
Transportation institute researcher receives national award for safety engineering excellence
Myra Blanco has been named the recipient of the 2017 U.S. Government Award for Safety Engineering Excellence.

Myra Blanco has been named the recipient of the 2017 U.S. Government Award for Safety Engineering Excellence.

Unmanned aircraft operations at Virginia Tech this week field-tested technology designed to allow multiple aircraft to safely share the same airspace.

June 12 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, which struck down laws prohibiting interracial marriage.

Gov. McAuliffe announced $2.7 million in funding to support 40 Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund awards

After high-risk individuals, immunizing children and the elderly will have the greatest overall benefit when there are limited vaccine resources.

President Trump was preparing to announce future plans for U.S. involvement in the Paris Agreement on global climate change.

An invader destroying maize in Africa is hitting countries where drought and political instability have already caused hunger.

Virginia Tech’s newest laboratory, the Autonomous Systems and Intelligent Machines (ASIM) lab, is home to a tiny town with robotic vehicles.

A grant will help Virginia Tech, Virginia Western Community College, and Northern Virginia Community College reach out to engineering transfer students.

Sometimes it takes a researcher with a flair for entrepreneurship to translate a laboratory breakthrough into a medical treatment.
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