
VCU researcher leads study aimed at improving care for people with chronic conditions
VCU has been awarded a grant to test a model of care that aims to better connect primary care clinicians with community resources and health system services.

VCU has been awarded a grant to test a model of care that aims to better connect primary care clinicians with community resources and health system services.

Clean water is important for health and safety, but aging infrastructure and uninformed maintenance strategies can hinder access to it. We remember the tragic situation in Flint, Michigan, where lead poisoned the water.

Researchers from Virginia Tech were part of a collaborative $958,415 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study the host-microbiome-parasite interactions in the honey bee gut, with $750,000 coming to Virginia Tech.

The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia has been awarded a five-year grant of $23 million from the National Institutes of Health to advance innovative ideas from the point of discovery to implementation in clinical practice.

Fourth-year Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine student Lindsay Maguire is an athlete who found herself drawn to a research project with implications for other athletes.

The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV) has been awarded a five-year grant of nearly $23 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance innovative ideas from the point of discovery to implementation in clinical practice and population health.

Kurt Luther, Virginia Tech assistant professor of computer science, has developed a free software platform that uses crowdsourcing to significantly increase the ability of algorithms to identify faces in photos.

If you think you’re spending more time in your car, you’re right. Americans collectively spent 70 billion hours behind the wheel in 2016-2017 – an 8 percent increase since 2014-2015, according to new research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.

Plant diseases are a significant threat to our food security, and while rain provides fresh water to our crops, splashing drops may also contribute to the spread of plant disease.

Engineers often lack the understanding of systems that have many interacting parts, otherwise recognized as the cognitive understanding of basic concepts of complex human-technical systems.
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