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Soccer teammates exemplify "what college athletics are all about"
November 07, 2014
Jonathan Kukapa and Anthony Ugorji are teammates, roommates and best friends. They also embody Longwood University’s commitment to providing an education—and opportunity for a better life—to those who need it most.
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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.