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Shenandoah University of Winchester entered into an agreement with Tianjin Economic Development Agency and the City of Tianjin, Peoples’ Republic of China, to deliver several 12-week executive training sessions and an 11-month MBA program through the university’s Harry F. Byrd Jr. School of Business. (02/26/04, Press release)

US Airways, an Arlington-based airline, and T-Mobile USA, a provider of mobile telecommunications services headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., will provide wireless broadband service in US Airways Clubs at select airports such as Ronald Reagan Washington National, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston and New York. (02/24/04, Business Wire)

James Madison University, through its Commonwealth Information Security Center, presented a grant to Richmond Air, a wireless broadband and network services firm based in Richmond, to develop products to ensure against interruption of critical network services by natural disaster, accident or terrorism. (02/24/04, PRNewswire)

AVCOM, a Richmond manufacturer of portable and rack-mount frequency spectrum analyzers for the satellite and broadcast industries, named Probe its new marketing firm. Probe is a full-service marketing and advertising agency headquartered in Charlottesville with a client base focused on technology. (02/19/04, Press release)

Virginia Tech of Blacksburg, and Technische Universilat in Darmstadt, Germany, signed a five-year agreement for exchange of students, faculty and staff. The exchange program will enable Virginia Tech engineering students to take all of their senior year courses at TU Darmstadt and graduate on schedule. (02/18/04, Press release)

Carilion Biomedical Institute of Roanoke, a developer of medical products, reached agreement with Lynchburg’s Innovative Technologies International to manufacture a robotic storage and retrieval component of the BioPhile laboratory freezer. BioPHile, developed at the University of Virginia, is the first product developed by CBI, a partnership of Carilion Health Systems, Virginia Tech and UVa. (02/04/04, The Roanoke Times)

Circuit City, a Richmond-based consumer electronics retailer, chose Sharpe Partners of New York to handle its Internet advertising business. (01/26/2004, Business Wire)