
Virginia Tech researchers use new technology to simplify desalination processes
One of the biggest global challenges facing future generations will be providing access to clean water for daily use.

One of the biggest global challenges facing future generations will be providing access to clean water for daily use.

Virginia Tech scientists have developed a new COVID-19 test and secured federal and state approvals to begin processing samples at on-campus labs in Blacksburg and Roanoke.

Illegal timber trade is a global industry estimated to account for $50 billion to $150 billion each year.

A Virginia Tech expert has tips for dinner-table conversations around contentious issues over the holidays.

Banning e-cigarettes could potentially have some unexpected consequences, according to Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC addiction research expert Warren Bickel.

Jin Xu, associate professor of finance in the Pamplin College of Business, has received a Best Paper Award for an article she co-authored that provides important evidence for the tax benefit of debt financing.

Researchers from Virginia Tech received a $2.9 million award from the National Science Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation of China to understand the long-term host and pathogen dynamics of white-nose syndrome in bats.

Virginia Tech biochemist Brandon Jutras has discovered the cellular component that contributes to Lyme arthritis, a debilitating and extremely painful condition that is the most common late stage symptom of Lyme disease.

Researchers from Virginia Tech were part of a collaborative $958,415 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study the host-microbiome-parasite interactions in the honey bee gut, with $750,000 coming to Virginia Tech.

Biological invasions by non-native organisms are one of the most important aspects of rapid global change, costing the global economy greater than $1 trillion annually. Globally, biological invasions also decimate local flora and fauna, contribute to disease outbreaks and agricultural loss, and threaten human health.
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