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Symphony of the Mountains, under the direction of Cornelia Laemmli Orth, presents "When the Stars Come Out" at sunset on Saturday, July 20, featuring tenor soloist and Big Stone Gap native Roy Cornelius Smith.

UVA Wise Associate Professor of Sociology Christa Moore is set to tour her first book examining Kentucky’s child welfare system and exploring future solutions for families.

This January, the England Foundation added four more bicentennial funds bringing the total number of scholarship funds to 10. Seven are already completely funded.

This past spring, UVA Wise students studied abroad in Ireland and Nepal and this summer in Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Towns of Cleveland, Dungannon, Honaker, and Richlands, along with Appalachian Sustainable Development, Breaks Interstate Park, Friends of the Buchanan County Library, and Mountain Kids Inc., have been awarded a total of $100,000 for projects.

The Wise Guys is one of 25 bands set to play at the Gettysburg Brass Band Festival, which hosts hundreds of musicians for a two-day event celebrating brass bands. Last year, the event attracted 4,000 attendees to the historic town of Gettysburg, Penn.

Earlier this year, Josephine Rodriguez began her work at the U. S. National Science Foundation as a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education. It’s a rotating position through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act for two years.

Last Saturday, 14 students made history as they walked across the stage at David J. Prior Convocation Center to become the first graduates of UVA Wise’s Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction program.

About 230 graduates crossed the stage, earning either a bachelor of arts, bachelor of science or a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. And for the first time in the College’s history, 14 students were awarded their Master of Education degree.