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Longwood Spanish professor emeritus awarded statewide lifetime achievement award

November 09, 2022

Dr. Lily Anne Goetz, professor emeritus of Spanish, recently received the Dr. Helen Warriner-Burke Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA) Distinguished Service Award.
In an election year, Longwood’s political clubs from both sides of the aisle find common ground

October 31, 2022

Amid all the mudslinging of election-year politics, two Longwood students have found that working together is better than working against each other.
Acclaimed writer Sandra Cisneros to visit Longwood next month

October 19, 2022

Sandra Cisneros, a nationally acclaimed poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, performer and artist whose work explores themes of multiculturalism and the lives of the working class, will speak at Longwood University in November as part of the Longwood Authors Reading Series.
PRISM: Biochemistry research focuses on platinum drugs for cancer

October 17, 2022

Jammie McMurtry ’24 is working with Dr. Jonathan White, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, on studying platinum-based cancer treatments in an effort to improve them.
Alumnus provides students with job-search advice that gets results

October 13, 2022

It’s a Tuesday morning, and Jamie Finney ’98 has been on campus since 9 a.m., doing one of the things he loves most: Advising students on how to stand out from the crowd when they’re looking for their dream job in law enforcement, intelligence, cybersecurity, emergency management and other similar careers.
Newest Board members share vision of prospering Longwood

October 12, 2022

Three new faces joined Longwood University’s Board of Visitors this fall, though their first official appearance at Convocation was familiar to them all.
Longwood police department earns state grant for communication equipment upgrades

October 12, 2022

The grant totaling $25,000 will be used to upgrade their handheld radios for communications between the various law enforcement and public safety departments in the Farmville community.
Longwood ranked top-5 in South Region for first time, continuing decade-long sustained climb

September 12, 2022

For the first time, Longwood University is a top-five regional public university in the South, according to the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings out today.
This tradition is ALL caps

September 09, 2022

Convocation, the annual kick-off of the new academic year and a celebration of the senior class, is a uniquely Longwood tradition unlike any other.
Convocation 2022: Celebrating milestones and accomplishments

September 08, 2022

Some of the caps stood tall atop students’ heads, others featured strings of photos that reached down to the ground for this year’s Convocation ceremony that marked the beginning of the Class of 2023’s senior year on campus.