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In a powerful statement on the need to reimagine higher education for today’s complex world, David Calhoun ’79, senior managing director for Blackstone and former CEO of Nielsen, has made the largest-ever gift to Virginia Tech’s Honors College.
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Societal issues are driving an increase in death rates among Virginia’s white population, according to a new report from the VCU Center on Society and Health. Stress-related conditions—including unintentional drug overdoses, suicides, alcoholic liver disease and alcohol poisonings—are killing white Virginians ages 25-54 at increasing rates.
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U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine co-sponsored the Safe Schools Improvement Act, legislation requiring schools to take greater measures to prevent bullying and harassment.
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Peter G. Hawes, a recent graduate of the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, has joined the Monticello Area Community Action Agency (MACAA) as Senior Program Director.
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The Civil War and emancipation brought change to life in Augusta County and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, rural counties similar but for one thing – slavery. One of American’s most noted historians, Edward Ayers, has taken a close look at those two counties across the Civil War era and emancipation.
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Wildlife can be beautiful to watch from a distance, but close up it is causing damage for farmers, landowners and even some city dwellers.
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Sonia Vallabh, J.D., co-founder of the Prion Alliance, will discuss her work to treat, cure and prevent prion diseases March 23 at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy’s biennial Lowenthal Symposium.
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Jay Patel’s path to medicine begins with the heart — specifically one that belonged to his sister. Patel was 5-years-old when his twin sisters were born. One had Tetralogy of Fallot, a rare condition when a baby is born with four heart defects.
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How social media enables political groups to form and engage in risky collective movements is a complex problem that requires multilayered approaches.
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The Virginia Tech, India, Postgraduate Program in Business Analytics is scheduled to launch in June with courses held online and on the campus of the program’s first partner, the N.L. Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research.
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