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In spring, when 17-year-old John R. Lewis High School student Kadija Ismail, of Springfield, learned she’d been accepted into the Virginia Tech Pathways for Future Engineers program, she wasn’t sure she fit the bill as a future engineer.
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They will read about the source of their favorite lunch foods in the Virginia Agriculture in the Classroom’s 2021 Book of the Year: How Did That Get in My Lunchbox? by Chris Butterworth.
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“Terry Arthur was one of those women you meet that you really admire and one day hope to be like,” said Melanie Trammell-Wenger ’19 in a tribute to her undergraduate academic advisor upon her passing in April of this year.
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After eight months of repeatedly failed negotiations, Congress has approved a bipartisan relief package that will protect millions of Americans from some of the worst economic consequences of the pandemic.
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The formula for measuring a champion tree is deceptively simple: add the trunk circumference (in inches) to a tree’s height (in feet) and one-quarter of the tree’s spread (in feet).
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What if, instead of being born into the Roman police state, Jesus had been born at this moment in time? What kind of reception would Jesus and his family be given?
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A new study led by a VCU professor had 59.9 percent of respondents definitely or probably planning to receive a future COVID-19 vaccine, but the vaccine approved under the FDA emergency use authorization had a majority thinking the other way.
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The first vials of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine arrived at Augusta Health on Tuesday – in a shipment containing 925 doses, including 50 doses for other hospitals in the region without ultra-low subzero freezers.
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The federal Pregnancy Assistance Fund helps states provide services for vulnerable soon-to-be mothers – including teens and victims of sexual violence.
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eHealth Technologies Inc. will invest $375,000 to establish a new customer support center in Scott County, an initiative that will create 160 new jobs.
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