Radford News

A rising senior from Richmond, Virginia, Reagan Adams is conducting a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship project called “Classroom to Career: Navigating Gender Bias in Sport Management.”

For 24 local high school students, the college search became one less thing to worry about before their senior year even began.

Soon after receiving added support from the Club Sports Federation, Radford’s cheer team scored first-place wins at events in Maryland and Virginia, then at a national tournament in North Carolina

Donna McCloskey, dean of the Davis College of Business and Economics, tells her story on a local podcast; senior Shannon Herrity heads back to Nashville, Tennessee, for a Country Music Association summit; Caleigh Samuels ’10 earns a coveted award in health physics; and Professor Prem Uppuluri and Tom Bennett, a senior director with the Economic Development and Corporate...

Lindsay Semprevivo’s summer enrichment course explores vegetable growing as trauma-informed care, a supportive approach that asks “What happened to you?” instead of “What is wrong with you?

Inspired by the mentorship she received as a Radford University graduate student, Almara Hutchinson, M.A. ’15, is paying it forward by educating the next generation of communication sciences and disorders professionals.

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

The Summer Bridge and BLAST residential camps are designed to help students from Virginia find their place in STEM.