Markel Corporation’s senior vice president and chief financial officer Richard R. Whitt will give a talk on Thursday, Nov. 13, as the Wachovia Distinguished Speaker in the Pamplin College of Business.

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A total of 160 employers have signed up to attend the 26th annual Business Horizons career fair of Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business on Thursday, Sept. 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the Squires Student Center Commonwealth and Old Dominion ballrooms.

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Norrine Bailey Spencer, of Blacksburg, associate provost and director of undergraduate admissions at Virginia Tech, was conferred the “associate provost and director emerita” title by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors during the board’s quarterly meeting on June 20.

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First-year MBA students at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business will undergo the traditional Quest orientation of outdoor problem-solving and team-building exercises on Friday, Aug. 22.

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Today, Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business will graduate its first group of nine students from an innovative program the college developed to help alleviate the critical national shortage of business-school faculty.

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