Jeff Bossert
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- Sep 25, 2026
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Wellesley Professor, Roanoke native, and 'Electric Optimist' returns home to present his vision (opens the original)
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A Roanoke native who now teaches about the environment wants to provide a little insight on his vision for a clean energy future. Jay Turner, now a professor of Environmental Studies at Wellesley College, returns to Patrick Henry High School to deliver an address Monday. At a time when four-dollar a gallon gas, data centers, artificial intelligence, and climate change are dominating the headlines, as a historian, he said it's useful to take a step back. "There are lots of reasons not to feel hop
Hidden Brain Host Vedantam talks about moving his podcast to the stage (opens the original)
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Years before Shankar Vedantam became a regular voice on NPR, he earned an engineering degree. The host of the podcast and program Hidden Brain calls that both a blessing and a curse. He explained that despite being a bad student, all that math and science has made him a better journalist and host. "If I'd stayed in engineering, I think planes would have crashed, and buildings would have collapsed," he jokes. "But I was always in writing, was always interested in talking to people." Vedantam said
Taubman exhibit highlights Washington's greatest military victory (opens the original)
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One of the landmark moments in the early days of our nation’s history was George Washington’s seizure of Yorktown. An exhibit now at Roanoke’s Taubman Museum of Art highlights one of our first president’s greatest achievements in the military. The seizure of Yorktown in 1781 effectively ended the Revolutionary War. But artwork capturing that moment has always proved to be a challenge, according to Katie Hirsch, Deputy Director of Exhibitions for the Taubman. "They show the site of Yorktown - but
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