A Virginia Tech researcher estimates that the Department of Defense (DOD) spends close to $1 billion annually on service members experiencing personal financial management difficulties. E. Thomas Garman calculates that the direct costs of assistance programs and indirect costs of lost productivity due to financial stresses costs the DOD between $677 and $957 million each year.
A student at Virginia Tech has used a prestigious veterinary summer fellowship grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to develop a genetically engineered bacterium to serve as an oral contraceptive which may one day help solve a major animal overpopulation problem.
The stress of personal money problems and the failure to save for retirement is taking its toll on American workers. Research shows that one-half of all workers have money problems and providing personal financial education could save billions of dollars. These findings and others will be the focus of the third national Personal Finance Employee Education (PFEE) conference which will be held in Roanoke, Va., on Nov.10 -11 at the Hotel Roanoke.
Research found strong evidence that workplace financial education is extremely effective because it results in better financial wellness for workers.
Two recently published studies show that prolonged exposure to gratuitous violence in the media can escalate subsequent hostile behaviors and, among some viewers, foster greater acceptance of violence as a means of conflict resolution, according to Virginia Tech and University of Alabama researchers.
A genetically altered vaccine developed by a researcher in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine has received the final green light from the United States Department of Agriculture and is now being commercially marketed as an agent to prevent pneumonia in pigs.
A new material developed at Virginia Tech has the potential to strengthen structures such as airplane wings and fuselage as well as the armor in cars and tanks.
Within a very few years, the results of hundreds of thousands of current research projects and scholarly studies may become available on the Internet. This year's master's and doctoral degree recipients at Virginia Tech were members of the university's first graduate student class required to submit their final research electronically
Geological-sciences professors have discovered a fact about the San Andreas fault that may help in our understanding of earthquake hazards in California and other areas. Seismic reflection and refraction surveys of the deep crust show that the San Andreas fault goes straight through the crust and cuts through the Moho, the boundary between the crust and mantle of the Earth, instead of turning in the crust to connect with two other parallel faults in the area.
A Virginia Tech researcher estimates that the Department of Defense spends close to $1 billion annually on service members experiencing personal financial management difficulties.
Society tends to assume that men are dangerous and women are helpless, and Martha McCaughey wants to change that image -- especially when it comes to women's defending themselves from male violence
For a family that relies on food stamps to make ends meet, wise food choices can be the difference between being able to pay the rent or to afford child care or medical expenses.
Virginia Tech researchers have developed a new biosensor which can quickly detect chemical and biological pathogens, like the biological agent Anthrax, at previously undetectable levels.
A Virginia Tech professor is using computer technology to help preserve and teach surviving languages and dialects of Native American culture.
The possibility of human cloning and other advancements in assisted reporductive technology have made headlines and introduce new medical ethics issues. In an effort to better organize expertise in this arena, Virginia Tech has established Center for Reproductive Excellence Using Advanced TEchnology and Endocrinology (CREATE).
Virginia Tech's Fiber and Electro-Optics Research Center (FEORC) has received a $9.6 million grant from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for an Optical Sciences Research program. The five-year research project will focus on optical fiber materials, optoelectronics and fundamental optical materials science related in part to microelectronics, including optical microchips.
New consortium announces deployment of east coast's first connection point to multiple, major national, high-speed network initiatives.
Virginia Tech enters joint venture to form Virtual Prototyping and Simulation Technologies, Inc. (VPST), which will use virtual environments and simulation for training and for scientific or business visualization applications. The Virginia Tech CAVE, a 3-D virtual environment, will be a key element of the company's training and R&D tools.
Breaking research from Virginia Tech sheds an alarming light on the impact of financial stresses on worker productivity--and the big bucks employers are losing each year due to the lack of investing in personal finance education for their employees.
Virginia Tech researchers will investigate the possibility that troops exposed to insecticides during the Persian Gulf War could be at increased risk of developing Parkinson's Disease, thanks to a $543,000 grant from the U.S. Army.
Research presented Monday at the Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome in Baltimore confirms that up to 90 percent of performance horses suffer from gastric ulcers, and that intensive training is one of their causes. Ulcers can be painful, impair performance, and in some cases, can cause death.
A pilot study for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could help vaccine purchasers make some tough decisions and save millions of dollars in health care costs, according to the lead article to be published in a health care journal in January.
A $23 million gift-in-kind announced by DuPont is the largest single donation ever received by Virginia Tech and will aid the university's researchers in developing recyclable automotive parts, low-cost aircraft parts, and composite bridge beams.
Virginia Tech today announced that it will begin limited deployment of high-bandwidth wireless technology, or LMDS, in the Blacksburg area in early May.
Archaeopteris, an extinct tree that made up most of the forests across the earth in the Late Devonian period, had the same structure as modern trees, report three Virginia Tech scientists in the April 22, 1999, issue of Nature.
