
Scholars Latino Initiative names Stephania Cervantes as first managing director
Scholars Latino Initiative (SLI) celebrates 10 years this year as a Virginia nonprofit and announced Stephania Cervantes as its first managing director.

Scholars Latino Initiative (SLI) celebrates 10 years this year as a Virginia nonprofit and announced Stephania Cervantes as its first managing director.

Tim Hall watched with admiration as Longwood made its unprecedented March Madness run last spring in men’s and women’s basketball, shining a national spotlight on a historic university with a distinctive mission and its college town.
In one area, homelessness, the pandemic was a blessing as far as funds directed to communities to shelter those living in tent cities, their cars, abandoned buildings, or worse.

Join Catherine Ingrassia for a discussion of her latest book, Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660–1750 in person or online on Thursday, Aug. 11, at noon, at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture in Richmond.
Eastern Mennonite University has been awarded a grant of $998,606 from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support Eastern Mennonite Seminary’s development of a new interdisciplinary pastoral leadership institute that will offer workshops, courses and trainings on conflict transformation.

A single-vehicle crash on Limestone Road in Augusta County on Thursday took the life of a Mount Sidney man and sent three children to UVA Hospital for treatment of serious injuries.

The Virginia Commission for the Arts has announced its officers for the 2022-2023 year.
Dr. Kathryn Bass grew up on the southside of Chicago where the 4th of July shooting happened in Highland Park one month ago.

Playing through a concussion, we now know, can have long-term consequences, one being chronic traumatic encephalopathy – more widely known by the acronym CTE, a degenerative brain disease that researchers are only starting to get a handle on.

August is the time many students head to college, some for the first time. In addition to new classes, instructors, friends and living quarters, this time can also bring new insurance needs.
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