
Virginia peanut forecast is up this year
Virginia peanut growers anticipate a 6.6 percent increase in their harvest this year, totaling 78 million pounds.

Virginia peanut growers anticipate a 6.6 percent increase in their harvest this year, totaling 78 million pounds.

Deschutes Brewery won’t be the only one making its first big public appearance in the region when the brewery hosts a Street Pub in downtown Roanoke.

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine offers the most in-depth assessment yet of the safety and effectiveness of a high-tech alternative to brain surgery.

Lei Zuo, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was recently awarded a Department of Energy Nuclear Engineering research grant to develop nuclear radiation energy.

Ten Virginia Tech undergraduate students held onto their hats this summer as they plunged down Amazonian river systems into the heart of Ecuador.

Virginia Tech’s Helmet Ratings research lab is adding bicycle helmets and soccer headgear to its testing program.

AMTI Microwave Circuits made new export sales to Canada through participation in a trade mission to Vancouver.

Students at Norfolk State University are conducting research with devices that are so tiny that millions of them can fit on the head of a pin.

A Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine student will embark on a year-long Fulbright study to address the growing problem of opioid addiction.

Virginia Tech Department of Chemistry faculty and students are assisting the U.S. military in creating new materials that can trap and destroy chemical warfare agents, such as sarin and VX nerve gas.
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