BUCKHANNON, West Virginia, Jan. 10 -- West Virginia Wesleyan College issued the following news: BUCKHANNON, West Virginia Mary Belt '13 pivoted her nursing career to the skies and has spent the last four years as a part-time flight nurse for HealthNet Aeromedical Services. HealthNet has eight aeromedical bases in West Virginia Morgantown, Millwood, Huntington, Beckley, Buckhannon, Martinsburg, Lewisburg, and Moundsville. Healthnet's headquarters is located in Charleston, West Virginia. Belt  more

ROANOKE, Virginia, Jan. 11 (TNSres) -- The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * An international team, led by Virginia Tech scientists, reveals the relationship of activity of neurotransmitters to how humans process the emotional content of language. * * * By John Pastor In an unprecedented new study in the journal Cell Reports, researchers have shown neurotransmitters in the human brain are released during the processing of the emotional co  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Jan. 10 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Thomas G. Goodale, former vice president for Student Affairs at Virginia Tech, passed away on Jan. 5, 2025. He was 84. Goodale served as vice president for Student Affairs from 1988 until 1995. During his tenure, he was instrumental in shaping the Student Affairs division, overseeing various programs and services that significantly enhanced student life on campus. His leadership was marked by a deep commitment to studen  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: This week, in the first major election since November, Del. Kannan Srinivasan in Virginia Senate District 32 and JJ Singh in Virginia House District 26 secured victories to maintain Democratic majorities in both chambers of the Virginia legislature. With these crucial wins, Virginia Democrats will remain the backstop against the extremism of Donald Trump and Glenn Youngkin. In Virginia: New York Times:   more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Jan. 10 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: WHAT: Built at the nexus of academia, industry, and government, the first academic building of Virginia Tech's Innovation Campus will open to its first cohort of students who will be equipped to solve urgent challenges, alongside leading researchers, industry executives, and national policymakers. Members of the media are invited for the first day of classes to tour the space and speak with the Innovation Campus Vice Pres  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Jan. 10 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: A lot can change in four years. In January 2021, Advanced Research Computing, a unit within the Division of Information Technology, introduced Infer, its first graphical processing unit (GPU) cluster capable of handling significant artificial intelligence (AI) inference tasks. Through AI inference, scientists use a machine learning model, which has been trained on existing data, to infer something about a new data set.  more

ETTRICK, Virginia, Jan. 11 -- Virginia State University issued the following news: CARES Act Student Funding VSU signed the Certification Agreement for the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) on April 11, 2020 and submitted the Certification Agreement on April 16, 2020. HEERF I Funds totaled $3,427,905 and was disbursed 100% as of July 31, 2020. Students were automatically selected and awarded 90% of the funds. Pell eligible students enrolled in spring 2020 received $995 in emerg  more