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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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Universities seeking ways to avert campus violence
- 2008-08-06
A year after a mentally ill student at Virginia Tech preceded his suicide with a shooting spree that killed 32 people, universities nationwide are still scrambling to figure out how to identify and disarm their own potential ticking time-bombs. Administrators from all of Utah's major colleges gathered Tuesday...
Guys and guns amok; domestic terrorism and school shootings from the Oklahoma City bombings to the Virginia Tech massacre
- 2008-08-01
Guys and guns amok; domestic terrorism and school shootings from the Oklahoma City bombings to the Virginia Tech massacre. Kellner, Douglas. Paradigm Publishers 2008 221 pages $85.00 Hardcover The radical imagination series HN90 In the US, about 12,000 people die in...
For families and survivors, grief becomes call to action
- 2008-04-11
LaGRANGE, Ga. -- Nearly a year after Jamie Bishop's slaying, Michael Bishop has surrounded himself with memories of his son. The bits of ideas for short stories Jamie wanted to write someday. The digital collages that testify to Jamie's budding artistic talent. "I cannot look at...
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...
Gun control vs. gun rights
- 2008-02-18
It may seem callous to say so, but there's no better litmus test for where the USA stands on gun violence than a deadly school shooting during a closely fought presidential race. After Thursday's senseless rampage at Northern Illinois University -- where police say Steven Kazmierczak, 27, fatally shot five...
Brady Campaign Urges Support for Bill to Close Gun Show Loophole
- 2008-01-30
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Peter Hamm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, +1-202-898-0792, phamm@bradymail.org WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Several families of the Virginia Tech massacre and Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke joined Senators Frank Lautenberg and Jack Reed on Capitol Hill today as the Senators announced...
Brady Campaign Commends President for Signing Important Gun Law
- 2008-01-08
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Peter Hamm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, +1-202-898-0792, phamm@bradymail.org WASHINGTON,Jan. 8/PRNewswire-USNewswire/--Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement concerning the NICS National Instant Check System Improvement Amendments Act of 2007: President Bush did the right...
What does it mean to tell the truth about the Virginia Tech killings?
- 2007-10-01
At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, "Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless...
Senator Coburn Blocks Life-Saving Bill
- 2007-09-27
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Peter Hamm of Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, +1- 202-898-0792 WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement:It appears that Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is blocking passage of a bill that would address...
Virginia Tech Report Has National Importance
- 2007-08-30
To: EDUCATION EDITORSContact: Christine Armstrong of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, +1-703-312-7893, christinea@nami.org ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ronald Honberg, director of policy and legal affairs for the National Alliance on Mental Illness NAMI issued the following statement on today's Virginia Tech Panel Report: "The report is...
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