Higher education institutions in the New River Valley are collaborating to bring 21st century network access to the region. Radford University, New River Community College (NRCC), and Virginia Tech have jointly created a new internet service called a Multimedia Services Access Point (MSAP).

Ricardo Quintana-Castillo of Mayaguez, P.R., a Ph.D. candidate in computer science in Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, is researching how social networks and social interactions affect the way people manage their personal information. He has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, which provides three years of funding.

The Virginia Police Work Dog Association will host its 2008 fall workshop October 6-10 in Blacksburg, Va. The event is being hosted by the New River Valley contingent of the Southwest Virginia Training Group and is being sponsored by Shelor Motor Mile.

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.

Ricardo Quintana-Castillo of Mayaguez, P.R., a Ph.D. candidate in computer science in Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, is researching how social networks and social interactions affect the way people manage their personal information. He has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, which provides three years of funding.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a four-year, $1,000,000 grant to the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech to develop high-performance computer modeling tools for wireless telecommunication networks.

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.

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.

Ricardo Quintana-Castillo of Mayaguez, P.R., a Ph.D. candidate in computer science in Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, is researching how social networks and social interactions affect the way people manage their personal information. He has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, which provides three years of funding.

Virginia Tech's College of Engineering presented its 2008 Distinguished Service Award to mechanical engineering alumnus John Sparks, director of engineering and technology programs at Aerojet, a GenCorp Inc. company, recognized as a major space and defense leader specializing in missile and space propulsion as well as defense and armaments.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) presented its first ASME/Virginia Tech Memorial Scholarship to mechanical engineering graduate student Justin Klein of Catonsville, Md.