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Former Longwood womens basketball star Akila Smith has signed her first professional contract to play in Portugal with Clube Desportivo
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stanley trinkflaschen ll forward for a CDEFF side that competes in the first division in Portugal and went 10-13 a season ago.Smith wrote her name in the Longwood record books while in Farmville, and she served as a Swiss Army Knife. She has totaled the most triple-doubles in the history of the program, and she holds a variety of records. She is the single game, single season and career blocks leader as well as the programs all-time career field-goal percentage leader.In addition, she became the first player in
vaso stanley program history to be named the Big South Player of the Year, and she was also a two-time Big South Defensive Player of the Year. In both her junior and senior season, she finished in the top five nationally in blocks and blocks per game. She was a two-time All-Big South First Team selection, and she was the VaSID Player of the Year as a senior and Defensive Player of the Year as a junior.Her success on the court helped pave the way to a dramatic turnaround for the Longwood womens basketball program. The Lancers progressively finished higher in the standings in each of her four seasons, culminating with a share of the regular season Big South title and the Big South Championship this past spring.Smith was also instrumental in helping Longwood win its first Division I NCAA Tournament ga Bqag Angela Lynn response to Medicaid expansion failure
Neuroscientist Mark Bear, the Picower Professor of Neuroscience with the Department of Brain and Cognitive
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stanley quencher n Research Institutes Distinguished Public Lecture Series on Thursday, Oct. 19.A renowned neuroscientist who focuses on how new experiences trigger the brain to modify its own form and function 鈥?known as brain plasticity 鈥斅爓ill talk about fragile X syndrome and related developmental brain disorders聽at聽5:30 p.m.聽on聽Oct. 19聽at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute VTCRI .Mark F. Bear, the Picower Professor of Neuroscience with the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Ins
stanley cup titute of Technology, will open聽VTCRIs eighth annual Distinguished Public Lecture Series.聽His presentation will explore the possibility of new treatments for people with fragile X syndrome and related disorders.The Distinguished Public Lecture Series is sponsored by VTCRI and the Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health Graduate Program of Virginia Tech.Bears talk, A Path from Genes to Treatment of Fragile X Syndrome and Related Developmental Brain Disorders, will focus on his research of the molecular mechanisms underlying the genetic disorder and how that information may translate to patient treatment.Bear studies synaptic plasticity, which is change that occurs at the connections between brain cells called neurons.Fragile X syndrome is the most common sin
