On the streets around Radford, you’ve probably noticed the 2019 BMW i8 with gull-wing doors, sleek and purring at a stoplight. Perhaps you’ve even passed it on the street – or, more likely, it passed you.

Across the next three weeks, a group of Radford undergraduates in the Radford Away Research Expedition program will travel to Peru to visit Puerto Maldonado as well as the Las Piedras Biodiversity Station, a lab located within more than 30,000 acres of rainforest. During their visits, they’ll explore the region and conduct experiments of their own design. 

This month, a group of intellectually curious Radford University students will embark on a two-week trek exploring remote areas tucked away in Southwest Virginia’s Appalachian Highlands.

Six students in Radford University’s College of Education and Human Development teacher preparation program who were each awarded $5,000 in scholarship support from the Hattie M. Strong Foundation.

 This week in Highlanders in the News: Meet three new, incoming Highlanders, all of whom have recently made headlines – Kara Alday, Callie Musselwhite and Kaitlyn Woodby; Professor of English Rick Van Noy takes a trek down the Delaware River and finds a new book; and Ben Carlin ’12 gets a state commendation for his work on and around his blockbuster YouTube channel.