A Touch of Tech Archive
Find out something new about Virginia Tech you may not have known. Updated every Friday by noon.
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11.6.2009 Advances In Mining Reclamation
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10.30.2009 Studying Mining Impact
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10.23.2009 Research Advances in Human Healthcare
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10.16.2009 Vanishing Trout?
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10.9.2009 A Perfect Nose for Radar
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10.2.2009 Intelligent Vehicle Gives Visually Impaired Independence
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09.25.2009 Safeguarding Our Water Supply
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09.18.2009 Researching "Voluntourism"
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09.11.2009 Faster Scanning -- Better Care
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09.4.2009 Studying Facial Reactions
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08.28.2009 A Natural Resources Law Partnership
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08.21.2009 Researching Inflammation in Human Health
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08.14.2009 Equine Asthma Sufferers Headed for Relief
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08.7.2009 VT Going Green and Sustainable
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07.31.2009 Student-produced E-Business Guide
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07.24.2009 Helping Alaska Get Online
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07.17.2009 Student Food Inventors
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07.10.2009 Neil Young's Souped Up Hybrid
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07.03.2009 The Best Hand in the Land
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06.26.2009 Powering a Village
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06.19.2009 Helping Cancer Patients
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06.12.2009 From Waste to Fuel
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06.5.2009 Horse Hospital; Cleaner Bay
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05.29.2009 Virtual Farming; Genesis of a Disease
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05.22.2009 Grouse Population; Ship Design Award Winners
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05.15.2009 Emotional Intelligence; Not-so-solid Rocks
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05.8.2009 Studying Falls; Searching Space
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05.1.2009 Bucky Balls; New Crops
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04.17.2009 Biocompatible Fibers; Designer Wheat
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04.10.2009 The \"IT\" Girl, Hokie Water
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04.3.2009 Going Up?; Mali
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03.27.2009 VT International; Bird Songs
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03.20.2009 A Virtual Cathedral, Tech's Colleges
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03.13.2009 Museums; Aquaculture
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03.6.2009 Grouse, grouse, grouse; Ship-shape
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02.27.2009 Fish science; Soy shorts
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02.20.2009 Acupuncture; Plovers
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02.13.2009 Cancer pulses; Appalachian trout
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02.6.2009 NewMadrid, Prostate Chickens
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01.30.2009 GPS Blues; Papaya
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01.23.2009 Chicken Oil; Biodiesel for Your Health
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01.16.2009 Bacterial Weavers; Plastic Feathers
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01.9.2009 African Food; Neutrinos
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01.2.2009 Green Computers; Olive U.
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12.19.2008 Dummies; Bay Cows
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12.12.2008 IT Girls; Fat Horses
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12.5.2008 Turkey genome; Robot amoebas
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11.21.2008 Osteoporosis in Bears; NAFTA Update
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11.14.2008 Sun Worshipping in the Dark; Chemical Warfare
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11.7.2008 'Growing' Hydrogen; Aiding Mongolia
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10.31.2008 Water Rescue Harness; Special Delivery Sludge
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10.24.2008 Tomato pathogens; REALLY old eggs
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10.17.2008 Credit Card Chromatography; Horse Isolation
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10.10.2008 Fighting asthma; Bridge Stress
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10.3.2008 Putting the Squeeze on Salmonella; Folding DNA
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09.26.2008 Handling Stormwater; Virginia on the Equator?
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09.19.2008 A Fifth Dimension?; Better Flood maps.
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09.12.2008 Chimp viruses; Help for aging farmers.
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09.05.2008 Protecting the parkway; A Hokie stinkbug?
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08.29.2008 The shape of being in shape; Building a better book bag.
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08.22.2008 Not quite Gameboy; How does a disease start?
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08.15.2008 Game theory and your cell phone; Focus on public health.
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08.08.2008 Building an energy future; Smart garments.
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08.01.2008 The sky's the limit; Virginia Cooperative Extension.
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07.25.2008 Body math; A short history of lichen.
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07.18.2008 Norwalk virus; A quorum of bacteria.
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07.11.2008 Dogwood borer; Malaria mosquito.
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07.04.2008 Bringing back mussels; Carbon sequestration.
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06.27.2008 Certifiable supervisors; University inspires "supercity" designation.
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06.20.2008 Jefferson's big trees; Visualizing viruses.
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06.13.2008 Equine Medical Center has it all; Chesapeake Bay and cows.
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06.06.2008 Emotional intelligence and IT; Tiny bubbles offer big clues.
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05.30.2008 Storing more stuff; Brainmobiles.
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05.23.2008 Nanopollution; An Olympic veterinarian.
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05.16.2008 Teamwork in the ACC; A whole new yew.
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05.09.2008 See food, not seafood; Better chemical suits.
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05.02.2008 Plants as parasites; Different kind of cow chip.
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04.25.2008 Smells like you; Happier trails to you.
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04.18.2008 Bugs bugging other bugs; Global clouding from global warming.
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04.04.2008 Cooling off computers; Greening up computers.
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03.28.2008 Drought-resistant rice; Chicken-powered vehicles?
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03.21.2008 Neutrinos by the trillions; Predators and evolution
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03.14.2008 Fill'er up with algae; Getting CO2 out of the air.
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03.07.2008 Maps to avoid the road; When the patient is a zebra
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02.29.2008 Saving a beach dune; Conservation in Belize.
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02.22.2008 Game theory and cell phones; Improving public health.
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02.15.2008 Space research; Virginia Cooperative Extension.
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02.08.2008 The shape of obesity; A better book bag.
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02.01.2008 Computer "games" for farmers; How a disease starts.
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01.25.2008 Virginia Tech's international life; Tropical bird songs.
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01.18.2008 Exploring a destroyed cathederal; The breadth of Virginia Tech.
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01.11.2008 Accurate museums; Inland seafood.
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01.04.2008 Bringing back grouse; Inland shipbuilding.
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12.14.2007 Some light body work; Manipulating mosquitos.
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12.07.2007 Partnering to find a cure; Zapping cancer.
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11.30.2007 Developing a really sweet ride; Building better noses.
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11.16.2007 A knotty problem; Mussel-building.
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11.09.2007 Finding airborne fungus; Making nano-medicine work.
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11.02.2007 Shorts from soybeans; Controlling obesity in horses.
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10.26.2007 Creating robot amoebas; Cows and the Chesapeake Bay.
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10.19.2007 Plastics from feathers; Speed training for horses.
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10.12.2007 Understanding neutrinos; Making more olive oil.
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10.05.2007 Healthy biodiesel byproducts; Chickens and prostate cancer.
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09.28.2007 Using tree rings to study Virginia's past; Folding and flexing DNA.
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09.21.2007 Helping disabled farmers; Cleaning up beaches.
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09.14.2007 Disappearing Appalachian trout; A Hokie bug.
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09.07.2007 Protecting piping plovers; Reforesting Virginia.
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