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President’s Lifetime Achievement Award

August 11, 2024

Dr. William Dunn ’91 received the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award in January 2024 for his extraordinary community service.
Specialized skills training gives student nurses confidence in providing care for patients with dementia

August 08, 2024

As a nursing student at Longwood, Annie Devine ’26 has learned how to offer a sense of safety to counter the pervasive fear people with dementia can feel as they navigate each day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chemistry graduate named Teacher of the Year in Suffolk

July 15, 2024

Alumna named 2023-24 Teacher of the Year
Alumna elected chair of Virginia Beach school board

July 15, 2024

Alumna elected the chair of the City of Virginia Beach School Board
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?
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.