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![Cadets walk to class](/media/content-assets/images/news/1stDayofClass2019KN072-web-1-400x266.jpg)
VMI places highly in U.S. News & World Report and other national rankings of colleges and universities.
![Col. Brad Coleman '95 leads cadets through the Marshall Library.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/ColemanHistory2019KN19-1-400x266.jpg)
Brig. Gen. Robert Moreschi, deputy superintendent for academics and dean of the faculty, has announced the promotion and granting of tenure to VMI faculty members.
![Presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks at Academic Convocation today.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/MeachamCameron2019HLM0202-1-400x266.jpg)
Presidential historian Jon Meacham explored characteristics of leadership and followership at VMI’s Academic Convocation today.
![A portrait of Presidential Historian Jon Meacham](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/MeachamTN.jpg)
Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will be the speaker for VMI's academic convocation, to be held Sept. 5, at 11 a.m. in Cameron Hall.
![A portrait of Thomas S. Baur](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/KRR_8159-400x266.jpg)
Col. Thomas S. Baur '75, professor emeritus in the Department of Biology, died in a traffic accident today in Rockbridge County at the age of 64.
![Cadets form up in Cameron Hall.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/MatriculationCeremony2019HLM0240TN-(1)-400x266.jpg)
For the Institute, Matriculation Day was another step in the long evolution of similar days that have preceded it. For the newest rat class, the day was a memorable first.
![Bethany King ’18 presents her poster on the Rat Line caloric study during the undergraduate research symposium April 18.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/URSymPosterPresentations2018HLM0089-1-400x266.jpg)
The Rat Line isn't just mentally stressful—it also produces changes in physiology. Researchers quantified those training effects in the months following Matriculation.
![Four STP students take notes while surveying the Parade Ground.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/STPSurveying2018KN09-1-400x266.jpg)
Summer Transition Program has two new academic offerings this year which connect students’ classroom experience to real-world challenges.
![A portrait of Gen. Ronald Griffith](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/GriffithTN-300x200.jpg)
The President of the Board of Visitors and the Superintendent regret to inform the VMI community of the death of retired Army General Ronald H. Griffith.
![Col. Greg Topasna shows off the new solar telescope dome installed atop Maury-Brooke Hall.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/SolarTelescope2018KN13-1-400x266.jpg)
This fall, astronomy cadets will have a new tool to aid in their studies—a remotely controlled solar telescope just installed on the roof of Maury-Brooke Hall.