News & Events

This week in Highlanders in the News: Radford hosts this year’s Big South Conference’s esports tournament and scores two big titles; Roanoke special education teacher Kenai Hunt ’21, M.S. ’22, lends support to the school system of her youth; and Ripken, the famous black Lab trained by Michael O’Donnell ’10, is back to save the Durham Bulls’ bats.

Radford University’s new College of Nursing has another new reason to celebrate. The university announced Friday, March 22, the naming of the Jo Ann Bingham Clinical Simulation Center in memory of a remarkable local business owner and philanthropist.

If you did any grocery shopping at all in the early 1990s, you almost certainly witnessed the parade of harrowing cover stories featuring the half-human, half-animal tabloid fabrication known as Bat Boy.

Layan Ibrahim came to Radford University from Ashburn, Virginia, knowing she wanted to help people, but her path to graduation contained a major twist along the way.

Earlier this month, ospreys returned to Radford University, continuing a tradition of nesting on our main campus this time of year. Clyde Kessler, a local ornithologist, first observed the nest in May 2019. It has been active every year since.

The Radford University Board of Visitors held its first quarterly meetings of 2024 inside the Roanoke Higher Education Center (RHEC) Thursday and Friday, March 21-22.

Students from a dozen local schools, each vying to advance to the state level, brought their research projects to Radford’s judges on March 15. With attendance at a high, the dozens and dozens of wide-ranging topics students selected ran the gamut from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Hurricane Katrina to the Treaty of Versailles and Martha Graham.

McBride, a senior music education student from Danville, Virginia, has been playing the saxophone since he was a sixth grader. He now hopes to teach at either the high school or collegiate level.

In its March quarterly meetings, the Radford University Board of Visitors voted to authorize a 1.5% tuition increase for all undergraduate students, a 3% increase for all graduate students and a mandatory comprehensive fee increase of 3.59% for the 2024-25 academic year. 

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. 

Floods in Kentucky force alternative spring break group to find another alternative: maintenance on the Appalachian Trail.

Radford University’s Division of Economic Development and Corporate Education welcomed members of Onward NRV, a regional economic development non-profit, to Selu Conservancy for an overview of the 2022 Radford University Economic Impact Study during the organization’s Spring Investor Reception on March 14.