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EVIL DEAD AUDITION ANNOUNCEMENT!

Sean Ruday Elected Co-President of Grammar Organization

Sean Ruday, Assistant Professor of English, was recently elected Co-President of The Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar (ATEG). ATEG is a grammar-focused assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English. Sean was elected on September 6th at ATEG’s national conference, held at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.

Dr. Chuck Ross, Solar Energy Research

Dr. Chuck Ross, Professor of Physics, and Garrett Josemans (Longwood Physics alumnus) are working with partners at Florida Keys Community College, SALT Services Inc. in Marathon, Florida and Grand Turk Community College to develop a solar installation training program for disadvantaged students in Grand Turk.  The program will involve international student teams, including Longwood students, […]

Faulkner publishes.

“These Vanishing Hills,” a personal travel essay culled from my book manuscript West Over the Edge of the Sky appears this month in the Creative Nonfiction journal Fourth Genre.  An article examining writer Cormac McCarthy’s depiction of religion has appeared in Touchstone and in Critique.

Doug Dalton publishes text

Doug Dalton just published an Amazon Kindle textbook, Discovering Cultural Meaning: A Fieldwork Method for Anthropology Students, for his ANTH 410:Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology students. The advanced students in that class are currently using it while also  helping to edit the text.

Chris Bjornsen – Symposium Presentation

Chris Bjornsen is chairing and presenting a paper in a Symposium at the 2014 meeting of the European Association for Research on Adolescence in Cesme, Turkey, Sept 3-6. The symposium is titled: Individuation in cultural context: Views from Austria, Slovenia, Turkey, and the U.S.A. Participants will present the results of a cross-cultural study of individuation in emerging […]

Barber and Whitman published

Dr. Amorette Barber and her undergraduate student, Emily Whitman, recently published an article in Molecular Immunology titled “NKG2D receptor activation of NF-κB enhances anti-tumor responses in murine effector CD8+ T cells”.

ENGL 400 Featured in the Journal Reflections

The latest  volume of Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning includes Heather Lettner-Rust’s article on the service-learning projects conducted in ENGL 400, in which Longwood students collaborated with members of Farmville’s Town Council.  The issue also features a cover image of civil rights protesters in Farmville and an interview with Dr. Edward H. Peeples, […]

An essay by Gordon Van Nes,s titled “James Dickey, Vicente Aleixandre, and the Question of Poetic Creativity,” has been accepted for publication by The South Carolina Review.

Leslie Cook-Day

Leslie Cook-Day, Assistant Professor of Costume Design and Technology, has had work accepted into the juried exhibition “Across the Ages” at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Her work, a design rendering in pen, ink, and watercolor as well as the realized original costume, will appear from June 13th-August 5th at the Boyden Gallery.