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Wander into Park Woods just east of the Eastern Mennonite University campus and you’ll come across a rustic cabin in a clearing. If you want to know how that cabin landed there and what university revels took place in the past, read on…
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Governor Terry McAuliffe tonight announced the selection of Natalie DiFusco-Funk, a fifth-grade teacher at West Salem Elementary in Salem, as the 2016 Virginia Teacher of the Year.
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UVA football coach Mike London talks with reporters on Monday. The Cavs (2-4, 1-1 ACC) play at North Carolina (5-1, 2-0 ACC) on Saturday.
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Stanley A. Galloway, a professor of English at Bridgewater College, has won the 2015 Emyl Jenkins Award from the James River Writers. The annual award is given to a person in Virginia who exhibits “enthusiasm and care for all writers and readers.”
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As a sophomore, Anastasia Matusiewicz of Woodbridge, Virginia, tagged along with some friends to check out a Students Helping Honduras meeting — though she admits that it was solely to avoid doing homework.
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Black Swan Books & Music team with the SWAG Writers (The Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Virginia Writers Club) Reading Series to present a reading by fiction writers Clifford Garstang (What the Zhang Boys Know and In an Uncharted Country) and Chris Cleary (The Ring of Middletown).
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Virginia Cooperative Extension has initiated a free language interpretation service in order to better serve Virginia’s increasingly diverse population. The service provides telephone-based interpretation by a human operator in 200 different languages.
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For the Chinese scholars at Eastern Mennonite University this semester, witnessing the difference between Chinese and American educational systems has been enlightening. “In China, students are willing to listen to professors lecture,” says Yan Wang. “Here, there are a lot of group discussions. It is good for creative thinking. Every student has their own idea.”…
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Swahili is the most widely spoken language in Africa and its footprint has extended to the University of Virginia, where for the first time students can fulfill their four-semester language requirement by studying the Bantu language.
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An award-winning writer of transatlantic literature will visit Grounds in April as the University of Virginia’s second Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence.
