The nursing programs at Radford University Carilion in Roanoke will be moving from Carilion Roanoke Community Hospital to the Roanoke Higher Education Center (RHEC) in December 2023. Nursing students will begin classes at RHEC in January 2024 at the beginning of the spring semester.

This week in Highlanders in the News: An extensive 95-year history of Elkins, West Virginia’s high school band includes a familiar figure – interim Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts Tim Channell; Mikayla Cox, a graduate student studying psychology, gets a warm welcome as she starts a new internship in North Carolina; and author Susan Van Volkenbergh ’86 shares a story as she passes by her alma mater. 

Radford University students, faculty and staff will have three volunteer opportunities to help the university community over two days this week during the eighth annual Radford Gives Back. Highlanders are encouraged to participate in this Radford University tradition by donating, collecting and/or packing food items.  

Every two weeks, Highlander Highlights shares with readers some of the extraordinary research and accomplishments happening on and off campus through the tireless work and curiosity of our students and faculty.

The annual job fair, held by the Davis College of Business and Economics, marked its 17^th anniversary with the Sept. 14 event. More than 60 students met with about two dozen companies across a wide range of specialties. 

For two decades, Robert Warren worked as a special agent for the Internal Revenue Service, investigating tax evasion, money laundering and other crimes. Since his retirement in 2016, he’s brought that expertise to the classroom, as an instructor of auditing and accounting, and to the journals that publish his many articles.