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![Rob Havers holding Vol. 7 of the Marshall papers](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/Rob-Havers-and-Vol.-7.jpg)
On June 23, the George C. Marshall Foundation celebrated an accomplishment nearly four decades in the making: the publication of the seventh and final volume of "The Papers of George Catlett Marshall."
![Image of new cadet company formed up in Cameron Hall](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/WelcomeAndMarchIn2016HLM0251.jpg)
Virginia Military Institute will again provide a live webcast of the Matriculation Day welcome ceremony this Saturday, Aug. 20, at 2 p.m. at www.vmi.edu/livestream.
![Samantha Alexander sitting at her desk](/media/content-assets/images/news/2015-16/ShepherdTN.jpg)
Five cadets complete poverty-focused internships through the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty.
![Cadets work alongside Bolivian Villagers to construct eco latrines.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2015-16/IMG_4288NewsList-400x225.jpg)
Keydets without Borders travels to Pampoyo, Bolivia, to build eco latrines and solar showers alongside local villagers.
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A summer project is organizing, stabilizing, and preserving part of the vast collection of nematodes at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
![Dr. Aryeh Weiss. Anthony Tran '17, and Lt. Col. Anne Alerding look at an image of a soybean stem.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2015-16/AlerdingVisitingProfessor2016KN41LIST.jpg)
A visiting Israeli engineering professor helps a VMI professor and cadet develop a new method to use computer imaging in research on soybean productivity.
![Sam Hudson '17 shows a flash card to a research subject.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2015-16/ExerciseLabSamHudson2016JRR0008LIST.jpg)
Summer Undergraduate Research Institute project looks at how physical exertion affects self-control.
![Rear Adm. Charles Smith in his Navy uniform](/media/content-assets/images/news/2015-16/Smith,Charles2016List.jpg)
Rear Adm. Charles E. Smith ’79 has been named deputy superintendent for finance, administration, and support, to succeed Brig. Gen. Robert L. “Bob” Green ’67, who will retire after the fall 2016 semester.
![VMI barracks and Parade Ground](/media/content-assets/images/news/BarracksExterior2011_0003List.jpg)
Virginia Military Institute is ranked eighth among liberal arts colleges, 20th among public colleges and universities, and 42nd among public and private colleges and universities nationwide in "Money" magazine’s annual college rankings, released today.
![Maj. Brent Hierman and Sam Moffatt '18 talking](/media/content-assets/images/news/2015-16/ArabicResearchMoffatt2016HLM0028list.jpg)
A cadet summer research project is revealing a side of U.S. presidential election coverage seldom seen in the United States – the Arab media’s perspective.