Virginia forage conferences link animal and human health
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Beef has periodically gotten a bad rap, but a speaker at an upcoming series of forage and grassland seminars believes beef is the real health food.
Search Results for research
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Revenge of the bacteria?
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The development and widespread adoption of so-called “antibiotics”—drugs that kill bacteria and thereby reduce infection—has helped billions of people live longer, healthier lives. But all this tinkering with nature hasn’t come without a cost.
Vacuum-steam treatment for invasive snails proves promising
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The U.S. East Coast and some port areas such as Houston, Texas, are being invaded by snails that hitchhike in containers shipped from the Mediterranean.
Richmond-based Fortune 500 companies awarded Virginia Fairness Accreditation
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Equality Virginia has recognized five Richmond-based Fortune 500 companies – Altria, Capital One, CarMax, Dominion, and Genworth – for their commitment to making Virginia’s business climate conducive to economic success by encouraging and supporting diversity in the workplace.
VCU engineering professor makes major breakthrough in reducing cost of key AIDS drug
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A team of researchers led by a Virginia Commonwealth University engineering professor has invented a far more cost-effective way to manufacture a widely used AIDS drug, potentially greatly expanding access to the much-needed drug in countries with emerging economies, such as South Africa.
Virginia Tech collaboration with Chilean university will address earthquakes, other challenges
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Researchers and administrators from Austral University of Chile will visit Virginia Tech this week to finalize plans for joint research projects.
UVA report on school readiness finds some Virginia students lacking
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A new study conducted by education researchers at the University of Virginia finds that about one-third of Virginia students lack at least one important element of readiness for kindergarten.
Canon Virginia to expand printer cartridge manufacturing, toner production operation
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Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Wednesday that Canon Virginia, Inc. (CVI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc., will invest $100 million to expand its operation in the City of Newport News.
Route 29 Solutions Advisory Panel to meet in Charlottesville
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The Route 29 Project Delivery Advisory Panel will hold its first meeting of the new year at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research, 530 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville.
Clintonistas have their eye on Jim Webb
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Town Hall wrote this week on the recent Jim Webb news regarding payments from his Born Fighting PAC to family members with the suggestion that the news bit could have come from Team Clinton’s oppo research efforts.
