In the spirit of Virginia Tech's commitment to serving the community, as well as cultivating an appreciation for other cultures, senior political science and sociology major Kris Reinertson and junior ...

After 20 years as an infectious disease specialist at Sanford Health, Dr. Kent Martin will take an untraditional route to retirement — all the way to Tanzania. Martin, 72, and his wife, Peggy Martin, ...

Robbie Lehman was convinced he made the right "life decision" when he left his Minneapolis home in February for Tanzania and the Peace Corps. The 23-year-old was fulfilling a dream to make a ...

Caleigh Holton is getting ready to teach math and science in a classroom more than 7,500 miles away. The Verona native is among the first wave of Peace Corps volunteers heading overseas since all were ...

Debbie Mitchell, Moline, recently joined a team of 10 volunteers who spent three weeks working on construction and education projects at a boarding school in the remote East African community of Mtera ...

The University of Oxford and the Ifakara Health Institute today announced the vaccination of the first participants in a Phase Ib/II trial testing a novel rabies vaccine in human volunteers in ...