Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech, is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six regions statewide and a study-abroad site in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland. Through its Corps of Cadets ROTC program, Virginia Tech is a senior military colleges. Virginia Tech offers 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to some 34,400 students and manages a research portfolio of $522 million, placing it 48th among universities in the U.S. for research expenditures and second in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Virginia Tech is the state's second-largest public university by enrollment. The deadliest mass shooting on an American college campus occurred on campus in 2007, during which a student fatally shot 32 other students and faculty members and wounded 23 other people.

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Virginia Tech researchers continue to innovat - EurekAlert

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Virginia Tech researchers publish real-time data to understand what happens when a person loses their balance - EurekAlert

Virginia Tech researchers develop tool to assess healthy hydration recommendations - EurekAlert

Virus that causes COVID-19 is widespread in wildlife, Virginia Tech scientists find - EurekAlert

Virginia Tech researchers find potential method to control mosquito populations through genetic breeding - EurekAlert

Virginia Tech researchers work to create biodegradable bioplastics from food waste - EurekAlert

Virginia Tech researcher helps discover underlying mechanisms behind regular exercise benefits - EurekAlert

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