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Radford University has been awarded a $1,299,570 grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia as part of the Pell Initiative for Virginia, a new statewide effort to help more students from low-income backgrounds attend college, stay enrolled and graduate.

The Radford University Board of Visitors unanimously approved a proposal to establish a new undergraduate major in applied biotechnology at its June 2025 meeting.

This week: Radford tops Blue Ridge Outdoors’ Adventure College competition; Kirby Brown ’25 is tapped for a sports forum; Radford’s first teacher apprenticeship cohort wraps its pre-class prep; and associate professors Jennifer McDonel and Dave Rivers mashup music and education.