Virginia Tech Featured On The Science Coalition's Web Site
Research at Virginia Tech will be featured the week of June 23 on the "On-Campus" section of The Science Coalition web site, a comprehensive resource for information on federally-funded science research.
Each week, the Coalition highlights scientific advances and on-going research at member universities. As a premiere research institution, Virginia Tech has been noted for scientific achievement and education in such areas as biotechnology, business, environment, education, the humanities, information technology, and materials. The Science Coalition web site featuring Virginia Tech (http://www.research.vt.edu/resmag/sc2003) will present research by faculty members and students on fuel cell materials and systems, sensors for harsh environments -- such as oil wells and transformers, why the elderly fall, preparing for and preventing biological disaster, biomaterials for use in the human body, the economic and health promise offered by non-timber forest products, and Nikki Giovanni's NAACP Image Award-winning book, Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, which puts the black American experience of the "Middle Passage" into the context of space travel.
Visitors to the Science Coalition web site (http://www.sciencecoalition.org) can find the latest legislative news, chat with science enthusiasts in the "Science Café," browse through the "On-Campus" archives, or read a multitude of science and technology documents in the web site's library.
The Science Coalition comprises major public and private research universities nationwide, together with more than 350 businesses, voluntary health organizations, medical groups, healthcare providers, and scientific societies, dedicated to sustaining the federal government's historic commitment to federally funded university science research.
