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Hearing Healthcare of Virginia and the Better Hearing Institute are working to raise awareness of the link between hearing loss and cardiovascular disease in advance of World Heart Day on September 29.

Hearing Healthcare of Virginia and the Better Hearing Institute are working to raise awareness of the link between hearing loss and cardiovascular disease in advance of World Heart Day on September 29.

Lows across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast have plummeted into the 30s and 40s at times, providing a sufficient cold blast to encourage the emergence of vibrant fall foliage.

The City of Staunton Fire and Rescue Department has been awarded the 2013 Life Safety Achievement Award.

Ann Morning, associate professor of sociology at New York University, will give a lecture at Washington and Lee University on Monday, Sept. 22, at 4:30 p.m. in Stackhouse Theater, Elrod Commons.

The Living Ethics lecture series returns to the Science Museum of Virginia this fall. Reflecting on what it means to live in an ethically complex world, the series investigates unique and thought-provoking topics.

Nathaniel Deutsch, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is also co-director of the Center for Jewish Studies, will give a lecture at Washington and Lee University on Monday.

Palm oil may be a good substitute for trans fats in that it stays solid at room temperature and is therefore useful as a food additive in things like snack bars. But it isn’t much healthier.

A new study shows Virginia’s coal-fired power plants dump as much carbon pollution into the atmosphere as the entire nation of Croatia.

Below is a listing of the next three weeks of EMU related events. Please contact me if you have questions or need more information.

Major news media are paying attention to an environmental and political crisis developing in Wisconsin, and EMU professor Paulette Moore and her spring documentary students are in the middle of the news story.