Press Conference: UVA football coach Mike London
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UVA football coach Mike London talks with reporters on Monday. The Cavs (2-5, 1-2 ACC) host Georgia Tech (3-5, 1-4 ACC) on Saturday.
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Park Woods Cabin at EMU has long offered fellowship, retreat in the midst of nature
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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…
Governor McAuliffe announces 2016 Virginia Teacher of the Year
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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.
Press Conference: UVA football coach Mike London
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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.
Bridgewater College professor Stanley A. Galloway wins Emyl Jenkins Award
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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.”
Virginia Tech student helps to build school in Honduras
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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.
Black Swan Books & Music and SWAG Writers present fiction writers Chris Cleary and Clifford Garstang
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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).
Virginia Cooperative Extension launches language interpretation services for walk-in clients
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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.
Chinese scholars learn American teaching techniques at EMU
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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.”…
Swahili and rarely taught Mayan dialect are new language offerings at UVA
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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.
