Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Recently planted seeds will sprout soon in preparation for the annual Spring Planting planned for April 22 in PVCC’s garden. It will require many helping hands. Horticulture and Environmental Club advisor David Lerman hopes students will know that the garden is for them. He said, “Perhaps between classes or during breaks they could visit or work […]
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Few members of PVCC’s Ultimate Frisbee club braved the blustery weather on Friday, January 30, to meet and play together on the athletic field. Powerful, and frequent gusts of wind prevented the use of Frisbees for most of the practice. However, the group quickly substituted discs with a football, determined to get the most of […]
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Charlottesville’s downtown mall has been home to a delicious and well received dumpling restaurant, Marco and Luca’s, for many years now. Due to their success on the downtown mall, they have since opened a location on the UVA corner, for close proximity to hungry college students, opening up a whole new market for the company. […]
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Zzaam!: Fresh Fusion, Fresh-faced Food, Local Katya Beisel, Staff Writer A relatively new addition to Charlottesville’s restaurant scene, Zzaam! Fresh Korean Grill delivers swift service, quality food, and a unique blend of flavors. Zzaam! is unique among area eateries and offers an abundance of flavor from its location on 1232 Emmett Street North. Zzaam! allows […]
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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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Cotton gins are not drinks, Betsy Ross was a fraud, the Wright Brothers were not the first to fly, and Mark Twain thought bicycles were death traps. These were just a few of the revelations conferred upon the audience at the Virginia Festival of the Book’s Adventures in History presentation on March 21. The event […]
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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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The Second Marine Division Band dwarfed the audience at a March 17 concert at nearby Monticello High School. The majority of attendees were former military service members and their relatives. However, the men and women of the Division’s Own Marine Corps Band were undeterred by poor turnout and even mid-concert microphone malfunctions. The set list […]
Continue Reading Professor Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India, visited our International Club here at PVCC. Ghosh comes from West Bengal, one of the 29 states of India. He presented a lot of interesting information about Indian culture and his personal history. Ghosh helped found the UK/India Educational […]
Continue Reading 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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