Vacuum-steam treatment for invasive snails proves promising
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The U.S. East Coast and some port areas such as Houston, Texas, are being invaded by snails that hitchhike in containers shipped from the Mediterranean.
Search Results for Virginia Tech research
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VCU engineering professor makes major breakthrough in reducing cost of key AIDS drug
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A team of researchers led by a Virginia Commonwealth University engineering professor has invented a far more cost-effective way to manufacture a widely used AIDS drug, potentially greatly expanding access to the much-needed drug in countries with emerging economies, such as South Africa.
UVA vice president Thomas Skalak named senior official of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
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Thomas Skalak, vice president for research at the University of Virginia, has been named the inaugural executive director for science and technology programs at the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation in Seattle, officials announced Monday. The appointment is effective Feb. 1.
Two UVA faculty members named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
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Two faculty members are the first from the University of Virginia to be named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, an accolade created in 2010 to recognize those who invent or facilitate significant patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Governor Terry McAuliffe remarks to the Joint Money Committees
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Prepared remarks by Governor Terry McAuliffe to the Joint Money Committees in the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond, Va., on Dec. 17, 2014.
$2.6 million federal grant to develop new statewide healthcare model
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Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Tuesday that Virginia has been awarded a $2.6 million federal grant to develop new statewide healthcare models.
K2M Group Holdings to expand global headquarters, R&D operation in Loudoun
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K2M Group Holdings, Inc., a global medical device company, will relocate its global headquarters and research and development operations to a new 146,000-square-foot facility in Loudoun County.
Mosquitoes and malaria: Scientists pinpoint how biting cousins have grown apart
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Certain species of mosquitoes are genetically better at transmitting malaria than even some of their close cousins, according to a multi-institutional team of researchers including Virginia Tech scientists.
Source of mid-plate volcanoes may be much closer than scientists thought
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A recent discovery challenges conventional thought that volcanoes are caused when plates that make up the planet’s crust shift and release heat.
Governor McAuliffe announces the Commonwealth’s first Business Plan Competition
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Governor Terry McAuliffe today announced that Virginia will host a world class business plan competition during the spring and summer of 2015.
