Soybeans, the largest row crop in the state, are being closely monitored for signs of Asian soybean rust. While the fungus has been detected throughout the south, none has been discovered in Virginia fields.
Wireless communication research, long an area of strength at Virginia Tech, has become a major focus with the creation of one of the largest wireless research groups in the U.S., Wireless @ Virginia Tech, encompassing the Center for Wireless Telecommunications, Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group, and Virginia Tech Antenna Group.
The summer 2006 issue of the Virginia Tech Research magazine reports on a new device to monitor the nation's electric grid, technologies to supplement the grid, and alternative energy sources.
Researchers in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine's Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Virginia Tech with funding from Fort Dodge Animal Health Inc. have developed a vaccine against Post-weaning Multi-systemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS) in pigs, a major threat to the global swine industry.
As education researches and engineering faculty members develop pedagogical models for the classroom, the university-industry alliance supports a new Tablet PC computing initiative for incoming freshmen to provide students, faculty, and staff with training and assistance throughout the development and implementation of new models of teaching and learning.
Deck failure can ruin an outdoor party -- and cause injury too. Research by Virginia Tech has identified the connection between the deck and the house as a common failure point and has resulted in recommendations for better construction and changes in the state building code.
Virginia's K12 schools, museums, and libraries will be among the first in the nation to connect to both the National LambdaRail (NLR) and Internet2 "“ providing better access to educational and research resources worldwide.
The new edition of the popular textbook, The Geopolitics Reader, provides a collection of original readings on the history of geopolitics and its contemporary debates, including excerpts from famous and infamous texts, to encourage readers to think critically about geopolitics.
Civil engineering and mining engineering researchers are using IT technologies to to improve the process of geologic mapping, analysis, design and construction of underground space.
Atmospheric pollutant trackers will measure carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas; nitrogen oxides and organic compounds, which are key ingredients in smog formation; and airborne particles in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and in Baltimore.
Gerontology and sociology researchers are identifying factors that influence how aging families function as they struggle to regain a sense of normalcy. "We are concerned about their immediate welfare and about who and what is helping seniors regain stability and rebuild their lives in the aftermath of (Katrina)."
Virginia Tech inventions that received patents during 2005 include seven technologies that use energy more efficiently and safeguard the electric grid and oil resources.
The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and Orion Integrated Biosciences Inc. today announced that they have signed an agreement to facilitate the development of new diagnostic methods for key viral pathogens. Under the terms of the agreement, information on encephalic and hemorrhagic viruses.
To make sure ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" construction in Blacksburg, Va., was as safe as it was fast, Virginia Tech's Center for Innovation in Construction Safety and Health developed the Rapid Universal Safety and Health (RUSH) system and 50 faculty members and students served on the "Extreme Safety Corps."
Most oral cancers are detected at advanced stages, requiring surgery and radiation. Repair of the diseased tissue often requires reconstruction. A more viable scaffold material capable of faster and higher quality bone formation could improve clinical outcomes for all oral constructions.
Understanding how a parent's deployment affects the emotional and behavioral development of their teenage children is the focal point of research conducted at Virginia Tech.
Virginia Tech will present advances in supercomputing and networking at the Supercomputing 2005 Conference in Seattle Nov. 12-18. The university will partner its Apple-based supercomputer, System X, with other supercomputers to respond to a challenge involving high performance computing storage capability.
Virginia Tech research demonstrates that high school and college women who express an interest in a computer-related career share five central characteristics, including using computers at an early age, but typically not for computer games, and not discussing the career with a variety of people.
Yue Wang is working with physicians to analyze cancer data from the cellular, molecular, and genetic levels. His team is developing tools that create analysis algorithms and are developing, optimizing, and validating neural network classifiers so that cancer can be more accurately classified and therapy can be personally tailored for optimal response.
Virginia Tech's "Cliff" and "Rocky" are among an elite group of 23 autonomous vehicles that will rev their engines on Saturday, Oct. 8 at the starting line of the $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge race through the Mojave Desert.
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech has established the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory. Led by Christopher L. Barrett, the lab designs and analyzes simulations of extremely large systems and implements them on high-performance computer systems.
Cognitive radios can seemingly adapt to their environment and learn. Now Virginia Tech's Center for Wireless Telecommunications, with NSF funding, will develop a cognitive engine to allow the radios to share a distributed knowledge base to use for individual and collective reasoning and learning.
Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute is evaluating land reforms implemented after the Smart Growth Act five years ago in Wisconsin.
Chris Wyatt is a Virginia Tech electrical engineer who is attempting to provide the medical community with better, quicker, and more relevant images of the human body. The side effects are not bad either "“"“ lower medical costs, new treatments, and earlier disease detection.
