From TikTok videos to Duck Pond lectures, professors get creative
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Across Virginia Tech professors are getting creative to transition their courses to the web because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Farm Bureau creates COVID-19 informational webpage for farmers
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Virginia Farm Bureau Federation has created a new resource on its website to provide farmers with current information relating to COVID-19 and its impact on their livelihoods.
Charlottesville closing parking areas at city parks
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The City of Charlottesville is closing parking areas at the following parks effective immediately: Pen Park, McIntire Park, Tonsler Park, and Washington Park.
Creativity, collaboration are key for online instruction
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A mass shift to online instruction has pushed Virginia Tech faculty to develop new ways to teach—a dynamic perhaps nowhere more evident than in Michelle Stocker’s Morphology of the Vertebrates class in the Department of Geosciences.
Senate passes $2T coronavirus relief package: House vote on Friday
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The Senate voted Wednesday to pass a $2 trillion COVID-19 relief plan that provides for $1,200 in direct payments to most Americans, and includes billions of dollars in lending and grant programs designed to help businesses, workers and municipalities.
Hampton Roads teen seat belt use up 9 percent
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Drive Safe Hampton Roads recently recognized 32 local high schools for their participation in the Get It Together Seat Belt Challenge.
Pathogen levels in the environment drive disease outbreaks in bats
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Since 2005, millions of bats have perished from white-nose syndrome, a disease caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans.
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Northam declares state of emergency amid coronavirus outbreak
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Gov. Ralph Northam today declared a state of emergency in the Commonwealth of Virginia in response to the continued spread of novel coronavirus, or COVID-19.
UVA commits to ambitious affordable housing goal
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UVA has established a goal to support the development of 1,000 to 1,500 affordable housing units in Charlottesville and Albemarle County over the next decade on land owned by the University and the UVA Foundation.
