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Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, Virginia Tech is now a comprehensive, innovative research university with the largest full-time student population in Virginia. Through a combination of its three missions of learning, discovery, and engagement, Virginia Tech continually strives to accomplish the charge of its motto: Ut Prosim (That I May Serve).
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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National Database Of Water Pipe Infrastructure In Works.(NEWSLINE: The Latest Industry Developments)
- 2008-05-01
A group of VirginiaTech faculty and researchers are working to create the prototype of a national internet-based geospatial database of underground water pipes with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation. The project is a collaboration between Sunil Sinha,...
States work to close gun-law gap
- 2008-02-19
In the days after Seung Hui Cho shot and killed 32 classmates and staff at Virginia Tech, Alberta Darling, a state senator in Wisconsin, wondered whether her own state's laws would have averted such a tragedy. Records of Cho's involuntary commitment to outpatient treatment never made...
States bolster FBI gun database
- 2008-02-19
More states are turning over records to a federal database of mentally ill people barred from owning guns, nearly tripling the number in the system since the massacre at Virginia Tech last spring, the FBI says. The tragedy spurred states to revisit their policies regarding the...
How To Prevent A Tragedy
- 2008-01-07
Tucked away in rural Southwest Virginia, remote Blacksburg is an unlikely spot for the worst school shooting in U.S. history. Nevertheless, an April 16 rampage by a mentally disturbed student, Seung-Hui Cho, left 32 people dead. In the wake of that tragedy, Virginia Tech has begun to make changes in...
Protest Movement Against Lax U.S. Gun Laws Continues Momentum in Three State 'Lie-In' Protests on Sunday at Noon
- 2007-06-01
To: FAMILY EDITORSContact: Abigail Spangler of ProtestEasyGuns.com, arspangler@aol.com; or Becca Knox, +1-202-489-3015 ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Local mothers and concerned citizens in McLean, VA, Silver Spring, MD, and Philadelphia, PA, have banded together to stage a triple protest on Sunday June 3, 2007 at 12:00 noon in their...
Hokie, Hokie, Hokie hi, win this one for V.P.I.(Editor's Notebook)
- 2007-05-01
Hokie, Hokie, Hokie hi, win this one for V.P.I. By Mark Hawver As I write this, we are a week removed from the horrors that took place on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, now known as Virginia Tech. Located...
Virginia governor closes loophole that allowed Va. Tech shooter to
- 2007-04-30
RICHMOND, Va. -- The governor on Monday closed the loophole in state law that allowed the Virginia Tech gunman to pass a federal background check and buy the weapons used in the massacre. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine issued an executive order requiring that a database of people banned...
Warrants seek phone, laptop, motives
- 2007-04-20
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Police obtained search warrants Thursday for a cellphone and computer belonging to one of the first people killed at Virginia Tech as they tried to identify motives behind the shootings that left 33 people dead. The FBI also planned to subpoena Cho Seung...
U. memorial honors victims
- 2007-04-20
Two-thirds of a continent away from Blacksburg, Va., the University of Utah feels suddenly more vulnerable this week than it did the week before. That's one reason why students like Harold Henderson were drawn to the U.'s Union Building Thursday for a noontime interfaith vigil for the victims of Monday's...
Parent is pleading: Focus on victims
- 2007-04-20
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Peter Read wants you to make a choice. He asks that you turn away from the face of the deranged gunman glaring at the camera. Gaze instead at the face of a bright and bubbly brunette who smiled even when she was unhappy, a face...
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