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Forest Products Meeting Presents Speaker On Recent Events In Pallet Industry
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-02-28)The Center for Forest Products Marketing and Management will feature Edward C. Brindley to speak on recent events in the pallet industry and the impact on the lumber industry. Brindley will speak at the center's annual ... -
Virginia Tech Bear Researchers Ensure Populations
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-02-28)The Cooperative Alleghany Bear Study (CABS) was initiated in 1994 as a 10-year study to ensure survival of Virginia's hunted black bear population of western Virginia. During the first six years of the study, researchers ... -
NBC Political Analyst Tim Russert To Speak On Campus
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-02-28)Tim Russert, NBC political analyst and moderator of its "Meet the Press" program, will give a talk at Virginia Tech on Thursday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Burruss Auditorium. -
Media Advisory -- Virginia Tech Board Of Visitors To Meet
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-03)The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors will hold their quarterly board meeting on campus Monday, Mar. 10. -
Virginia Tech Faculty And Students Honored
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-04)Virginia Tech faculty and students have recently been honored with various awards and nominations, as well as for their publications. -
Virginia Tech's Conservation Management Institute Develops National Database For CWD
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-04)The issue is Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and the question is what to do about it. CWD, a fatal brain disease of white-tailed deer and elk, threatens wildlife management throughout the U.S. -
World Renowned Feng Shui Consultant To Visit Virginia Tech
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-04)Angi Ma Wong, renowned feng shui consultant and entrepreneurial publisher, will visit Virginia Tech as part of the University Distinguished Speaker Series, March 14-18. -
Virginia Tech Wildlife Expert Dies
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-05)Dr. Patrick F. Scanlon, professor of fisheries and wildlife sciences, died on Tuesday, March 4, 2003, while hiking in the cloud forest of Taiwan with doctoral student, Po-Jen Chiang, and Virginia Tech colleague, Michael ... -
Women Activists To Speak At Virginia Tech
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-07)Joan Browning and Ruth Harris, two women who challenged race and gender roles in the early 1960s, will discuss their experiences as civil rights activists at Virginia Tech. The event, "Challenging Boundaries/Challenging ... -
Wallenstein To Discuss Beginnings Of Black Enrollment At Universities In The South -- Virginia Tech was 'first' to desegregate
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-07)Peter Wallenstein, professor of history at Virginia Tech, will present a public lecture on "'We Have Decided That We Can Accept You at VPI': Irving Peddrew, Charlie Yates, and the Beginnings of Black Enrollment at 'White' ... -
Virginia Tech Ranks In Top 25 For Alumni Serving In Peace Corps
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-10)Virginia Tech has been ranked in the top 25 nationally on the list of large colleges and universities with alumni currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers. The list is compiled annually and represents the 42 Tech alumni ... -
Virginia Tech Board Of Visitors Approves Name Of Future Building Construction Home
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-10)"Bishop-Favrao Hall" will be the official name of the newest addition to the College of Architecture & Urban Studies, approved by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors at its meeting today. Bishop-Favrao Hall will be the ... -
Virginia Tech's College Of Natural Resources Dedicates Cheatham Hall Expansion
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-10)Thanks to funding by private donors, Alyce Cheatham and her family of Portland, Oregon, Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources will dedicate a much-needed, three-story addition to its current Cheatham Hall on Wednesday, ... -
VT Board Of Visitors Approves New Commission, Other Resolutions
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-10)Commission on Equal Opportunity and Diversity -- After two years of extensive work conducted by the Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action committee and the Advisory Council on Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, the ... -
Virginia Tech Board Of Visitors Enacts New Tuition And Fee Rates
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-10)The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors has approved new tuition rates for the 2003-04 academic year. -
Tech Students To Bike Across U.S. To Help Build Houses
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-11)This summer Virginia Tech students will be biking across the U.S. to raise money and awareness about Habitat for Humanity. The cyclists participating in the first annual Virginia Tech "Bike and Build" program will begin ... -
Virginia Tech Book In Nicolas Cage/Meryl Streep Movie -- Volume On Evolution Evolved Into Movie Prop In Film To Be Shown At Lyric
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-11)Peter Graham and Duncan Porter of Virginia Tech have never been in the movies, but their collaborative anthology The Portable Darwin" appears in the recent Nicolas Cage-Meryl Streep film Adaptation". -
Hackerman, Former President Of Two Universities And Former Virginia Tech Professor, To Speak On Science In Society
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-12)Norman Hackerman, a former Virginia Tech chemistry faculty member who went on to serve as president of both the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University, will speak on Science and Society at Virginia Tech Tuesday, ... -
Virginia Tech Faculty Honored
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-14)Several Virginia Tech faculty members have been honored or have received awards recently. -
Conference To Look At Consequences Of Technology On Women
(Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-03-14)American women once were not allowed to hold patents. In fact, the property of married women once legally belonged to their husbands. However, Martha McCaughey, professor of women's studies at Virginia Tech, pointed out ...