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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminds farmers that the 2014 Farm Bill requires producers to file a Highly Erodible Land Conservation and Wetland Conservation Certification form (AD-1026) with their local USDA service center by June 1, 2015, in order to become or remain eligible for crop insurance premium support.
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Degrees in agriculture—as well as mining, teaching, medicine, physics and chemistry—are among the most desirable in the current job market, according to a recently released report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.
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Washington and Lee University’s Investment Committee recently voted to turn over the management of an additional $4.5 million of endowment funds to the Williams Investment Society, a student-managed investment fund.
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In a recent study, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers predicted which cirrhosis patients would suffer inflammations and require hospitalization by analyzing their saliva, revealing a new target for research into a disease that accounts for more than 30,000 deaths in the United States each year.
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Yogaville Environmental Solutions (YES), a new undertaking by Yogaville to educate about and advocate for sustainable energy policies, is cosponsoring with Friends of Buckingham two events on Sunday, April 19, to discuss the Atlantic Coast Pipeline proposal and its impact on Buckingham County, including the impact of a planned compressor station near Route 56. , with an announcement of its long-term and short-term goals.
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This week, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine introduced the FDA Accountability for Public Safety Act, bipartisan legislation that would hold the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accountable for the approval of new opioid drugs, ensuring experts’ voices are heard as new and potentially dangerous opioid medications are considered for approval.
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The Virginia Tech Science Connection Advisory Network, or VT-SCAN for short is simple but effective.
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Dr. Jim Kavanaugh, a graduate and former faculty member of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, flew 26 combat missions as a radio operator in the Army Air Corps and witnessed the end of World War II in Europe, all before his 20th birthday.
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Today we mark another Equal Pay Day, the symbolic date when women’s salaries finally catch up to men’s salaries from the previous year.
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The Wildlife Center of Virginia, a leading teaching and research hospital for native wildlife, will present Hospital Cam – a live, web-based streaming look inside the Center’s veterinary clinic – on Wednesday, April 15, starting at 9 a.m. Eastern.
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