
Supporting sustainability and green lab efforts
Laboratories are one of the largest energy-consuming sectors in the country. Ultra-low temperature freezers can use as much energy as an average household every day.

Laboratories are one of the largest energy-consuming sectors in the country. Ultra-low temperature freezers can use as much energy as an average household every day.

Augusta Health has received the Healthgrades 2019 America’s 50 Best Hospitals Award™. This is the fifth consecutive year that Augusta Health has been awarded this recognition for clinical quality.
Neda Moayerian jumped at the opportunity to join a “lively and engaging” team of graduate students helping distressed regions of Southwest Virginia.

A scientist at the UVA School of Medicine has received a prestigious three-year, $1 million award from the William M. Keck Foundation to develop a new and better way to map out the submicroscopic world.

When Melissa Faircloth became director of Virginia Tech’s American Indian and Indigenous Community Center (AIICC) last fall, she brought a wealth of experience, relationships, and dedication to the position.

Kory Cablay spent most of his life near his hometown in the Costa Mesa area of California. Even when it was time for college, Cablay decided to attend Chapman University, just a 20-minute drive from home, to study biochemistry and molecular biology.

Environmental advocates do spend a lot of time harping about threats to our oceans, but sadly for all of us the facts bear out the concern.

Kratom is a new and surprisingly widely used supplement that emerged on the scene in 2018.

Only 46 percent of Virginia residents earned a passing grade on history questions from the U.S. citizenship test, but good news, this actually landed the state in one of the top spots among a dismal showing in the United States.

Mexico imports nearly a quarter of the U.S. dairy industry’s exports annually. It’s a critical $1.4 billion marketplace. And it’s one that President Trump continues to risk damaging permanently — and unnecessarily.
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