Alan S. Abrahams and Cliff T. Ragsdale of the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business have devised a system for travelers to receive all the vaccinations they need in a way that ensures the optimum protection efficiently and as inexpensiviely as possible.
Virginia Tech released today the results of its 2012 rating for adult football helmets that is designed to assess a helmet’s ability to reduce the risk of concussion. A total of three helmets achieved a “5 star” mark, which is the highest rating awarded by the Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings™. In addition to the Riddell Revolution Speed, which was the only helmet to receive 5 stars last year, the Rawlings Quantum Plus and Riddell 360 also earned 5 stars as the best available helmets.
MiserWare, a spin-off company of Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, is launching a free product that allows companies or individuals to measure their carbon footprint in terms of total power usage.
The study, conducted by Virginia Tech and World Wildlife Fund, is the first of its kind to systematically investigate the use of different land cover types for tiger habitat.
The Virginia Tech – Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences announces the first ever publication with data on head impacts from youth football players. The paper, published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, includes the details of over 700 head impacts measured on 7- and 8-year- old youth football players.
What often appears to be a random flow of particles can be characterized more effectively, allowing scientists and engineers to have a better understanding and control over areas such as airborne spread of disease agents.
A new affinity capture device provides a platform for viewing cancer cells and other macromolecules in dynamic, life-sustaining liquid environments.
Research led by scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute found that small-group dynamics -- such as jury deliberations, collective bargaining sessions, and cocktail parties -- can alter the expression of IQ in some susceptible people, especially women.
HokieSpeed will be a next-generation research tool for engineers, scientists, and others. In addition to being 22 times faster than System X and energy efficient, HokieSpeed will provide a 14-foot wide by 4-foot tall display for end-users to be immersed in their data.
For a number of years, Kathy Alexander noticed that many Botswana residents become ill two times during the year, and that these peaks appear to coincide with river flow. She is investigating the links between humans and animals as they influence water quality.
Family, friends, and neighbors were identified as perpetrators in 45 percent of cases of financial elder abuse and the overall dollar losses at the hands of family and friends were higher than from any other category of perpetrators.
Gift givers follow a “more-is-better” logic; recipients evaluate the overall package.
The current fracture control plan for bridges was developed in the 1960s and has not kept up with advances in materials and computerized system analysis. Researchers from Virginia Tech and Purdue are developing an improved method to determine the structural consequence if brittle fracture occurs.
Officials have “made overly optimistic evacuation time predictions that could have potentially devastating consequences," according to researchers.
In recent decades, population growth and scarcity of undeveloped metropolitan land have changed urban land use patterns and placed an increasing number of people and infrastructure in areas susceptible to topographic effects during earthquakes.
When a person with mild cognitive impairment is agitated or restless, caregivers can expect to find they are more edgy as well. This heightens the effect of elevated stress levels on caregivers' own bodies, placing them at risk for current and future health problems.
Brain imaging and behavior research reveals that physicians learn more by paying attention to failure.
Virginia Tech's Conservation Management Institute has provided technical expertise for the world's first avoided planned deforestation project to receive certification under the requirements of the international Verified Carbon Standard. (This posting is a clarification of the news release posted and withdrawn on Nov. 8, 2011.)
Within just one tenth of a second, certain bats are able to change the shape of their outer ear from one extreme configuration to another in order to change their hearing.
Though most organizations have policies and guidelines to protect their information systems from unauthorized access, research has shown that employee compliance is often a problem.
Electronic health records can potentially save billions of dollars in health care costs and increase patient safety, but have considerable risks to individual privacy in the United States, more so than the European Union.
Two well-known Virginia Tech researchers who previously collaborated on studies involving lead contamination in water are now co-developing an interdisciplinary graduate engineering and science ethics course.
Researchers in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech have identified the first strains of hepatitis E virus from farmed rabbits in the United States. It is unknown whether the virus can spread from rabbits to humans.
