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- - Adjusted process for receiving hazardous materials on campus
    Beginning Wednesday, March 25, all hazardous material packages delivered on campus (UPS, FedEx, and DHL) will be received at the Environmental Health and Safety Materials Management facility located at 625 Beamer Way.
- - New video makes knowing what to recycle even easier on the Virginia Tech Blacksburg campus
    Since 2004, the university has increased its recycling rate by over 20 percent.
- - Research team works to develop new ways to detect air pollutants
    With a $2.3 million award from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, an interdisciplinary team of Virginia Tech researchers led by Masoud Agah are working to revolutionize a testing process for harmful pollutants, in particular, for truck drivers.
- - Study: Nanoparticles produced from burning coal result in damage to mice lungs, suggesting toxicity to humans
    Virginia Tech scientists have discovered that incredibly small particles of an unusual and highly toxic titanium oxide found in coal smog and ash can cause lung damage in mice after a single exposure. The study also shows long-term damage occurring in just six weeks.
- - Linsey Marr appointed to National Academies' Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
    Marr, the Charles P. Lunsford professor in the Charles E. Via Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, conducts research that focuses on characterizing the emissions, fate, and transport of air pollutants in order to provide the scientific basis for improving air quality and health.
- - Multidisciplinary project aims to make mining more efficient, safer
    Virginia Tech researchers are leading a team in a three-year, $900,000 project to improve the efficiency of dust scrubbers in underground mining operations, one aspect of many that impacts effective mining operation that industry constantly seeks to improve.
- - New hazardous waste retrieval system benefits Virginia Tech research community, Facilities Department
    Virginia Tech Environmental Health and Safety's new online system for hazardous waste ticket submittal makes it easier than ever for researchers and Facilities employees to arrange waste pickups.
- - Listening sessions scheduled to address, discuss issues of sexual violence
- - Virginia Tech Environmental Health and Safety program targets workplace fall prevention
    Upcoming EHS trainings will include all aspects of fall hazard recognition, prevention, and protection.
- - Virginia Tech announces public safety organization changes, new police chief
    While the Virginia Tech Police Department, Virginia Tech Emergency Management, Virginia Tech Environmental Health and Safety, and the Virginia Tech Rescue Squad already work closely on a daily basis, they came together under one organization Oct. 1.
- - iTHRIV, community groups partner to improve health of Virginians
    The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia has awarded a total of $80,000 in community health research grants to four multi-institutional biomedical research projects.
- - Nighttime campus safety walk brings university community together to improve safety, security
    Participants put themselves in the shoes of students, faculty, and staff as they walked along a route that included the Duck Pond, the Overflow Lot, Oak Lane, Burchard Plaza, and Burruss Hall – in the dark.
- - Veterinary students combat animal and human diseases through transdisciplinary research program
    The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine hosted an 11-week transdisciplinary program designed to expose participants to research best practices and the diverse career opportunities available in the field.
- - Office of Environmental Health and Safety receives national award recognition
    EHS was recently honored by the Campus Environmental Management Association and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities with the 2018 Innovation Award of Merit for Process Improvement.
- - Hard hats required: First Girls Day event held for area eighth graders
    The girls from schools in Montgomery County and Roanoke City will tour different areas of the university's Facilities Department to see the range of career opportunities that are available to them.
- - Brett Farmer and Brian Tissue recognized for unwavering commitment to safety
    The two were recently given the 2017 Virginia Tech Award for Safety Excellence. The honor recognizes members of the university community whose safety efforts or initiatives have resulted in a safer work environment or substantially helped eliminate or minimize loss or injury.
- - All scheduled classes and activities return to Wallace Hall
- - Kathleen Alexander presents NSF funded human-wildlife interface projects on Capitol Hill
    Kathleen Alexander, a veterinarian and wildlife professor, will showcase some of her research projects on Capitol Hill on April 26.
- - NSF grant to send two undergraduates to study disease ecology in Africa
    Two minority students will conduct infectious disease research in northern Botswana.
- - Eric Hallerman advises FDA on approving world’s first genetically modified animal
    Fish Conservation Professor Eric Hallerman advised the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the environmental issues surrounding transgenic Atlantic salmon.

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