
Commonwealth Cyber Initiative marks end of Phase 1 planning
Stakeholders representing critical aspects of cybersecurity converged at a milestone in the plan for Virginia’s Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) last month in Arlington.

Stakeholders representing critical aspects of cybersecurity converged at a milestone in the plan for Virginia’s Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) last month in Arlington.

Patients undergoing cancer treatment confront a number of well-documented side effects. Chemotherapy and other cancer therapies can wreak havoc on the taste buds and olfactory senses.

Virginia Tech faculty and eight undergraduate students from universities around the country spent the summer monitoring ecological and social impacts of Mountain Valley Pipeline construction.

The Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Executive Committee held its first meeting last week – an important step in a collaborative effort to create and submit a blueprint for the project to the Virginia Research Investment Committee by Dec. 1.

For stink bugs to attract a mate or to communicate that they have found food, they use their own chemical language: pheromones.

Bike helmets have been shown to reduce the risk of head injuries in cycling, but, until now, consumers who want to buy one that offers the best protection have had little information to go on.

Some say location is everything, but when it comes to land conservation and management, it’s a landowner’s involvement and interest in working the land that matter more than residing on the property.

I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t want clean air and clean water. Protecting our environment is something we all desire. But there are grand ideas about refashioning (but damaging) our economy that offer theoretical benefits we may never see.

The 2018 flu season has been especially rough on Americans — this year’s dominant viral strains have led to more hospitalizations and doctor visits than almost any other in the past decade.

Farmers are among America’s oldest workers. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2012 Census of Agriculture, in the past 30 years, the average age of U.S. farmers has grown from 50 years to 58 years old.
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