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Jun 27, 2024

Top Five July 2024

1   |   39 Virginia companies make the 2024 Fortune 1000 Thirty-nine companies headquartered in Virginia are on Fortune magazine’s 70th annual Fortune 1000 list, with 24 Virginia companies again making the elite Fortune 500. (June 4) 2   |  VDOT buys Owens & Minor’s Hanover headquarters for $33.5 million The Virginia Department of […]

Hampden-Sydney College President Larry Stimpert announces the $20 million gift at the college's Board of Trustees dinner on May 10. Photo by Zach Bettis.
May 14, 2024

Hampden-Sydney College receives $20M pledge

Richmond-based Endeavour Legacy Foundation has pledged $20 million to Hampden-Sydney College, the second largest gift in the college’s history. The college will use the gift, announced Tuesday, toward renovating its former science center, Gilmer Hall, into an academic facility housing the economics and business, and government and foreign affairs departments. The two departments are currentl[...]

Sheri McGuire, executive director of Longwood University’s Small Business Development Center Photo by Meridith De Avila Khan
Jan 30, 2023

Farmville SEED hub seeks to grow innovation

Luther Cifers launched fishing equipment company YakAttack LLC in 2009 out of his friend’s basement, and he moved to the garage to create prototypes of its gear. Now, he is putting in work so future entrepreneurs will have a dedicated space for their projects. The Farmville SEED Innovation Hub, slated to open in late fall, […]

The pandemic and changing student attitudes have prompted Virginia Union University and other institutions to offer more classes online, says the school’s provost, Terrell Strayhorn. Photo by Matthew R.O. Brown
Mar 30, 2022

Private accounts

One of Terrell Strayhorn’s first assignments as Virginia Union University’s provost was to win final approval for graduate programs seen as a key mechanism for enrollment growth. It was the early months of the pandemic, he recalls, and the Richmond university was also “knee deep” in the reaffirmation of its accreditation process as it sought […]

Jan 18, 2022

Va. Chamber of Commerce elects next chair

The Virginia Chamber of Commerce elected Fred D. Thompson Jr. its 2022 chair on Tuesday. Thompson is chief administrative officer and a business partner at Reston-based Thompson Hospitality Corp. “Fred has been a vital member of the Chamber’s board of directors and executive committee for several years and is a valued leader in the business […]

Jan 7, 2022

Youngkin announces transportation secretary

Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin announced Friday W. Sheppard “Shep” Miller III, former chairman of Virginia Beach-based defense contractor KITCO Fiber Optics, as his state secretary of transportation. “Shep will be an invaluable leader as secretary of transportation as we fulfill our promises to all Virginians to invest in roads, highways and transportation infrastructure in every corner […[...]

Nov 1, 2021

Hampden-Sydney College receives three donations totaling $12.25M

Hampden-Sydney College has received donations of $11 million, $1 million and $250,000 in support of its science programs and science center under construction, the college announced Thursday. “While the college has emphasized the sciences since its founding, the need for a state-of-the-art science facility and for all Hampden-Sydney students to graduate with a high degree […]

University of Virginia Rotunda and Lawn. Photo courtesy University of Virginia
Sep 13, 2021

43 Va. schools make U.S. News and World Report’s 2022 list

Forty-three Virginia schools ranked on the U.S. News and World Report’s 2022 best lists of more than 600 universities and liberal arts colleges in the country, released Monday. The University of Virginia ranked No. 25 in national universities, tying with Carnegie Mellon University and moving one spot up from its rank in 2021. U.Va. ranked […]

Apr 13, 2021

Hampden-Sydney receives $12M gift from alum’s estate

Hampden-Sydney College announced Tuesday it has received a $12 million gift — the second-largest in the history of the 245-year-old private men’s college — from the estate of a 1937 graduate and his wife. The estate of M. Blair Dickinson Jr. and Sarah “Lucile” Lawton Dickinson bequeathed the gift to the college, which Blair Dickinson […]

Aug 4, 2020

Hampden-Sydney College receives $6M gift

Hampden-Sydney College has received its second-largest gift in its 245-year history — a $6 million gift from Rob (an alum) and Cindy Citrone to support the college’s experiential learning program Compass.  “Rob and Cindy have long been devoted champions of the college’s mission and our efforts to strengthen the experience we offer young men,” President […]

Apr 24, 2020

Hampden-Sydney College receives $2.45M in anonymous donations

Hampden-Sydney College announced Friday that it received two anonymous gifts totaling $2.45 million to establish a biology laboratory and add to the college’s need-based scholarship funding.  A $1 million gift will establish the Hinton Baxter Overcash Immersive Biology Laboratory in the Pauley Science Center, which is expected to be completed by fall 2021. The lab […]

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