News
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Longwood student researchers find insights, purpose in organic chemistry experiments
July 14, 2015
Shelby Furman and Hailey Kintz peer up through the bottom of a clear plastic plate full of wells of bacteria.
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Moton story has profound effect on first scholarship recipient
July 13, 2015
It was during Longwood seminar class during her semester that Chrischel Rolack first walked into the R.R. Moton Museum. Like many first-time visitors, she was profoundly moved by the story held within its wall.
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iHeartIntern: Longwood student thrives in Los Angeles interning at one of nation’s largest media companies
July 09, 2015
When Natalie Joseph walked into the iHeartMedia offices in Los Angeles earlier this summer, she was greeted as a sort of mini-celebrity.
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Longwood student investigates how two psychological factors influence academic performance
July 08, 2015
On a recent sunny morning, Gina D’Orazio ’17 and Dr. Sarai Blincoe sat side by side, studying the results of their research like political pundits poring over returns on election night.
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Longwood student finds good vibrations in research on self-healing thermo-plastics
July 07, 2015
Blam! Jonathan Buckley ’16 slams an odd-looking hammer onto the head of a hole punch. Then, as quickly as he can, he takes out tweezers, picks up a little square of plastic that was under the punch and transfers it to an ultrasound spectrometer.
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Wildfire data puts student researcher in the hot seat
July 06, 2015
Schimoler ’16 is elbows deep in a half-century of climate data, and he’s learning and using the language of a statistical program called MATLAB to crunch vast data sets that hopefully reveal new information on wildfire patterns.
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Forget go big: Longwood researchers go small to probe intricacies of molecular electronics
June 23, 2015
"Here it is," he says to Dr. Benjamin Topham, who makes a note in his notebook. The pair smile at each other—this is the fruition of extraordinarily complex molecular models that have been calculating at breakneck speeds for the last six days.
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Girls State to be held June 21-27 on campus
June 16, 2015
About 615 to 620 rising high-school seniors are expected to attend the annual citizenship seminar, a program of the American Legion Auxiliary, which has been held at Longwood since 1974 and was first held in 1947.
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Study of invasive crayfish species puts students on the front lines of conservation
June 16, 2015
"Uh oh. This one just lost two legs," says Patty Hale, staring into a bucket of crayfish.
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PRISM program pushes personal limits for Longwood honors student
June 08, 2015
Walker, a member of the Cormier Honors College and mathematics major, is spending eight weeks of her summer doing intensive research with Wears as part of Longwood’s PRISM program.