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Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer announced Sunday his intention to retire upon the conclusion of the 2015 season. Beamer informed Virginia Tech officials, his players and coaches today.
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The Center for Innovative Technology announced the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) Request for Proposals (RFP) for FY2016. The solicitation opens on October 30, 2015 and Letters of Intent (LOIs) are due by Friday, December 4. Award announcements are planned for early June 2016.
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Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Monday more than $503,000 in grant funding for fifteen agriculture-related projects. The grant funding will promote and enhance the competitiveness of Virginia’s specialty crops and create more economic development opportunities across the Commonwealth.
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As development occurs, storm water quantity and quality can be negatively affected and regulators want cities and towns to make sure they reduce the volume and improve the quality by treating the storm run-off before it enters creeks, rivers, or lakes, to the best of their ability.
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Three National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, totaling in excess of $3.2 million, will help researchers better understand how individuals and agencies make complex decisions about evacuation before a hurricane; design a semi-automated, efficient, and secure emergency response system; and develop methods to evaluate evacuation performance combining household and agency perspectives.
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Federal and state officials received hands-on experience Monday with “hands-off” automated and connected driving as they traveled a 10-mile stretch of an interstate highway in Northern Virginia in cars sporting the latest automated- and connected-vehicle technology.
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Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute’s Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens have completed a comprehensive study on gene networks that regulate immune system responses to H. pylori, a gut-dwelling bacterium carried by half the world’s population.
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The Virginia Tech Department of Food Science and Technology and DuPont Teijin Films™ have entered into a collaboration that will allow companies to test new ways to package and prepare food using the university’s network of experts and DTF’s new packaging materials.
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A trio of Virginia Tech computer scientists has tested their innovation, called a “program anomaly detection approach,” against many real-world attacks.
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Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today the selection of Ed Albrigo as the next president and CEO for the Center for Innovative Technology.
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