Climate and Energy News Roundup: What’s making news in the environment?
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Ultimately, climate change will not be solved by climate scientists and engineers calculating how many solar panels we need installed.
Search Results for Virginia Tech research
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Economists study impact of fans on college basketball, using COVID season as baseline
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It was weird, to say the least, being in a college basketball arena in 2020-2021, with fans largely shut out, at most, in Virginia, at least, 150 people in the seats.
Study: Pandemic compounded work-related stress for parents of children with special needs
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Virginia Tech psychologists Charles Calderwood and Rosanna Breaux usually feel worlds apart in what they study.
Expert: Daylight saving time may lead to driver fatigue, hazards on the road
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It’s the time of year when we all adjust our clocks “to fall back” on Nov. 6. When daylight saving time ends, many people leaving work are now driving at night.
Spanberger pushes for continuous manufacturing of prescription drugs in U.S.
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U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia is calling for increased investments to strengthen continuous prescription drug manufacturing.
UVA, VCU working to slow or stop spread of infectious disease threats
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Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine and the UVA Biocomplexity Institute have been selected to help establish a national pathogen genomics surveillance network.
Lawmakers push for new measures to combat fentanyl trafficking in U.S.
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Members of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate are joining together to call on leadership to move forward with new measures to combat illicit fentanyl trafficking in the United States.
Think twice before calling the cops: The deadly cost of police welfare checks
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Think twice before you call the cops to carry out a welfare check on a loved one.
U.S. on track to lose billions in manufacturing GDP due to workforce shortages
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Amidst worker shortage, the CHIPS and Science Act will increase the United States’ investment in the domestic production of semiconductors.
Multi-institutional project awarded $31 million to study promising heart failure therapy
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Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Medicine is part of a $31 million, multi-institutional study focused on evaluating a new method for pacing the heart in people with heart failure and conduction system disease.
