Summer 2010 edition of university's research magazine features international research
The summer 2010 issue of Virginia Tech Research is now available online.
The issue has three stories about international research:
- By a plant pathologist to save the hot pepper industry from 'Viruses of the Caribbean';
- By a student to help build a bridge in Haiti to provide access to healthcare, and to provide infrastructure assessment after the earthquake; and
- By a student to create a mapping tool that was used by the Nature Conservancy to assess threats to freshwater systems in South America.
In addition, there are stories about:
- How a poet reveals his world;
- A cause of the autoimmune disease, Lupus, and a potential diagnostic tool;
- A flaw in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Thrifty Food Plan; and
- A survey of life in the creeks and under the rocks of the Potomac Passage Creek watershed.
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