Ferrum College News

Karen and Bryan Harvey are both Ferrum College coaches. Bryan is the Head Women's Basketball Coach at Ferrum University and Karen is the Head Women's Lacrosse Coach.

Nathaniel Bishop becomes interim president in April of the Jefferson College of Health Sciences in Roanoke and takes the helm during a time of intense transition -- both under way and looming.

A Carilion Clinic vice president has been named interim president of Jefferson College of Health Sciences in Roanoke.

Here's a press release from Ferrum College about their upcoming Winter Concert: The Ferrum College Gospel Choir and Jazz Ensemble will perform their annual Winter Concert on December 4, 2009 at 7:30 PM in the Vaughn Chapel on the Ferrum College campus.

Cars that have sustained heavy water damage are known as "flood cars," and could be on the market after the nor'easter that plagued the region last week.

Officials in Virginia say a college student was shot to death while collecting frogs for biology class by a hunter who mistook her and her classmates for deer.

Ferrum, Franklin County, and Conservation Police were back out on the scene Wednesday morning.

The Ferrum College community is in shock after a student was killed by a hunter who mistook her for a deer.

Fatal hunting-related shootings in which a non-hunter is a victim are rare in Virginia.

In a Nov. 18 story about a hunter charged with shooting two college students he mistook for a deer, The Associated Press erroneously attributed information that the students were collecting frogs for a biology class.

Friends and family are mourning the death of a Ferrum College student from Frederick County who was fatally shot in a hunting accident Tuesday afternoon.

FERRUMi3 4 - Death is felt deeply at a small college like Ferrum with only 1,200 students.

The Department of Game & Inland Fisheries say a man hunting deer shot three people Tuesday killing one.

An allegedly trespassing hunter named Jason Cloutier reportedly mistook a 23-year-old Ferrum College student for a deer and squeezed the trigger on his high-powered rifle, killing the young woman, who was collecting frogs for a science project.

One Ferrum College student was killed and another injured about 4 p.m. Tuesday by a hunter who apparently mistook them for deer, authorities said.

A spokesperson for Ferrum College says a student was shot Tuesday afternoon in what appears to be a hunting-related incident.

The Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre is mounting a special Christmas performance of an original musical, "The Littlest Shepherd." Ferrum College has provided photos and a detailed press release, which I'm sharing below.

Ferrum College will open its new campus safety and welcome center with an informal open house from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. today.

Both school board chair Michelle Flynn and vice-chair Jason Collier will be sitting on the county's school board for another four years.

Many Blue Ridge traditions may be fading from view, but Saturday they were front and center in Ferrum.