Dr. Alec Hosterman has photo exhibit at VA Holocaust Museum and Richmond NPR Interview

On Friday, August 3rd, Dr. Alec Hosterman’s photo documentary exhibit There’s Just Us opened at the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, VA. The exhibit documents his experiences at the 2017 Unite the Right rally held in Charlottesville, VA. The museum kicked off the exhibit on Thursday, August 2 with a special invitation artist’s talk given by […]

Chris Bjornsen presents results of current study of social media use and personality traits.

Chris Bjornsen presented a poster at the May 2018 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in San Francisco on the results of this year’s study of social media use and personality traits. The study examined the psychometric properties of revised measures of positive social media use, creeping, catfishing, and gossiping/shaming, and a new measure […]

Dr. Kenneth Pestka II with undergraduate Jacob Hull (18) present at the 175th Acoustical Society of America Meeting

Dr. Kenneth Pestka II and undergraduate Jacob Hull (18) in collaboration with Jonathan Buckley (16) and Stephen Kalista Jr. presented the talk titled, “Elastic constants of self-healing polyethylene co-methacrylic acid determined via resonant ultrasound spectroscopy,” at the 175th Acoustical Society of America Meeting on Friday May 11, 2018. An online lay language version of the […]

Celebrate Earth Day with Longwood BioBlitz

Do you know that April is the Earth month? Would you like to be a citizen scientist and celebrate the Earth month with Longwood BioBlitz? Come explore the biodiversity at Lancer park-find, identify and record species. Learn about local wildlife and natural history while you work with experienced naturalists. Bring your smart phone and report your […]

Chris Bjornsen publishes book chapter on Social Media Use and Emerging Adulthood

Chris Bjornsen, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, published a book chapter:  Bjornsen, C. (2018). Social Media Use and Emerging Adulthood. In Zupančič, M. and Puklek Levpušček, M. (Eds.), Prehod v Odraslost: Sodobni Trendi in Raziskave [Emerging Adulthood: Current Trends and Research] (pp. 223-261). Ljubljana, Slovenia: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. The book is published mostly in Slovene, […]

Longwood University students in collaboration with Dr. Kenneth Pestka II publish in the Visual Physics section of The Physics Teacher.

Longwood University dual degree engineering student Rebecca Skelton (18) and recent physics graduate Chelsea Dandridge (17) in collaboration with Dr. Kenneth Pestka II produced the Egg bounce! The work, published in the Visual Physics section of The Physics Teacher, is now available online. https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.5028255 The images and video were produced during a research project designed to […]

Spring Symposium for Research and Creative Inquiry

Don’t forget to remind your students to sign-up to present at the Spring Symposium for Research and Creative Inquiry held on April 24, 2018. The deadline for presentation submissions is Friday March 2 at 5:00pm: http://go.longwood.edu/springresearch We have over 100 student registered so far! Longwood University’s Spring Symposium for Research and Creative Inquiry is a […]

Drs. Adam and Catherine Franssen deliver four presentations at the annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting

Drs. Adam and Catherine Franssen deliver four presentations at the annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting November 11-15, 2017 SfN’s 47th annual meeting, Neuroscience 2017, is the world’s largest neuroscience conference for scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and nervous system. The Franssens co-authored two presentations describing details of Longwood’s innovative Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Studies […]

Dr. Kenneth Pestka II and recent Longwood physics graduate Jonathan Buckley (16) publish paper in Scientific Reports.

The paper titled, “Elastic evolution of a self-healing ionomer observed via acoustic and ultrasonic resonant spectroscopy,” by Dr. Kenneth Pestka II and Longwood physics graduate Jonathan Buckley (16) along with collaborators Stephen Kalista Jr. and Nicholas Bowers was published today in Nature Publishing Group’s open access journal Scientific Reports. The manuscript presents a relatively new […]

Alec Hosterman presents 48 Hours of Chaos: Charlottesville at the Front Lines

Alec Hosterman, an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, will be giving a public presentation entitled 48 Hours of Chaos: Charlottesville at the Front Lines on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm in Wygal Hall auditorium. Alec was in Charlottesville to photograph and document the torch rally on Friday, August 11th and the events […]