
Community Foundation announces scholarship opportunities
The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge is accepting scholarship applications from seniors attending high schools in Staunton, Waynesboro, Augusta and Nelson.

The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge is accepting scholarship applications from seniors attending high schools in Staunton, Waynesboro, Augusta and Nelson.

It’s been more than a decade since the 2004 tobacco buyout, but the Virginia commodity is still growing strong.

Enrollment for Project Plant It!, the free environmental education program created by Dominion Resources, is now open to more elementary-aged children.

The Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center has selected Cornell University President Elizabeth Garrett to receive the University of Virginia’s 2016 Distinguished Alumna Award.

Amy Tillerson-Brown, an associate professor of history at Mary Baldwin College, will speak on “Black Lives Matter: Movement and Misconceptions” on Feb. 9.

Virginia Tech’s Nuclear Science and Engineering Lab and the U.S. Naval Academy’s nuclear engineering program have joined in a research and educational partnership.

SCHEV has formally approved a new graduate-level business program at UVA: the innovative, internationally immersive M.S. in Global Commerce program.

Student leaders from 20 Virginia colleges traveled to Capitol Hill to discuss tthe impact of rising student loan obligations.

A Senate committee voted Thursday to defeat SB53, a bill proposed by Sen. Mamie Locke that would repeal Virginia’s mandatory ultrasound rule.

The latest effort at a Tebow Bill, this one introduced by State Sen. Tom Garrett, R-Buckingham, SB612, reported out of a Senate committee on Thursday.
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