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NVCC Provost Envisions New Partnerships With State’s Universities Danielle Nadler
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The first phase of the Higher Education Center on Northern Virginia Community College’s Loudoun Campus will house classrooms, labs and an events center. The second phase, if the school can find funding, could be a one-stop shop for higher education in Northern Virginia.
he large building that can be seen under construction from Rt. 7 on Northern Virginia Community College’s Loudoun Campus is a sign of big things to come for the college. The three-story, 105,000-square-foot Higher Education Center may be a catalyst for the college’s campus in Sterling to partner with Virginia universities to offer fouryear bachelor’s degrees to students. The 40,000-square-foot first phase of the building is under construction. When
completed next spring, the $11.7 million project will house classrooms, labs, office space, a recording studio, as well as a glass cantilever that will extend over the campus pond to serve as a 250-person events center. “Phase I is not a very large building—it’s mainly another academic building for NOVA—but it’s going to be a really nice addition to the campus,” NVCC Provost Julie Leidig said, sitting in her office that overlooks the building. But the part of the Higher Education Center that had Leidig beaming during a
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Castillo Released On Bond; Murder Trial Set For Next July that places him inside the home and in contact with his wife despite a protective order prohibiting both. Michelle G. Castillo, 43, was found dead in her home on Belmont Station Drive in Ashburn shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday, March 20. Deputies were called to her home on a request to check on her welfare and found her body hanging in a bathroom. Prosecutors claim she was killed in her bedroom and then her body was taken to a downstairs bathroom and
staged to look like a suicide. County prosecutors have repeatedly objected to the court allowing Castillo to go free before the trial, citing the Leesburg business owner as a flight risk and a danger to witnesses in the case. Wittmann said she could recall only one other case in which a suspect in a Loudoun murder case was permitted release on bond. Defense Attorney Alex Levay argued there was no reason to reverse
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Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Nicole Wittmann urged Judge Stephen Sincavage to revoke bond based on the results of a new DNA report. That report, she said, provides evidence of Castillo’s DNA being found in blood samples at the crime scene. She said the report changed the commonwealth’s case against Castillo from one based largely on circumstantial evidence—with a witness claiming to see Castillo near his wife’s home the night she died—to one with evidence
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raulio Castillo, the Ashburn man accused of killing his estranged wife in March, was released from jail last week after posting a $2 million bond. This week his trial was pushed back until July 2015. Castillo was released one day before county prosecutors renewed their effort to revoke the bond authorization set by Circuit Court Judge Burke F. McCahill in May. During a July 30 hearing, Chief
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