
VCU School of Medicine appoints new Department of Neurology chair
Virginia Commonwealth University has appointed A. Gordon Smith, M.D., as professor and chair of the Department of Neurology in the School of Medicine.

Virginia Commonwealth University has appointed A. Gordon Smith, M.D., as professor and chair of the Department of Neurology in the School of Medicine.

Lyme disease is now the most reported vector-borne disease in the United States and the CDC released a report showing that diseases from biting insects, ticks, and mosquitos in the U.S. have tripled since 2004.

Some say location is everything, but when it comes to land conservation and management, it’s a landowner’s involvement and interest in working the land that matter more than residing on the property.

When you reach the point of writing your dissertation, it signals that you are almost at the end of an important phase in your educational journey.

When Sandy Brownscombe arrived on the Eastern Mennonite College campus in 1978 for a job interview, she had no idea she would help to shape the physical education, teacher education and athletic programs for the next 40 years.

No doubt, humans have come a long way in engineering medical solutions to our own fertility problems. While such techniques have helped millions of couples around the world bear healthy babies, only recently have scientists applied such techniques to endangered wildlife species.

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Jerry Moran (R-KS), Co-Chairs of the Senate Aerospace Caucus, introduced the Aeronautics Innovation Act to help boost innovation, research and development in the aeronautics industry.

Online businesses and marketplaces dominate today’s market. The traditional brick and mortar shops are slowly losing their golden touch. But one thing remains true; online stores cannot compensate the experience of shopping in a physical store.

It’s the applications for drones that get the most attention: flashy acrobatics at sporting events, emergency rescues, a heralded revolution in the delivery of consumer products.

U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine have cosponsored the Hemp Farming Act of 2018, a bipartisan bill that would legalize and clearly define hemp as an agricultural commodity, removing it from the list of controlled substances.
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