In the News
Step into cadet life and explore various extracurricular activities that are offered at VMI. See how cadets, faculty advisors and coaches, and post itself, reflect the ever-changing landscape of athletics, academics, community service, and interests beyond the classroom, going the extra mile.
![Brian Donaldson speaks to a student.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2022-23/DonaldsonBrianwithHSstudent2023MLH032UPDATE-400x266.jpg)
The VMI Pipe Band, which serves as musical ambassadors throughout the United States, has recently added Scottish authenticity to its ranks in the form of its new director, Maj. Brian Donaldson.
![Tommy Lees '24 at Special Forces Underwater Operations School](/media/content-assets/images/news/2022-23/lees-thumbnail-400x266.jpg)
CDQC is a 6-week course, known by many as one of the most challenging and selective qualifications in the United States military. On top of being physically and academically demanding, combat divers are required to work extremely well as members of a team and under high pressure situations.
![VMI Logo and Post](/media/content-assets/images/news/2020-2021/VMI_News_Headlines_Custom-400x266.jpg)
The VMI Community Theatre presents an updated version of “Heroes, Hustlers, Schemers, & Scamps: Curious Characters from Rockbridge County History” on July 13, 14, 15 and 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Gillis Theater in Marshall Hall on post at Virginia Military Institute.
![Portrait of Jim Miller with VMI logo over photo of Foster Stadium](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/MillerAD2022-400x266.jpg)
Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins '85, superintendent, has appointed Jim Miller to serve as the Virginia Military Institute's director of intercollegiate athletics. Miller has been interim athletic director at VMI since Oct. 1, 2021.
![Katie Lloyd ’23 organizes her findings on intelligence for her Summer Undergraduate Research Institute (SURI) project titled, “Toward a Typology of U.S. Intelligence Successes and Failures.”](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/LloydSURI2022MLH002-400x266.jpg)
Katie Lloyd ’23 researches historical intelligence events in her Summer Undergraduate Research Institute (SURI) project titled, “Toward a Typology of U.S. Intelligence Successes and Failures.”
![VMI contingent on the Mount of Olives, outside the Old City of Jerusalem.—Photo courtesy of Sgt. Maj. Tom Sowers.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2020-2021/Israel-Trip-2022-6-11-139-400x266.jpg)
Cadets travelled throughout Israel where they were briefed by elected officials, generals, ambassadors, media analysts, jurists, and ministers.
![Team portrait of 2021-22 VMI club rugby team.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/ClubRugby2022-1-400x266.jpg)
The VMI men’s club rugby team has dominated their conference this season, going 6-2 in the fall and 4-0 in the spring. Now they have their sights set on a national championship.
![VMI Combat Shooting Team takes aim at targets.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/CombatShooting2022-incompetition-400x266.jpg)
The VMI combat shooting club team represented the Institute at the annual Relentless Warrior Competition hosted by the Sig Sauer Academy in New Hampshire on April 9. At the event, the team competed against federal and senior military colleges in a six-stage combat shooting challenge.
![U.S. Coast Guard HH-60 helicopter on parade ground](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/CG-HeliLand-400x267.jpg)
VMI’s Coast Guard detachment kicked off their first ever spring field training exercises with the arrival of a USCG HH-60 helicopter to post.
![A member of the The VMI Regulators club boxing team holds national champion trophy and belt from the United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association National Championships](/media/content-assets/images/news/2021-22/Boxing-3-2022-011-400x266.jpg)
The VMI club boxing team, known as the Regulators, is reigning victorious as national champions after a stunning weekend performance at the United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association (USIBA) National Championships in Atlanta, Georgia.