

Novelist Eugene Lim has been selected as the winner of the 44th Dos Passos Prize for Literature, a literary award given annually by Longwood University to a talented American writer who experiments with form, explores a range of voices and merits further recognition.

Longwood University ranked nationally on the Best Online MBA Programs in the U.S. for 2026 list compiled by Poets&Quants—a distinction that underscores the MBA program’s growing momentum and commitment to delivering measurable value for its graduates.

For more than a decade, Russell Reed ’16 spent his days at Jamestown Settlement and Colonial Williamsburg hacking away at a series of 1,000-pound logs in front of curious spectators.

When a new statue of civil rights hero Barbara Johns is unveiled later this fall to stand in the U.S. Capitol, it will be a proud moment for Farmville and Prince Edward County.