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3 weeks ago | 
gwhatchet.com | Ianne Salvosa
The University’s medical arm is taking on the name of GW Medicine. Medical Faculty Associates spokesperson Anne Banner said officials are rebranding the MFA, a network of physicians who teach at the School of Medicine & Health Sciences and service medical centers including GW Hospital, to GW Medicine to represent the organization’s relationship with GW’s medical school.
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1 month ago | 
gwhatchet.com | Ianne Salvosa
Each year, graduating editors are given 30 final column inches — “30” was historically used to signify the end of a story — to reflect on their time at The Hatchet, published in the final issues of the year. Good dancers have good timing. It isn’t just staying on the beat or knowing which move goes with which count. In dance, we refer to good timing as filling out the counts, making sure you’re “in the pocket” of the music.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
gwhatchet.com | Ianne Salvosa
On Mondays and Wednesdays, professorial lecturer Eli McCarthy teaches an Introduction to Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution course in Duques Hall. But on Tuesdays and Thursdays, he fraternizes with GW’s crosstown rival on the hilltop. Since he started teaching in Foggy Bottom in 2017, McCarthy has split his time between GW and Georgetown University, lecturing on topics like nonviolent communication, justice and peace studies.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
planetforward.org | Ianne Salvosa
East of the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., residents have only one grocery store to feed themselves and their families. But just a short walk from the Congress Heights metro station lies an effort to alleviate food insecurity in the area. THEARC Farm, one out of a network of farms owned by nonprofit Building Bridges Across the River, produces nearly 60 crops to give out to community members for free.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
gwhatchet.com | Ianne Salvosa
Skip to Content October 7, 2024 Students in a Sustainability Reporting class took a trip to the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant last week to observe the production of Bloom, a soil produced from treated wastewater. Raw sludge from homes and businesses in the District undergoes thermal hydrolysis to remove pathogens and is ultimately converted into soil sold to farmers, landscapers and contractors across the D.C., Maryland and Virginia area.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
richmondbizsense.com | Ianne Salvosa
A local goods retailer is setting up its ninth and largest outpost yet, this time in Scott’s Addition. Shop Made in Virginia, which sells homemade products from local vendors, plans to open in October at 3348 W. Moore St. The storefront on the ground floor of The Otis mixed-use development will be the company’s second location in Virginia and eighth overall. Its other stores are in Washington, D.C., and Maryland. Co-founder Stacey Price said the Richmond location has been four years in the making.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
richmondbizsense.com | Ianne Salvosa
A parking lot in the city’s Bellemeade area could soon turn into a senior living facility. Tarvaris McCoy from The Real McCoy Companies is proposing to develop five parcels of land on the corner of Richmond Highway and Royall Avenue into Marquez Plaza, according planning documents filed with the city. The proposed building would be five stories tall and have 96 units for seniors, ages 55 and up in an “amenity rich” facility, documents show.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
richmondbizsense.com | Ianne Salvosa
After more than a decade in business, an Ashland-based software maintenance company merged with a newer California technology consultancy. Corgibytes, founded in 2008 by Scott Ford and Andrea Goulet, is now part of year-old C Infinity. Ford and Goulet started Corgibytes to modernize and maintain software for companies ranging from startups to large enterprises.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
richmondbizsense.com | Ianne Salvosa
A five-year-old technology consultancy is the Richmond region’s fastest- growing company, according to Inc. Magazine. Servos, which provides technology support to the public sector and for-profit companies, was ranked at No. 99 on the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in the United States. It’s the company’s first time on the list.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
richmondbizsense.com | Ianne Salvosa
Growing up, Julian Brown didn’t get new sneakers very often. His father taught him to appreciate what he had until he was able to get more. So, he started to clean and take care of his sneakers to keep them looking new. “That’s something I never stopped doing,” said Brown, who now owns sneaker cleaning service Kicks Klinic and will open his first brick-and-mortar shop at 22 W. Broad St. by the end of the month. Kicks Klinic cleans sneakers, bags and hats and also provides shoe shining services.
