BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Sept. 7 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: First-year cadets Anna Redman, Luke Hunter, and Lucas Quatrara received the flags at Saturday's football game against Marshall. The passing of the flags during the pre-game ceremonies was a continuation of the proud partnership between the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets and Virginia Tech football to highlight the colors at every football game. Three football players, chosen because of their performance in the last game   more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Sept. 6 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Anyone who uses artificial intelligence (AI)-driven chatbots or voice assistants for election information should know these tools might provide misleading or false information. During tests conducted earlier this year, Amazon's Alexa struggled to correctly identify the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, while Google's AI overview wrongly described Barack Obama as the first Muslim president. "Although we call   more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Sept. 6 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Even years before she had retired from her 42-year career in the English department, Professor Emerita Nancy Metz was already thinking anxiously about what she would do after her life in Shanks Hall fell away. "Where would I find structure and meaning and rewarding work?" she said. "For years, I had been surrounded by the most inspirational teacher-colleagues. I thought, 'When I retire, I'm just going to take their cours  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Sept. 6 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: A Hokie Passport account has uses that extend beyond just laundry and printing services. The Hokie Passport account can be accessed with your Hokie Passport ID card. It is different from Dining Dollars and Flex Additions, which are used at Virginia Tech dining centers. The Hokie Passport account functions as a debit spending account enabling students, faculty, and staff to use deposited funds at select merchant locations  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Sept. 6 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Dear Virginia Tech community, Welcome to the new academic year! The start of the fall semester is a time to set ambitious goals, reconnect with old friends, and find new communities. The beginning of the new academic year also represents as good a time as any to remember what brought us to Virginia Tech, what keeps us here, and the values that we share as Hokies. By choosing Virginia Tech, we all commit to the basic ide  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Sept. 6 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: The antidote to loneliness is connection, but making connections can be easier said than done that's where The Connection Project comes in. The new one-credit course aims to bring students together with the goal of combatting loneliness. In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a national epidemic. According to a study corresponding with the announcement, "the mortality impact of being socially disconnected   more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Sept. 6 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Below is a sampling of activities coming up this week, including multiple fraternity and sorority recruitment information sessions, Broadway Karaoke in the Cube at Moss Arts Center, and the grand opening of the University Libraries' Gaming Studio. Be sure to check GobblerConnect for additional activities. Monday, Sept. 9 Recovery Month Yoga Class Self-Care Workshop Financial Wellness Workshop Budgeting Roots to Welln  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, Sept. 7 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * The VCU Board of Visitors will hold committee meetings and a full board meeting over the two-day period. * * * By Mike Porter The Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors will hold in-person committee meetings[1] on Sept. 12, beginning at 1 p.m. All meetings will take place at James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Avenue, Room 303. The meetings will be held in open and closed sessions.  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, Sept. 7 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * Marsha and Marian's Neighbors is thriving and evolving, powered by VCU social work professors, youth with lived experience and community partners. * * * By Geoff LoCicero, VCU School of Social Work For two Virginia Commonwealth University social work professors and their collaborators, it started with "radical imagination" - a youth shared-housing model in Richmond unlike any in the country. Th  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Sept. 6 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: A changing climate. Earlier flowering and frost dates. Bacterial and fungal infection. Insect infestation. Chemical resistance and restrictions. These are just a few of the existential threats that face Virginia's orchards and vineyards, which contribute more than $2 billion a year to the state's economy and billions more in economic activity from wineries and agrotourism. They are also the problems that scientists at V  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Sept. 6 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Virginia Tech will conduct a full-scale test of its VT Alerts emergency notification system Sept. 12 at all university facilities across Virginia. The test will occur between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. During the test, there will also be outdoor sirens with annunciators on the Blacksburg campus. Virginia Tech Emergency Management reminds the Virginia Tech community that emergencies can happen at any time and signing up or updatin  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news: Less than 24 hours after Virginia's anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ, and anti-public education Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears announced her campaign for governor, the state's GOP primary is already gearing up to be a messy, negative race to the far-right. At the first event of her campaign, Sears immediately and repeatedly leaned into her staunch support for Donald Trump, after facing backlash from her own party for sayin  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, Sept. 7 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * From climbing walls to license plates to allergy-free dining, here's what's different at VCU this fall. * * * By Elinor Frisa A new academic year is in full swing, and as students settle into classes and the rhythms of college life, it's time to take a look at what is new and different at Virginia Commonwealth University. News to chew on VCUDine continuously seeks to make campus dining options  more