An online news site published a lengthy article alleging that cancer incidence rates among young Roanoke College alumni are five times higher than that of 20- to 29-year-olds in the United States overall. The private college questions that assertion and is hiring an environmental services contractor to investigate.
Last summer, a legal pot plant named for the Roanoke College Maroons came out champs in metro columnist Dan Casey’s backyard marijuana competition. Subsequently, the college launched a first-in-the-commonwealth Cannabis Studies program. A coincidence?
Roanoke College will introduce a new Disability Studies major/minor program in August. For Teresa McCutcheon, it s the culmination of more than a decade of work.
Rita Farlow, who was selected after a national search, brings 25 years of journalism, marketing and strategic communication experience to the role.