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Post-graduate success initiatives make up Longwood’s 2024 Quality Enhancement Plan

March 15, 2024

Longwood is making post-graduate success an emphasis over the next five years.
Longwood Welcomes Award-Winning Novelist Jacinda Townsend

March 15, 2024

Jacinda Townsend's work explores themes ranging from the lives of young Black women in 1950s Kentucky to the contemporary complexity of mother-children relationships under modern patriarchy.
Rediscovering roots: Longwood alum’s brews bridge past and present

March 06, 2024

As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. For Brian Mandeville '10, head brewer at Fine Creek Brewing Company in Powhatan, Virginia, that treasure is grape pressings, called pomace, from local Virginia wineries that would otherwise be discarded as waste.
Ryan Urban is Longwood’s Goldwater Scholarship nominee

February 20, 2024

Ryan Urban ’26, a sophomore physics major with ambitions of earning doctorates in theoretical physics and quantum computing, with the ultimate goal of pursuing a research career in the quantum realm, is Longwood’s 2024 nominee for the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship.
Bringing smiles: Computer science major’s internship takes him to Africa to help cleft patients

February 19, 2024

When a family friend suggested Jackson Ornoff ’24 apply for a summer internship in the IT department at a Virginia-based charity, little did he know months later it would lead him 9,000 miles around the world to Africa and one of the most memorable experiences of his lifetime.
Tia Javier, M.S. ’19 receives $20,000 grant from AT&T

February 16, 2024

Tia Javier, M.S. ’19 (speech-language pathology), started off 2024 with a $20,000 bang. In December, AT&T selected her as the national winner, from 6,700 applicants, of their She’s Connected grant program, which recognizes and rewards the efforts of women who have started trailblazing small businesses.
AACC

February 16, 2024

Community College Association (AACC) picks English graduate to lead marketing, communications
Advocating for entertainment is the focus of alum’s career

February 16, 2024

Stephen Parker ’07 was named the executive director of the National Independent Venue Association
Tess Robertson is Longwood’s 2024 Truman Scholarship nominee

February 12, 2024

Tess Robertson ’25, a junior with a passion for aviation and helping children in the domestic court system, is Longwood University’s 2024 nominee for the highly competitive Harry S. Truman Scholarship.
Prince Edward County Public Schools, in partnership with Longwood, receives grant for first-year teacher support program

February 09, 2024

Prince Edward County Public Schools (PECPS), in partnership with Longwood University, received a grant totaling $24,000 for the development of the New Beginnings Mentor Program, a new teacher mentorship program that will provide holistic support to the district’s first-year teachers.