
NSF awards two grants for polymer research
Two recent grants awarded by the National Science Foundation will help scientists in the College of Natural Resources and Environment create new ways to use renewably sourced plant and wood polymers.

Two recent grants awarded by the National Science Foundation will help scientists in the College of Natural Resources and Environment create new ways to use renewably sourced plant and wood polymers.

Arts Council of the Valley will host its third annual Artist Member Exhibition at Smith House Galleries Nov. 2 – Dec. 14.

Chrysanthemums are among the most popular garden plants this time of year. Properly cared for, mums can be kept over the winter and then will continue to brighten home gardens the next year.

The State Fair of Virginia’s 2018 attendance was 250,000—the highest under the fair’s current owner, and the second-highest since it moved to The Meadow Event Park in 2009.

Highway work in the Lynchburg District requiring road/lane/structure closures is scheduled, weather permitting.

Governor Ralph Northam has announced an award of $556,321 in grant funding from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for ten Virginia agriculture-related projects.

Sen. Tim Kaine will make 10 campaign stops throughout Hampton Roads, the Valley, Central and Northern Virginia as he continues to rally Virginians in every corner of the Commonwealth and share his message of building a Virginia that works for all.

Less than two months before Charlottesville’s deadly Unite the Right white nationalist rally, the US Army’s Threat Integration Center was developing threat assessments of anti-fascist activists while simultaneously whitewashing fascist organizations with a vague “anti-antifa” designation.

President Trump on Tuesday signed into law legislation that includes a bill authored by Ninth District Congressman Morgan Griffith, the Promoting Closed-Loop Pumped Storage Hydropower Act.

Grand Canyon author Tom Martin will present a 45-minute behind-the-scenes look at Otis “Dock” Marston’s book, From Powell to Power: A Recounting of the First One Hundred River Runners through the Grand Canyon, on Oct. 25, at Bridgewater College.
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