
Pharmaceutical manufacturer Civica Inc. to create 186 jobs in Petersburg
Civica Inc. will invest $124.5 million to establish its first in-house pharmaceutical manufacturing operation in the City of Petersburg.

Civica Inc. will invest $124.5 million to establish its first in-house pharmaceutical manufacturing operation in the City of Petersburg.

Dr. Jewel H. Bronaugh has been appointed deputy secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Virginia Tech’s growing impact in the greater Washington, D.C., metro area will receive a significant boost thanks to a multimillion-dollar gift from Octo founder and CEO Mehul Sanghani and his wife, Hema Sanghani.

If you’re a farm operator in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay watershed region, you soon will have a chance to highlight your contributions to conserve soil and improve water quality.

Bridgewater College will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a day of virtual events, “BC Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” on Monday, Jan. 18.

Seventy-one percent of Virginians are somewhat or very likely to get a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new poll conducted by VCU. So, what’s the holdup?

In spring, when 17-year-old John R. Lewis High School student Kadija Ismail, of Springfield, learned she’d been accepted into the Virginia Tech Pathways for Future Engineers program, she wasn’t sure she fit the bill as a future engineer.

They will read about the source of their favorite lunch foods in the Virginia Agriculture in the Classroom’s 2021 Book of the Year: How Did That Get in My Lunchbox? by Chris Butterworth.

“Terry Arthur was one of those women you meet that you really admire and one day hope to be like,” said Melanie Trammell-Wenger ’19 in a tribute to her undergraduate academic advisor upon her passing in April of this year.

After eight months of repeatedly failed negotiations, Congress has approved a bipartisan relief package that will protect millions of Americans from some of the worst economic consequences of the pandemic.
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