It's 9 p.m. on a rural mountain highway when a 750-pound elk steps onto the road, its silhouette hidden from an oncoming driver by a curve in the terrain. Suddenly, a roadside sign illuminates: ...

Declining Colorado River flows and falling water levels at Lake Powell and Lake Mead are highly visible signs of the Southwestern megadrought. Unseen below ground, groundwater reserves in the Colorado ...

Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences can spend the day immersed in workplaces and learning from alumni ...

The annual Little Hokie™ Hand-Me-Down is scheduled for Nov. 11 and 12 in the Graduate Life Center multipurpose room at 15 Otey Street on the Blacksburg campus. Sponsored by the Graduate School, ...

Tom Ewing explains more about determining the cause of disease outbreaks, Russia’s ties to this research, and how COVID-19 ...

The adage “practice makes perfect” may not always ring true, but research from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute provides new evidence that practice does make teen driving safer. Published in ...

Scientists have long known that being obese increases the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. What remains unclear is how that risk develops in the brain. Virginia Tech neuroscientist Timothy ...

Women are twice as likely as men to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) — and new research may offer a biological clue as to why. A Virginia Tech study found that the female brain forms fear ...

Hundreds of middle and high school students across the region will continue to have Virginia Tech advisers helping them explore careers, tour college campuses, apply for financial aid, and navigate ...

The Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering welcomed Jiaxiang "Jason" Li as a new assistant professor this fall. Li’s research focuses on continuous optimization, machine learning, and ...

Virginia Tech researchers are helping lead a new state initiative that tackles one of the Chesapeake Bay’s most persistent environmental challenges: nutrient pollution from nonpoint sources. “Rather ...

Millions of dogs enter U.S. animal shelters each year, and while many eventually find new homes, the experience can be deeply stressful. Loud kennels, erratic routines, and isolation all take a toll ...