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For those interested in making a positive impact on an elementary school student’s education, the Jefferson Area Board for Aging (JABA) has partnered with Piedmont Futures for the third consecutive year to offer the Friends in School Helping (FISH) program. The FISH program enables students, faculty and staff at Piedmont Virginia Community College to tutor […]
Continue ReadingAs 2012 begins, students at Piedmont Virginia Community College will have a chance to socialize and learn about the extracurricular clubs PVCC offers. On Wednesday, Jan. 25, PVCC will be holding the Annual Spring Welcome Back Social and Club Day. Tables for each participating club will be set up in the Bolick Student Center and […]
Continue ReadingJohn Lubbock, a 19th century banker and early supporter of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, once said, “We may sit in our library and yet, be in all quarters of the earth.” The Betty Sue Jessup Library at Piedmont Virginia Community College is working to make this quote ring true, both inside and outside the […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday, Oct.30, Piedmont Virginia Community College’s (PVCC) V. Earl Dickinson Theater, along with the PVCC Political Club and Charlottesville’s Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Speech, hosted an evening with comedian Chris Bliss. For anyone who is familiar with Bliss’s unique style of entertainment, labeling him a stand-up comedian may feel like an under-sell: he is also billed […]
Continue ReadingFans of live music will have something to look forward to at Piedmont Virginia Community College when the radio station 106.1 FM The Corner hosts this year’s “The Corner Lounge LIVE!,” featuring local acts Grey Matter and the Eli Cook Band. The show will include live performances and interviews with the bands hosted by 106.1’s […]
Continue ReadingIn a recent board meeting, Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) announced that the college intends to offer full associate degree programs to incarcerated individuals at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women (FCCW). Although PVCC has offered on-site courses at FCCW for 6 years, this new initiative will greatly expand course offerings, and will allow offenders […]
Continue ReadingBack in spring, Piedmont Virginia Community College student Matthew Browning put together an original Star Wars fan-fiction play with the help of some friends called “Star Wars: Residious Rise.” The production proved to be a challenging endeavor, but was nonetheless well received by the audience. This month, Browning is putting on a performance of the […]
Continue ReadingDespite temperatures near freezing, the Piedmont Virginia Community College Student Government Association (SGA) spent the weekend at the Wintergreen Resort to discuss the hot topics for the Fall semester. The annual retreat, held each year near the end of September, is intended to provide the SGA with an opportunity to plan for the upcoming year […]
Continue ReadingPiedmont Virginia Community College’s Department of Engineering has been accomplishing the goal set before them five years ago. That goal has been to increase student awareness about the engineering program. With the help of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to PVCC the department has held events, presentations and summer programs to get students […]
Continue ReadingTo quote Jackie Treehorn from the Coen brothers’ cult classic, “The Big Lebowski,” “The way of the future, Dude, one hundred percent electronic!” This quote, although out of context, rings with a pitch of legitimacy as jobs, businesses and society continue their exodus into the technological age. The Commonwealth is home to many advancing businesses; […]
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