Kaine, Warner praise Virginia priorities in House spending bill
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U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine applauded Saturday night’s Senate passage of the compromise spending legislation for fiscal year 2015.
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VCU commencement speaker challenges newest graduates to ‘be disruptive’
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During fall commencement ceremonies at VCU today, Kay Coles James, former director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, challenged graduates not to accept mediocrity but to be disruptive.
Saving our soils and climate with biochar
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Biochar is a naturally occurring, fine-grained, highly porous form of charcoal derived from the process of baking biomass—and it’s been associated with fertile soils for some two thousand years.
Charlottesville wins competitive award to help with sustainable land use audit
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Charlottesville’s work to make downtown a more walkable, attractive destination has helped us win a national competitive award.
Mosquitoes and malaria: Scientists pinpoint how biting cousins have grown apart
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Certain species of mosquitoes are genetically better at transmitting malaria than even some of their close cousins, according to a multi-institutional team of researchers including Virginia Tech scientists.
Washington and Lee junior Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder awarded scholarship from Florida Capitol Press Corps
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Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder, a junior at Washington and Lee University, has been awarded a 2014 Barbara L. Frye Scholarship from the Florida Capitol Press Corps.
College rape culture: One in five? Or more like one in 40?
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It almost seems hyperinflated, the statistic that we hear cited about how one in five women who go to college are raped at some point during their time on their campus.
Virginia Tech Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine moves to Blacksburg
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The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech has moved its Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine to Blacksburg.
Source of mid-plate volcanoes may be much closer than scientists thought
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A recent discovery challenges conventional thought that volcanoes are caused when plates that make up the planet’s crust shift and release heat.
William Antholis named new executive director of UVA Miller Center
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William Antholis, the managing director of the Brookings Institution who has held key positions at the White House and State Department, has been named the new executive director of the UVA Miller Center.
