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Robert D. Aguirre, currently senior associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, will serve as the next dean of the College of Arts and Letters at James Madison University, effective July 16.
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U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Democratic colleagues on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to call on Chairman Lamar Alexander and Ranking Member Patty Murray to hold a HELP hearing as soon as possible to examine the causes and remedies for school shootings and other mass shootings.
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Mrs. Rubin’s kindergarten class has had a lot of questions about rainbows. So many, in fact, that they’ve spent several months investigating the topic together during their dedicated FAB Lab time periods.
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As increasing numbers of people move to cities and become more wired and networked, Ph.D. students across various academic disciplines at Virginia Tech are joining together to focus on how data science can help them find solutions to urban problems.
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Attorney General Mark Herring and attorneys general from 36 other states and territories sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding answers about the company’s business practices and privacy protections.
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The 2018 flu season has been especially rough on Americans — this year’s dominant viral strains have led to more hospitalizations and doctor visits than almost any other in the past decade.
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In the culmination of decades of research at the University of Virginia Health System, doctors have begun human testing of a drug they hope will one day save many lives among lung transplant recipients.
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The City of Charlottesville has scheduled a community forum for 17 candidates seeking positions on a new seven-member Police Civilian Review Board. The forum will be moderated by local mediation consultant Robert Garrity.
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To recruit more fishers to help with marine conservation, cast a wider net. This is the conclusion of a new study by Virginia Tech researchers who examined participation in a payment for ecosystem services program.
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A team of biomedical scientists led by Gregorio Valdez, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, has found that the motor neurons responsible for controlling muscle movement do not age. Rather, it’s the synaptic inputs connected to the motor neurons that age and cause bodily decay.
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