After the hurricane, and before the next one: Virginia Tech offers an expert on helping children cope with trauma. And before the next hurricane, why not listen to experts on disaster risk reduction and on communications systems for public safety, interoperability and coordination between agencies, and citizen notification.
In the presence of unusually high levels of protein bonding catalysts, transglutaminases, too dense clusters of proteins can block neurovascular transport and cause neural cell death. Two Virginia Tech engineers are evaluating specific therapies to fight abnormally high TGase binding.
Does the immune system respond to foreign invaders or to damage? Two Virginia Tech researchers are using signal and image processing to observe the infection process and immune system response.
Markus Breitschmid's book, "Der bauende Geist. Friedrich Nietzsche und die Architektur," or "The Building Spirit. Friedrich Nietzsche and Architecture," has been selected by the Institute of Philosophy in Karlsruhe-Germany as one of 14 seminal texts along with books by Aristotle, Heidegger, and Kepler written on the problem of architectural space.
"Eurydice," a one-woman play by internationally-acclaimed Virginia Tech English professor Thomas Gardner is being staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. "Eurydice" runs August 8-10 in the Greyfriars Kirk House.
Virginia Tech students are building a a completely self-sufficient, energy-efficient, solar powered house, that will generate enough energy to power all the needs of the house, run a small home-based business, and power a solar car. The house uses renewable materials, innovative technologies, and potentially cost-effective construction methods.
A testbed platform for wireless mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks will be the first of its kind at a U.S. university. Military mobile ad hoc wireless networks can connect groups while on the move. Wireless sensor networks are stationary. The researchers are investigation ways to integrate the network types.
Virginia Tech's Industrial Design Program has been selected to present their work at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits Center in New York May 14-17, 2005, North America's premier event for contemporary design.
A professor of international affairs tells a congressional subcommittee hearing on "Bosnia-Herzegovina: Unfinished Business" that 10 years after the Dayton Peace Accords ended the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the peace agreements' weaknesses account for the relative lack of progress and the legacy of ethnic cleansing endures.
Researchers at Virginia Tech have discovered that the use of antimicrobial soaps and other products may be directly exposing consumers to significant quantities of chloroform.
Virginia Tech history professor Fred Baumgartner has spent many years researching the process and history of papal elections. He can expound on various queries about the process, from the most trivial to the ones most recently imposed by John Paul II.
Courses on Consumer Rights and Consumer Protection come to life as students track legislation then witness the process first hand.
Virginia Cooperative Extension has created a training CD and will offer educational programs beginning in April to implement the national animal identification program in Virginia. The Virginia program includes use of GPS coordinates as part of premise identification.
A new book from the "New Directions for Teaching and Learning" series contends that lapses in student behavior often reflect shortcomings in the person at the head of the class.
Virginia Tech research is uncovering why individuals with an "apple," or abdominal, fat distribution pattern are at a substantially higher risk of developing cardiovascular and metabolic diseases compared with those with a "pear" or lower body fat distribution pattern.
Virginia Tech professor Joyce Rothschild says many whistleblowers have both ethical characteristics and fates in common.
The Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group at Virginia Tech has developed the fundamental software for use in designing software radios and is offering this tool free to other wireless communications researchers throughout the world.
Virginia Tech President Charles Steger announced that the university and The Institute for Genomic Research have signed a memorandum of understanding. The new alliance will enrich the university's basic research capacity in the life sciences and enhance TIGR's computational and experimental capacity.
Holiday tips from two Virginia Tech faculty members: 1) Keep it simple; 2) Keep pets safe.
A Virginia Tech research group has announced key breakthroughs in semiconductor design verification. They have been able to reduce the process exponentially.
Using layers of location-based information, Virginia Tech's award-winning Geospatial Information Technology Center helps government assess risks due to floods, winds, fires, earthquake, and human-caused disasters.
The U.S. Agency for International Development Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade Program has awarded Virginia two grants totaling $34 million over 5 years to lead two international programs that will enhance food security while limiting negative impacts on natural resources.
Each year some 38,000 construction injuries are reported, according to the Labor Department. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health has awarded Virginia Tech $3.4 million to investigate ways to reduce work-related accidents, injuries, and fatalities in the small construction industry.
Over the next 17 months, Virginia Tech will lead a team of researchers exploring the development of a new class of materials that will use plant protein structures in an attempt to mimic biological systems.
Srinidhi Varadarajan, director of its Terascale Computing Facility, has been named to the 2004 list of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation.
NSF-funded research is looking at the recruitment and retention of African-Americans in IT-related graduate studies and jobs.
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