Study aims to identify why women in science, engineering are in short supply
November 19, 2008
Tech interdisciplinary studies professor Carol J. Burger holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry and a Ph.D in immunology. Yet she's often wondered: "Why aren't there more of me?"
Tech agricultural research expands and extends
October 20, 2008
The National Science Foundation ranked Virginia Tech sixth in the nation for agricultural and natural resource research expenditures in 2007, a four-spot jump in the annual NSF nationwide ranking of programs.
Tech researchers focus on environmental issues
October 7, 2008
From finding hard-to-track animals in the wild to restoring water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, scientists at Virginia Tech are focusing on environmental research.
Campus, Tech police step up game-day presence
September 15, 2008
Home games at Virginia Tech are almost an invitation for the biggest pre-game party in town, where most, if not all, residents and students come together decorated head to toe in orange and maroon. Others, however, don uniforms of blue and hopping in cars
University commits to sustainability
September 8, 2008
Virginia Tech has long been committed to conserving energy and resources, and this year the Sustainable Endowments Institute has chosen Tech for the second time as one of 200 colleges and universities to be evaluated in the Campus Sustainability Report Ca
In search of savings: Energy at Tech
September 8, 2008
According to Fran DeBellis, manager of Tech Electric Service, if you ran a 1500-watt hairdryer for an hour, you would be using 1.5-kilowatts of energy. Just the Veterinary Medicine building on Duck Pond Drive uses roughly 10 million kW each year, and it i
Late dean's contributions will not be forgotten across campus
September 4, 2008
When Doug McAllister thinks of William E. Skelton, he thinks of the proverb, "Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."
