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Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech takes a hands-on, engaging approach to education, preparing scholars to be leaders in their fields and communities. As the commonwealth’s most comprehensive university and its leading research institution, Virginia Tech offers 215 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to more than 30,000 students and manages a research portfolio of more than $450 million. The university fulfills its land-grant mission of transforming knowledge to practice through technological leadership and by fueling economic growth and job creation locally, regionally, and across Virginia.
Chen-Ching Liu stands in the Power and Energy Center Lab at Virginia Tech's Blacksburg campus. Photo by Peter Means for Virginia Tech.

Preventing electric grid cyberattacks with the flip of a switch

Virginia Tech
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology
Artistic reconstruction of Mbiresaurus raathi (in the foreground) with the rest of the Zimbabwean animal assemblage in the background. It includes two rhynchosaurs (at front right), an aetosaur (at left), and a herrerasaurid dinosaur chasing a cynodont (at back right). Illustration courtesy of Andrey Atuchin.

Discovery and naming of Africa’s oldest known dinosaur

Virginia Tech
Categories Life & Non-humans
Mojtaba Edalatpour drops ice onto a hot plate in the Nature-Inspired Fluids and Interfaces Lab. Photo by Alex Parrish for Virginia Tech.

Using ice to boil water: Researcher makes heat transfer discovery that expands on 18th century principle

Virginia Tech
Categories Physics & Mathematics

Why is it wrong to sell your body? Understanding liberals’ vs conservatives’ moral objections to bodily markets

Virginia Tech
Categories Social Sciences

Game changer in alternative energy

Virginia Tech
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Physics & Mathematics

Man-sized robot jellyfish, reporting for duty

Virginia Tech
Categories Technology

Early education closes achievement gap, brings societal benefits

Virginia Tech
Categories Brain & Behavior, Uncategorized

Broader background checks and denial criteria could help prevent mass shooting catastrophes

Virginia Tech
Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Technology, Uncategorized

In Greece, billions by high-income earners goes untaxed

Virginia Tech
Categories Technology, Uncategorized

Biggest black hole blast discovered

Virginia Tech
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Space, Technology, Uncategorized

When the world burned less: Cool climate, not population loss, led to fewer fires

Virginia Tech
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Uncategorized

High levels of iron in water may hurt dairy products

Virginia Tech
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Technology, Uncategorized
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