Virginia Tech partners with Nepal to provide virtual pesticide safety training
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In the developing world, the inappropriate use of toxic chemical pesticides frequently leads to human, animal, and environmental health issues.
Search Results for LNG
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Online program focuses on protecting vulnerable older adults during COVID-19, beyond
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Remember when people could easily, or at least safely, visit their loved ones and friends at home and in care facilities, without fear of exposing them to the coronavirus?
Staunton District Traffic Alert: Week of July 20-24
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The following is a list of highway work that may affect traffic in the Staunton District during the coming weeks.
Continued isolation cannot be the new normal for seniors
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The impact of isolation on mental and physical health can be as dangerous for older adults as contracting a respiratory virus.
‘The Land Speaks’ exhibit transformed into virtual experience
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The pandemic has forced museums around the world to temporarily close the doors to their exhibits. In keeping with other creative adjustments, the University Libraries pivoted to hosting online exhibitions in place of physical ones.
Brain cancer: Scientists ID gene responsible for deadly glioblastoma
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Scientists have identified an oncogene (a cancer-causing gene) responsible for glioblastoma, the deadliest brain tumor.
Mellon Foundation supports creation of a new Pathways minor in Tech for Humanity
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $665,000 to Virginia Tech to enable its Center for Humanities to lead the creation of a new Pathways minor, Tech for Humanity.
Preliminary study suggests tuberculosis vaccine may be limiting COVID-19 deaths
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One of the emerging questions about the coronavirus that scientists are working to understand is why developing countries are showing markedly lower rates of mortality in COVID-19 cases than expected.
Vibrant Virginia forum: Broadband access, higher education partnerships key to economic recovery
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Among the keys to lifting Virginia’s economy from the coronavirus pandemic: increased broadband access across the commonwealth and higher education partnerships with communities, nonprofits, and other universities and colleges.
New criminal justice, consumer bills that went into effect in Virginia on July 1
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Attorney General Mark R. Herring’s legislative package, that helped to make the 2020 General Assembly session the most progressive in Virginia history, is set to go into effect today, July 1st.
