Virginia Tech Board Of Visitors Approves Programs
The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved a new Master of Natural Resources degree, a program that is unduplicated in the Commonwealth. The College of Natural Resources' programs in Forestry, Wood...
View ArticleVirginia Tech Professor Advises U.S. Delegation To World Health Assembly
Dr. Maureen Storey, research associate professor and acting director of the Virginia Tech Center for Food and Nutrition Policy, was tapped to serve as a private sector adviser to U.S. Secretary of...
View ArticleExcellence In Education Awards Honor Virginia's Most Innovative Teaching...
The College of Human Sciences and Education's Excellence in Education Committee has once again identified exemplary public schools and community college programs across the Commonwealth. Because of...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Virginia Tech Hosts Watershed Education Days Program To...
The "Watershed Education Days" program will be held June 6 at Fairfax County's Holmes Run Park from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The address is Parklawn Recreation Association, 6011 Crater Place, Alexandria....
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Press Conference
Friday, June 6, 2003, Bowman Room, Jamerson Athletic Center 2 P.M.
View ArticleBig East Schools Act To Protect The Conference From Irreparable Harm
Big East Schools Act To Protect The Conference From Irreparable Harm Because Miami, Boston College And The ACC Have Placed Individual Economic Self-Interest Before The Public Interest -- Universities...
View ArticleAward-Winning Human Eye Model Gages Risks Of Military Helicopter Airbag Use
Airbags, which have been saving the lives of automobile passengers for several years, are now planned for use in military helicopters. One concern about this use of airbags is the risk of eye injuries...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Ebola, Development Of Materials By NASA, And The Potential Of...
The global threat of Ebola Virus, biologically-inspired materials development at NASA, and work toward enhancing the nutrient value of foods through transgenics are among topics to be discussed at the...
View ArticleVirginia Tech Featured On The Science Coalition's Web Site
Research at Virginia Tech will be featured the week of June 23 on the "On-Campus" section of The Science Coalition web site, a comprehensive resource for information on federally-funded science research.
View ArticleVirginia Tech Among Top 10 Universities In Ag And Natural Resources Research
Virginia Tech brought in nearly $5 million more in research and development funding for the agricultural sciences in 2001 than in the previous year, according to figures released recently by the...
View ArticleResearch Exhibit Wins Editor's Choice Award At International Contemporary...
A team of Virginia Tech students won the "Editor's Choice" award at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City May 17-20, 2003. The yearly furniture fest is this country's premier...
View ArticleWest Creates Biography Of "Fritz Muller, A Naturalist In Brazil"
Some caterpillars can adjust the color of their chrysalids, or pupae, from brown to green to camouflage them in their environment, so it's no wonder butterflies have evolved to mimic toxic butterflies...
View ArticleSummer Virtual Reality And 3-D Workshops For Middle School Students To Be...
Two summer workshops, one on digital video and virtual reality, the other on 3-D design, will offer aspiring middle school web designers, writers, and computer gurus a high-tech learning adventure that...
View ArticleVirginia Tech's Vice Provost For Outreach And International Affairs Retires
After 32 years of service to Virginia Tech, C. Clark Jones, Vice Provost for Outreach and International Affairs and former director of Virginia Cooperative Extension, retired on June 1.
View ArticleBrian E. Warren Named Assistant Vice President For Student Affairs
Brian E. Warren, formerly the director of Cook Counseling Center and the Schiffert Health Center, has been named assistant vice president for student affairs. This promotion recognizes his new...
View ArticleNew Communications Manager For Forest Products At Virginia Tech
The Center for Forest Products Marketing and Management has hired a new communications and marketing manager. Before coming to this position, Clare Foster designed two museum exhibits, managed an...
View ArticleVirginia Tech Undergraduate Student's Physics Research Earns Trip To...
Beth Reid, a recent graduate of Virginia Tech with majors in physics and mathematics, will represent the United States at an international conference of student researchers in Denmark after receiving...
View ArticleCenter For Forest Products Offers Short Course On Customer Service Training
The Center for Forest Products Marketing and Management will present a new short course, "Customer Service Training." The course will be held on Thursday, October 23 at the Donaldson Brown Hotel and...
