Content on Africa:

Storybook tale: Fulbright Scholar's African mission

August 26, 2009

All the material that Associate Professor Mary Alice Barksdale needed to win a Fulbright Scholar grant for educational research was a couple boxes of crayons, sheets of paper and some staples.

Tech wins food security grant

December 3, 2008

Virginia Tech's Office of International Research, Education, and Development will use a $1 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to improve agricultural productivity and the availability of key food staple commodities such as ri