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VCU Commons Photo by Jeff Auth via Wikimedia Commons Virginia Commonwealth University has a wide-ranging economic and cultural impact on the region, generates nearly $6 billion in economic activity and supporting 63,000 jobs in the State....

Virginia House Democrats have unveiled new legislation that would allow borrowers to refinance student loan debt, and ease financial pressures on more than 600,00 Virginians. The move is being seen as an important step toward enabling...

A group of nearly 100 bright Pakistani students, selected under the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program, have arrived in the United States for 2017 studies. The program provides one semester scholarships to outstanding undergraduate students from around...

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, joined by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Tuesday proposed to make college tuition-free for middle class families in state colleges. Under the proposal, more than 940,000 middle class families...

Despite recent foreign investments in a variety of energy projects including alternative sources, Pakistan continues to struggle to overcome its frequent power outages. While large scale projects may ease some of the long-running problems, experts have...

Rotunda Dusk, University of Virginia Photo:  Tdvance~commonswiki via Wikimedia Commons Governor Terry McAuliffe Friday encouraged students to enter the growing cybersecurity industry, which has 36,000 open jobs. McAuliffe spoke in NPR’s Kojo Namdi Show days after...

An Indian information technology expert, a Pakistan-origin doctor making fortunes in the United States.  Sounds like a regular success story. But there is an uncommon dimension to this story. These professionals do not represent the state...

College friends and the class of 73’ of late prime minister Benazir Bhutto have launched an international leadership course called Benazir Bhutto Leadership Program at Harvard University. Bhutto, the first female of the Muslim world, was...

Janss Steps, Royce Hall in background, University of California, LA, Photo by  b r e n t (UCLA) via Wikimedia Commons Over one million international students are studying at U.S. colleges and universitie during the 2015-16 academic...

The World Bank (WB) has declared Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the province ruled by Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf, on top of all four federating units of Pakistan in terms of making human development. “Pakistan’s provinces have experienced very...