Chemistry faculty publish in Journal of Chemical Education

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Sarah Porter

Four members of the Longwood chemistry faculty, Dr. Sarah Porter, Dr. Melissa Rhoten, Dr. Benjamin Topham, and Dr. Andrew Yeagley, have recently had a paper accepted to appear in a special issue of the Journal of Chemical Education. Launched in 1924, the Journal of Chemical Education is the world’s premier chemical education journal. The topic of the paper is the infusing of information skills and literacy throughout the chemistry curriculum. The full text can be found here: The Stepping Stone Approach

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Mike Lund helps vets tell their stories

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Wade Edwards

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When Michael Lund put a notice in the local newspaper about a writing workshop he was starting for military veterans and their families, he didn’t have any idea who might show up.  Then Thomas Bragg walked through the door of the Blackstone Conference and Retreat Center with that newspaper tucked under his arm and a stack of old photographs from his Army days. And, as it turned out, quite a compelling story.  Bill Lohmann reports in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

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Kat Tracy receives national award

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Wade Edwards

66865This past weekend at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association in Little Rock, Kat Tracy received the Association’s 2015 Award for Scholarly Achievement. Her latest co-edited study, Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture, is just out at Brill.

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Two More Poems, Freshly Squeezed

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Craig Challender

Two poems by Craig Challender have recently appeared in the 2015 issue of the Connecticut River Review.  One of them, “Old Man Reading Old Men by the Sea,” is the title poem for a new full-length manuscript he is working on.

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Leigh Lunsford

Posted on October 16, 2015 by David Shoenthal

Dr. Leigh Lunsford has had her article “Slide-and-Divide: Using a Slick Trick to Dive into Deeper Mathematics” published in the MathAMATYC Educator (Volume 7, Number 1), September 2015.

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Lily Goetz and Annette Waggoner Awarded Best in Commonwealth

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Wade Edwards

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Dr. Lily Goetz and Prof. Annette Waggoner’s presentation at the annual Foreign Language Association of Virginia conference in September was named the 2015 Best of FLAVA.  In addition to their presentation, “Designing Activities for Meaningful Interpersonal Communication,” the conference included 174 other sessions for and by foreign language educators.  This recognition entitles them to represent the commonwealth at the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) in New York from February 11-13, 2016.

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Doug Dalton publishes article on Mortuary Rites in Papua New Guinea

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Douglas Dalton

Doug Dalton’s research article on mortuary rites in a rural New Guinea village culture, Death and Experience in Rawa Mortuary Rites, Papua New Guinea, just appeared in the edited volume Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities, edited by David Lipset and Eric K. Silverman, published by Berghahan Press.

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Wendy Smith

Posted on September 3, 2015 by David Shoenthal

Dr. Wendy Smith, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, had her book, “Math & Me: Embracing Success“, reviewed in the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) journal Mathematics Teacher, Volume 9, No. 2 (September 2015). The book was co-written with Dr. B. Sidney Smith.

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Dr. Craig Challender’s work in progress

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Craig Challender

“Armory Square Hospital:  13th January 1864” and “Neponset, Illinois:  20th April 1874,” a six-poem sequence, will be featured in The Sewanee Review’s fall Literature of War issue.  The sequence is part–hopefully the climactic part–of a full-length manuscript, United States, that Challender has been working on for the past five years, a call-and-response linking of the Viet Nam and Civil War eras.

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Dr. Dale Beach and Dr. Consuelo Alvarez Publish Synthetic Biology lab course

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Dale Beach

The publication titled, “Biology by Design: an Introductory Level, Project-Based, Synthetic Biology Laboratory Program for Undergraduate Students” represents a semester long laboratory project built for our current Genetics course. The paper will appear in the December issue of Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. The project helps students  understand the field of Synthetic Biology, a fascinating new approach to genetic engineering where students can design and construct genetic circuits from simple building blocks.

For an interesting perspective on Synthetic Biology, read “A Life of Its Own: where will synthetic biology lead us?” by Michael Specter, New Yorker, 2009 (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/28/a-life-of-its-own).

 

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