
Two Virginia schools selected to participate in Teen Mental Health First Aid pilot program
Freedom High School in Chantilly and Charlottesville High School in Charlottesville will take part in a Teen Mental Health First Aid pilot program.

Freedom High School in Chantilly and Charlottesville High School in Charlottesville will take part in a Teen Mental Health First Aid pilot program.

Farmers are warding off crop pests and diseases – and merchants are seeing a 100 percent increase in sales of natural products to combat them – since Virginia Tech implemented a text-messaging system in Nepal.

When not in Washington, D.C., voting in the U.S. House of Representatives during March, I was able to visit several sites where exciting research projects are underway. Previously, I wrote about some of them at Virginia Tech.

James Madison University professor of art history, John Ott, Ph.D., has been awarded a prestigious residential fellowship that will take place May through June.

Virginia’s 2019 Commemoration, American Evolution announced that 10 teams from UVA are among those selected as semifinalists for the American Evolution Innovators Cup.

Governor Ralph Northam announced the winners of the 2019 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards, which were presented at the annual Environment Virginia Symposium held at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.

The Chesapeake Bay Program announced this week that water quality in the Chesapeake Bay met its highest standard for water quality since monitoring began in 1985, besting its previous record reported in 2017.

Many investors are not just looking at profitable companies to invest in but those that are doing something to save the planet. Socially responsible investing is on the rise and businesses should look into eco-friendly operations if they want to attract more investors.

Virginia Tech will increase the university’s minimum starting pay for full-time, benefits-eligible staff employees to $12 per hour. The new pay rate will take effect July 10, 2019.

UVA Dual Career Program (DCP), in collaboration with the City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, UVA Licensing and Ventures Group, and the UVA Research Park, has developed Embark, an innovative solution to support talent recruitment and retention.
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