rekordy: Virginia Tech

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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly referred to as Virginia Tech (VT), is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. It was founded as the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1872. The university also has educational facilities in six regions statewide, a research center in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and a study-abroad site in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland. Through its Corps of Cadets ROTC program, Virginia Tech is a senior military college. Virginia Tech offers 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to its over 38,000 students; as of 2016, it was the state's second-largest public uni…

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Spotlight on Public History: Virginia Tech Undergraduates Design Exhibit for the American Civil War Museum at Appomattox

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Insect education and outreach: integrating traditional and non-lethal collection techniques.. Insect collections offer a unique and practical way to enrich students' education at every level. Collecting insects and identifying specimens provides an active, hands-on activity that connects students to the natural world in a way that lectures alone cannot. With the advancement of technology, non-lethal approaches to traditional museum collections can still provide an experiential learning opportunity without the need for ethical considerations. This review emphasizes the significance of insect exposure in primary school, secondary school, undergraduate instruction, and public outreach settings…

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An Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory Course: Calcium Imaging and Data Analysis - a Mini Graduate Research Experience.. Calcium imaging has become a powerful and widely used technique to visualize and measure neural activity in real time, offering valuable insights into complex behaviors, neural networks, and brain function. However, implementing calcium imaging in undergraduate laboratories is challenging due to the need for specialized microscopy and advanced computational skills for data analysis. To help undergraduate students grasp the principles and analytical methods of calcium imaging through hands-on experience, we designed and taught a semester-long course. The course is structured…

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West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States. Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, West Virginia University Potomac State College in Keyser, and clinical campuses for the university's medical school at the Charleston Area Medical Center and Eastern Campus in Martinsburg. WVU Extension Service provides outreach with offices in all 55 West Virginia counties. Enrollment for the fall 2025 semester was 23,532 for the main campus, while enrollment across all three campuses was 26,046. The Morgantown campus offers more than 350 bachelor's, master…

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The Virginia Tech Hokies football team represents the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the sport of American football. The Hokies compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They previously competed in the Big East. Their home games are played at Lane Stadium, located in Blacksburg, Virginia, with a seating capacity of over 65,000 fans. Lane Stadium is considered to be one of the loudest stadiums in the country, being voted number two in ESPN's 2007 "Top 20 Scariest Places to Play". It was also recognized in 2005 by Rivals.com as having the best home-fie…

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The Virginia Tech Hokies are the athletic teams representing Virginia Tech in intercollegiate athletics. The Hokies participate in the NCAA's Division I Atlantic Coast Conference in 22 varsity sports. Virginia Tech's men's sports are football, basketball, baseball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field, and wrestling. Virginia Tech's women's sports are basketball, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field, golf, and volleyball. Virginia Tech's athletes have won 22 individual national titles in various track and field events, wrestling, and swimming. Though not affiliated w…

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The Virginia Tech shooting or at the time, the Virginia Tech massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, a 23-year-old undergraduate student at the university, killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols before committing suicide. Six others were injured jumping out of windows to escape Cho. Cho's shooting spree was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history and remained so for nine years until the Pulse nightclub shooting. It remains the deadliest school shooting in U.S. h…

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The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets (VTCC) is the military component of the student body at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Cadets live together in residence halls, attend morning formation, wear a distinctive uniform, and receive an intensive military and leadership educational experience similar to those at the United States service academies. The Corps of Cadets has existed from the founding of the university as the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1872 to the present-day institution of Virginia Tech, which is designated a senior military college by federal law. As of August 2025, about 1,400 cadets are currently enrolled in the program.

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This is a list of colleges and universities in the U.S. state of Virginia. The oldest college or university in Virginia is The College of William and Mary, founded in 1693. In 2010, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine became the newest. The largest institution is Liberty University, with over 143,000 students. The smallest is the graduate-only Institute for the Psychological Sciences. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia defines four categories of degree-granting institutions of postsecondary education: public institutions, established private institutions in good standing with a nationally recognized accrediting organization, private and out-of-state institutions re…

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West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVU Tech, WVIT, WVU Beckley, or West Virginia Tech) is a public college in Beckley, West Virginia. It is a divisional campus of West Virginia University.

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In the United States, a senior military college (SMC) is one of six colleges that offer military Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) programs under 10 U.S.C. § 2111a(f), though many other schools offer military Reserve Officers' Training Corps under other sections of the law. The six senior military colleges are: Norwich University, in Northfield, Vermont Texas A&M University, in College Station, Texas The Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina University of North Georgia, in Dahlonega, Georgia Virginia Military Institute, in Lexington, Virginia Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Virginia