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Summer Scholars program gives local high-school students hands-on STEM experience
August 06, 2024
Seth Kindall was one of 10 high-school students who spent eight weeks on Longwood’s campus this summer learning about STEM fields and getting hands-on laboratory research experience that usually isn’t available until college.
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Class of 2028: ‘Dedicated, compassionate and ready to lead’
August 01, 2024
The incoming freshman class paints an impressive picture academically—the average GPA is 3.67.
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Faculty Research: What pity meant to Shakespeare
July 16, 2024
“The word ‘pity’ has negative connotations in modern English,” said Dr. Shawn Smith. “It suggests some kind of inferiority and a power dynamic, but in Shakespeare’s time it didn’t really mean that.
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Faculty Research: One woman’s story of Nazi resistance
July 15, 2024
Dr. Melissa Kravetz is publishing a memoir later this year, but the story is not her own.
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Faculty Research: Backstories of today’s classical music composers
July 09, 2024
Where do captivating melodies come from? What about musical phrasing that can be so tense or haunting? Or beautiful harmonies that envelop and lift us up?
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Faculty Research: The connotations of clothing
July 03, 2024
The genesis of Dr. Meg Michelsen’s recent research— a comparative study of the perception of unisex fashion among millennials and Gen Z in the U.S. and China— was a bright pink T-shirt she borrowed from her husband.
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Forget the crown: Addressing child hunger is pageant winner's ulterior motive
June 25, 2024
Jenna Adams ’23 decided to enter the Miss Martinsville-Henry County Pageant this year because of a peanut butter sandwich.
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Longwood announces president’s and dean’s lists for spring 2024
June 24, 2024
Longwood is proud to recognize more than 1,100 students named to the Dean’s List and President’s List for the 2024 spring semester.
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Girls State marks 50 years at Longwood
June 20, 2024
American Legion Auxiliary Virginia Girls State this week marks a half-century of partnership with Longwood, a remarkable achievement that has seen generations of high-schoolers spend a week learning about and participating in state government activities.
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Faculty Research: The Black veteran Vietnam experience
June 13, 2024
Dr. Eric Hodges received a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2021 to study the combat and homecoming experiences of Black military veterans.