The fall's wildfire season begins Oct. 15, and Virginia Cooperative Extension, in cooperation with the Virginia Department of Forestry and the U.S. National Park Service, is encouraging homeowners to practice firewise ...

Virginia Tech will host the Biodiversity Conservation in Agriculture Symposium at its Caribbean Center for Education and Research in Punta Cana, the Dominican Republic, May 31 - June 2. The symposium is designed to promote ...

The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium (PGSC), an international team of scientists from industry and academia in 14 countries, has released a draft sequence of the potato genome with the help of a Virginia Tech researcher.

David G. Schmale III of Blacksburg, Va., assistant professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science in Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, received the 2010 Sporn Award for Excellence in ...

<p>A group of Virginia Tech Ph.D. students recently returned from travels in Switzerland and Italy as participants in a program that offers insights into higher education and the professoriate on the global scale.</p>

About 300 teens, volunteer leaders, and Virginia Cooperative Extension agents will come to Virginia Tech's Blacksburg campus for the 90th annual 4-H State Congress from June 14 to 17.

Virginia Tech today dedicated and named its new garden pavilion in honor of Peggy Lee Hahn, wife of T. Marshall Hahn, president emeritus of Virginia Tech.

The Southwest Virginia Aquaculture Research and Extension Center (AqREC) in Saltville, Va., will offer the seminar,"Aquaculture Opportunities for Southwest Virginia" on Tuesday, Jan. 17. The 5 p.m. seminar will be held at ...

<p>Paul Ruszler, Extension poultry specialist emeritus, and Rami Dalloul, assistant professor, both of the Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, were ...

Virginia Tech's rank for agricultural and natural resource research spending jumped four places to sixth in 2007, up from tenth in 2006, in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) recently released nationwide ranking of programs.