Hollins University News

My colleague Jenny Kincaid Boone has had a busy few days, as evidenced by her two stories on the front page of The Roanoke Times today.

AA team of professors and students at Hollins University uncovered some interesting findings this year about soda and water dispensed from soda machines in fast food establishments.

Drinking a beverage from a restaurant's soda fountain machine could make you sick, claims a research team at Hollins University.

Several weeks ago 27-year-old April Lynch found herself front and center on the legendary game show the 'Price is Right.' "You don't often know people who are on TV and then to have someone win it all," says a friend of Lynch, Jonathan Neighbors.

And now there is one. One post office in Roanoke on the list of those still under consideration for closure.

Quick views of some of the week's news. The 60th anniversary of Roanoke's star attraction This week marked the 60th anniversary of the first lighting of Roanoke's Mill Mountain Star.

Painter and sculptor Ed Dolinger, who lives in Bassett, worked with the Patrick Henry High School students to design a bus shelter.

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. - Mr. and Mrs. J.E.B. Stuart announce the engagement of their daughter, Rebecca Stuart of Staunton, Va., to Tanvir Haque of Charlottesville, Va., son of Mosta and Dilrowshan Haque of Suffolk, Va.

TOP: The parsonage building on the Hollins University campus. MIDDLE: A steal truss bridge in Lafayette in Montgomery County.

Southwest Virginia may be a far cry from Broadway and the rest of the theater world, but the artists and volunteers at Studio Roanoke have created a beating heart for drama in the Star City.

Virginia Tech's vice president for equality and inclusion has taken a job as the chief diversity officer for Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y. Kevin McDonald has held the position at Tech since 2007 and oversaw the creation of the Presidential Scholarship Initiative, a partnership with the An Achievable Dream organization and ...

The main theatre at Hollins University was built in 1928. Right now it's being renovated.

Radford Universitya s English Club sponsored their third annual Horror Story Contest, and accepted submissions until Friday, Oct.

Hailey Vandergrift, 2, runs and tries to get a kite airborne Saturday while participating in Hollins University's International Day of Climate Action event.

McCauley: Jumping in front of the Eiffel Tower at night is just one of the many splendors of studying abroad in France.

Shalynda Toney was killed earlier this month while studying in Italy. Students at Hollins University remembered a classmate Tuesday afternoon.

Hollins University has set up two funds in memory of a student who died Sunday while studying abroad.

Shalynda Toney of Vinton, age 21, was struck by a motorcyclist. She later died from her injuries.

" Hollins University Associate Professor of English T.J. Anderson, III, has written a new book of poems.

Extensive research compiled and reported by the US Department of Health and Human Services shows us that children who grow up to drink responsibly are taught to do so from an early age.