It’s a Wednesday afternoon in September at R.S. Payne Elementary School in Lynchburg and Dr. Chidsey Dickson, an English professor at the University of Lynchburg, has just arrived at Georgianna Cary’s fourth grade class.
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Thornton Reading to feature Melissa Scholes Young, author of ‘The Hive,’ ‘Flood’
Novelist Melissa Scholes Young will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12. The reading, sponsored by the Richard H. Thornton Endowment in English, will be held in Hall Campus Center’s Memorial Ballroom. Admission is free and the public is invited.
English professor’s YA novel selected for Center for the Book’s ‘Great Reads for Great Places’
“Robin and Her Misfits,” a young adult novel by Dr. Kelly Ann Jacobson, assistant professor of English at the University of Lynchburg, has been named Virginia’s 2024 “Young Readers” selection for “Great Reads for Great Places.”
New fund will enable Afghan students to experience a life-changing Lynchburg education
A new fund launched in advance of GiveDay, on Thursday, April 18, will enable students from Afghanistan to experience a life-changing University of Lynchburg education.
Lynchburg students share history of Quaker meeting house in conjunction with April 24 lecture
University of Lynchburg students will be on hand to answer questions about the South River Meeting House, a place of worship for Lynchburg’s early Quaker community, before and after a University co-sponsored lecture on Wednesday, April 24.
Special fund named for beloved English professor to send Westover Fellows abroad
A new fund named for Professor Emeritus Dr. Richard Burke may send two Westover Fellows abroad for the first time: graphic design major Isaiah Romsdahl ’24 and history major Jacob Jones ’25. Romsdahl is planning to join a spring break trip to Europe, while Jones hopes to travel to Mexico this summer.
