
Shenandoah National Park Trust research grant open for applications
Applications are being accepted for the Shenandoah National Park Trust research fellowship program.

Applications are being accepted for the Shenandoah National Park Trust research fellowship program.

Urban forestry experts have long suggested that tree canopy cover in residential and urban areas is essential to a healthy ecosystem.

An international research team from six universities, including Virginia Tech, is working to better understand how trees adapt to changing climates.

Researchers at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute are forming the Developmental and Translational Neurobiology Center.

A Virginia Tech research team has discovered an innovative way to inhibit the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness.

Virginia Tech researchers have found a gene that can reduce female mosquitoes over many generations.

The University of Virginia is offering a new, free online tool to help people ease their anxiety from the comfort of their own homes.

Dr. Bennet Omalu will present an endowed lecture at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, in Nininger Hall at Bridgewater College.

An extinct reptile related to crocodiles that lived 212 million years ago in present day New Mexico has been named as a new species, Vivaron haydeni.

The Michael J. Fox Foundation has awarded a $1 million grant to VCU to test a diagnostic tool for Parkinson’s disease.
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