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VCU alumna Iris Harrell and her wife, Ann Benson, have made a $1 million planned gift to the College of Humanities and Sciences that will create the Harrell-Benson Scholarship to support students in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies.
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Virginia Tech and University of Pittsburgh researchers have discovered that when a person with the flu coughs or exhales, mucus and other airway secretions are expelled and appear to protect the virus when it becomes airborne, regardless of humidity levels.
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EMU alum Blake Rogers was honored by the American Association of Physician Assistants with the PA Student of the Year Award.
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The 2018 Summer Leadership Retreat is sponsored by Youth of Virginia Speak Out About Traffic Safety, a program of the Virginia State Police.
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The City of Charlottesville will be designating Key Recreation Center, Tonsler Recreation Center and the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (Central Branch) as cooling centers beginning Monday, June 18 until further notice.
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Researchers in the Department of Physics are building a major program in quantum information sciences thanks in part to multiple federal grants that have brought $3.7 million directly to Virginia Tech.
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Governor Ralph Northam announced the award of grants totaling $1.265 million to localities throughout the Commonwealth that will fund school resource officer and school security officer positions.
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Representatives Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA) and Mike Quigley (D-IL) sent a letter to the Speaker detailing the many abuses and allegations against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
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AFP reader Michael Lewis shares his thoughts on editor Chris Graham’s reporting on UVA football coach Bronco Mendenhall’s State of the Program talk to the UVA Board of Visitors.
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The Trump administration has submitted a proposal for inter-agency review that would reportedly gut the Clean Water Act, stripping longstanding protections for streams, wetlands, and smaller waterways that feed drinking water sources for millions of people in the South.
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