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Several area residents on Governor McDonnell's Task Force of School and Campus Safety
Nearly four dozen people -- including several locals -- have been named to a Virginia panel reviewing school policies and procedures. The panel will also review funding and resource challenges, to ensure the safety of students and educators. Gov. Bob...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Health and Safety at School, Virginia Tech, Mental Health, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia)
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Virginia Health Services president oversees new facility, expansion
Jeffrey L. Mendelsohn, president of Virginia Health Services, is currently overseeing several facility additions and expansions. Virginia Health Services, a locally owned operator of convalescent, rehabilitation and retirement centers, has broken ground...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Mariners' Museum, Arts and Culture, Arts
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OUR HEALTH: Seeking Balance
Shortly after the school year begins, four young men provide a perspective that no one could prepare them to share—a testimony in the making. All from different backgrounds, similar goals and a desire for something not attainable just anywhere...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Health and Safety at School, Students, Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia), Human Interest
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Newtown massacre leads to security assessments nationwide
The Washington PostFor Lisa Betts and her husband, the conversation started Friday at their Silver Spring, Md., home, not long after they heard about the massacre that claimed the lives of 20 children and six staff members at a Connecticut school. How safe, they wondered,...Tags: Interior Policy, Health and Safety at School, Sharon, Virginia Tech, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Naughty and nice: That’s the million-dollar question
The Religion WorldWake Forest University is spending $1 million to better understand virtue and vice. The Character Project awarded eight grants on the philosophy of character and eight on the theology of character from 170 submitted proposals. “Those selected... -
James M. Buchanan dies at 93; won Nobel Prize in economics
James M. Buchanan, the U.S. economist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for applying the principles of economic self-interest to understand why politicians do what they do, has died. He was 93. He died Wednesday at a hospital in Blacksburg, Va., according to...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes, Politics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Michael Rocco transferring to Richmond, to play for uncle
Former University of Virginia quarterback Michael Rocco is transferring to Richmond where he will play for his uncle. The University of Richmond announced Rocco’s move Monday. Rocco, a Lynchburg native and Liberty Christian Academy graduate, spent...
Tags: Football, Sports
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Morgan should keep David Wilson as president
As a former member of Morgan State University's board of regents from 1993 to 2011, I served on the search committee that recommended hiring David Wilson as president. I am appalled and disappointed by my former board colleagues' decision not to renew his...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Education, Morgan State University, Martin O'Malley
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Robert A. Makofski, scientist
Robert A. Makofski, a retired Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory scientist and administrator who headed Howard County General Hospital's board, died of cancer Dec. 25 at Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport, Maine. The former Columbia resident was 81....Tags: Colleges and Universities, Mining, Catonsville, Science, Technology
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CSUSB Student Killed by Police Had Mental Health Issues
KTLA NewsSAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KTLA) -- Family members of a 38-year-old Cal State San Bernardino grad student who was fatally shot by police say he suffered from bipolar disorder. Bartholomew Williams, who was working on his second master's degree in...Tags: University of Missouri , Shootings, Behavioral Conditions, Colleges and Universities, Health and Safety at School
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Five questions with Vince Talbert
For the last dozen years, Vince Talbert has focused on one thing: Bill Me Later.
The 45-year-old Baltimore native co-founded the online payment company with three partners in 2000. The company helps Internet shoppers buy stuff online without a credit...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Towson University, eBay Inc., Citigroup Incorporated, Startups
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Doctor in Newport News promotes teamwork for better treatment
psalasky@dailypress.com | 757-247-4784 Doctors can see more patients and provide better quality care with better outcomes and greater satisfaction on both sides if they follow a team care model. That's the message that family practitioner Peter Anderson...
Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Colleges and Universities, Electronics, General Practitioners, Nursing
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