The Modeling and Simulation Center of Excellence, based in Southside Virginia, will target projects that use data collected in the energy and environmental fields and present findings in a virtual environment.
"This is a glorious day for Fidel Castro," said Virginia Tech political science Professor Ilja Luciak regarding the Cuban leader's announcement today that he would not return as president or commander in chief. "He chose to step down on his own terms, ensuring orderly transition and confounding his enemies, who have been waiting to oust him for more that 50 years.
The age-related memory condition known as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is more disruptive of day-to-day life and relationships than once believed, gerontology researchers at Virginia Tech have discovered.
A Virginia Tech student has developed the concept for a floor lamp powered by gravity.
Steven Salaita, assistant professor of English in Virginia Tech's College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, has won a 2007 Myers Outstanding Book Award for writing Anti-Arab Racism in the USA.
NSF-funded research will identify key interactions, communication mechanisms, and design representations that can enable the successful integration of usability into agile processes.
Text analysis can be used to identify language patterns in management communications that are inconsistent with either the company's financial performance or with the communications of other companies in the same industry. Such inconsistencies may indicate fraud.
Researchers from Virginia Tech and the Brookhaven National Laboratory have solved the structure of an enzyme that is critical in the regulation of the neurotransmitter system in the human brain.
The winter 2008 issue of Virginia Tech Research magazine features eight research projects at the university, from the highly complex search for ways to prevent mosquitoes from transmitting disease to humans to a relatively straightforward evaluation of horses on 114 farms in Virginia, which revealed that 51 percent are overweight.
Cognition and emotion are related and the relationship changes as children develop from infancy into their preschool years.
Heart health is just as important for horses as it is for humans. Dr. Anne Desrochers, clinical assistant professor in equine internal medicine at Virginia Tech's Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center believes that the heart is the most important muscle in an equine's body.
A comprehensive volume, "Reconfiguring the Firewall" (published by AK Peters, Ltd.), addresses the global challenge of recruiting girls and women into majors and careers in information technology.
Researchers with a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center will find ways to increase the production of wood on smaller land bases through environmentally sound, scientifically based management while preserving large areas of natural forest for other uses such as wilderness preservation, aesthetics, and recreation.
Computer scientist Edward Fox is using a variety of digital technologies to allow people to store and retrieve visual information in new, ever more accessible ways.
Students enrolled in the Virginia Tech sponsored course, Project Management in the Global Village, participated in a six week study abroad experience to Vietnam, working alongside indigenous community professionals to perform on-site needs assessments of technological and sociological factors of relief and development in several villages in the Mekong Delta.
A Virginia Tech psychologist said research shows that some individuals who experience a residential or wildfire do develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and distress.
A team of researchers led by Pavan Balaji of Argonne National Laboratory and Wu Feng of Virginia Tech won an international competition for the most effective approach in using large-scale storage for high-performance computing.
The U.S. Department of State has awarded more than $1 million to a university-industry team led by the Center for Advanced Separation Technologies at Virginia Tech to help India increase energy production and reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by developing and testing advanced technologies for cleaning coal.
Virginia Tech released the inaugural Green500 List (www.green500.org) this morning (Nov. 15, 2007) at the Supercomputing 2007 (SC|07) conference in Reno.
A large-scale sequence-searching problem, like identifying genes, can exceed the computational and storage resources of a supercomputing site. A research team from Argonne National Laboratory and Virginia Tech have created a worldwide supercomputer and developed a novel framework that can accelerate the speed of parallelized bioinformatics programs by 27-fold.
A new, original theatrical production entitled "Nuclear Power Play" will explore the personal and public politics of nuclear power. Uniquely developed by a team of experts in science and technology working alongside theatre arts practitioners, the play will debut November 7 at Virginia Tech.
Computer scientists will launch the Green500 List in November to provide a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world, and hopefully, shift the focus of supercomputer design to adopt a more energy-efficient and power-efficient approach.
Tiffany Trent, an English instructor at Virginia Tech, has been chosen as one of 31 teen authors in the nation to promote teen literacy this month. In addition, independent booksellers have nominated Trent's first book, In the Serpent's Coils, as a BookSense Pick for Autumn.
Real estate laws that require sellers and their agents to provide prospective homebuyers with basic information about a neighborhood, such as whether it is in a flood zone or an airport noise zone, decrease housing prices by thousands of dollars, according to two new studies from Virginia Tech.
The "Energy Efficiency Partnership of Greater Washington" will tackle global warming by retrofitting existing buildings with energy efficiency products designed to decrease energy use and significantly cut carbon emissions.
Psychologists in Virginia Tech's College of Science have developed a free Internet health program. "Guide-to-Health" provides the skills, support, and information people need to increase physical activity, eat more nutritiously, and prevent weight gain.
