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July 1. White succeeds Dr. Rita Bishop, who is Carter retiring after 13 years 5Points Creative in in the position. White Roanoke announces was recruited to the the addition of Strategic City of Roanoke from Communications Baltimore County, Consultant Meg Carter. where she held a She will be assisting variety of position the 5PC team with key after starting out as client communications, a teacher – including brand development, interim superintendent and the expansion at one point. “When of their leadership you get here and meet development work. the people there’s no Carter has recently way not to be excited. worked as a freelance Everybody person I’ve consultant specializing encountered so far has in internal brand just been so incredibly communications, crisis nice,” said White about and strategic messaging, relocating with her and assisting business family to Roanoke. leaders with workforce optimization challenges. The Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences has EDUCATIONAL named Farida Jalalzai FRONT as associate dean for global initiatives and Verletta White is the engagement. Jalalzai new superintendent of most recently served Roanoke City Public as professor and head Schools, effective of the Department of
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Political Science at Oklahoma State University. Her research focuses heavily on the representation and behavior of women and minorities in politics and the role of gender in the political arena. Balogh
named the JoAnne S. O’Brien Professor of Theriogenology by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. Before joining the veterinary college last year, Balogh served as a senior clinician Widdowson and researcher at the Mark A. Widdowson University of Zurich for has been appointed nearly a decade. She head of the Charles E. completed a residency Via Jr. Department of in theriogenology at Civil and Environmental Cornell University and Engineering at Virginia became a diplomate of Tech. Widdowson the American College assumed the role in of Theriogenologists. late April after serving as interim department head since last July and as assistant department head from 2009 to 2019. Orsolya Balogh, associate professor in the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences in the VirginiaMaryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, has been
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Michael A. Fox, director of the Center for Neurobiology Research at the Fralin Biomedical
