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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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Judge approves $11 million for Virginia tech victims families
- 2008-08-01
A RICHMOND, VA., CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE APPROVED AN $11 MILLION SETTLEMENT WITH families of 24 out of the 32 deceased victims in last year's Virginia Tech tragedy, avoiding a court battle over whether anyone but Seung-Hui Cho was responsible for the shootings. Under its terms, the Commonwealth of Virginia...
There is a gunman on campus; tragedy and terror at Virginia Tech
- 2008-08-01
There is a gunman on campus; tragedy and terror at Virginia Tech. Ed. by Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke. Rowman & Littlefield 2008 263 pages $28.95 Paperback HV6534 On April 16, 2007, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (commonly called...
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...
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...
Gun bill inspired by Virginia Tech OK'd
- 2007-12-20
WASHINGTON -- Congress on Wednesday passed a long-stalled bill inspired by the Virginia Tech shootings that would more easily flag prospective gun buyers who have documented mental health problems. The measure also would help states with the cost. Passage by voice votes in the House and Senate came...
Understanding College Student Mental Health: The Psychological, Institutional and Legal Issues
- 2007-11-29
To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Ginny Greenberg of Hofstra University, +1-516-463-6819; Conference Registration, +1-516-463-6535 December 6 and 7, 2007HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The mental health of college students, which has become the subject of nationwide discussion following the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech last spring, will be examined at a...
State Mental Health Record Submissions Double
- 2007-11-29
To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: The Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2008 Since Virginia Tech, States Have Dramatically Increased Reports to National Gun Background Check SystemPARK CITY, Utah, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a speech before the National Association of Attorneys General, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today announced...
SDR Forum Announces Winners of Its Inaugural Smart Radio Challenge and Qualifying Teams for the 2008 Challenge
- 2007-11-12
In Worldwide Competition, Student Engineering Teams Design, Develop and Test a Software Defined or Cognitive Radio DENVER -- At its annual technical conference last week in Denver, the SDR Forum (www.sdrforum.org) announced the winning teams in its inaugural Smart Radio Challenge, a worldwide competition in which student engineering teams...
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