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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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Virginia Tech Wood Science Dept. joins effort to create K-12+ curricula.(CLIPPINGS)(Brief article)
The Dept. of Wood Science and Forest Products in the College of Natural Resources at Virginia Tech University has initiated an effort to create seamless educational pathways in the areas of wood science, wood manufacturing, and wood design. According The Dept. of Wood Science and Forest...
12 states debate guns on campus
Even before a gunman killed five people and injured several others in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University, a small but growing movement had been underway at universities and state legislatures to allow students, faculty and staff to carry guns on campus. Twelve states are...
HAWKS PEEL HOKIES
By Asher Fusco THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL MIAMI - In Kansas, a 58-degree, overcast afternoon in early January might seem heaven-sent. In south Florida, those conditions are treated as borderline catastrophic. Whatever the weather, the Kansas Jayhawks chilled the Virginia Tech Hokies on...
Oregon's little-seen Dixon gets next shot at spotlight
A week ago, Boston College quarterback Matt Ryan had his Heisman Trophy moment when he threw for two touchdowns in the final two minutes to rally the No. 2 Eagles to a 14-10 win at No. 9 Virginia Tech. Now, the spotlight shifts to Oregon quarterback Dennis Dixon. ...
Slow action faulted in Virginia Tech massacre
WASHINGTON AFP — Officials' slow action likely cost lives of students and staff ahead of the bloodiest campus massacre in US history, an investigation into the April shooting at Virginia Tech University concluded Wednesday. The probe by the US state of Virginia noted crucial errors by university police and...
The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute
The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute PMMI has awarded scholarships totaling $9,500 to four Virginia Tech packaging students. Virginia Tech was one of 19 schools with a packaging curriculum that received scholarship funds from PMMrs Pack Expo Scholarship program.
A professor gives his life
Liviu Librescu had already lived a life filled with danger and challenges before he became a professor of engineering at Virginia Tech. Librescu, who was 76, survived the Holocaust as a child when his Jewish family was imprisoned by the Nazi-dominated Romanian government. As an adult, he lost his job...
Students to use poetry to help Virginia Tech.(News)
Byline: Russell Lissau rlissau@@dailyherald.com Mundelein High School students will stage a poetry slam tonight to raise money for the victims of last month's Virginia Tech University shootings. Although slams have been held at other area schools, this is the...
Queen tells of her sorrow
The Queen told the Americans that her "heart went out" to those left devastated by the gun massacre at Virginia Tech University. On the first day of her tour to the US, she addressed the general assembly in Virginia, the state left reeling by the deadliest college campus shooting...
Novel holds haunting similarities to tragedy
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee may be the right book at the right time. It's a first novel that, through sheer coincidence, opens a door onto the inner lives of a community that has been much in the news: Korean-Americans. ...



