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Reimagined Center for Career Success to take multifaceted approach to supporting students’ professional growth

April 10, 2024

The Longwood office dedicated to helping students prepare for future careers—including supporting internships, alumni networking, job shadowing, career advising, job fairs and résumé building—is getting a refresh. It even includes a closet makeover.
Khawaja Mamun, economist and veteran administrator, will lead Longwood’s College of Business and Economics

April 05, 2024

Mamun, an accomplished scholar and associate dean of the Jack Welch College of Business & Technology at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, has been appointed the next dean of Longwood’s College of Business and Economics, Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs Larissa Smith announced Friday.
Longwood awarded $200,000 in grants to support internships and career success initiatives

April 04, 2024

Longwood’s Office of Alumni and Career Services has been awarded two grants totaling $200,000 for initiatives that support and improve student participation in internships and experiential learning opportunities.
Longwood announces Moton striker Joan Johns Cobbs, constitutional scholar A.E. Dick Howard as commencement honorees

March 28, 2024

In a year of monumental legal milestones in national civil rights history, Longwood’s 2024 graduates will hear from two participants in court cases centered in Farmville that changed the trajectory of the country.
Longwood to welcome John Dos Passos Prize winner Patricia Engel to campus April 10

March 27, 2024

Novelist and short story writer Patricia Engel will visit Longwood University to receive the 42nd annual John Dos Passos Prize for Literature on Wednesday, April 10.
Post-graduate success initiatives make up Longwood’s 2024 Quality Enhancement Plan

March 15, 2024

Longwood is making post-graduate success an emphasis over the next five years.
Longwood Welcomes Award-Winning Novelist Jacinda Townsend

March 15, 2024

Jacinda Townsend's work explores themes ranging from the lives of young Black women in 1950s Kentucky to the contemporary complexity of mother-children relationships under modern patriarchy.
Rediscovering roots: Longwood alum’s brews bridge past and present

March 06, 2024

As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. For Brian Mandeville '10, head brewer at Fine Creek Brewing Company in Powhatan, Virginia, that treasure is grape pressings, called pomace, from local Virginia wineries that would otherwise be discarded as waste.
Ryan Urban is Longwood’s Goldwater Scholarship nominee

February 20, 2024

Ryan Urban ’26, a sophomore physics major with ambitions of earning doctorates in theoretical physics and quantum computing, with the ultimate goal of pursuing a research career in the quantum realm, is Longwood’s 2024 nominee for the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship.
Bringing smiles: Computer science major’s internship takes him to Africa to help cleft patients

February 19, 2024

When a family friend suggested Jackson Ornoff ’24 apply for a summer internship in the IT department at a Virginia-based charity, little did he know months later it would lead him 9,000 miles around the world to Africa and one of the most memorable experiences of his lifetime.