Shenandoah National Park celebrates wilderness
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Shenandoah National Park will honor America’s wilderness heritage during its 15th annual Wilderness Weekend, September 12–13.
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Virginia Tech scientists reveal cellular clockwork underlying inflammation
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Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have uncovered key cellular functions that help regulate inflammation — a discovery that could have important implications for the treatment of allergies, heart disease, and certain forms of cancer.
ACC football games will include medical observer
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When Atlantic Coast Conference teams kick off their football seasons later this week, additional sets of safety-conscious eyes will watch intently from on high.
Avoid these web hosting mistakes
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So you have come up with a new idea for a website that is going to change the world, or maybe you just thought you needed another place to upload cat videos, but there are some issues you should know about before you go shopping around for a web hosting plan. Avoid these common mistakes by doing your own research and not falling for marketing gimmicks.
Restorative justice, peacebuilding and development programs gain new faculty
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New faculty members Johonna Turner and Tim Seidel bring strong ties to Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), and to Mennonite peacebuilding organizations, as well as a variety of practice, theory, teaching and research experience.
Great jobs, great lives: Virginia Tech alumni thrive, according to Gallup survey
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Virginia Tech graduates outpace the national average when it comes to thriving at work, having great careers, and leading lives that matter.
Global tobacco reps learn about quality U.S. leaf
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Visitors from almost a dozen countries recently learned about tobacco grown in what several people referred to as “the greatest tobacco region in the world.”
Initiative to imagine Virginia Tech in the year 2047
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The long-range “visioning initiative,” first announced in May, kicks into high gear this week. Virginia Tech President Timothy D. Sands has appointed a broad-based steering committee of faculty to guide the effort to rethink the university of tomorrow.
Op-ed on coal industry deceptive
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The truth is, coal is a very dirty industry. There is nothing innocent about the business and it knows it. A much better analogy would be to compare coal to the tobacco industry executives who testified before Congress that nicotine is not addictive, even though they knew otherwise
Virginia Tech engineering education professors seek to find ways to reduce time spent studying for a degree
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As the costs of a college education continue to soar, and politicians scramble for ways to make the academic experience more economically feasible, two Virginia Tech engineering education professors are investigating helpful strategies for avoiding pitfalls that prolong completion times when pursuing doctoral degrees.
