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Five and a half hours, nine back-to-back Zoom calls, and three puzzles later, Eastern Mennonite University’s veteran codebreaker team emerged victorious in the KRYPTOS 2020 challenge.
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Ralph Northam is stuck on seeing the state increase its COVID-19 testing capacity to 10,000 per day. He’s had six weeks, and his efforts to date, such as they are, have us at 4,000 per day today. And for some reason, he’s proud of himself.
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The trees of Virginia Tech hold an important place on campus and within the hearts of Hokies everywhere.
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine are urging approval of Virginia’s request to ensure that children continue to have access to healthy and nutritious foods during this crisis.
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Congresswoman Elaine Luria has joined two bipartisan efforts urging the Department of Commerce to quickly implement relief for the fishery and aquaculture industries.
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The “intelligence community” is neither. Community, like intelligence, is to be found completely elsewhere.
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Virginia Congressman Donald McEachin is urging HHS to address racial health disparities in COVID-19 outcomes, and to collect comprehensive demographic data on the race and ethnicity of individuals tested and treated for the coronavirus.
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For years, researchers claimed the first biological control of a weed occurred in 1902, in Hawaii. But a Virginia Tech entomologist has proved that the ecological approach to combating invasive species happened more than a century earlier.
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Abigail Spanberger is leading an effort calling on the Trump administration to fix problems faced by community banks and credits unions related to the rollout of the Paycheck Protection Program.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner is leading 37 Senate colleagues in pressing congressional leaders to make sure that any future COVID-19 relief legislation includes strong measures to secure healthcare coverage for Americans.
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