Tag: University of the Virgin Islands

The University of the Virgin Islands Board of Trustees on Saturday unanimously approved of two new degree programs for the School of Agriculture in a move to "rebirth" the agriculture program.

Juneteenth Sounds of Freedom will mark its 19th Juneteenth celebration with a Zoom presentation from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 19, featuring presentations from Senegal, West Africa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and elsewhere aroud the globe.

Farmer Dale Browne of Sejah Farms and about 50 other residents took part in the mostly virtual town hall at the University of the Virgin Islands Great Hall on developing the USVI's agriculture plan.

Those eager to know whether – and how much – the population of the U.S. Virgin Islands has decreased in the past decade are going to have to wait a while to find out.

Having earned their degrees despite the disruptions of two Category 5 hurricanes and a global pandemic, University of the Virgin Islands graduates were urged in an inspirational ceremony to keep on rising.

The University of the Virgin Islands Marine Advisory Service is postponing its monthly glass recovery project because discarded glass bottles were left near the former West Bay Supermarket over the past weekend.

Community members met on Saturday at the Fort Christian parking lot to collect seed and soil packages from Sen. Milton Potter for his inaugural “Plant a Seed Challenge."

Newly-elected U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D–Georgia) will be the keynote speaker at the University of the Virgin Islands' online commencement May 14, the university announced.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently awarded up to $4.1 million to the University of the Virgin Islands to retrofit the dormitories and library on the Orville E. Kean Campus on St. Thomas.

Eight fragments from three different Pillar corals were flown from St. Croix to St. Thomas in the first collaborative “Coral Rescue” flight in the USVI, according to the V.I. Coral Disease Advisory Committee.