Eric Schmidt, the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of network computing giant Novell Inc., will be Virginia Tech's commencement speaker during ceremonies in Lane Stadium on Saturday, May 15, beginning at 9 a.m.
Maj. Gen. Daniel M. Dick, vice commander of the 12th Air Force and U.S. Southern Command Air Forces at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, will speak at the commencement exercises of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets.
University Distinguished Professor James K. Mitchell of the Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has been chosen to speak at the 1999 Graduate Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 14. The event will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Cassell Coliseum.
Pharming Healthcare Inc., the American subsidiary of Pharming Group N.V. of Leiden, Netherlands, will locate two unique pharmaceutical production installations in Southwest Virginia, a "transgenic" cattle farm in Craig County and a purification facility at the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center.
The decision by manufacturers to raise the price of cigarettes last year will have a significant impact on whether young people take up smoking and how much tobacco farmers grow in the future, according to a Virginia Tech study released this week.
The Virginia Tech Center for Gerontology's monthly forums explores current issues affecting older adults' lives. The October and Novermber programs look at the "Court Opinions About Grandparent Visitation Rights" and "Diversity in Older Adults' Lives."
The focus of the 1999 Virginia Water Research Symposium will be to increase communication between researchers and professionals in government and the private sector and to facilitate coordination of water monitoring programs and efforts in all water environments.
A change in the way air traffic controllers perform their work in order to help alleviate the enormous time delays air travelers are now experiencing is being called for by two Virginia Tech engineers (Journal of Transportation Engineering).
Bioinformatics experts from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (USA) and the European Media Laboratory (Germany) have joined forces to develop a software for simulating biochemical networks. It will be offered free to academic researchers and also available to businesses.
Book compares the political, economic and social experiences of the indigenous Monacan people of Amherst County, Va., with the late 18th century Scottish and Irish settlers of Wyoming County, W. Va.
With the use of a new sensing device, energy intensive industries should find that they can become less dependent on energy needs. The use of these sensors should also reduce the emissions of pollutants.
Virginia Tech Photonics Laboratory won a $1.8 million grant to continue its work in self-calibrating temperature and pressure sensors that will help commercialize the energy saving device.
Procedure may make mining for coal more environmentally friendly.
A new process to manufacture thin films has has been developed by Virginia Tech's Director of the Fiber and Electro-Optics Research Laboratory, Rick Claus, a distinguished professor in the electrical and computer engineering department.The development helped Claus earn Virginia's Outstanding Scientist Award for 2001.
Streams are vibrant ecosystems, and the smallest streams remove as much as half of the inorganic nitrogen that enters them, according to researchers from more than a dozen institutions. (Science, 4-6-01)
Type 2 diabetes and breast cancer are targets in two research projects that take advantage of Virginia Tech's strengths in the areas of biotechnology, health, and plant and animal sciences. One project addresses how a plant can produce a human enzyme used in the treatment of diabetes while the other is testing a new compound that could combat breast cancer.
Someday maybe a salad will be just as rich in vitamin C as a glass of orange juice since genes from a rat have been found to increase the vitamin in lettuce.
In an attempt to curtail the annual use of 36 billion pounds of toxic solvents in the production of acrylic polymers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is funding "green engineering" research by a Virginia Tech chemical engineering professor.
Virginia Tech English professor Thomas Gardner has received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a book that explores the influence of Emily Dickinson's "fallen poetics" on contemporary works of such poets as Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, and Susan Howe and novelist Marilynne Robinson.
D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover) used his writings to work out the issues in his life. The authors of Living at the Edge researched many original, unpublished sources, particularly letters by Frieda von Richthofen (Lawrence's wife), and interviewed people who knew the couple to produce a biography that reveals a difficult man and a vibrant woman.
Many factors influence the quality of drinking water and a burgeoning new problem is raising concern. Metallic plumbing materials, capable of lasting for centuries, are occasionally corroding at a very fast rate. This deterioration is producing some extraordinary costs and environmental problems to consumers and to industry.
Lighting makes up 20 percent of electricity use in the United States. Greater use of florescent lighting would reduce energy use. Now a newly patented device from the Center for Power Electronic Systems at Virginia Tech has the potential to make florescent lighting even more efficient and desirable for many applications.
Virginia Tech faculty members discuss the impact on the U.S. economy, technology, and international relations and the U.S. response.
Two tips: 1) Establishing a democracy in Iraq would be a hard task for anyone... The Bush administration has not outlined a strategy; 2) History lesson: US had a role in Iraqi WMD capability.
George W. Bush may be surprised to discover that he has one other staunch and loyal ally who requires absolutely nothing for his support for a U.S. invasion of Iraq: Osama Bin Laden.
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