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Mid-Atlantic Road Trip: UNC-Asheville

You're about to spend four years of your life on a college campus; you need to make sure it feels right. Then, to sample what neighboring states had to offer, we drove north to Blacksburg, Va. Of all the state university...

Mid-Atlantic Road Trip: Virginia Tech

You're about to spend four years of your life on a college campus; you need to make sure it feels right. Then, to sample what neighboring states had to offer, we drove north to Blacksburg, Va. Backed up against the Appalachian...

Virginia Tech suspends starting receiver indefinitely

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Virginia Tech has suspended receiver Zach Luckett indefinitely for a violation of team policy. Coach Frank Beamer announced the suspension of the 6-foot-3, 212-pound redshirt sophomore Monday, and said...

A dirt pile, a kite and a dream - roanoke.com

Like two latter-day men of La Mancha, Billy Weitzenfeld and I trudged across a vacant field and climbed a hill, chasing as-yet-unconstructed windmills. Billy is the executive director of the Association of Energy Conservation...

Georgia man wins bike race up NH's Mt. Washington

A college student from Georgia finished nearly two minutes ahead of his closest competitor Saturday to win the 36th annual Mount Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb. Phillip Gaimon, a University of Florida at Gainesville...

Meetings to examine wood as energy source

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Wood's potential as an alternative energy source will be addressed at two public meetings scheduled in September. The meetings are sponsored by the Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources, Virginia...

Guns on campus? FAU students push for advocacy group

A chapter of a national gun advocacy group that supports allowing students to carry weapons to class may open at Florida Atlantic University this fall. Students for Concealed Carry on Campus was created after the April 2007...

Caught on camera - roanoke.com

High-tech trailcams add excitement and precision to offseason deer scouting.Until recently, offseason deer scouting involved studying trails, tracks and other physical signs left behind by whitetails, or maybe watching over a...

Commercialization aim of grant supporting technology that destroys cancer cells

EUREKALERT Contact: Lynn Nystrom tansy@vt.edu Blacksburg, Va. -- A new technology, using electric pulses to destroy cancer tissue and named by NASA Tech Briefs as one of seven key technological breakthroughs of 2007, is...

Default Folder X 4.0.8 enhances Recent Folder feature and delivers fixes

St. Clair Software is happy to announce the release of Default Folder X 4.0.8, which now tracks folders containing the files you drag onto applications in the Dock. Default Folder X enhances the file dialogs in all Mac OS X...