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![The club lacrosse players pose on the north post turf field.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/DSC_6073_DxO[2]-1-400x266.jpg)
VMI’s club lacrosse team is vying for the National College Lacrosse League championship. The championship games will be played this weekend, May 5-6, at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
![Lt. Col. Paul Moosman ’98 shows Bela Melendez ’20 and Hunter Sargent ’18 a salamander found in Pocahontas State Park April 14.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/MoosmanSwamp2018KN016-1-400x267.jpg)
Lt. Col. Paul Moosman ’98 recently led eight cadets into the swamps of Chesterfield County to look for look for species not found in the mountains.
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Lt. Col. Emily Lilly's Blue Ridge Reptile Rescue offers a safe haven for reptiles and is the only licensed nonprofit organization in the state dedicated solely to reptiles.
![Anglers prepare to leave the dock for the Fishing League Worldwide College Open on Kentucky Lake March 6.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/CollegeKYLake_PhotoByMattPace-9892-1-400x225.jpg)
Members of the Institute's newly formed bass fishing club seek camaraderie, outdoor adventure—and a bite on the line.
![Cadets perform ROTC maneuvers on the Parade Ground.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/RooftopShots2015JRR0153Main-2-400x266.jpg)
The Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors is expected to take action on tuition and mandatory fees for all in-state and out-of-state students at its May 5 meeting.
![Col. Mike Krackow and Maj. Joyce Blandino show Jamie Foster ’20 how to lunge forward onto the force plate to measure her muscular electrical impulses in Nichols Engineering Building March 6.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/BiomechanicsBlandino2018KN031-1-400x267.jpg)
Research currently underway in VMI’s biomechanics laboratory could someday be used to prevent falls among the elderly.
![The VMI Pipe Band marches down 5th Avenue in New York City in 2003.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/slide2-1-400x286.jpg)
The VMI Regimental and Pipe Band will be among the first units in New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day parade as the Grand Marshal's band on Saturday, March 17.
![Ian Morris ‘19 (left) and Zach Thoele ‘19 adjust a coupling on a tanker truck during an evening shift at the South River Volunteer Fire Department.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/DSC_0067-1-400x266.jpg)
More than two dozen cadets are now members of the VMI Fire Club, and 20 are volunteering at local fire stations in Lexington and Rockbridge County.
![Professor of Modern Languages Maj. Abbey Carrico and Levi Harmon ’18 immerse local kids in French culture Feb 16 at the Discovery Heights Children’s Museum in Lexington.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/TourdeFrance2018KN071-1-400x266.jpg)
Maj. Abbey Carrico and three of her cadets recently hosted a children's introduction to French class at Lexington's Discovery Heights Children's Museum.
![Dr. Michael Seidman](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/SeidmanWeb-1-400x266.jpg)
Dr. Michael Seidman, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, will speak Thursday, March 8, at 8 p.m. in the Turman Room in Preston Library.