View ArticleVirginia Tech's Center For Forest Products Offers Short Course On Selling...
The Center for Forest Products Marketing and Management will present a new short course on "Selling Forest Products." The course will be held on Thursday, September 11, and Friday, September 12, at the...
View ArticleVirginia Tech Helps More Than 13,000 Students Across The State Learn About...
More than 13,000 middle, high school, and college students in Virginia will have learned about biotechnology by the end of the current school year, thanks to equipment and assistance provided by...
View ArticleUpward Bound Receives $1.8 Million Federal Grant
The U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education, TRIO Programs, just awarded a grant to the Upward Bound program at Virginia Tech for $1.8 million. The funds will cover operations...
View ArticleResearchers Demonstrate Wireless Disaster Response System
Members of the Center for Wireless Telecommunications (CWT) of Virginia Tech demonstrated their newly developed broadband communications system at the Digital Government Research Conference (DGO 2003)...
View ArticleStatement From Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech has not been extended an offer, either formally or informally, to join the Atlantic Coast Conference. We do not know if one is forthcoming. We are not in a position to comment on news...
View ArticleVBI Researchers Awarded $1 Million To Study Biochemical Network Modeling
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) researchers Reinhard Laubenbacher, Pedro Mendes and Vladimir Shulaev have been awarded $1 million from the National Institutes of Health. The funds will be used...
View ArticleVirginia Tech Study Of Dynamic Systems Could Lead To Fewer Falls And Smoother...
Harry Dankowicz's development of methods to predict changes in stability and design against instability in dynamic systems is based in the abstractions of differential equations, but aimed toward...
View ArticleVeterinary College Researcher Awarded Prestigious National Science Foundation...
A faculty member in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech has been awarded a $726,476 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to develop a more "holistic"...
View ArticleStatement By Virginia Tech Regarding Supreme Court Decision On University Of...
The Court has ruled that the use of race via narrow tailoring to achieve educational diversity is in the nation's best interest. It says that the government has a compelling interest in promoting...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Virginia Tech Foundation Board Meeting
Virginia Tech Foundation will consider the annual budget for WVTF Public Radio at its meeting Wednesday, June 25 at the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center, Jefferson Board Room. The portion of the...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Virginia Tech Board Of Visitors Special Meeting
The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors has called a special meeting for today, June 25, 2003 at 2:00 p.m. at the Hotel Roanoke Conference Center, Shenandoah Room B, to discuss matters relating to its...
View ArticleVirginia Tech Professor Presented Infrastructure Research At Homeland...
A Virginia Tech professor was invited to present infrastructure research at the Virginia Institute for Defense and Homeland Security Research Summit, in Washington, DC on June 25.
View ArticleDonna Cassell Ratcliffe To Head Career Services
Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Brian E. Warren has named Donna Cassell Ratcliffe as the new director of Career Services. She has been associate director of the department since 1988.
View ArticleStudent Affairs At Virginia Tech Restructured
The Division of Student Affairs has been reorganized into three main program areas, each headed by an associate or assistant vice president. Landrum L. Cross, vice president of the division, announced...
View ArticleVBI Hosts First SBML "Hackathon"
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech will hold the first Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) "Hackathon" on July 29 and 30. Organized by VBI's Biochemical Networks Modeling Group...
View ArticleVirginia Tech Students Donate Nearly $6,000 To Montgomery County Emergency...
Through the generous contributions of Virginia Tech students, the Montgomery County Emergency Assistance Program (MCEAP) will be able to provide support to thousands of individuals and families in...
View ArticlePresident Steger Regarding ACC Acceptance
Since April when we learned that the prospects for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) expansion were real, we have been involved in a whirlwind of activity attempting to assess the future of the ACC...
View ArticleBlacksburg Fire Department To Conduct Safety Exercise At Slusher Hall
The Blacksburg Volunteer Fire Department will be conducting a mock fire exercise Saturday morning between 8 a.m. and noon at Slusher Hall on the Virginia Tech campus.
View ArticleStatement: Charles W. Steger, President, Virginia Tech
Today, Virginia Tech formally accepted the offer of membership in the Atlantic Coast Conference beginning July 1, 2004. We are delighted to be affiliated and associated with such excellent schools. We...
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