Vandeventer Black’s Eaton Joins The Board of the Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia
Norfolk, VA (July 23, 2020) – Vandeventer Black attorney Jennifer L. Eaton recently became a member of the Board of Directors for the Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia. The Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia serves as an invaluable resource to Hampton Roads’ low-income residents by providing representation in civil litigation matters spanning topics such […]
Can entrepreneurs remake Southwest Virginia’s energy economy?
Graphic: The MOVA Technologies process allows individual pollutants to be isolated separately so they can be resold to other companies. Region looks to pivot from “coal country” to “energy innovation capitol of the east coast” by Scott Robertson The image of Southwest Virginia as a region reeling from the decline of the coal industry was […]
Vandeventer Black’s Pierce New President of the South Hampton Roads Bar Association
Norfolk, VA (July 21, 2020) – Vandeventer Black attorney Michael D. Pierce is the new President of the South Hampton Roads Bar Association (SHRBA). The SHRBA is the minority bar association for the Hampton Roads area, and its membership includes lawyers from all seven cities and practitioners in the Richmond area. The association helps its […]
Marstel-Day receives 2020 Ecoleadership Award from Alliance for Workplace Excellence (AWE)
For the ninth consecutive year, Marstel-Day Environmental Consulting LLC has been selected by the Alliance for Workplace Excellence (AWE) to receive an AWE EcoLeadership Award. It is one of 14 firms nationwide to receive the award. AWE is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1999 by Discovery Communications, Mental Health Association (now EveryMind.), and Montgomery […]
UMW Supports K-12 Teachers in Online Teaching
After doing their best to teach remotely for three months due to the global pandemic, Virginia’s K-12 teachers got word in June that they likely would return to teaching this fall – and at least some of it would be online. The sudden switch in spring had been hard enough; few of the state’s teachers […]
UMW Plans Return to a Reimagined Campus
Like so many things in the wake of COVID-19, a definition in the Urban Dictionary will need to change. “Bench sitting” in that publication is currently defined as: “Leisure activity unique to University of Mary Washington, where one or more students observe the activities and/or listen to the conversations of others while sitting on a Campus Walk […]
Vandeventer Black’s Managing Partner Michael L. Sterling Joins the WHRO Board
Norfolk, VA (July 1, 2020) – Vandeventer Black managing partner, Michael L. Sterling, has been appointed to be a member of the Board of WHRO Public Media. The appointment is official on July 1. “I am honored to be selected to join the Board of Directors of WHRO. Our firm has been a proud partner […]
Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Early Positive Data from an Ongoing Phase 1/2 study of mRNA-based Vaccine Candidate Against SARS-CoV-2
In an ongoing U.S. Phase 1/2 placebo-controlled, observer-blinded clinical trial, nucleoside-modified messenger RNA vaccine candidate (BNT162b1) expressing the SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain (RBD) is being evaluated in 45 subjects At day 28 (7 days after dose 2), all subjects who received 10 or 30 mg of BNT162b1 had significantly elevated RBD-binding IgG antibodies with geometric mean concentrations […]
Vandeventer Black’s Managing Partner Michael L. Sterling Joins the WHRO Board
Norfolk, VA (July 1, 2020) – Vandeventer Black managing partner, Michael L. Sterling, has been appointed to be a member of the Board of WHRO Public Media. The appointment is official on July 1. “I am honored to be selected to join the Board of Directors of WHRO. Our firm has been a proud partner […]
Averett University Hires Distinguished Entrepreneur, Creates New Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
DANVILLE, Va. (June 25, 2020) – Averett University today announced that Averett graduate and internationally accomplished entrepreneur and innovator John Vigouroux ’82 will join the university in August as chief entrepreneurship and innovation officer, and will lead a new initiative – the Averett Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Set to launch early in the fall […]
