DETROIT, Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The 3rd Annual Robert S.

DISPUTANTA, Va., March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and the presidents of the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and Virginia State University today joined with executives from some of the world's biggest names in manufacturing to officially break ground for the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM), a unique collaborative research facility in Prince George County, Virginia, that promises to accelerate the transfer of laboratory innovations to manufacturing production lines where they can improve efficiencies, products and profits. "With a turn of the dirt today, Virginia is preparing a new foundation for manufacturing in the Commonwealth and in the nation," said Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

The Petersburg school district and Superintendent James M. Victory need some wins - and quickly. The school district is being left behind by its peers statewide. Once again, Petersburg has the only five schools in Virginia denied accreditation.

University of Richmond law professor Joel B. Eisen will teach next spring at China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Eisen will teach Chinese students courses in energy and global-warming law.

We asked one graduate from each of Portsmouth's public high schools to look back on their four years.