BLACKSBURG, Va.-- In a day filled with a constant barrage of media images of the shooter who took the lives of at least three of her friends and 29 others,Behnaz Bonyadian took solace as thousands of people patiently filed into Cassell Coliseum and Lane Stadium yesterday afternoon.
"Horror, disbelief and profound sorrow" was how Virginia Tech President Charles Steger described the Blacksburg community's reaction to what is the deadliest shooting incident in the nation's history.
Only in her worst nightmares could Nicole Shyti have anticipated the carnage transpiring as she slept on the fifth floor of West Ambler Johnston dormitory yesterday morning.
BLACKSBURG -- A 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, Cho Seung-Hui, has been identified as the gunman found dead yesterday after murdering 30 students in Norris Hall.
The gunshots at Virginia Tech not only reached the ears of the immediate Blacksburg community yesterday, but also rang in the ears of politicians in the national and international arenas. President George W.
The Honor Committee voted against renewing a single sanction ad hoc committee during its meeting last night.
Great college applications allow students to share accomplishments, aspirations and extracurricular activities.
Officials have confirmed the death of the gunman from the second shooting incident reported this morning at Virginia Tech
Despite initial concerns, the Buildings and Grounds Committee of the Board of Visitors approved the construction of the Frederic W.
At first glance, it might be hard to see what football and undergraduate research have in common.
Thanks to skyrocketing tuition costs and cuts in state funding, the family income gap between families of public college and university students and the average American is growing closer to the family income gap that exists between private college and university students and the average American. According to a report released last week by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, entering freshman at four-year schools in 2005 came from families with a $74,000 parental median income.
Several colleges are questioning the value of U.S. News & World Report rankings and refusing to participate in the magazine's annual survey. A letter circulated by the non-profit organization Education Conservancy "calls into question the weight given to the prestige of an institution and the value that that ... plays in the actual education delivered to the students," according to David Muha, spokesperson for Drew University, a signatory of the letter. The U.S.
According to the latest edition of a yearly report released by the National Center for Education Statistics, University students are not the only ones who have been coping with tuition increases in recent years -- this increase represents the national norm. "For undergraduates attending public four-year institutions," the report states, "there was a six-percent increase (after adjusting for inflation) in in-state tuition and required fees and a three-percent increase in out-of state tuition and required fees charged between 2004-05 and 2006-07." A similar increase in tuition also occurred at private, not-for-profit institutions, but with a smaller increase of five percent.
With $4.6 million in their pockets, a University-led team of researchers has just begun work on strengthening the Department of Defense's security systems. The five-year project, "Helix: A Self-Regenerative Architecture for the Incorruptible Enterprise," is backed by the Department of Defense's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative award.
The Board of Visitors will increase in-state tuition for University undergraduate students by 8.3 percent next year.
Astronomy Prof. Trinh Thuan's work dealing with the relationship between light and philosophy has won him international recognition. The French Academy in Paris honored Thuan with the Grand Prix Moron award, an award comparable to the Nobel Prize, for his seventh book "The Ways of Light: Physics and Metaphysics of Light and Darkness," Thuan said. According to a University press release, Thuan's book was published by a French publisher earlier this year and is expected to be published in English at some point. As an award that generally signifies outstanding achievements in philosophy, the Grand Prix Moron is given to an individual who in some way revolutionizes French literature, according to Astronomy Prof.
