Earth Talk: Solar geo-engineering
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Solar geo-engineering is a term describing any of various techniques for reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth and its atmosphere.
Search Results for research
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Longwood’s Cyber Security Center receives national designation
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Longwood University has been designated a National Center of Digital Forensics Academic Excellence (CDFAE) by the Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3).
Earth Talk: Early puberty may have environmental roots
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Research indicates that indeed Americans girls and boys are going through puberty earlier than ever, though the reasons are unclear. Many believe our widespread exposure to synthetic chemicals is at least partly to blame, but it’s hard to pinpoint exactly why our bodies react in certain ways to various environmental stimuli.
McDonnell tours, opens new MACH37™ Cyber Accelerator at CIT
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During a tour with industry and university cybersecurity leaders, Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Thursday the opening of the MACH37™ Cyber Accelerator and the first companies to be accepted in the accelerator.
Starting at the bottom to give kids a better chance
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Child poverty has been worsening in this country for a decade, to the point where one in five of our children is ensnared by a web of injustice and simple bad luck that diminishes their present and casts a shadow over their future.
JMU students, faculty raise issue with Obenshain on choice issues
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Today, two former James Madison University faculty members as well as current and former students called attention to Republican attorney general candidate Mark Obenshain’s time as a member of the James Madison University Board of Visitors and his crusade to stop the university’s health center from dispensing emergency contraception.
Ken Plum: Lessons to be learned from others
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For many years I used North Carolina as a state that I thought Virginia should emulate. As another southern state, North Carolina was showing Virginia up in its commitment to improving the quality of life of its residents through investments, particularly in education.
McDonnell announces 2013 Governor’s Technology Award Winners
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The annual Governor’s Technology Awards were presented to honorees in 10 categories at a special ceremony today at the Commonwealth of Virginia Innovative Technology Symposium (COVITS) in Richmond.
Earth Talk: Human overpopulation
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Ever since Thomas Malthus published “An Essay on the Principle of Population” in 1798, positing incorrectly that humans’ proclivity for procreation would exhaust the global food supply within a matter of decades, population growth has been a hot button issue among those contemplating humankind’s future.
Second in nation offshore wind lease sale off Virginia
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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management completed its live auction to lease an area off the coast of Virginia as the site of the nation’s second offshore wind energy lease sale. The winner of the lease sale is Dominion Virginia Power, which bid $1.6 million for the lease.
