
UVA engineering professor receives highest U.S. government honor for early career researchers
UVA engineering professor Patrick Hopkins will receive the highest honor the U.S. government bestows on science and engineering professionals.

UVA engineering professor Patrick Hopkins will receive the highest honor the U.S. government bestows on science and engineering professionals.

Virginia Tech researchers have developed a soil rehabilitation method that can help fix the compacted, rock-hard soils left behind after land development.

This morning, SB58 – a research and development tax credit bill co-chief patroned by Senator Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) – passed unanimously through the Senate.

A parent’s incarceration has immediate, devastating effects on a family. Now, Virginia Tech and University of Toronto researchers say there’s a longer term risk.

Shenandoah National Park awarded the 2016 Shenandoah National Park Trust Research Grant to Christine L. May, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, James Madison University.

With many different species of mosquitoes in the United States, Zika virus is only the latest of emerging threats, according to a Virginia Tech vector-borne disease researcher.

A new Ph.D. program at the VCU School of Dentistry will provide training for students who wish to pursue research in oral health.

It took over a decade for the global framework called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) to become official.

The genetic makeup of bedbug skin plays a significant role in the pest’s ability to resist insecticides, according to Virginia Tech researcher Zach Adelman.

In an editorial at the New England Journal of Medicine, Dan Longo and Jeffrey Drazen have coined an interesting new term: “research parasite.”
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