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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,...
Colleges put out safety nets
- 2008-04-16
In the year since Seung Hui Cho killed 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech, colleges dramatically have expanded efforts to catch dangerous students in a safety net before they crash and take innocent victims down with them, school officials say. "It's a different world since...
GRIEF, GRIT & GRACE
- 2008-04-01
A year after America's deadliest mass shooting shattered its ranks and shuttered its main building, Virginia Tech's College of Engineering has prevailed-even triumphed-over tragedy. Blacksburg, Va.-It's an unusually mild winter day, yet no one at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering seems keen to play hooky. Students drift in...
Emotions moved writer to take a risk: powerful poem became multi-media project
- 2007-09-22
The Virginia Tech shootings grabbed me like everyone else. You want to make sense of the senseless. But nothing helps. People typically don't commit suicide unless they're mentally ill. Do they kill themselves, or do they succumb to the disease? I can't answer that. The whole thing was...
Panel details red flags before Va. Tech tragedy
- 2007-08-31
As Seung Hui Cho moved methodically through Virginia Tech's Norris Hall shooting 30 people, witnesses say he never uttered a word. That is generally how Cho moved through life -- silent, withdrawn and alone -- until a year before the shootings, when his increasingly anti-social behavior...
UVa's Martin lends expertise to Virginia Tech panel: one of the nation's preeminent authorities on emergency medicine, Dr. Marcus Martin aims to help the panel learn from the tragedy
- 2007-08-09
Dr. Marcus Martin was already effortlessly juggling three balls as a professor and an administrator in two offices at the University of Virginia. Then, in the wake of the tragedy at Virginia Tech on April 16, Gov. Tim Kaine tossed another ball into the rotation. He appointed Martin as...
Professor's sacrifice honored in Wheeling.(News)
- 2007-05-31
Byline: Avian Carrasquillo acarrasquillo@@dailyherald.com A memorial tribute in Wheeling Wednesday evening celebrated the heroic efforts of Holocaust survivor Liviu Librescu, 76, a Virginia Tech professor of engineering who died while trying to save the lives of his students back on April...
A professor gives his life
- 2007-05-28
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...
Lost Lives
- 2007-04-30
Liviu Librescu, 76 Professor, Virginia Tech A Romanian Jew, Librescu survived the Holocaust and Nicolae Ceausescu's communist regime before dying in his Norris Hall classroom last Monday. He came here in the mid-'80s from Israel, where he worked at Tel Aviv University, and had long been...
LEAD: Student wrote about death, spoke in whispers: paper
- 2007-04-23
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, April 17 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING INFO) Cho Seung Hui, identified as the shooter in the Virginia Tech killings Monday, had taken pictures of fellow students during class and written about death, a college professor said in an interview with the Washington Post published...
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