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Wearing Down the Appalachian Trail
From start to finish, the Appalachian Trail covers a whopping 2,181 miles. Rodney Bragdon dishes on the toughest challenges he experienced while thro…
6 years, 4 months ago
Hard News
Think you don’t get your news from the paper anymore? Think again. Betsy Edwards, Executive Director of the Virginia Press Association, says that jus…
6 years, 4 months ago
Mountains in Harmony
Frank Newsome is a former coal miner in Appalachia. He's also an Old Regular Baptist preacher and singer of lined-out hymnody who influenced Ralph St…
6 years, 4 months ago
Finding Classroom Success
The first year of college can be stressful and disorienting, especially for shy students. But Madelynn Shell (UVA Wise) says shy freshmen who have at…
6 years, 5 months ago
Gun Sense
Student survivors of school shootings have made their voices heard, loud and clear. But the teacher's perspective of school shootings is less common.…
6 years, 5 months ago
Social Mobility Through College
One of the great American beliefs is that a college education gives us a better shot at moving up in life. But Scott Jaschik, editor of Inside Higher…
6 years, 5 months ago
Swipe Right For Love
It’s 2020 and online dating isn’t special anymore--it’s the norm. But that doesn’t make it easy. We explore what researchers know about finding love …
6 years, 5 months ago
Seeing the Future of Medicine
Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati (University of Virginia) is an opthamologist who is dedicated to ending macular degeneration, which leads to sight loss, and a…
6 years, 5 months ago
The Future is Now
AI technologies are really human issues. Sylvester Johnson (Virginia Tech) says we humans must decide for ourselves how to live in a world where int…
6 years, 6 months ago
Redlining and Reparations
The homeownership gap between whites and African Americans has exploded since the housing bust. It’s now wider than it was during the Jim Crow era. L…
6 years, 6 months ago