
UVA’s Leah Smith wins Olympic gold with U.S. 4x200m freestyle relay
UVA swimming senior Leah Smith won Olympic gold with the United States 4×200-meter freestyle relay Wednesday night (Aug. 10) at the Rio Olympics.

UVA swimming senior Leah Smith won Olympic gold with the United States 4×200-meter freestyle relay Wednesday night (Aug. 10) at the Rio Olympics.

A new report from the American Thoracic Society and Marron Institute of Urban Management at NYU looks at the air that families in the Richmond area breathe.

JMU contributed $480 million to the Harrisonburg-Rockingham economy and attracted 278,430 visitors during fiscal year 2015.

Pesticides beekeepers are using to improve honeybee health may actually be harming the bees by damaging the bacteria communities in their guts.

St. Anne’s-Belfield School is collaborating with the UVA Department of Biomedical Engineering and Charlottesville Women in Tech as part of the third annual Bio-Med Tech-Girls program.

Yesterday in Greensboro, North Carolina, vice presidential nominee Senator Tim Kaine toured Amerifab International, a High Point small business.

Increased research and clinical funding is necessary to better understand the epidemiology of concussions and improve treatment following injury.

Employer expectations that emails will be monitored and responded to during nonwork hours are the main reason employees are unable to disconnect from the workplace, new research finds.

VCU Medical Center has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the No. 1 hospital in the Richmond metro area for 2016–17.

Kris Wernstedt, an associate professor in Virginia Tech’s School of Public and International Affairs, heads back to Africa — this time to Tanzania.
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