
Eastern Shore native fosters hometown habitats
Jane Corson-Lassiter has made a career of forging coalitions for natural resource management.

Jane Corson-Lassiter has made a career of forging coalitions for natural resource management.

Carole Nash, a professor of integrated science and technology at JMU and a proponent of locating a branch of the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Waynesboro, has been appointed by Gov. Ralph Northam to the museum’s board of trustees.

A Friday ceremony dedicated the Interstate 81 bridge over Whitetop Road as the Trooper Lucas B. Dowell Bridge.

The No. 23 Virginia men’s cross country team finished fourth at the ACC Championships on Friday (Nov. 1) at the Buford Meredith Cross Country Course in Blacksburg, Va.

An internationally recognized expert in networks who currently leads an initiative that applies the expertise of 250 researchers across 10 universities in Ireland will lead the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative.

Marsha Rappley, M.D., CEO of Virginia Commonwealth University Health System and senior vice president for health sciences at VCU, announced her plan to retire on Jan. 2, 2020.

Virginia Tech faculty have long been engaged in frontline, boundary-breaking research to advance cancer treatments that help people — and animals.

The James River has been selected as the 2019 Thiess International Riverprize winner at the International Riversymposium in Brisbane, Australia.

First Lady Pamela Northam and the Office of the Secretary of Education hosted a summit on Tuesday with education leaders, policymakers, and academic researchers at the University of Virginia to discuss early childhood education in the Commonwealth.

Dr. Marcia Conston, currently of Charlotte, North Carolina, will become the next president of Tidewater Community College. She will assume the role at the beginning of 2020.
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