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The cadet battery, absent since June, is back in place on the Parade Ground and features custom aluminum carriages that are expected to last for centuries to come.
![A view of the Jordan Point entrance to Virginia Military Institute](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/NorthPost,House2017JRR00015-1-400x264.jpg)
Events in downtown Lexington are expected to complicate traffic patterns Jan. 15, especially in the afternoon. It is recommended that the Jordan's Point entrance be used to access post.
![Visitors gather in the Hall of Valor for the 2013 Hall of Fame induction ceremony and banquet.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/IMG_9545-1-400x266.jpg)
The VMI Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony and banquet will be held in Marshall Hall Feb. 11 starting at 6 p.m.
The Presidential Inaugural Committee has selected the VMI Corps of Cadets to march in the Jan. 20 inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
![Richard Dow '18 crosses the stage today in the graduation ceremony held in Jackson Memorial Hall. Visit flickr.com/vmiphotos to see more images from December graduation. – VMI Photo by H. Lockwood McLaughlin.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/VMI_8418TN.jpg)
Among the 41 cadets to graduate today was Richard Dow '18, who received the Marine Corps Commandant’s Trophy as the top-ranked officer candidate in his class.
![The VMI Regimental Band and Pipe Band march in the Rose Parade Jan. 1, 2016. – Photo courtesy of Col. Ned Riester.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/IMG_2055Thumbnail.jpg)
Col. John Brodie, director of the VMI Regimental Band and Pipe Band, will be heard on the public radio show With Good Reason from Dec. 24 to 30.
![Sebastian Chavez ’17 describes the milkshake business to Maj. Dee Mornah’s entrepreneurship class as his business partner, Anthony Izzo ’17, looks on. – VMI Photo by Kelly Nye.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/EntrepreneurshipClass2017KN21List.jpg)
Cadets in Maj. Dekuwmini Mornah's entrepreneurship class found themselves having to think creatively after being asked to start and run a business for two hours on only $5.
![Emma Nobile ’17 works with Col. Merce Brooke IV ’94 on her project to develop an off-axis integrated cavity output spectrometer. – VMI Photo by Kelly Nye.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/OpticsLab2017KN007List.jpg)
Emma Nobile ’17 is the first female cadet in recent memory to be selected for the Navy's nuclear reactors program.
![Members of VMI’s club boxing team trade blows Nov. 11 in a ring set up in New Barracks Courtyard surrounded by cadets cheering from the courtyard and the stoops. – VMI Photo by Stephen Hanes.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/BoxingInBarracks2017SH0229List.jpg)
Over the Veterans Day weekend, the VMI boxing team's inaugural Battle of the Barracks drew a huge crowd to the courtyard of New Barracks.
![Among the features of the Corps Physical Training Facility are a 200-meter hydraulic track, overhead obstacles, a rock wall, a warmup track, and spectator seating. – VMI Photo by John Robertson IV.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/ITFNovember2017JRR0038List.jpg)
VMI’s newest building, the Corps Physical Training Facility, is now home to the Keydet track team, with full Corps use to follow in 2017.