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PVCC Students Make the Evening News

December 1, 2015 Nia’Ife Mukasa, Staff Writer

The Nelsonite petition project, initiated by Professor Lawrence Tiezzi, is gaining momentum. Three of the students petitioning for the Nelsonite to become Virginia’s official state rock met with a reporter from Newsplex Channel 19 on Thursday, Oct. 29, Michelle Stanislause, Owen Krug and Teshawna Quarles. “The reporter heard about us from someone in the community […]

Petition to Make Nelsonite the State Rock

November 4, 2015 Nia'Ife Mukasa

Forty-five states in America have an official state rock; Virginia is not one of them. Professor Larry Tiezzi thinks it is time to change that. Tiezzi teaches Honors Historical Geology and according to one of his students, Teshawna Quarles, Tiezzi decided to work with Assistant Professor Connie Jorgensen to petition to make the Nelson rock […]

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Petition to Make Nelsonite the State Rock

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