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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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Fear of the known—and unknown
- 2008-03-06
Just three days before the campus shootings at Northern Illinois University last month, I sat in the morning plenary session at the annual American Council on Education meeting titled Campus Security, Response and Recovery." Judging by the number of people that attended the session and the Q&A that followed, campus...
LSU campus stays open after slayings
- 2007-12-15
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Police searched for suspects Friday in the shooting deaths of two Louisiana State University students, and unlike other schools in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, the school decided against locking down the campus. Police patrols were increased on the 28,000-student campus, and...
Weekend off turns out fine for Boston Coll.
- 2007-10-22
One of the best things you can be in college football anymore is idle. Just sit back and watch somebody else make your weekend.To nobody's surprise, South Florida's loss at Rutgers was Boston College's gain. So the Eagles (7-0) moved up a spot in both the USA Today and Harris...
Police: Suspicious man spotted, Virginia Tech building chained shut
- 2007-08-10
ROANOKE, Va. -- Two days before the Virginia Tech massacre, witnesses saw a suspicious man in a hooded sweat shirt and the doors of the building where Seung Hui Cho killed 30 people were chained shut, police said Friday. Cho chained the doors of Norris Hall before his...
A Better World Through Engineering
- 2007-07-01
OF THE ALMOST 206,000 American students who studied abroad in 2004-2005, almost 23 percent were social science majors, more than 7 percent were business students and less than 3 percent were engineering students. Experts agree the ability to work in a global environment is crucial to long-term success (both for...
Virginia Tech students make somber return to class amid tributes,
- 2007-04-23
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Thousands of Virginia Tech students and faculty filled the center of campus Monday to pay solemn tribute to the victims of last week's massacre -- listening quietly as a bell tolled for the dead on the day classes resumed at the grief- stricken school. An...
These tragedies make us wonder how far we've really come.(News)
- 2007-04-23
Byline: Chuck Goudie BLACKSBURG, Va. - Nobody knew of the scheme that was simmering. Mass murder at his local school. For months, or maybe even years, the insane feelings cooked slowly, like a rancid stew. In his sick mind, people he didn't...
Egyptian student at Virginia Tech never called home
- 2007-04-20
ZAQAZIQ, Egypt AFP — Mohammed Shaalan waited in front of his computer on Monday for his son to connect to the web cam, but 32-year-old Walid never did. He was dead. The Egyptian was a mature student at Virginia Tech and was one of the 32 people killed in...
Michael Smerconish | STOP DUMPING THE BLAME ON 'US'
- 2007-04-19
THE TRAGEDY at Virginia Tech continues to unfold almost on a loop across our television screens, radios and computers. The latest reports sadly paint a picture we've seen before: a loner who appeared aloof and disturbed to his classmates and teachers.But over the last few days, I've watched the devastation...
BCS standings
- 2006-10-30
Harris USA Com. BCS Rk Pts Pct Rk Pts Pct Rk Pct Avg Pv 1. Ohio St. 1 2848 0.9993 1 1575 1.0000 2 0.960 0.9864 1 2. Michigan 2 2727 0.9568 2 1500 0.9524 1 1.000 0.9697 2...
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