaggression.
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Longwood to host inaugural Virginia Children’s Book Festival
September 26, 2014
Longwood’s campus will soon be host to several beloved and award-winning children’s book authors as part of the inaugural Virginia Children’s Book Festival.