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The Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors confronts an austere budget climate that could mean changes in how tuition is priced when it considers the 2013-2014 VCU spending plan for approval in May.
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Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have developed a promising new antibiotic to treat potentially deadly gastrointestinal infections without harming the beneficial probiotic bacteria that help prevent relapse.
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The music trio Women of Hope will present “The Melodies of Broadway” at the Staunton Senior Center on Monday, April 15 at 11:45 a.m. Jackie Eakin, Lilchy Huffman, and Sherrie Shoemaker became friends while members of the Staunton Choral Society. Daniel Kirkland is their accompanist.
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After I graduated college from Washington and Lee University, I moved to Brooklyn to take a job with Lord and Taylor as an assistant buyer in…wait for it… women’s moderate blouses.
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Forensic psychologists and psychiatrists are ethically bound to be impartial, to look only at the evidence before them, when performing evaluations or providing expert opinions for the court. But new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Sam Houston State University suggests that the paycheck some courtroom experts receive influences their evaluations.
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George Mason University has entered into a membership agreement to join the Atlantic 10 Conference beginning with the 2013-14 season, school president Ángel Cabrera announced today. The Patriots officially will become members of the 21-sport league on July 1, 2013.
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Quinnipiac University national and statewide polls conducted since the December 14 Newtown massacre consistently find overwhelming support for universal background checks, including among voters in households where there are guns.
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No. 1 seed Virginia (22-11) will host No. 5 seed St. John’s (17-15) in the second round of the NIT on Sunday, March 24. Tipoff at John Paul Jones Arena is set for 11 a.m. ET.
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Dr. Jim Armstead, noted professor of military strategy, will present “Strategic Analyses of Civil War” at WTA’s Gateway on March 21 at 7 p.m.
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The body recovered from Back Creek in Bath County has been positively identified by the Roanoke Medical Examiner’s Office as Harriet C. Cobb, 62, of Rockingham County. A search team located the body in Back Creek after 11 a.m. Friday, March 15, 2013, approximately three-tenths of a mile from where Harriet Cobb’s vehicle was discovered. Foul play is not suspected.
