
Virginia Tech study says workforce center could boost Loudoun County wine industry
A workforce education center would give a needed boost to the wine industry in Loudoun County, near Washington, D.C., a Virginia Tech study confirms.

A workforce education center would give a needed boost to the wine industry in Loudoun County, near Washington, D.C., a Virginia Tech study confirms.

Microsoft Corp. debuted a television commercial this week filmed on Virginia Tech’s campus and featuring Wu Feng, a professor in the College of Engineering.

Leaders with the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership at Virginia Tech have outlined a research plan to study how reporters could use unmanned aircraft to gather news.

Virginia Tech’s new undergraduate degree in water, approved by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia in early December, is one of the most innovative, interdisciplinary offerings in the country.

Sterling Nesbitt, an assistant professor of geological sciences in the Virginia Tech College of Science, has been responsible for naming more than half a dozen reptiles (including dinosaurs) in his young career.

A VCU professor has received a five-year, $505,000 award from the National Science Foundation to make lithium-ion batteries — which power electric vehicles and portable electronic devices — far more efficient, sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Changes in drinking water quality in the 21st century are coming from a myriad of circumstances, and not all are for the best.

Hardide Coatings, Inc., a manufacturer of advanced surface coatings, will invest $7.25 million to establish its first Virginia operation in Henry County and create 29 new jobs.

Economic losses from earthquakes are often devastating. The financial damages from earthquakes in Chile in 2010, Japan in 1995, and California in 1994 were $30 billion, $100 billion, and $20 billion respectively.

For the past three years, Virginia Tech civil and environmental engineering students and faculty advisers Mark Widdowson and John Novak, have spent considerable time in the Caribbean but the journeys were not of the recreational variety.
AFP will break down local, Virginia and national races in the battle for the control of Congress Tuesday night.