James A. Burger of Blacksburg, the Garland Gray Professor of Forestry in the College of Natural Resources at Virginia Tech, was conferred the “professor emeritus” title by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors during the board’s quarterly meeting on Nov. 3.

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Thomas M. Murray of Radford, Va., Montague-Betts Professor of Structural Steel Design in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, was conferred the “professor emeritus” title by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors during the board’s quarterly meeting on Nov. 3.

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Accounting and information systems associate professor Steve Sheetz has received a grant from accounting and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to investigate why more firms have not adopted XBRL — eXtensible Business Reporting Language, part of a group of information systems languages used for communicating information between businesses and on the Internet.

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Almost $70,000 in clinical research grants have been awarded to four principal investigators in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech through the 2008-09 distribution of Veterinary Memorial Fund research grants.

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Forbes newsletter editor and book author Vahan Janjigian will give a talk on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., as the featured speaker in the BB

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