
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine visits Virginia Tech to discuss university’s ongoing efforts during pandemic
Awad Abdelhalim knows that not everyone gets an audience with top-level government leadership.

Awad Abdelhalim knows that not everyone gets an audience with top-level government leadership.

Researchers at Porch, a marketplace for home services, analyzed the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and Zillow, to find the states where millennials are buying homes.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) have introduced the Mothers and Newborns Success Act, legislation to help reduce the egregious racial inequities in maternal and infant mortality.

More than $866,000 will be awarded to 90 destination marketing organizations through the Virginia Tourism Corporation’s new DMO WanderLove Recovery Grant Program announced in June.

A flu shot will not protect against COVID-19, but getting one this season will help strengthen the immune system and could lessen the risk of getting the novel coronavirus.

Science doesn’t take place just in a lab or field station — discoveries can happen anywhere, even in your own kitchen or backyard. And most scientists will agree: The best discoveries are the ones you make.

The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine welcomed its 11th class, its largest to date, on Monday.

Girl Scouts of Virginia Skyline Council and Girl Scouts of the USA are rolling out 24 new badges designed to help girls practice ambitious leadership in the crucial areas of automotive engineering, STEM career exploration, entrepreneurship, and civics.

Mary Baldwin University has formed a Coalition for Social Justice to address pressing issues of social justice and racial inequality looking forward to the 2020–2021 academic year and beyond.

Colorizing Restorative Justice: Voicing Our Realities is a collection of 18 essays penned by various authors of color: practitioners and scholars of restorative justice who “explore the issues of racism and colonization within the field,” according to publisher Living Justice Press’s website.
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