
New effort to connect college networks for low-income engineering students
For a low-income, first-year, or transfer student in engineering, navigating the collegiate infrastructure can be just like a connect-the-dots puzzle: labyrinthian.

For a low-income, first-year, or transfer student in engineering, navigating the collegiate infrastructure can be just like a connect-the-dots puzzle: labyrinthian.

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) has announced $219.8 million in broadband funding for Virginia, which comes from the $10 billion Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund authored by Sen. Warner and included in the American Rescue Plan.

Ben Cline, following in the footsteps of Bob Goodlatte, barely makes a noise in Congress. But because Democrats in Richmond and D.C. have given up on the Interstate 81 corridor, people here have no alternative.

Ritchie McKay and Liberty men’s basketball announced the hiring of Robb Hornett as the director of athletic performance.

Landis F. McCoy has spent nearly his entire coaching career in the state of Florida, but now the coaching veteran is headed to Farmville as an assistant on the Longwood women’s basketball staff, head coach Erika Lang-Montgomery announced on Monday.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced on Monday the members of the Commission on Human Trafficking Prevention and Survivor Support.

The Virginia Museum of History & Culture has a number of programs this summer to support the professional development of educators throughout the state.

Pharmaceutical companies have regularly stopped producing key generic drugs. The reason: these medicines do not generate enough profit.

A bear cub found in a roadway in Nelson County last week was found to have a humeral fracture of his right front leg. Dr. Karra Peirce, the veterinary director at the Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro, knew just who to call.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is urging the Biden administration to increase sanctions on enablers of Vladimir Putin’s regime amidst its unprovoked and illegal war in Ukraine.
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