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U.Va. receives $1M gift for COVID-19 research fund
The University of Virginia announced Tuesday it has received a $1 million commitment from Charlottesville-area businessman and investor Paul Manning to establish The Manning Fund for COVID-19 Research, which will support the university’s efforts to develop COVID-19-related research projects. “The Manning Fund for COVID[...]
A new line of work
As a single mother, Megan Yeager began working as a pizza delivery driver. Over the years, she rose to regional manager of a small pizza chain in the Richmond area. But the pizza chain couldn’t offer her what she wanted in a career: vision and dental care, retirement benefits, career advancement opportunities and, most imp[...]
Pomp and absence
With the rest of the spring semester moved online, her graduation was the only thing Tannah Blair, an accounting major in Virginia Tech’s class of 2020, had to look forward to. “When they made the announcement that graduation was canceled and was being moved online, I was beyond devastated,” Blair says. Due to the CO[...]
Amazon donates $3.9M to CodeVA to support computer science education
Amazon.com Inc. announced Wednesday that it will donate $3.9 million to Richmond-based CodeVA through 2022 to support the Richmond-based nonprofit’s plan to offer computer science education and training to more than 700 “high-needs” schools in the commonwealth. The first of three $1.3 million installments, whic[...]
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 exp[...]
UPDATED: Virginia’s colleges and universities announce fall plans
UPDATED JUNE 15 Colleges and universities in Virginia are discussing options for their fall semesters, which will probably be like nothing the state has seen before due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of June 12, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia, Old Dominion University, Radford University[...]
Danville Community college names public relations, marketing director
Danville Community College has hired Faith O’Neil as its director of public relations and marketing. O’Neil was most recently the senior manager of customer development and marketing at Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital. During her career, she has specialized in crisis communications, media relations and strategic [...]
Virginia Tech develops in-house COVID-19 testing
Virginia Tech researchers announced Wednesday they have developed in-house COVID-19 testing kits and lab processing services to assist Southwest Virginia health departments with patient testing. Test results can be returned to the health departments as soon as same day. The initiative is being led by Dr. Michael Friedlander, Te[...]
Va. Tech gears up to produce PPE for Carilion
Although the Roanoke and New River Valley health districts are seeing fewer confirmed COVID-19 cases than health districts in Northern, Eastern and Central Virginia, the Roanoke-based Carilion Clinic health care system has asked Virginia Tech to help it stockpile personal protective equipment (PPE) in the event of a surge in cas[...]
Survey shows 24M jobs lost since labor market stats last released
Approximately 24 million jobs have been lost since the last United States Department of Labor market statistics were released in mid-March, according to a survey conducted by economists at Virginia Commonwealth University and Arizona State University. “[This is] an unheard of loss in any economic downturn since the Great Depression,” said Adam Blandin, a VCU […]
VCU Wilder School names new dean
Virginia Commonwealth University announced Wednesday that Susan T. Gooden is now dean of the university’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. Gooden has been the interim dean of the school since May 2018 and has been with VCU since 2004, when she started as an associate professor in the Wilder School[...]
Danville Community College names associate VP of human resources
Danville Community College announced Tuesday it has hired Bruce Cottrill as its associate vice president of human resources, a new position for the college. Cottrill relocated from Charleston, West Virginia, where he was most recently the interim vice chancellor for human resources with the West Virginia Higher Education Pol[...]
