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: ...

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

Devens '06, a former news anchor, leaned on his communication background as he navigated and won the popular reality show. He ...

In collaboration with the Regional Center for Animal Care and Protection in Roanoke, students and researchers help dogs find forever homes. A world of scents and sounds abounds, hopefully a temporary ...

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

The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors today appointed Richard Linton as the university’s 17 th president. Linton will succeed Tim Sands, who will continue to serve as president until Linton assumes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Virginia Tech experts are available to discuss top news stories—including how redistricting efforts could ultimately influence the midterm elections, the stakes in Israel’s upcoming elections, how the ...

Is there someone you know who goes above and beyond to support their community? Or whose curiosity brings a new perspective to their field of research? Is there someone whose internal compass inspires ...