Community forum on free-range parenting
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Free-range parenting has been a hot topic in recent months in the news and in online forums after two Maryland children were detained while walking home from a local park.
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Virginia Tech scientists reveal more about how body copes with common gut bacterium
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Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute’s Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens have completed a comprehensive study on gene networks that regulate immune system responses to H. pylori, a gut-dwelling bacterium carried by half the world’s population.
Virginia Tech, DuPont Teijin Films™ collaboration allows food industry to test package and process products
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The Virginia Tech Department of Food Science and Technology and DuPont Teijin Films™ have entered into a collaboration that will allow companies to test new ways to package and prepare food using the university’s network of experts and DTF’s new packaging materials.
VCU receives $5 million grant to study adolescent brain development
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The National Institutes of Health awarded a $5 million grant to Virginia Commonwealth University to take part in a landmark study on substance use and adolescent brain development.
Roundup: Harmless, or carcinogenic?
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Monsanto’s Roundup herbicides contain three key components: the active ingredient glyphosate, water, and a soap-like surfactant blend. The agricultural application of glyphosate has skyrocketed over the past 20 years.
Poll: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders in dead heat in New Hampshire
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With the Democratic primary in New Hampshire less than four months away, Hillary Clinton (37 percent) and Bernie Sanders (35 percent) are deadlocked for the Democratic nomination for president when Joe Biden, who is still on the fence, is included in the tally, according to a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll of likely Granite State Democratic primary voters.
Governor McAuliffe announces new CEO for the Center for Innovative Technology
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Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today the selection of Ed Albrigo as the next president and CEO for the Center for Innovative Technology.
Virginia Tech takes 4-H to children in Senegal
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In a Senegalese village, children grow vegetable seedlings and organize money-raising traditional Senegalese wrestling events in a Positive Youth Development program modeled after Virginia Cooperative Extension’s 4-H program.
VCU to host daylong discussion of race and American society
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Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Union University are examining the role race plays in the criminal justice system, public opinion and the media at the daylong Wilder Symposium “Race and American Society.”
UVA study: Affordable Care Act benefitted HIV patients in Virginia
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In an important examination of the effect of the Affordable Care Act, researchers have determined that low-income Virginians with HIV had better outcomes when enrolled in Affordable Care Act healthcare plans.
