
Virginia Tech, UVA collaboration creates Spanish-language COVID-19 resources
Virginia Tech librarian Ana Corral and University of Virginia librarian Hanni Nabahe saw a need for providing COVID-19 resources for Spanish-speaking communities.

Virginia Tech librarian Ana Corral and University of Virginia librarian Hanni Nabahe saw a need for providing COVID-19 resources for Spanish-speaking communities.

It springs to life each year in freshwater ponds and lakes as temperatures rise. By the middle of summer, the foliage is so thick and bushy at the surface that the water below is plunged into darkness, with hardly any oxygen seeping in from the air above.

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia has approved Virginia Tech’s bid to create a School of Communication.

The House has passed H.R. 7617, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, and included in the omnibus spending package are provisions that will help improve nuclear energy development.

Oumar Barry, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Virginia Tech College of Engineering, is leading research for a self-powered autonomous robot to prevent electric power line defects.

DEET (short for “diethyltoluamide”) is a synthetic compound invented by the U.S. Army in 1946 that can be applied topically to repel mosquitos, ticks, fleas, chiggers, leeches and other biting insects.

African-Americans have up to three times the risk of dying from strokes as people of European descent, yet there has been little investigation of if and how genetic variants contribute to their elevated risk. Until now.

Virginia Commonwealth University and VCU Health System announced Wednesday that Arthur L. Kellermann, M.D., will serve as senior vice president for health sciences at VCU and CEO of VCU Health System, effective Oct. 1.

The Central Shenandoah Health District will hold a free COVID-19 testing event on Tuesday, Aug. 4 from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Poolhouse at Stuarts Draft Park.

More than 30 million Americans are infected with a brain parasite spread by cats and contaminated meat, but most will never show symptoms.
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