
People Places hires new regional director
People Places Inc. announced that it has hired Lisa Columbo as the regional director for its Staunton office.

People Places Inc. announced that it has hired Lisa Columbo as the regional director for its Staunton office.

CIT GAP Funds has invested in TypeZero Technologies, LLC, an early-stage medical technology company with a proprietary intelligent control system that improves the safety, outcomes and quality of life for patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

A Virginia Commonwealth University engineering professor has received a $5 million grant to develop a more cost-effective way to manufacture two important drugs used to treat HIV and AIDS.

The University of Virginia Health System has opened a high-tech clinical genomics lab that will personalize care for patients, help doctors determine the best treatments for cancers and other diseases, and allow UVA to offer the most cutting-edge clinical trials.

Virginia’s Malcolm Brogdon (Atlanta, Ga.) is one of 22 players that will participate in the 2015 U.S. Pan American Men’s Basketball Team training camp, USA Basketball announced Monday (June 29).

An experimental new treatment approach for a rare, deadly leukemia can send the disease into remission even in patients for whom the standard therapy has failed, buying them more time to have the stem cell transplant that could save their lives, a small pilot study has found.

UVA baseball coach Brian O’Connor, right fielder Thomas Woodruff, relief pitcher Josh Sborz and starting pitcher Adam Haseley talk with reporters after the Cavs’ 3-0 win over Vanderbilt in Game 2 of the College World Series Championship Series. The win sets up a winner-take-all Game 3 tonight for the 2015 national championship.

Somehow, colorful tropical scarlet macaws from tropical Mesoamerica – the term anthropologists use to refer to Mexico and parts of northern Central America – ended up hundreds of miles north in the desert ruins of an ancient civilization in what is now New Mexico.

Come cheer on the United States Women’s Team in the FIFA Women’s World Cup First Match on Monday, June 22 at 8PM. Doors open at 7:30PM.

Every Father’s Day, my son and I run in the ZERO Prostate Cancer charity 5K. We started this tradition when he was an infant (pushing a jogging stroller uphill is a great workout … as is controlling it going downhill), and we continue it to this day.
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