How cheetahs outsmart lions and hyenas
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Cheetahs in Serengeti National Park adopt different strategies while eating to deal with threats from top predators, such as lions or hyenas.
Search Results for Virginia Tech research
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Kaine, Young, Jones introduce bill to ensure addiction recovery programs include job training
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U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Todd Young (R-IN), and Doug Jones (D-AL), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Jobs Plus Recovery Act to incorporate job training into drug addiction recovery programs.
Tom Tom Founders Festival launches today
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The seventh annual Tom Tom Founders Festival, a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship, culture, and innovation, launches today in Charlottesville.
Student innovators are finding creative solutions to complex problems
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From a workstation prototype that will improve the working conditions for operating room nurses to an infrastructure system designed to protect communities from natural disasters, interdisciplinary teams of Virginia Tech students fueled by university funding are finding creative solutions to real-world problems.
Engineering dean at University of Texas named 2018 UVA Distinguished Alumna
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When University of Virginia alumna Sharon L. Wood was about 8 years old, her father, a civil engineer, took her to a construction site where he was working.
Personal outreach to landowners is vital to conservation program success
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Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment research published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE shows that private landowners trust conservation agencies more and have better views of program outcomes when they accompany conservation biologists who are monitoring habitat management on their land.
Philanthropist Carrie Morgridge to deliver Bridgewater College commencement address
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Carrie Morgridge, vice president and chief disruptor of the Morgridge Family Foundation, will provide the Bridgewater College 2018 commencement address on Saturday, May 5, at 10 a.m.
Isaac Alderfer, Hannah Leaman and Allison Shelly named 2018 Yoder Scholars
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Each year, Eastern Mennonite University engages in a rigorous process to select recipients for the prestigious Yoder Scholarships. Established in 1993 and named for alumni Carol and Paul R. Yoder Jr., the scholarships cover full tuition and include admission into EMU’s Honors Program.
President of nation’s largest health and science public education and advocacy organization to speak at VTCRI
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Mary Woolley, the president and chief executive officer of Research!America, will speak at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 5.
Newly discovered mode of drinking in mosquitoes carries biomedical implications
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Mosquitoes may have a reputation for being one of the world’s most intractable pests, but they’re actually quite tiny and fragile. So when an international team of scientists, including several at Virginia Tech, wanted to observe the underlying mechanisms of how the insects feed, they had to get creative.
