
Former SMAC coach Scott Thacker named VMI swimming and diving coach
Scott Thacker was announced Monday as the new head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach at VMI.

Scott Thacker was announced Monday as the new head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach at VMI.

More than 100 cancer researchers from across Virginia Tech campuses from Blacksburg, Roanoke, and the greater Washington, D.C., area participated in a day-long retreat.

Brian Mancini has been named director of Harrisonburg Parks & Recreation. Mancini is the former assistant director of the department, and had served as the acting director since May 2021.

Julia Basso, the director of the Embodied Brain Lab at Virginia Tech, readily admits that few college students choose to double major in the unlikely tandem of dance and neuroscience.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin recognized the winners of the 2022 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards at the recent Environment Virginia Symposium.

Countries racing to replace Russian oil, gas and coal with their own dirty energy are making matters worse, warns United Nations secretary general António Guterres.

Life expectancy in the United States decreased during 2020 as a result of the pandemic. Now, a new study shows for the first time that life expectancy continued to decline even further in 2021.

Virginia Tech is planning to establish a center for smart construction in Falls Church in collaboration with top national commercial construction firm HITT Contracting.

Embody Inc., a Norfolk-based medical device company developing novel collagen-based technologies for soft tissue repair, will invest $5 million to expand its headquarters at Innovation Research Park at Old Dominion University in the City of Norfolk.

CJ Jones, Alysiah Bond and Tori Jankoska have been hired as assistant coaches by Virginia women’s basketball coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton, and Chris Toland will join her staff as assistant strength and conditioning coach.
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