
Virginia Tech marks gains in latest U.S. News & World Report ranking
In the rapidly evolving, competitive marketplace of higher education, Virginia Tech is not only holding its ground as one of the nation’s best universities, but steadily gaining.

In the rapidly evolving, competitive marketplace of higher education, Virginia Tech is not only holding its ground as one of the nation’s best universities, but steadily gaining.

FSU coach Willie Taggart talks with reporters ahead of the Seminoles game at #25 UVA this weekend.

UVA Football coach Bronco Mendenhall talks with reporters ahead of the ‘Hoos game with Florida State.

The effort, via a video that plays on the big screen at UVA Football games, to get fans to drop the “not gay!” coda to a key lyric in “The Good Old Song,” is admirable.

Virginia gas prices have fallen 1.8 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.31/g today, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 4,081 stations.

Now that school is back in session, those big yellow diesel-fueled school buses are all over the roads again.

New Dominion Bookshop will host a book talk and signing with author Peter Finn on Thursday, Oct. 17, from 7-8 p.m.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week.

Senior Andrew Orischak continues to lead the UVA men’s golf team after Saturday’s second round of play at the Carpet Capital Collegiate in Rocky Face, Ga.

In a remarkable evolutionary discovery, a team of scientists co-led by a Virginia Tech geoscientist has discovered what could be among the first trails made by animals on the surface of the Earth roughly a half-billion years ago.
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