Based on research expenditures of $232.6 million in 2002, Virginia Tech ranked 52nd out of 625 universities nationwide, according to the recently released National Science Foundation (NSF) survey.

Migratory birds, as well as many other animals, are able to sense the magnetic field of the earth, but how do they do it? "A fascinating possibility is that they may actually see the earth's magnetic lines as patterns of ...

Oft heard in the halls of academe are complaints of students who come to class late and then don't pay attention. A new book from the "New Directions for Teaching and Learning" series contends that lapses in student behavior ...

Members of the Center for Wireless Telecommunications (CWT) of Virginia Tech demonstrated their newly developed broadband communications system at the Digital Government Research Conference (DGO 2003) in Boston recently. ...

Scientists and engineers worldwide are taking control of matter at its smallest scale, individual atoms, to create new materials and devices that are making electronics smaller and promise a future with highly efficient ...

Researchers in Virginia Tech's Center for Center for Photonics Technology are on their way to solving a problem that is limiting the range and number of sensors used to safeguard civil and industrial infrastructure.

Virginia Tech Professor John A. Burns will receive a prestigious mathematics prize in recognition of his "fundamental contributions in computational methods for, and applications in, the control, design, and optimization ...

Gary D. Seidel, assistant professor of aerospace engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, has received a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award to support development of a carbon nanotube-enhanced ...

Virginians report themselves happy with the quality of their lives in Virginia, according to the 12th annual Quality of Life (QOL) in Virginia Survey, conducted by the Virginia Tech Center for Survey Research (CSR). But ...

Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. announces that Valhalla Partners and Virginia's Center for Innovative Technologies (CIT) GAP Funds have invested in MiserWare Inc., a Blacksburg, Va. software company based on ...