The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (USDA/CSREES) announced that Virginia Tech, in collaboration with the USDA/ARS Microbial Safety of Aquaculture Products Center of Excellence, Dover, Del., and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, were awarded a grant to study the effects of high hydrostatic pressure in inactivating Norwalk virus, using oysters as a model.