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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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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...
A VIRGINIA TECH MFT ETHICS CLASS REFLECTS ON THE SHOOTINGS AT VIRGINIA TECH
- 2008-04-01
The authors of this article include the professor and most of the students in a doctoral course on marriage and family therapy ethical and professional issues that met the semester that a disturbed student shot and killed 32 Virginia Tech students and faculty before killing himself. In this article, we...
On a Fateful Anniversary, Remembrances in More Than 50 Communities Across America to Urge Common Sense Gun Laws
- 2008-03-27
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Brady Campaign Communications, +1-202-898-0792, phamm@bradymail.org Immediate Goal Is Congressional Passage of Legislation to Close the Gun Show Loophole WASHINGTON, March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, April 16, the first anniversary of the terrible tragedy that took 32 innocent lives at Virginia Tech, local citizens in...
Coaching fraternity counsels another through tragedy
- 2008-02-19
One of the first things Seth Greenberg did when he heard the news from Northern Illinois University was pick up the phone. A disturbed young man carrying demons and weapons had turned another campus into a killing ground. Students were gunned down in the spring of...
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...
Va. Tech families given memorial donations
- 2007-12-01
IN ANOTHER STEP TOWARD healing from last April's mass shootings on campus, Virginia Tech distributed the Hokie Spirit Memorial Funds money to those most deeply affected by the tragedy. Seventy-nine eligible claimants, both families and individuals, will receive funds or the equivalent educational tuition given in disbursements over time....
Cell phones for safety
- 2007-09-22
Since the tragedy at Virginia Tech last spring, many colleges are using text messages to alert students of emergencies. Harvard, Colgate, Penn State, Colorado University, Texas A&M, Xavier, and Purdue are just a few schools that have implemented text-based alert systems. For more information on how the systems work, check...
Hokie spirit stays strong
- 2007-09-01
Following the Virginia Tech tragedy, concerned people just spontaneously began making contributions to what was later to become the Hokie Spirit Memorial Funds. To access these resources, please visit us on the Web at www.riskandinsurance.com/story.jsp?storyId=22058562
Element H2O Named as Official Water Sponsor for Centreville Day 2007
- 2007-08-28
Sponsorship Also Includes Support for the Peterson Samaha Character Development Scholarship Fund CHANTILLY, Va. -- Element H2O, a leading provider of ultra pure oxygenated bottled water to government, business, consumer and private label clients, today announced it has been named Official Water Sponsor of Centreville Day 2007 (Va.) ...
Va. Tech students move in, move on
- 2007-08-17
BLACKSBURG, Va. --When Whitley Johnson begged her mother to let her return to Virginia Tech a few days early for flag-team tryouts, Melanie Johnson gently broached last semester's tragedy with her daughter. Whitley, who had lived in West Ambler Johnston, the dorm where the first shootings...
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