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VA Tech Earns National Recognition for Community Engagement

Virginia Tech has been awarded the 2026 Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement, a national recognition highlighting the university’s sustained, institutionwide commitment to building trusted, reciprocal partnerships that address...

Roanoke Valley Greenway Coordinator Finds New Home at Regional Commission

The Roanoke Valley Greenway Commission and the Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Commission are pleased to announce that...

Roanoke County Board of Supervisors Selects New Chair

During their organizational meeting yesterday, the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors selected Tammy E. Shepherd...

Cancer Prevention: Can Future-Focused Thinking Help Smokers Quit?

As the warning label on every pack of cigarettes tells us, smoking is harmful. It’s...

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...

VT Carilion Students Enter Clinical Rotations for First Time

by Beverly Amsler Five doctors-to-be toured the Internal Medicine Department at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital earlier this week.  They looked like any other doctor...

Student Researchers Take A Walk On The ‘Wild’ Side

by Lindsay Kay What do Florida bog frogs, Loggerhead shrike, and red-backed salamanders have in common? This summer, the species are being studied by...

Memories of Mill Mountain Zoo

by John Robinson I can hear it now: the cheerfully wailing whistle, and the chug of the "Zoo Choo" as it circled the perimeter...

VT- Carilion’s Director of Computational Psychiatry Introduces Idea Worth Spreading at “TEDGlobal” 2012 Conference

Read Montague asked for a show of hands: How many audience members possessed a behavioral superpower? “Oh! I actually see hands!” he said....

Foundation for Roanoke Valley Awards Grant to The Rescue Mission

The Foundation for Roanoke Valley has announced it has awarded ,000 to The Rescue Mission from the Foundation’s Earl D. and Carrie Leigh...

Conference Costs To Taxpayers Questioned

by Valerie Garner Looking at the $12,691 cost for city staff to attend the Government Finance Officer Association’s 2012-2013 annual business conference and the...