
Climate Action Alliance of the Valley: Climate, energy news roundup for Aug. 2
Climate Action Alliance of the Valley produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News to inform legislators and the public.

Climate Action Alliance of the Valley produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News to inform legislators and the public.

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia has approved Virginia Tech’s bid to create a School of Communication.

Three things are happening, have been happening, relative to COVID-19, international politics, and the 2020 presidential election.

To Lauren Childs, assistant professor of mathematics, in the Virginia Tech College of Science, it’s what we don’t know that makes it difficult for communities to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

In today’s world, technology is a part of our daily lives, it exists in many daily activities and things that we interact with.

Dominion Energy today announced that 11 historically black colleges and universities in Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina and South Carolina will receive support through a $35 million initiative aimed at promoting higher education equity.

The Climate Action Alliance of the Valley (CAAV), a non-profit, grassroots group of volunteers in the Central Shenandoah Valley, produces “The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News” to inform legislators and the public.

Waynesboro and Nelson County have each received $10,000 grants from Virginia Tourism to go toward marketing efforts aimed at getting visitors to come back as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) have introduced the Mothers and Newborns Success Act, legislation to help reduce the egregious racial inequities in maternal and infant mortality.

Science doesn’t take place just in a lab or field station — discoveries can happen anywhere, even in your own kitchen or backyard. And most scientists will agree: The best discoveries are the ones you make.
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