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VDOT Lifts Lane Closures for Holiday Travel Across Virginia

If you’re headed out to do some last-minute holiday shopping, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) can help you avoid the traffic disruptions. VDOT is bringing the holiday cheer...

Virginia Credit Union, Member One Donate $15K to Roanoke, Lynchburg Youth Programs

Virginia Credit Union and its Member One division recently donated $15,000 to two community organizations...

Invest to Win Takes Flight With $20 Million Record Gift to Athletics

At a historic juncture for Virginia Tech Athletics, a donor has stepped forward to make...

New Study Shows How Neurons Organize Genetic Messages

Scientists found that messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules that carry genetic instructions to the far reaches...

Youngkins Donate Salary to Benefit Fort Lee’s Holiday Helper Toy Store

Governor Glenn Youngkin and First Lady Suzanne S. Youngkin visited Fort Lee’s Holiday Helper Toy...

New Virginia Bird Atlas Opens Window Into Conservation

For more than a decade, hundreds of volunteers, scientists, and conservationists across Virginia have worked together to document the commonwealth’s bird life. Their shared effort...

Alumni Fellowship Supports Brain Cancer Study at Fralin Institute

As an undergraduate, Nicole DeFoor was introduced to the scientific process while studying sociolinguistics with Abby Walker in Virginia Tech’s Speech Lab. She moved into experimental neuroscience...

New Grant Supports Mental Health Training Across Southwest Virginia

Over the next four years, Virginia Tech’s counselor education program is poised to fill a critical need for mental health professionals in areas of...

Freedom First Donates $150K to Carilion’s Cancer Campaign

Carilion Clinic and the Carilion Clinic Foundation are proud to announce a generous $150,000 gift from Freedom First Credit Union in support of the...

Winter Weather to Affect VA Tech Campuses in Roanoke and Blacksburg

The Virginia Tech Roanoke Center and Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke will be closed today, Monday, Dec. 8. All in-person classes and...

‘You don’t need a big brain to fly’ and other lessons from the first flying reptiles

Flight evolved only three times among vertebrates: in bats, birds, and the extinct flying reptile called pterosaurs. Of these, pterosaurs were the first to master...