Gene Marrano
Cindy Petersen -courtesy Taubman Museum
Call it one of those “good problems” – adult art education classes at the Taubman Museum have grown in number and in popularity. Now a new space is being created by this fall to accommodate that growth, as WFIR’s Gene Marrano reports:
Virginia Tech released more details about its planned “Innovation Campus” in Alexandria this morning, saying it will be part of a new mixed-used development in the National Landing area. The new remote 15-acre campus will focus on research and will develop talent for the Amazon “HQ-2” headquarters being built nearby and for other high-tech firms. Tech president Timothy Sands says students in Blacksburg are also in the mix.
(from VT news release) “I’m very excited to know that this site will position the Innovation Campus to attract a world-class faculty to prepare students for thinking big ideas and solving problems,” said Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA). “Virginia Tech knows how to build community and support innovation and economic growth. I’m confident that this campus will help meet the demands of our digital age.”
The first class of Innovation Campus master’s degree students will enroll in the fall of 2020 in existing space adjacent to where its new academic buildings will eventually be built. When complete in about 10 years, the campus will enroll 750 master’s candidates and hundreds of doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows.
Darlene Lewis says she is running as a Democrat (corrected) in the 8th District against Republican Delegate Joe McNamara, who must run again this fall (he took Greg Habeeb’s place in December after he retired early). Lewis is the co-founder of Hope Center on 11th Street NW. 
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