Get up to speed with self-driving vehicles
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The Virginia Tech Choices and Challenges Forum is asking what the outlook for self-driving cars will mean to the local community.
Search Results for Virginia Tech research
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American Idiocracy: 50 years later, we’re still stranded in the twilight zone
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Have you noticed how much life increasingly feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone?
Stuarts Draft Middle School among School Breakfast Challenge winners
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No Kid Hungry Virginia and partners announced the winners of the third annual Virginia Breakfast Challenge, a campaign to increase school breakfast participation across the state.
Morgan Griffith: Ninth District on the cutting edge of biological engineering for health care
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When not in Washington, D.C., voting in the U.S. House of Representatives during March, I was able to visit several sites where exciting research projects are underway. Previously, I wrote about some of them at Virginia Tech.
Testosterone discovery may explain low levels in men with diabetes
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Scientists have mapped out how the body transports testosterone, and their surprising findings may explain low testosterone levels seen in men with diabetes or patients on certain medications.
Hokies wager grades during March Madness project
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Close to 100 Virginia Tech students are wagering their grades on this year’s tournament in what has become an annual tradition of combining hoops and data in Bill Roth’s Introduction to Sports Media course.
Inaugural ratings for youth football helmets address sport’s largest pool of athletes
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The majority of people playing football in the U.S. aren’t NFL players or collegiate athletes —they’re youth players, less than 14 years old. But until now, there hasn’t been independent data evaluating the effectiveness of the helmets these athletes wear on the field.
VCU cuts ribbon on new College of Health Professions Building
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The VCU College of Health Professions celebrated a monumental step Monday, cutting the ribbon on a 154,000-square-foot building that will provide a unified space for its faculty, staff, students and nationally ranked programs.
To slow malaria, cure mosquitoes with drug-treated bed nets
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For decades, one of the strongest weapons against malaria has been a one-two punch: low-tech mosquito bed nets to physically block biting, treated with deadly insecticides to kill the mosquitoes.
Drug hunters awarded $2.8 million to develop a drug to treat multiple sclerosis
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Webster Santos, professor of chemistry and the Cliff and Agnes Lilly Faculty Fellow in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, has received a $2.8 million award to discover drugs to inhibit a small molecule transporter.
