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The right-hand southbound lane between the 1400 to 1600 blocks of South Main Street, (from El Guadalupes to King Street), will be closed beginning July 21 until August 21. The lane will be completely closed 24 hours each day during this period.
This is the section of South Main Street adjacent to the First and Main Project. The lane will be closed so that the turn lane, curb and gutter and sidewalk work can be constructed. Signage and channelization will be installed per the attached plan.
Over the past few weeks, bankruptcies, government bailouts, and talk of a global credit crisis have rocked Wall Street, while a weakened housing market continues to trouble Main Street. Virginia Cooperative Extension encourages all citizens to review their financial situation and goals and not to panic when the market fluctuates.
Lamine Mili, professor of electrical and computer engineering in Virginia Tech's National Capital Region, has been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to research the Development of Complex Systems Theories and Methods for Resilient and Sustainable Electric Power and Communications Infrastructures.
In the 1970s, a tale of the friendship of two men began. Both were musicians by hobby, but their real vocations were as scientist and engineer. Their friendship and respect for each other started an educational partnership that has now spanned some four decades and helped to provide Virginia Tech with one of the best interdisciplinary materials programs in the world.
ChoicePoint Inc., through its foundation, has made a $50,000 gift to the Pamplin College of Business to support social entrepreneurship and technology education at Virginia Tech.
Pamplin College of Business finance alumnus and investment banker Brian Slingerland will give a talk on Thursday, Sept. 18, as the Wachovia Distinguished Speaker.
A total of 160 employers have signed up to attend the 26th annual Business Horizons career fair of Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business on Thursday, Sept. 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the Squires Student Center Commonwealth and Old Dominion ballrooms.
Lamine Mili, professor of electrical and computer engineering in Virginia Tech's National Capital Region, has been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to research the Development of Complex Systems Theories and Methods for Resilient and Sustainable Electric Power and Communications Infrastructures.
Next week, hundreds of environmental journalists will visit the Roanoke and New River valleys as they meet to discuss and learn more about issues related to energy (particularly coal), climate, water, the land, and environmental health.
Thanks to efforts by scientists in a Virginia Tech-led program, the papaya mealybug -- an emerging threat from India to Indonesia --is being identified and contained.
Seong K. Mun, has joined Virginia Tech in the National Capital Region as professor of Physics and research fellow at the Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Study.
Liwu Li, associate professor of biological sciences at Virginia Tech, has revealed a common connection between the cellular innate immunity network and human chronic inflammatory diseases, including atherosclerosis, Type 2 Diabetes, and neurodegenerative diseases. The finding presents a viable cellular and molecular target for the diagnosis and treatment of serious human inflammatory diseases, according to Li.
The scientist appointed to lead a major new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiative to combat infectious diseases will present the keynote address during Virginia Tech's upcoming Deans' Forum on Infectious Diseases.
Lamine Mili, professor of electrical and computer engineering in Virginia Tech's National Capital Region, has been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to research the Development of Complex Systems Theories and Methods for Resilient and Sustainable Electric Power and Communications Infrastructures.
In the 1970s, a tale of the friendship of two men began. Both were musicians by hobby, but their real vocations were as scientist and engineer. Their friendship and respect for each other started an educational partnership that has now spanned some four decades and helped to provide Virginia Tech with one of the best interdisciplinary materials programs in the world.
William R. Knocke, W.C. English Professor and head of the Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, was awarded the 2008 Virginia Outstanding Civil Engineer Award at the Virginia Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers' (ASCE) banquet, held recently in Williamsburg, Va.