Youth football helmets are currently designed to the same standards as adult helmets, even though little is known about how child football players impact their heads. This is the first study to investigate the head impact characteristics in youth football.
A team of Virginia Tech researchers has created software to remotely put smart phones under lockdown.
A veterinary researcher who led an NIH study is available to discuss the impact of the banned pregnancy drug, DES, on the fetal immune system.
Software created by Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech to model inflammatory bowel disease can now be used to model immune response to a range of pathogens that can invade the gut.
The National Quit & Recovery Registry at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute allows scientists to observe methods used by addicts to quit and provides encouragement to those who struggle with addiction.
A new computational approach has predicted numerous human proteins that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) requires to replicate itself.
A Virginia Tech College of Engineering researcher has developed an app that can help captains of commercial fishing vessel and other small boats better and more safely maneuver their craft in water.
Virginia Tech and U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers have shown that transgenic yeast used during fermentation of barley will help modify mycotoxin in the animal feed that is a byproduct of ethanol production.
Preliminary research on Fusarium, a group of fungi that includes devastating pathogens of plants and animals, shows how these microbes travel through the air. Researchers at Virginia Tech now believe that with improvements on this preliminary research, there will be a better understanding about crop security, disease spread, and climate change.
The discovery that low-intensity, pulsed ultrasound can be used to noninvasively stimulate intact brain circuits holds promise for engineering rapid-response medical devices.
Coastal Ecologist Jim Fraser is available to provide a scientifically informed response to how to manage damage at the North Carolina Outer Banks following Hurricane Irene.
Before Irene landed with wind and water, earthquake researchers had to look at waterfront structures, bridges, dams and embankments, earth-retaining systems, monuments and institutions that were damaged, and critical facilities such as major airports and the power plant.
Helping solve cross layer network incompatibility issues will speed Internet access, and open room for more wireless traffic, without a lull in service.
Whether you are swimming in the Olympics or saving for a vacation, being able to see progress toward your goal will help you reach it.
15.4 percent of Virginia Tech students experienced high levels of post-traumatic stress three to four months following the shootings in which 49 students and faculty members at the university were shot, 32 of whom were killed.
Research will test the ability to inject CO2 into coal seams that cannot be mined, as well as the potential to enhance the coalbed methane recovery.
Using ovarian surface epithelial cells from mice, researchers from Virginia Tech have released findings from a study that they believe will help in cancer risk assessment, cancer diagnosis, and treatment efficiency in a technical journal.
"The FDA's images bring future consequences into the moment the smoker is making the choice to buy cigarettes," said a leading addiction researcher.
The first roadmap to mathematical modeling of a powerful basic "decision circuit" in breast cancer has been developed and published in Nature Reviews Cancer.
A new research project will establish a liver mimic as an effective model for studying the effects of different types of toxicants on the liver.
The traditional summer vacation structure is being affected, positively and negatively, as more schools across the nation adopt the year-round school calendar.
The NSF has awarded a three-year, $1.12 million grant to three Virginia Tech researchers with expertise in systems biology and tissue engineering to determine how different cell types communicate.
Children in the mountain village of Ti Péligre, Haiti, needed safe passage across a treacherous river to reach school. To help, a dozen Virginia Tech students – determined to prevent more drownings – designed and helped build a 200-foot bridge.
Over time, plants have evolved to adapt to a constantly changing, often hostile, environment. Unfortunately, they are facing a new and difficult challenge ahead. Computation science will help plant scientists understand how plants can respond to stress.
Virginia Tech (will release on May 10) the results of a new rating system of adult football helmets that is designed to reduce the risk of concussions. One currently manufactured helmet received the top “5 star” rating, and a total of five helmets received the very good “4-star” rating.
A Virginia Tech team has developed an innovative network security and privacy tool for the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), an Internet address system that will replace the 20-year-old IPv4.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Virginia Tech researchers a $2.13 million grant to develop new systems biology approaches to study cells, one of the most basic units of life.
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