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CrashCourse

Spring 2016

Management 495: Strategic Forecasting Instructor Dr. Steven Samaras, assistant professor of management Lessons learned In this course, taught for the first time in fall 2015, students learned how to predict the…

Physics professor and former Cook-Cole College of Arts and Sciences Dean Chuck Ross considers an opening move against senior history major Alex Morton.

Chess Mate

Spring 2016

Moves on chessboard and in life are part of connection forged by dean, student It doesn’t hurt to be friends with the dean— until you start checkmating him regularly. Alex Morton…

Illustration featuring a man and woman fitting a chat bubble together like a puzzle piece

Students rack up awards for future teachers of English, foreign language

Spring 2016

Longwood must be doing something right in preparing English and foreign-language teachers, if the number of awards students are collecting is any indication. In the last five years, all but…

A $2 million gift from Marc andWilma Register Sharp ’66 will nurture citizen leaders and support the work of the Cormier Honors College.

Transformers

Fall 2015

Gift will endow leadership of Cormier Honors College

Robert E. Lee

Sincerely, R.E.Lee

Fall 2015

Rare letters from before and after Civil War found in library archives

Twin Passions

Fall 2015

Gift of more than $1 million endows two scholarships—one for men’s basketball, one for future teachers

White coat ceremony marks important moment for nursing students

Fall 2015

When Longwood nursing sophomores were cloaked in their bright new white coats last month, they marked an important transformative moment in the life of any pre-service nurse: entrance into clinical practice. “The white coat…

Paul Beatty is the recipient of the 34th John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. Image: Hannah Assouline

Provocative and Unflinching

Fall 2015

Poet, novelist named winner of Dos Passos Prize for Literature

Well Done

Fall 2015

7 faculty members receive awards at Convocation

Brittany Perkins ’15 balances her Longwood studies with her duties as a youth pastor at Glenn Memorial Baptist Church in Prospect. RyenToney and Emily Kelley are among the children she works with at the church.

Juggling Act

Fall 2015

Youth pastor with rigorous academic schedule has yet to drop the ball