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January 2021

University of Virginia Darden School of Business Photo by Sam Levitan
Dec 29, 2020

Directory of business schools in Virginia

(based in Virginia) CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY Joseph W. Luter III School of Business Newport News 757-594-7215 cnu.edu/schoolofbusiness   GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY School of Business Fairfax 703-993-1880 business.gmu.edu   JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY College of Business Harrisonburg 540-568-2785 jmu.edu/cob   LONG[...]

The Senate chamber in the Thomas Jefferson-designed Virginia State Capitol will remain empty during the 2021 regular session. Senators will meet at the Science of Museum of Virginia, which provides greater social distancing.
Dec 29, 2020

Short and … sweet?

Even before the pandemic and ensuing recession took hold in Virginia, 2020 already had the makings for a novel year in the General Assembly. Having won majorities in both houses in the November 2019 elections, Democrats took back full control of the legislature for the first time in a generation. With Gov. Ralph Northam in [&hel[...]

The tentatively named Randolph Street development is expected to be built where Roanoke’s bus station now stands.
Dec 29, 2020

Roanoke clears path for more downtown development

Roanoke developer Lucas Thornton hopes to break ground this summer on a multimillion-dollar renovation project that will transform what is now Campbell Court Transportation Center, the city’s rundown bus station, into an office tower and another building with apartments and retail space. Thornton’s $35 million develo[...]

James Madison University opened the $66.5 million, 115,000-square-foot Hartman Hall in fall 2020.
Dec 29, 2020

Rooms to grow

Weaving through the sea of students walking to class and working on the floor in groups, the business faculty at James Madison University’s Zane Showker Hall had a running joke: Getting to their offices each day was akin to an Indiana Jones adventure. It wasn’t that Showker Hall wasn’t a nice place; it was just[...]

Guizhi “Julian” Zhu, an assistant professor at the VCU School of Pharmacy, is developing a fingernail-sized vaccine patch.
Dec 29, 2020

VCU thinks small for COVID-19 innovations

The novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has upended life across the globe, but it also has spurred innovation and invention. At Virginia Commonwealth University, two researchers have been working on projects that, if successful, might have far-reaching applications for preventing and detecting COVID-19. A vaccine patch the si[...]

Mike Davidson was appointed as interim executive director for the Halifax County Industrial Development Authority.
Dec 29, 2020

Amid leadership shuffle, Halifax sees silver lining

The Halifax County Industrial Development Authority has seen some upheaval recently, but officials say there are several projects in the pipeline as well as a new shell building ready to be occupied. In October 2020, IDA executive director Brian Brown was fired after being hired a little more than a year ago, a move that [&helli[...]

BARC Electric Cooperative CEO Michael Keyser (R) is leading broadband expansion in the co-op’s service area.
Dec 29, 2020

Shenandoah pushes forward with broadband expansion

Even while getting his teeth cleaned, Michael Keyser can’t escape the topic of broadband expansion. “It’s the only thing they’ll talk about,” the CEO of BARC Electric Cooperative says, recounting a recent discussion with a dental hygienist excited about receiving broadband service. BARC, a member-owned elec[...]

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