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 […]
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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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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 […]
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The journal “Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology,” a new publication of the American Psychological Association, will publish a report of the results of Dr. Bjornsen’s study of student in-class cell phone use and it’s relation to test grades. Dr. Bjornsen collected daily reports of cell phone use from each student (except 1, who […]
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Dr. Amorette Barber recently received the J. Shelton Horsley Research Award, which is the highest honor bestowed by the Virginia Academy of Science for original research. The Horsley Award recipient is selected through a peer-reviewed competition for an outstanding research paper. I was selected for the award based on my paper that Emily Whitman and I […]
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Dr. Swanson of the department of music gave two performances as tenor soloist of a relatively new oratorio: MISA AZTECA by Joseph Julian Gonzalez. Performances were April 26 and 27 in Lynchburg and Roanoke VA with full orchestra and the Randolph College choir under the direction of Randall Speer.
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Dr. Swanson, of the department of music, gave a world premier of a song cycle titled The Resolutions of Eve, by Randall Speer and poetry by Jim Peterson (both faculty at Randolph College). Swanson performed with violinist Christi Salisbury, guitarist Rafael Scarfullery and percussionist Ed Mikenas. The premier took place on April 3 in lynchburg Virginia.
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The following excerpt is from an interview (“psychological intervention”) with Longwood playwright Brett Hursey. Hursey wrote Small Doses — a collection of seven ten-minute comedies — soon to be produced by the Waterworks Players on February 20th and 21st at 8:00 pm. Question: So, are you happy with the production so far? Hursey: Well, the […]
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Dr. Christopher Swanson recently was named the conductor and artistic director of the Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra. The first concert of the season takes place on Sunday, Oct. 26 at 3:00pm at EC Glass HS Auditorium. For ticket information go to: www.lynchburgsymphony.org. The program will include Les preludes by Liszt, An American in Paris by Gershwin and the great Symphony no. […]
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Four new poems by Dr. Craig Challender are featured in Memory, Echo, Words, an anthology published by Scurfpea Press in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The anthology’s title is taken from one of Dr. Challender’s poems, “Ars Poetica.”
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