Tarantula named in honor of Virginia Tech entomologist
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Paul Marek can now add “Spider Man” to his list of professional titles. The Virginia Tech assistant professor of entomology has had an actual spider named after him.
Search Results for research
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W&L prof Barton Myers awarded fellowship at Filson Historical Society
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Barton Myers, assistant professor of history at Washington and Lee University, has won the Filson Historical Society’s 2016 Ballard Breaux Visiting Research Fellowship.
Earth Talk: Can big game hunting can actually be good for wildlife?
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Globe-trotting big game hunters imported more than 1.26 million “trophies”—the part of the animal they keep for display—to the U.S. between 2005 and 2014.
Virginia Tech study tackles most common heart disease in dogs
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A clinical research study at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech might help other dogs with similar heart conditions.
McAuliffe letter on the General Assembly budget proposals
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Governor Terry McAuliffe has presented a letter to General Assembly money committee chairmen and the budget conferees.
Route 29 Solutions advisory panel will meet Thursday in Charlottesville
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The Route 29 Project Delivery Advisory Panel will hold its regular meeting at 2 p.m.Thursday at the Virginia Transportation Research Council, 530 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville.
Common blood test could predict risk of second stroke
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A new discovery about ischemic stroke may allow to doctors to predict patients’ risk of having a second stroke using a commonly performed blood test and their genetic profile.
Fifty Plus: Aging parents
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We just get our kids through college, we have a wedding or two, we have a few grandchildren, we are in debt, we think it’s finally our time, and then our parents get old.
Warner, McCaul lead coalition to establish digital security commission
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U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner led a bipartisan group introducing legislation to establish an independent National Commission on Security and Technology Challenges.
In memoriam: Ralph Cohen, UVA professor who transformed literary criticism
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Longtime University of Virginia English professor Ralph Cohen, who founded the internationally known scholarly journal New Literary History, died Feb. 23 – his 99th birthday – in Charlottesville.
