2018 Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign in full swing
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The 2018 Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign (CVC) is in full swing, raising over $30,000 in just a few days.
Search Results for research
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4 aviation technologies currently in development
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The aviation industry spends big bucks in research and development every year. The goal is to make flights safer, affordable and more efficient. Moreover, it helps reduce their operating costs while avoiding terrible accidents.
Harmful algae bloom still issue in Lake Anna area
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Locations within Lake Anna in Orange, Louisa and Spotsylvania counties continue to experience a harmful algae bloom (HAB).
Team discovers sleep cycle gene connection to brain cancer known as glioblastoma
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Scientists with the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute say a gene involved in the body’s sleep cycle is a potential target for therapies to help patients with a deadly form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma.
Busy October at Shenandoah Valley Art Center
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The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the month of October, is exhibiting in the Cabell/Arehart Gallery artists from BozART, a gallery originally established in 1995 and located in Charlottesville on the Downtown Mall.
Historian talks Story of the Shenandoah Valley
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Activist, historian and author Deirdre Sinnott presented “A Story of the Shenandoah Valley: The 1836 Escape, Arrest, and Rescue of George and Harry Bird” for the Shenandoah County Historical Society’s quarterly meeting at St. Paul’s Heritage Center in Edinburg on Sept. 18.
Sea urchins may be key to developing lightweight engineered cellular materials
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In the ongoing search for strong, lightweight materials, researchers are looking at sea urchins, which have spines made of chalk, and are generally brittle.
Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences initiative launches partnerships in Kenya
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As Robin White and her Virginia Tech colleagues drove from the Nairobi airport to meet their new collaborators in Kenya for the first time, her training as an animal and poultry science researcher kicked in.
Earth Talk: Plastic in the ocean
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Plastic in the ocean is a big problem that first came to widespread public attention in the late 1980s when mariners began sharing reports of what turned out to be a 1.6 million square kilometer garbage patch floating in the middle of the North Pacific.
Milk protein shown to alleviate chemotherapy side effects could enhance patients’ recovery
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Patients undergoing cancer treatment confront a number of well-documented side effects. Chemotherapy and other cancer therapies can wreak havoc on the taste buds and olfactory senses.
