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        <description><![CDATA[ Four projects demonstrating the diversity of Appalachia have received more than $300,000 in funding from Virginia Tech&#39;s Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia initiative.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The designation recognizes “collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities for the mutually beneficial creation and exchange of knowledge and resources.” Virginia Tech was first classified for community engagement in 2006. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The former reporter who delved into the opioid crisis with her landmark book &#34;Dopesick&#34; and its follow-up, &#34;Raising Lazarus,&#34; will be the community keynote speaker Aug. 23 as part of the Rural Education Summit. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ About 200 miles from their offices and classrooms in Blacksburg, Virginia Tech faculty, researchers, and students are working with a group of St. Paul’s College alumni and Brunswick County community members who want to keep the traditions of the former liberal arts college alive. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Tech Center for Autism Research’s biennial spring conference returns live, in-person for the first time since 2019 on April 21 at The Inn at Virginia Tech. The one-day event will also mark the 10th anniversary of the center. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Imagine a gathering of the most innovative and prominent scholarly researchers who are offering their intelligence, experience, and time. That describes the Rural Education Summit, held at The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center on Aug. 26, which officially launched the new Center for Rural Education. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As the founding director of the center, Amy Price Azano has studied how structural challenges related to poverty and educational inequities can adversely affect rural schools and communities. As a first-generation college student from a rural community, Azano understands these challenges both professionally and personally but also believes in the power and promise of rural schooling. ]]></description>
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