
Northam aannounces 2018 Specialty Crop Block Grants for Virginia
Governor Ralph Northam has announced an award of $556,321 in grant funding from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for ten Virginia agriculture-related projects.

Governor Ralph Northam has announced an award of $556,321 in grant funding from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for ten Virginia agriculture-related projects.

Possible Russian influence operations in the United States anti-fracking/natural gas pipeline protests was the topic of a presentation by retired Central Intelligence Agency officer Ken Stiles.

If you have prescription drugs at home that have expired or you no longer need them, you can safely dispose of them this Saturday, Oct. 27, on National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.

Advances in technology open up an almost unlimited number of opportunities that will change our lives in ways that are often unimaginable.

Washington and Lee University will welcome scholars and artists from around the world to its 14th National Symposium of Theater and Performance Arts in Academe on Oct. 25-26.

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Virginia Tech a $3 million grant for research on electric vehicle charging infrastructure cybersecurity as part of a larger $80 million investment by the department on advanced technologies research.

Over the next decade, American manufacturers are facing an industrial skills gap with projections of 2 million manufacturing jobs going unfilled due to a lack of qualified and skilled applicants.

VDOT will hold a Citizen Information Meeting about potential alternative alignments for Route 11 (Lee Highway) in the area of Natural Bridge State Park in Rockbridge County.

St. Anne’s-Belfield School has accepted an invitation to partner with the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole in Massachusetts, an affiliate of the University of Chicago, to take part in, and help plan, an on-site high school biology program.

Washington and Lee University will host a public talk and Q&A with Randy Hayes, executive director of Foundation Earth, and Brent Blackwelder, environmental organizer, teacher, vice-chair and treasurer of Foundation Earth’s board on Oct. 23 at 6:30 p.m. in the Center for Global Learning Atrium.
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