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UVA Wise will serve as the Virginia state lead in an Appalachian Regional Commission grant that focuses on enhancing the use of Geographic Information System and geospatial technologies in land record management to foster economic development.

UVA Wise welcomed the class of 2028, the most diverse class in the last decade.

President of Achievement Satoshi Aoki and several other company leaders traveled to UVA Wise to learn more about the Napoleon Hill Foundation and sign an agreement to help publish the foundation’s inspirational books in Japan.

Aleta Childress '98 credits UVA Wise for making her into the professional she is today.

Four undergraduate students at UVA Wise took a novel approach using applied DNA techniques to study the dietary preferences of freshwater mussels in the Clinch River, resulting in significant new findings published recently in a major journal.

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.