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PVCC student artists unveiled their work at the opening of the Annual Student Exhibition on April 24. The event coincided with PVCC’s Seventh Annual Chocolate Chow Down, preparations for which had Professor Beryl Solla in Dickinson’s small catering kitchen as early as nine a.m. The exhibit features the work of many PVCC students, and the […]
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How did William Shakespeare take care of his teeth? A crowd of interested onlookers at Charlottesville’s Barnes & Noble bookstore attended the Virginia Festival of the Book event: Natural Health Remedies and the Science Behind Them. Attendee Lydia Fetcho, a 20-year resident of Charlottesville, wanted to find out what herbal remedies might have been used […]
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“You can write a thriller about the Jones family passing Cinnamon Toast Crunch on a school day,” said author Erika Raskin at the Virginia Festival of the Book. Raskin, Martha Woodriff and Sonja Yoerg, were the keynote speakers at the lecture entitled “Perfectly Imperfect: Novelists on the Modern Family.” Sixty men and women hunkered close […]
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PVCC students and faculty welcomed Ray Garman as the latest speaker in the Bridging Culture series. A well establish entrepreneur, inventor, he holds a Guinness World Record, several technology patents, and is currently working on another book. However, Garman’s experience in post-conflict Vietnam and Cambodia was the subject of his lecture. In Vietnam, political […]
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The Super Pi Day event was for young math students from surrounding schools. It occurred at PVCC on 3/14/15. This date corresponds with the first digits of it number represented by pi. This event was a “geek math time,” said Diane Valade, assistant professor of mathematics. The math club sponsored Super Pi Day as a […]
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“No one has handed me a pig before,” said President Frank Freidman at the UVA Community Credit Union opening. Piedmont recently opened a credit union branch, and the students and staff could not be anymore excited. On Monday, March 16, the Bolick Student Center was packed full of important people just waiting for the ribbon […]
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Practice does not always make perfect. And in this case, it is not supposed to. At least not for the people at Hot Yoga Charlottesville. The scene in the studio is shocking. The men and women, barely clad, are dripping with sweat, as well they should be. It is a steamy 105 degrees. The group […]
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As snow fell outside, inside PVCC new Mu Theta Alpha members were inducted. The ceremony took place on Monday, February 16. Mu Theta Alpha welcomed ten new members. PVCC President Frank Friedman made an appearance and delivered a short but sweet speech congratulating the new members. Mu Theta Alpha is a mathematics honor society, specifically […]
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Three PVCC students advance to the semifinals of the National Science Foundation’s Community College Innovation Challenge after their proposal to use protists to better assess the quality of water in the Rivanna watershed survived the preliminary round of the contest. Under the guidance of Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Anne Allison and in partnership with […]
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The early morning sun just began to rise as PVCC participants boarded their bus to the General Assembly in Richmond on Thursday, February 5. PVCC President Frank Friedman, and Chair of Board, Ava Pippin coordinated the trip so that volunteer PVCC representatives could get an opportunity to speak face to face with their senators and […]
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