Back Issues, Virginia Tech Research Magazine

Summer 2007

  • Battle of the bugs: An invader is destroying America’s hemlocks but Virginia Tech forest entomology researchers are battling the bugs.
  • Student storm chasers find course research to be excellent adventure
  • Creating the future’s wearable, washable, potentially life-saving computers.
  • Storytelling software helps scientists make connections within the ocean of scientific information being published.
  • Cognition and emotion development are connected: Virginia Tech’s Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab.
  • Slow road to recovery in war-torn Bosnia is paved with hope.
  • Recognition and thanks for the contributions of five of our faculty members
  • Introducing Bob Walters, vice president for research at Virginia Tech.

Winter 2007

  • Saving rare breeds of livestock that helped build a nation
  • A modern-day Dr. Dolittle, walking – and talking – with the animals
  • A cool summer research adventure for a Virginia Tech graduate student
  • Exploring Appalachia's geographic identity crisis
  • Overcoming disabilities through the power of movement
  • Finding an elegant solution to a threat to Albania’s olive crop
  • New research is enabling the study of disease at the molecular level
  • “Pressure tactics” that are helping to make food and medicine safer

Summer 2006

  • The Frequency Monitoring Network helps secure the grid
  • Fixing America’s power grid – the role of distributed generation
  • Tidal energy offers potential new forms of energy from the sea
  • Virginia Tech’s beautiful, efficient solar house
  • A roundup of energy-related research at Virginia Tech

Winter 2006

  • Multiculturalism in today's diverse workplace
  • Infectious disease research
  • The emotional toll parents' deployment has on teens
  • Studying jaguars in the wild
  • What causes traffic accidents
  • New molecular complexes used in the war on cancer
  • Driverless vehicles
  • A roundup of hurricane-related research at Virginia Tech
 

Spring 2005

  • Free radicals threaten fat cats and fad dieters
  • Apple shape puts overweight folks on fast track for disease
  • Fat a BIG problem for kids
  • Editorial: Fighting obesity: More than ‘Just say no’
  • Plant chemistry, history reveal clues to survival<
  • University theatre experimentation, creative experiences connect artists and audiences
  • A step forward by design for spinal fusion surgery
  • Microscopes

Fall 2004

  • Women learn from revolution that they can lead in peace
  • Scientists model interaction of viruses and immune system
  • Rising above sweatshops
  • Life in the fast lane enriches Virginia’s landscape
  • Cuba inside out
  • Student Research

Winter 2004

  • 200 years ago, the Lewis and Clark expedition crossed a continent
  • Researchers help pick faces out of a crowd
  • How do mountains grow?
  • Research can guide investment
  • Building a supercomputer
  • When a tree grows in any town, we all benefit
  • Program helps couples stop the violence
  • Reducing injuries from accidents
  • Student research: Winning graduate student research makes it easier to plot forested land and for computer grids to operate in secure environments
  • Microscopes

Winter 2003

  • Biomaterials — an offer the body can’t reject
  • New sensor would simplify diagnostics
  • Fit to lead — research suggests fitter executives may be better leaders
  • Tiny, tough, and true — photonic sensors go into the harshest environments
  • Emily Dickinson challenges modern writers
  • People want to see themselves in the funny pages
  • Finding the right horsepower — Equine nutrition to promote health and performance
  • Microscopes
 

Summer 2002

  • There is more to a forest than trees
  • Preparing for a ‘worst case scenario’
  • Faster, safer, cheaper, air travel
  • Composer travels the world
  • Shaking up things in virtual reality
  • Model airplane pinpoints plant stress
  • The Quest for Donne
  • Art flying in and out of space
  • Microscopes

Winter 2002

  • Social scientists respond to September 11
  • Power engineers taking small steps toward big energy savings
  • Decisions, Decisions: Applying the power of business research to the business of power
  • Filled buckyballs — diamonds from soot
  • Nanotechnology — still more room at the bottom
  • Mexican-American communities remain hostage to history
  • Microscopes

2001

  • How two young men succeeded against the odds
  • Bioinformatics
  • And Justice for All
  • The little cell that could power an energy revolution
  • Life precarious in island paradise
  • Aquaculture: Ocean-friendly, market-savvy wave of the future
  • Student research bridges boundaries
  • Microscopes

2000

  • From wired to unwired
  • Speed, weather and the next wave
  • Web project brings Jamestown to life
  • Violent movies can increase violent responses
  • Biomedical engineers maintain the ultimate machine
  • Planting trees between a rock and a hard place
  • If Bossy eats right, premium ice cream will be health food
  • Coping and caring — not packaging — defines ‘family’
  • The best things in life aren’t things
  • Students showcase outstanding research
  • Microscopes
 

1999

  • Racing against disease and economics
  • Can we harvest hardwoods without harm?
  • Seeds of change
  • Re-live and learn
  • Ruling the Web
  • Engineers and biologist collaborate
  • Night life
  • Waste not, waste not
  • Partners in research
  • Microscopes

1998

  • Is it safe to eat?
  • Smokin’
  • Building a building system
  • Adjusting the global thermostat
  • Negotiating
  • Antimatter matters
  • A few good patents support university missions
  • Partners in research
  • Microscopes

1997

  • Can We Feed the World?
  • Mapping the Future
  • Hazardous Materials: Accidents and the Future
  • Material Advances
  • In 2047, we’ll be more efficient, more connected, more entertained, more unemployed
  • Immunology advancements coming quickly
  • Even the house of the future won’t necessarily be ‛smart’
  • Highways, vehicles get smart
  • Microscopes
 
 
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