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At its monthly meeting this week, the Commonwealth Transportation Board approved $20.2 million in contracts for projects by both the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Department of Rail and Public Transportation.
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R.E.M. sings about the end of the world as we know it, and feeling fine about it. If you’re on edge about predictions from numerologists who like to do such things warning that the end of the world is coming next Monday, worry not, says a Virginia Tech expert.
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The Virginia Tech Department of Economics is teaming with Peru’s Universidad de Piura for a new undergraduate summer research exchange program that focuses on how behavioral economics can inform public policymaking on such topics as environment, health, technology, and education.
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Mary Baldwin University announced today the largest gift in its 176-year history: a $25 million legacy gift from alumna and longtime champion Bertie Murphy Deming Smith ’46.
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) joined a group of 37 senators in introducing a resolution calling for the immediate resignation of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.
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James River Association, partners and community members in Richmond will celebrate World Fish Migration Day – a one day global-local event to create awareness on the importance of open rivers and migratory fish.
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The University of Virginia formally introduced Tina Thompson as its new women’s basketball coach at a press conference on Wednesday.
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VMI head wrestling coach Jim Gibson announced Tuesday the hiring of Daniel Neff as an assistant coach for the VMI wrestling program.
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Against a backdrop of gas prices that have risen sharply in the last two weeks, motorists are sure to be upset: they’ll be paying $4 billion more in gasoline taxes in 2018 than they did in 2017. That’s $76 billion, or $208 million every day, up from the $72 billion total in 2017.
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The VCU Wilder School’s Center for Public Policy and the Virginia secretary of public safety and homeland security are sponsoring a forum on school safety on April 23 that will examine how officials can best assess, investigate and resolve potential threats as well as the evolving role of school resource officers.
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