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EVMS, ODU and Sentara sign health center agreement
Eastern Virginia Medical School, Old Dominion University and Sentara Healthcare entered into a memorandum of understanding Friday to work toward a collaborative academic health center. Officials from each institution will cooperate to improve health care disparities in Hampton Roads and to seek more consistent funding of EVMS fr[...]
GMU hires first university ombudsperson
George Mason University has hired Kimberly Davidson as its first ombudsperson, and she will start in February, the university announced Friday. Davidson comes to the university from Ohio’s Oberlin College, where she worked for two decades, including the past five years as the college’s ombudsperson, who is charged wi[...]
ODU hires new CFO, VP for admin and finance
Old Dominion University has hired Chad A. Reed as the university’s vice president for administration and finance and its chief financial officer, the university announced Friday. Reed, who serves in the same role at Radford University, will start at ODU on March 10. He will be part of ODU President Brian O. Hemphill’[...]
JMU student and alumni entrepreneurs get boost from program
The James Madison University Bluestone Seed Fund announced Monday that it would provide three startup companies with $5,000 each in its inaugural investment cycle. The Gilliam Center for Entrepreneurship manages the donor-backed fund. The three chosen startups are Gewd Botanicals, Handicans and Tow Ninja. Malique Middleton, a 20[...]
Radford University chooses new president
Radford University’s eighth president will be Bret S. Danilowicz, who’s currently serving as the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. Danilowicz, who starts his tenure at Radford on July 1, 2022, succeeds Brian O. Hemphill, who left in June to become p[...]
Hollins University alumna makes $75M donation
Hollins University has received a $75 million donation from an anonymous alumna, the largest in its history and believed to be the largest private donation to a women’s college, the university announced Thursday. The gift will fund scholarships and undergraduate financial need. It will be given in $25 million increments to[...]
VCU president to chair American Council on Education
Michael Rao, president of Virginia Commonwealth University, has been elected chair of the American Council on Education Board of Directors, the council announced Tuesday. Rao, VCU’s fifth president, has been at the helm of the university — and VCU Health System — since 2009. He was selected as ACE’s chair Tuesday[...]
ODU names ED of new bioelectronics center
Old Dominion University has named Gymama Slaughter the founding executive director of its Research Center for Bioelectronics, the university announced Monday. The new center, which opened July 1, allows ODU to increase its total sponsored research funding, advancing work on new cancer combinational therapy and non-invasive cance[...]
Va. Tech Innovation Campus exec joins Society for Science board
Virginia Tech Innovation Campus Vice President and Executive Director Lance Collins was appointed to the Society for Science Board of Trustees, the university announced Tuesday. A nonprofit organization that promotes science, expanding scientific literacy and effective STEM education and scientific research, the Society for Scie[...]
Va. Tech alum donates $35M, largest single gift in school history
The largest single gift ever made to Virginia Tech, $35 million, comes from a man who grew up without running water or electricity. The university announced the gift from Norris and Wendy Mitchell Tuesday. Norris E. Mitchell, a 1958 graduate of Virginia Tech, and his wife, Wendy, committed $35 million to Virginia Tech, the large[...]
VCU pays $7.25M for industrial site for planned athletics village
Virginia Commonwealth University has made another buy as it plans out its future athletics village. VCU bought the 5.83-acre industrial site at 1609 Sherwood Ave. in Richmond from Bourne Enterprises LC for $7.25 million, Porter Realty announced Friday. The site contains a 173,580-square-foot existing industrial facility, partial[...]
NIL no longer nil for college players
Now that the NCAA is allowing student athletes to make sponsorship deals and capitalize on their fame, Virginia Tech is working to ensure its students don’t get left behind or taken advantage of. The NCAA rule change, which went into effect July 1, allows athletes to profit from the use of their names, images and […]
