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Millions of dollars are spent annually on professional development for veteran teachers aimed at increasing the quality of teaching in America’s K-12 classrooms. But what about the training these teachers get before entering the classroom?
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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