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For the brain to learn, retain memories, process sensory information, and coordinate body movements, its groups of nerve cells must generate coordinated electrical signals.
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One of America’s largest talk radio networks wants to control its most popular hosts from spreading misinformation, a move Virginia Tech media expert Megan Duncan says is long overdue.
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The interstate highway system launched in the 1950s as the most ambitious public works project in the world. Spanning 48,000 miles, the system aimed to connect cities and towns throughout the nation.
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The dairy industry in the United States contributes approximately 1.58 percent of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions.
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As an undergraduate studying chemical engineering at Tulane University in New Orleans, near the heart of oil country, Jennifer Munson modeled how fluids move through pipes.
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Elizabeth McClanahan, a former justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia who now serves as president and dean of the Appalachian School of Law, has been named CEO of the Virginia Tech Foundation.
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What began as a conceptual senior capstone design project for a group of aerospace engineering seniors two years ago has since been expanded and developed into a complex piece of hardware bound for low-Earth orbit.
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The Virginia Center for Housing Research is helping pilot two initiatives to determine whether 3D-printed concrete homes and manufactured factory-built housing are viable answers to the housing affordability crisis in Virginia and across the nation.
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University of Virginia President Jim Ryan this week announced more than $30 million in new investments supporting both UVA’s research enterprise and its Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies.
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Beginning Jan. 1, fingerprinting will be among the requirements for individuals living in Virginia who are interested in becoming licensed insurance agents in the Commonwealth.
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