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Each year, Eastern Mennonite University engages in a rigorous process to select recipients for the prestigious Yoder Scholarships. Established in 1993 and named for alumni Carol and Paul R. Yoder Jr., the scholarships cover full tuition and include admission into EMU’s Honors Program.
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Mary Woolley, the president and chief executive officer of Research!America, will speak at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 5.
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Lime Kiln Theater has announced a pair of theatrical productions for its Summer 2018 season. Lynchburg’s Endstation Theatre will present William Shakespeare’s As You Like It on Sunday, July 8, and the Traveling Players Ensemble will return to Lime Kiln with a family-friendly performance of Sleeping Beauty on Saturday, Aug. 11.
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Fishburne Military School head wrestling coach Terry Waters has just announced the lineup of clinicians for his annual Summer Wrestling Camp hosted at FMS.
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Babies who died during their sleep while being watched by someone other than parents often had been placed in unsafe sleep positions, such as on their stomachs, or in unsafe locations, such as a couch, a new study has found.
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Coastal residents in Bangladesh are losing their homes and farmland at an astonishing rate due to riverbank erosion, which affects roughly 1 million people and displaces 50,000 to 200,000 every year.
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The Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement Task Force, working in conjunction with the Skyline Drug and Gang Task Force and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, arrested Ersy Alejandro Hernandez on March 23 on an outstanding Albemarle County warrant for assault and battery.
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When this country was founded, women had no rights. As late as 2010, then-Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in an interview that women still don’t. It wasn’t until 1971 that the court ruled women were covered under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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As increasing numbers of people move to cities and become more wired and networked, Ph.D. students across various academic disciplines at Virginia Tech are joining together to focus on how data science can help them find solutions to urban problems.
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Rod Smith, Washington and Lee University’s writer in residence and editor of the online literary magazine Shenandoah, will present his annual and final reading, before his retirement from W&L in June, on April 3 in Leyburn Library Book Nook at 4:45 p.m.
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