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- - Netflix’s ‘Heroin(e)’ becomes the star of Save Our Towns Episode 8
    Mayor Steve Williams and Fire Chief Jan Rader command national attention as Huntington, West Virginia, chooses to confront the opioid epidemic rather than downplay it.
- - St. Paul’s persistence pays off as town snags boutique hotel
    In 2014 Mayor Kyle Fletcher told Save Our Towns the town sought to establish a boutique hotel in town, but it didn’t happen overnight.
- - Save Our Towns picks up on Pikeville’s party mood
    The small Kentucky city celebrates success in taking only 10 months to fill its industrial park.
- - Save Our Towns pays a call on the storytelling capital of the world
    Residents of Jonesborough, Tennessee, disagreed over what its most marketable claim to fame would be and, in the end, hired a consultant to point out the obvious.
- - Virginia Center for Housing Research leads study to tackle growing need for affordable housing
    A landmark intercollegiate study led by Virginia Tech shows that affordable housing in the commonwealth must grow significantly to meet rising workforce demand.
- - A West Virginia town preps for life after coal
    Williamson, steeped in Hatfield-McCoy history and once rich in coal, may now be more well known outside Appalachia than in.
- - Virginia Tech students plunge into biomedical ‘shark tank’-style competition at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute
    The teams consisted of undergraduate and graduate students who pitched their ideas to entrepreneurs and business leaders.
- - Virginia Tech biomedical spinoff cited for innovation by national university associations
    Acomhal Research Inc., formed to fight a deadly type of brain cancer, is being recognized this week by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the Association of American Universities.
- - Save Our Towns vrooms into Vinton
    A small town near a much bigger city, Vinton lacked dynamism until a key project started revving things up again.
- - Autonomous systems innovators converge on Blacksburg
    Unmanned systems, such as driverless cars and drones, become more visible every day. But does the public trust the technology? That question and others will challenge leaders in the field of autonomous systems as they gather in Blacksburg for a conference Oct. 15 to 17.
- - Save Our Towns goes green, gathers steam, gets noisy in Appalachia
    Boone, North Carolina, leads the pack among towns that seek to convert to renewable energy, while Pennington Gap revs up motorsports.
- - Landos Biopharma raises $10 million to develop therapeutics for autoimmune diseases
    Virginia Tech Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Lab Director Josep Bassaganya-Riera announced a successful round of Series A funding for his private biotherapeutics venture to treat inflammatory bowel disease.
- - Project Wing’s James Ryan Burgess to keynote autonomy conference
    Burgess co-leads the group whose drones delivered burritos on campus last fall. His keynote speech will explore how autonomous systems can earn the public's trust.
- - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute names advisory board
    Fifteen leaders of business, industry, and education — including a former Virginia Tech president — have been named to serve on the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute’s advisory board.
- - Regenerative medicine researcher’s startup companies give hope to patients
    Sometimes it takes a researcher with a flair for entrepreneurship to translate a laboratory breakthrough into a medical treatment. Rob Gourdie, the director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute’s Center for Heart and Regenerative Medicine Research, uses "intrapreneurship" to translate laboratory breakthroughs into medical treatments.
- - Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors rises on Health Sciences and Technology campus
    Scientists and clinicians throughout Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic will join forces at the new VTCRI Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors in an effort to protect the health of people in Virginia and the United States
- - In Save Our Towns season finale, Harrisonburg embraces immigrants
    Blowback against anti-immigrant sentiment and a boost for manufacturing in Southwest Virginia are among the subjects closing out the season on the award-winning web-episode series.
- - Save Our Towns: Artists lead downtown renaissance in Princeton, West Virginia
    City leaders embraced local artists and their impact. A mural-painting project spiffed up downtown, businesses filled in vacant storefronts, and the renovation of the town’s historic theater drew near completion.
- - Blacksburg airport provides major boost to New River Valley economy
    The Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive Airport contributes more than $1 million to the local economy, according to a report commissioned by the Virginia Tech Montgomery Regional Airport Authority, which operates the airport.
- - Graduate student preaches message of hope on Appalachian prosperity
    Born in West Virginia and descended from coal miners, Crystal Cook Marshall knows the stereotype of Appalachians as clannish and feuding, poor, and uneducated — the image of a region filled with moonshining hillbillies. She said she believes Appalachia has untapped assets that can propel its “towns, people, and landscapes left for dead” into a new prosperity.

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