A $1 million grant of Fujitsu technology and services to Virginia Tech's College of Engineering will assist in the college's creation of "digital opportunities" for underserved students, as well as pre-college students interested in studying math, science, or engineering at Virginia Tech.
An invader is destroying America's hemlocks. Virginia Tech forest entomology researchers are using the predators provided by nature in the villain's homeland to do battle in the United States. The research is reported in the latest issue of the Virginia Tech Research magazine.
With the start of the new school year comes football season and tailgating. Make sure that food-borne illness doesn't spoil the fun by following sound food-safety advice from Virginia Cooperative Extension.
With a rise in the number of overweight children, parents must be extra vigilant when packing their children's lunches... to maintain good eating habits that will last for life and even improve their attention span and academic performance.
Friedrich Nietzsche's architectural proposal is to build a world -- an apt subject for an architecture professor whose scholarship focuses on the aesthetic mentality of modernism, in particular its promulgations in philosophical aesthetics.
Virginia Tech's entry in DARPA's Urban Challenge is moving forward to the qualifying rounds, thanks in part to a custom-designed drive-by-wire control system and unique navigation software that makes the vehicle's driving decisions almost human.
The multidisciplinary Center for Services Science, Quality, and Innovation aims to address many of the issues resulting from the tremendous changes seen during the past two decades as the U.S. economy and others have moved away from manufacturing and toward services.
An innovative study on the economic impact of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) shows that black men have higher lifetime earnings from attending HBCUs than other four-year colleges and universities.
Parents those who "hover" too much, too closely, and too often over their adolescent and college-age children rob children of maturity, the ability to make decisions for themselves.
The supposedly unavoidable 15 pounds that students gain during their first year of college is not a myth. Virginia Tech's Student Programs registered dietitian explores the reasons and strives to educate and encourage students to live healthy.
Naren Ramakrishnan, associate professor of computer science at Virginia Tech, has been named as one of Computerworld's "40 innovative IT people to watch, under the age of 40." The award recognizes contributions to the areas of data mining, personalization, and problem solving environments. In particular, he is being recognized for the data mining paradigm called "storytelling."
A team of biomedical engineers at Virginia Tech and the University of California at Berkeley has developed a new minimally invasive method of treating cancer, and they anticipate clinical trials on individuals with prostate cancer will begin soon.
An Internet-based digital repository of Virginia's existing and planned bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, including bike lanes, hiking, and horseback riding trails is being created by Virginia Tech faculty members in forest and the Center for Geospatial Information Technology.
The first Lost Tour of Virginia -- a motorcycle tour through picturesque communities and winding roads that time forgot -- will be held July 28.
Sam Riley's reference work details the careers of 246 African Americans, most of whom currently work in the news media. Entries include syndicated and local columnists, broadcast news and magazine figures, sportscasters and radio personalities. Many of the profiles include a sample column or story.
Using a new highly sensitive imaging process, researchers have identified two adrenaline tumors in a live mouse. The process, called bioluminescence tomography (BLT), was invented by Ge Wang of Virginia Tech and his colleagues. The non-invasive technology can be used to study all types of tumors," Wang said.
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute has completed the largest ever Affymetrix GeneChip® microarray study for a plant experimental system in an academic research setting. The 2600-chip experiment explores the counter-play of plant and pathogen genes during infection of soybean with the root-rot pathogen Phytophthora sojae, which results in $100"“200 million losses annually in the US.
Researchers at Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Georgia propose using polysaccharides, or sugary carbohydrates, from biomass to directly produce low-cost hydrogen for the new hydrogen economy. The vision is for the ingredients to be mixed in the fuel tank of your car to power a fuel cell.
Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. has hired four licensing associates to maximize return to the university through effective marketing and management of intellectual property.
Congressman Jim Moran, Eighth Congressional District representative of Virginia, is scheduled to address the 2007 graduates of the Virginia Tech National Capital Region during the university's commencement ceremony at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, May 13, in Fairfax, Va.
Virginia Tech's Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) is collecting materials to launch the April 16 Archive (www.april16archive.org) to assist artists, humanists, social scientists, and all other scholars who seek to develop a better understanding of the violent events of April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech.
Open source software delivers library resources to users by seamlessly integrating them into a browser.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Arts Council of New Orleans, and the Institute for Cultural Policy and Practice (ICPP) at Virginia Tech are working together to create and link the arts organizations more closely with their communities.
Illustrating their commitment to sustaining the environment and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the Town of Blacksburg, City of Roanoke, and Virginia Tech are converting their diesel fuel-powered public works and facilities vehicles and power equipment to biodiesel fuel "” a cleaner-burning, renewable diesel fuel replacement made primarily from soybean oil.
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