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On Wednesday, Nov. 1 at noon, 11 PVCC students gathered in the North Mall Meeting Room for a high-stakes Kahoot!. The contestants competed in a series of 15 questions about PVCC’s 2023 One Book, a book provided for free to all students and faculty, The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the […]
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This semester, the One Book Program invites PVCC students and faculty to learn the mechanics and history of cellular biology and how it promises to revolutionize medicine and what it means to be human. Every year, the PVCC’s One Book Program chooses a single book to make available for the entire college for free. This […]
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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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For the Fall 2021 semester, PVCC’s One Book Program has taken aim at misinformation and fake news. And the selected book, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, by Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, is available for every student and staff member on campus to read digitally, a first for the One Book Program. […]
Continue ReadingMarch is set to be a month of advocacy and engagement here at PVCC. This year’s Civic Engagement Conference Advocacy and Activism, will take place throughout the month of March. The featured speakers, discussions, and activities are designed to provide students with information and resources that will help them be effective advocates and engaged citizens. […]
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On Monday, Oct. 19, Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall M. Brackney spoke about the Black Lives Matter movement, the connection between hate groups and law enforcement, and freedom of speech in Charlottesville. Brackney spoke as a guest for the One Book program at PVCC. Ibram X. Kendi’s book, How to be Anti-Racist, was discussed in the […]
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Change is happening all around with many of PVCC’s services adjusting to accommodate for the strange times. The One Book Program is no exception. For its ninth year, the One Book Program at PVCC will be hosting two books as opposed to one: How to Be An Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi, for the fall […]
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The term mass incarceration refers to the unique way the U.S. has locked up a vast population in federal and state prisons, as well as local jails. On Oct. 9, 2019, the One Book Program brought in three formerly incarcerated individuals to sit upon a panel to explain their trials and tribulations of life after […]
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Cody Clark, assistant editor Community engagement has always been a top priority for PVCC, and the One Book program does just that. Each spring, students vote for that following fall’s one book. This past spring, students had the choice of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women, and, […]
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Madison Weikle, assistant editor On Oct. 10, PVCC held the Climate Change Deliberative Dialogue. The conversation took place in the North Mall Meeting Room at 12 p.m.. Before the presentation began, every seat had been filled with students and faculty varying in age. Some volunteers had to bring in more chairs to accommodate the crowd. […]
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