WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Griffith Announces $563,970 in HHS Grants to Virginia Tech * The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded Virginia Tech, based in Blacksburg, Virginia, four research related grants worth $563,970. The funding breakdown of the grants is as follows: * $563,970 for Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health In response to these gran  more

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Aug. 24 -- University of Virginia Health posted the following news release: * * * UVA Researchers Help Develop NATO Brain Health Guidelines * Two University of Virginia researchers helped develop new NATO guidelines for protecting soldiers' brains from blast exposures common in military combat and training. James Stone, MD, PhD, a UVA School of Medicine radiologist, and Matthew Panzer, PhD, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UVA School of   more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Aug. 25 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * Virginia Tech-developed tools help make Virginia roads safer through smarter crash data By Courtney Sakry Every day, law enforcement officers across Virginia respond to an average of 330 traffic crashes, one every four minutes. Their reports documenting what happened are an excellent source of data -- and researchers from Virginia Tech's Center for Geospatial Information Technology (CGIT) have transformed them i  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Aug. 25 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * Why water security is the next frontier of cyber warfare, according to expert In modern warfare and national defense, physical conflicts are increasingly preceded by silent cyberattacks on vital resource networks. Most recently, cyber intrusions struck water and wastewater utilities across at least seven U.S. states, prompting federal investigations into potential Iranian involvement amidst heightened U.S.-Iran te  more