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For the second straight year, Radford University served as a Scripps National Spelling Bee regional partner, welcoming 27 students from schools across Southwest Virginia for a chance to compete in the national bee.

Highlander Highlights shares the extraordinary accomplishments happening on and off campus through the tireless work and curiosity of students and faculty.

Radford University alumna Jeanell Webb-Jones, MSN ’24, has been appointed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin to serve on the Virginia Board of Nursing.

Initiatives to develop voter education plans and increase student voter turnout have earned Radford a Voter Friendly Campus designation from Campus Vote Project.

Positive enrollment projections, post-graduation success data points and future academic programming were among the agenda items discussed during quarterly meetings of the Radford University Board of Visitors, held March 20-21.

Radford University's Brain Injury Center was created to increase life participation for brain injury survivors with cognitive and/or communication impairments while educating and training the university’s pre-professional healthcare students.

The daylong event seated scores of business students at tables with a series of accomplished experts and gave them all a chance to discuss subjects that included academic planning, career advice and life lessons.

Thirteen Radford students and four faculty members set out for eastern Kentucky to plant 1,200 trees as part of the recurring Alternative Spring Break trip.

In its March quarterly meetings, the Radford University Board of Visitors voted unanimously to authorize a 1.99% tuition increase for in-state undergraduate students, a 4% increase for out-of-state undergraduate students, a 4% increase for all graduate students and a mandatory comprehensive fee increase of 6% for all full-time students for the 2025-26 academic year.

March is Athletic Training Month, a time to honor and focus on the impact athletic trainers have on keeping athletes safe and healthy on the fields and courts.

This week in Highlanders in the News: Director of Recreation and Wellness D.J. Preston, and the Student Recreation and Wellness Center, are the cover subjects of the latest issue of Campus Rec Magazine; Blacksburg Chief of Police Todd Brewster ’96 announces his retirement; freshman Molly Helen Shea-Roop joins the court of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival; and Leah Piemonte ’20 puts music therapy to work.

Catapult Entertainment will transform dancers into unexpected images and bringing stories to life to the Bondurant Auditorium on Tuesday, March 25, 2025 as part of the University Performance Series.