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At its recent meeting in March, the Virginia Agricultural Council (VAC) reviewed research project proposals and funded 21 new projects totaling almost $220,000, as well as more than $45,000 for four new projects for lawn and turf research. It also extended funding for a second year on five projects totaling nearly $50,000.
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As Virginia college students gear up for graduation season, agriculture and natural resources majors have reasonably good job prospects. And the next wave of ag majors have both public- and private-college options.
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Washington and Lee University raised $2,556,191 in contributions to its Annual Fund on March 26 during its Give Day 2015.
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The overall economic impact of the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center is pegged at more than $616 million since the renovated hotel and new conference facility opened in 1995, according to a report by the Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Commission.
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Sir Crispin Tickell, a former British diplomat with particular interest in the relationship between the environment, politics and business, will give a lecture at Washington and Lee University on May 5, at 5:30 p.m.in Northen Auditorium in Leyburn Library.
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UVA Health System has been recertified as a provider of the highest level of epilepsy care.
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Today we mark another Equal Pay Day, the symbolic date when women’s salaries finally catch up to men’s salaries from the previous year.
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An analysis released for Equal Pay Day shows just how much damage the gender-based wage gap is doing to Virginia’s families and economy.
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On the heels of a record breaking season, The North Augusta Farmers Market’s fourth season is under way! On Wednesdays, noon-5:15 at the market dock in the government center in Verona, Va. Now through October.
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A pair of fellowships will help University of Virginia student Ashley Blackwell fight hunger and discrimination this summer.
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