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Fundraising for the construction of Virginia Tech’s proposed Global Business and Analytics Complex has taken another big step forward, with a $2.1 million grant from The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation.
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As many of us prepare to travel to lakes and other bodies of water this summer for relaxation and recreation, now is the perfect time to consider what we can do to help protect the lakes we love.
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A surgeon at the VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center is the first on the East Coast to successfully complete a kidney implantation using the da Vinci Surgical System.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) comments on a GAO report detailing that the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, which covers medical and living expenses for coal miners diagnosed with black lung disease, will be more than $15 billion in debt by 2050, putting coal miners’ benefits at risk.
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A Virginia Tech researcher has received a $558,747 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to screen small chemical libraries in the Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery to find inhibitors for an enzyme that supports fungal and parasitic infections.
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The United Mine Workers of America National Council of the Coal Miners Political Action Committee has announced its endorsement of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine in Virginia.
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Last month Southwest Airlines 737 flight 1380 was forced to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia as a result of one of its engines blowing up in mid-flight flying from New York to Dallas.
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Once each session, the Summer Peacebuilding Institute community at Eastern Mennonite University gathers together for lunch and to hear from a guest speaker. Lunches are open to the community for a small fee.
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When Kitty Smith, of Christiansburg, Virginia, learned her 9-year-old cocker spaniel, Maddi Lynn Grace, had been diagnosed with a soft tissue sarcoma on her left front leg earlier this year, she knew right away that she would take her beloved companion to the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.
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U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced bipartisan legislation to help local communities in Appalachia expand economic opportunity.
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