
W&L prof Barton Myers awarded fellowship at Filson Historical Society
Barton Myers, assistant professor of history at Washington and Lee University, has won the Filson Historical Society’s 2016 Ballard Breaux Visiting Research Fellowship.

Barton Myers, assistant professor of history at Washington and Lee University, has won the Filson Historical Society’s 2016 Ballard Breaux Visiting Research Fellowship.

Globe-trotting big game hunters imported more than 1.26 million “trophies”—the part of the animal they keep for display—to the U.S. between 2005 and 2014.

A clinical research study at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech might help other dogs with similar heart conditions.

Governor Terry McAuliffe has presented a letter to General Assembly money committee chairmen and the budget conferees.

The Route 29 Project Delivery Advisory Panel will hold its regular meeting at 2 p.m.Thursday at the Virginia Transportation Research Council, 530 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville.

A new discovery about ischemic stroke may allow to doctors to predict patients’ risk of having a second stroke using a commonly performed blood test and their genetic profile.

We just get our kids through college, we have a wedding or two, we have a few grandchildren, we are in debt, we think it’s finally our time, and then our parents get old.

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner led a bipartisan group introducing legislation to establish an independent National Commission on Security and Technology Challenges.

Longtime University of Virginia English professor Ralph Cohen, who founded the internationally known scholarly journal New Literary History, died Feb. 23 – his 99th birthday – in Charlottesville.

Non-stick cookware cleans very easily and some health-conscious cooks appreciate that it requires less cooking oil than uncoated varieties.
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