Christopher Moore is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Longwood University in Farmville, VA.Our PR people here at Longwood are pretty good. A few days ago, I mentioned the short blurb about our NSF grant in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. On Monday, the Lynchburg News & Advance listed me among the “Movers and Shakers” in the central Virginia area.
My colleagues will probably not be too happy about their names being cut!
That’s great, Chris. Your story just keeps getting more and more publicity. Before you know it, you’ll have earned another grant on your reputation alone!
I’m sure the NSF will be calling me next year about where to send the briefcase full of money.
Longwood has just made “Undergraduate Scholarship” its signature program, so the University is pumping money and effort into building a reputation for quality undergraduate research. I showed up at the right time, since our PR department is interested in knowing about everything I do!
Hey, man, that’s fantastic. At this rate you’ll have Longwood and the NSF in a bidding war to get you designing the latest research programs. Your charmed life as a scholar just keeps rolling on!
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