BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Oct. 25 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: "At this career stage, making one really great connection could make all the difference," said Julia Shapiro, a third year graduate student studying coding theory. Shapiro was one of six Virginia Tech students to make connections between both people and academic disciplines at the VT-Swiss Coding Theory and Cryptography Summer School in July. Organized and sponsored in part by the Virginia Tech Department of Mathematic  more