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New members join RU Board of Visitors
Radford University welcomes five new members to its Board of Visitors, effective July 1, 2012.
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The entire Radford family was saddened to hear of the death of the university’s fifth president, Dr. H. Douglas Covington, on June 27, 2012.
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State and local officials, business leaders and benefactors were among more than 400 guests on September 12, 2012, as Radford University officially opened the new building for its nationally accredited College of Business and Economics (COBE).
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Radford University’s year-old Doctor of Physical Therapy (D.P.T.) program has its first endowed scholarship, thanks to Friendship Retirement Community.
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When RU nursing students graduate, that doesn’t mean they have left the campus behind. Quite the contrary. School of Nursing (SON) alumni and their employers would say they take a part of campus with them.
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Kenneth Cox, an RU faculty member for 10 years, has been named the new dean of the Waldron College of Health and Human Services,