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Virginia Tech’s Chemistry-Physics Building will be officially named for former university president T. Marshall Hahn Jr., in a dedication ceremony Friday, Oct. 16 at 3:30 p.m. Continue reading →

Corps of Cadets alumnus Capt. Timothy Dillera, United States Air Force, who received a degree in chemistry from the College of Science in 2003 has been selected as the Hokie Hero for the Virginia Tech versus Boston College football game. Continue reading →

Theresa M. Reineke, associate professor of chemistry in the College of Science, and colleagues in her lab at Virginia Tech and at the University of Cincinnati have developed a new molecule that can travel into cells, deliver genetic cargo, and packs a beacon so scientists can follow its movements in living systems. Continue reading →

Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets alumni Capt. Tim Fong, United States Army, who received a degree in economics from the College of Science in 2005 and Capt. Mike Martinez, United States Army, who received a degree in chemistry from the College of Science in 2004, have been selected as the Hokie Heroes for the Virginia Tech versus Duke football game. Continue reading →

Nobel Prize winning economist Eric Maskin, professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, will present “Mechanism Design: How to Implement Social Goals,” on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 2 p.m. in Pamplin Hall Room 1045 on the Virginia Tech campus. Continue reading →

Camille Harris of Ridgeland, Miss., a graduate student in biological sciences, has been awarded a prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Graduate Research Fellowship for her study of forest disturbance and its ecological impacts on LaCrosse Virus, a mosquito-borne disease that can cause seizures, coma, paralysis, and permanent brain damage in severe cases. Continue reading →

Research at Virginia Tech has shown that the oldest complex life forms — living in nutrient-rich oceans more than 540 million years ago – were likely fed by osmosis. Continue reading →