Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Slumberland is a fun family adventure movie with a deep and meaningful plot that was recently released on Netflix. The movie begins with a young girl named Nemo (Marlow Barkley) who loves her father (played by Kyle Chandler) and the many stories he tells her. They lived on a remote island where Nemo learned everything […]
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The food pantry at PVCC has recently been putting a large effort into feeding and helping members of the school community, staff and students alike. This past Halloween, Coordinator of the Student Financial Resource Center, Amanda Key, and members of the food pantry at PVCC handed out bags of food and supplies to students and […]
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Gequetta Murray-Key was an active member of the community. She was a Fluvanna County school board member, the president of the Fluvanna PTO, and the lead singer in a local band called Salt. But at PVCC, Murray Key was known for being the adjunct instructor of Criminal Justice. After Murray-Key died on Tuesday, Oct. 18, […]
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The Fluvanna Farmers Market held in front of Ace Hardware is a fantastic Sunday morning adventure from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.. The event includes a variety of vendors, live music that changes weekly, and children’s games. (Although children’s games were advertised, they were not available when I showed up.) At this farmers market, many […]
Continue ReadingOn Sept. 25, 1972, PVCC opened classes to students. To commemorate 50 years of educating students, PVCC will be hosting many events over the next week and throughout the semester. PVCC has two events planned to celebrate on Sept. 27 and 28. On Sept. 27, PVCC will be hosting the Golden 50th Birthday Celebration in […]
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The One Book Program has a new book out for this Fall semester: The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, by Hope Jahren. The book goes over the science and history of different inventions that are detrimental to the environment, in an attention-holding, interesting way. Many […]
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PVCC is offering both in-person and online tutoring for a variety of different courses in the Tutoring Center room M253. Although this is where the First Quadrant Math Center used to be located, tutoring is still available for many math classes offered at PVCC through the newly renamed Tutoring Center. Students can either schedule a tutoring […]
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I have enjoyed writing since I was a child. I have fond memories of sitting at the dining room table in my home while tracing letters in a workbook when I was five. From then on I enjoyed creative writing in school and dabbled with writing a fictional book of my own; I was so […]
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Kim Hoosier is a sociology professor at PVCC who teaches a variety of different courses on the subject. Hoosier has been working at PVCC since 1999. She has been teaching five courses per semester at PVCC since she started working full-time in 2004, four introduction courses and one sociology elective. Hoosier started studying sociology at […]
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On Wednesday March 6, Julie Leidig formally introduced herself to the PVCC student body as a candidate for the presidency of the college. While introducing herself, she went over her history at other schools, such as Northern Virginia Community College where she currently works. She is the provost, or a senior administrative officer on campus. […]
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