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    The Last Straw

    July 01, 2019

    There should be a lot fewer plastic straws in use on Longwood’s campus next year as students and others make good on their pledge to eliminate the single-use plastic items from the environment.

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    Small Talk

    July 01, 2019

    "The problem is, we as a society are not getting the real story."

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    Annual Day of Giving Surpasses Goals

    July 01, 2019

    LOVE YOUR LONGWOOD DAY, held this year on March 27, continues to break records.

  • Jada Russell ’20, a biology major, shows off her creation made with Photobacterium leiognathi strain KNH6.

    What Do You Get…

    April 01, 2019

    Sitting in a biology laboratory on the second floor of Chichester Hall, Kamarin Bradley ’19, a graphic design major, carefully pulled a sheet of aluminum foil out of her notebook.

  • The renovation of Frazer Hall (foreground) is about 50 percent complete. Adjoining Curry Hall will receive the same treatment.

    Progress Report

    April 01, 2019

    Visitors to campus these days can see the fulfillment of several goals of Longwood’s Master Plan happening before their eyes.

  • Dr. Dina Leech (center) has found that the dominant lake type in the U.S. has shifted from clear blue to greenish brown and murky.

    Am I Blue?

    April 01, 2019

    The fresh water in America’s lakes is increasingly turning greenish- brown—which has negative consequences for water quality, fish and the aquatic food chain.

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    Small Talk

    April 01, 2019

    "It’s really important that we honor and have pride in our history but also that we allow allies to join us and show their humanity."

  • A photo of Mary Venable Cox Mattoon, Class of 1900, is surrounded by her wedding dress. Both items are in the Greenwood Library archives. The photography of Mattoon’s great-great-granddaughter, Eva O’Leary, is currently on exhibit at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts.

    An Artist and Old Lace

    April 01, 2019

    Eva O’Leary, an artist whose photographs are on exhibit at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts through March 31, has never seen her great-great-grandmother’s wedding dress.

  • Sigma Alpha Iota is Longwood’s music fraternity.

    Belly Dancing, Anyone?

    April 01, 2019

    Students from across campus turned out early in the spring semester to learn more about Longwood’s 175 student organizations.

  • Clint Wright (right), broadcast studio managing editor, is the coach for a group of freshmen who have a shared interest in film and movies. As an outgrowth of their coaching group, these students created an improv show called ‘Skit Happens’ that they write, act in, film and edit. (Photo courtesy of Hiba Abu Chabke ’19)

    Put Me In, Coach

    April 01, 2019

    One Tuesday evening a little more than a month into his freshman year, Jaelon Hariston was learning to run the state-of-the-art equipment in Longwood’s communication studies broadcast studio.