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This academic year, the game was held in early November in Charleston, and it was there that Dusand Barrow ’28, a VMI emergency medical technician (EMT), set aside his team partiality to aid a Citadel fan in distress.
Maj. Mattie Webb, assistant professor in the Department of History at Virginia Military Institute, was recently named a nonresident fellow with the Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group (IGA), a nonprofit research and public education organization focused on geopolitics.
A message to the VMI community from LtGen David J. Furness '87 (USMC, ret.).
VMI hosted a Japan U.S. Military Program (JUMP) event featuring a reception and expert panel discussion. JUMP, a partnership between the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA and the Embassy of Japan, honors U.S. military personnel and veterans while fostering dialogue on the U.S.–Japan security alliance.
Col. Jeff Kendrick, director of the Office of Global Education at Virginia Military Institute, announced the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship is currently accepting applications.
A message to the VMI community from LtGen David J. Furness '87 (USMC, ret.).
VMI was recently honored by SACSCOC with a Torch Award, recognizing the Institute for exceptional post-college outcomes. VMI is the only Level II institution—one whose highest degree offered is a bachelor’s degree—to receive the award in that category.
Written and performed by retired U.S. Army Green Beret Lt. Col. Scott Mann, the one-man, one-act stage production brings to life the human cost, moral courage, and extraordinary leadership demonstrated during the final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
Ten members of the Cadet Investment Group (CIG) at Virginia Military Institute, along with an advisor and an instructor in the Department of Economics and Business (ECBU) traveled to Wall Street in New York City (NYC) in December, to meet with financial analysts and traders, including VMI alumni.
VMI welcomes Vladimir Chlouba, Ph.D., assistant professor of leadership studies at the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies, for a lecture titled, “Displaced but Not Forgotten: The Aterritorial Legacy of the Namibian Genocide.”