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A Virginia Tech researcher estimates that the Department of Defense (DOD) spends close to $1 billion annually on service members experiencing personal financial management difficulties. E. Thomas Garman calculates that the direct costs of assistance programs and indirect costs of lost productivity due to financial stresses costs the DOD between $677 and $957 million each year.
A student at Virginia Tech has used a prestigious veterinary summer fellowship grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to develop a genetically engineered bacterium to serve as an oral contraceptive which may one day help solve a major animal overpopulation problem.
The stress of personal money problems and the failure to save for retirement is taking its toll on American workers. Research shows that one-half of all workers have money problems and providing personal financial education could save billions of dollars. These findings and others will be the focus of the third national Personal Finance Employee Education (PFEE) conference which will be held in Roanoke, Va., on Nov.10 -11 at the Hotel Roanoke.
Research found strong evidence that workplace financial education is extremely effective because it results in better financial wellness for workers.
Two recently published studies show that prolonged exposure to gratuitous violence in the media can escalate subsequent hostile behaviors and, among some viewers, foster greater acceptance of violence as a means of conflict resolution, according to Virginia Tech and University of Alabama researchers.
A genetically altered vaccine developed by a researcher in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine has received the final green light from the United States Department of Agriculture and is now being commercially marketed as an agent to prevent pneumonia in pigs.
A new material developed at Virginia Tech has the potential to strengthen structures such as airplane wings and fuselage as well as the armor in cars and tanks.
Within a very few years, the results of hundreds of thousands of current research projects and scholarly studies may become available on the Internet. This year's master's and doctoral degree recipients at Virginia Tech were members of the university's first graduate student class required to submit their final research electronically
Geological-sciences professors have discovered a fact about the San Andreas fault that may help in our understanding of earthquake hazards in California and other areas. Seismic reflection and refraction surveys of the deep crust show that the San Andreas fault goes straight through the crust and cuts through the Moho, the boundary between the crust and mantle of the Earth, instead of turning in the crust to connect with two other parallel faults in the area.
A Virginia Tech researcher estimates that the Department of Defense spends close to $1 billion annually on service members experiencing personal financial management difficulties.
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