BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Nov. 20 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: If you're interested in local agriculture and regional food system development and want to be inspired to implement values that enhance your business, organization, and community, plan to attend the 2024 Virginia Farm to Table Conference, Dec. 5-6 at Blue Ridge Community College's Plecker Workforce Development Center in Weyers Cave. This year's conference theme is Connecting Food, Farms, and Health. Speakers will share   more

HERNDON, Virginia, Nov. 21 -- Volkswagen of America, an operating unit of Volkswagen Group of America, issued the following news release on Nov. 20, 2024: * * * * MY25 Tiguan is based on new MQB evo platform, offering bold new looks and improved performance in a two-row only package for North America * Cabin boasts infotainment screens up to 15 inches, enhanced HMI with available 'Atmospheres,' and premium materials * 2.0-liter turbocharged engine now delivers 201 horsepower and anticipated   more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Nov. 20 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Trish Hammer, associate dean for faculty affairs and graduate studies in the College of Science, only began playing pickleball three and a half years ago. But now, she's a national champion. Last weekend, Hammer won the highest competitive level in her age group in the singles category at the 2024 BIOFREEZE USA Pickleball National Championships in Mesa, Arizona. Last year at the same competition, Hammer finished fourth,  more

MCLEAN, Virginia, Nov. 21 -- Booz Allen Hamilton, an information technology information company, issued the following news release on Nov. 20, 2024: * * * Investment adds deepfake detection to secure tech stack * * * Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) today announced that its corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, LLC, has made a strategic investment in Reality Defender, a cybersecurity company specializing in deepfake and synthetic media detection that leverages advanced AI to ide  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Nov. 20 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: On October 14, 1984, U.S. Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) formally dedicated the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center (EMC). "For the last four decades, the EMC has been at the forefront of equine medicine, from groundbreaking clinical treatments, and research to training the next generation of equine veterinarians," said EMC director Michael Erskine. "The EMC's unwavering commitment to equine health has allowed the center  more

RESTON, Virginia, Nov. 21 -- Comscore, a partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms, issued the following news release: * * * Personifying Viewership Data Provides Predictive Models based on Big Data for Person-level Demographics within a Household Watching TV * * * Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a trusted partner for planning, transacting, and evaluating media across platforms, has been granted its patent on Personifying Viewership Data which allows marketers to under  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Nov. 20 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: The human body's ability to move around and pick things up generally comes courtesy of bones, muscles, and tendons. The skeleton provides a strong and rigid structure for humans to depend on, but there is much to be learned about movement from the arms of an octopus, which are biological structures with incredible strength despite an absence of bones. Octopus arms are also strong, wielding the power to crush shells and p  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Nov. 20 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: As a child, Dorothy McCargo Freeman pulled tobacco leaves on a hot Southside Virginia farm to make money to buy supplies for 4-H camp. Not for herself, though. She worked hard so that her younger sister could go to 4-H camp at Smith Mountain Lake. "My siblings and I worked to save money to make sure that she had the right things and the right clothes to go to camp," Freeman said, remembering her days growing up in the H  more

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, Nov. 21 -- General Dynamics issued the following news release: General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) - Bridge Systems has handed over the first M3 amphibious bridge and ferry system to the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (SDMA) at its Kaiserslautern site. A ceremony was held last Thursday with Brigadier General Jonas Lotsne as representative of the SDMA and Dr. Christian Kauth, Managing Director of GDELS - Bridge Systems, among others. The amphibious ri  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Nov. 20 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: The Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteers of Hanover County are on a mission to support food security while reducing food waste on local farms. Through a gleaning program started in 2021, the group has harvested over 37,900 pounds of fresh produce and volunteered more than 1,250 hours to support farms and food pantries in the region. Gleaning is the practice of collecting excess produce to provide to  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority issued the following news release on Nov. 20, 2024: Yesterday, Metro General Manager and Chief Executive Officer Randy Clarke was joined by Metro Transit Police Chief Michael Anzallo, Metro Leaders, Prince George's County Police Chief Malik Aziz and officers from both agencies for a ribbon cutting ceremony, commemorating the opening of the new Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD), District III Station. MTPD established  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Nov. 20 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Electric or hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles, commonly known as eVTOLs, represent the next frontier in air travel. This rapidly growing class of aircraft has the potential to improve advanced air mobility by moving people and cargo more quickly, quietly, and cost-effectively than traditional helicopters or ground transportation. While there are still a lot of unknowns in this emerging field, there is  more

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, Nov. 21 -- Northrop Grumman issued the following news release on Nov. 20, 2024: The board of directors of Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) declared a quarterly dividend of $2.06 per share on Northrop Grumman common stock, payable December 18, 2024, to shareholders of record as of the close of business December 2, 2024. Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense technology company. Our pioneering solutions equip our customers with the capabilities  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Nov. 21 -- Politico issued the following statement on Nov. 20, 2024: * * * Announcement from Managing Editor Anita Kumar, Executive Editor Joe Schatz, Head of News Alex Burns, and POLITICO Global Editor-in-Chief John Harris: Team, We're thrilled to announce that Noah Bierman will lead POLITICO's White House team, charged with delivering our audience the most penetrating and urgent coverage of Donald Trump's second term. Owning the story of the Trump presidency -- a stor  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Nov. 20 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: When catastrophic flooding hit the Valencia region of Spain in October, alumna Erin Kaplan '23 found herself at the intersection of crisis and community. As an English teacher at a high school in Aldaia, a town of about 31,000 people just outside Valencia, Kaplan witnessed the devastating impact of what meteorologists described as the equivalent of a year's worth of rainfall in a single day. Kaplan's path to Spain began  more

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Nov. 21 (TNSres) -- University of Virginia Health issued the following news release: A new technology which allows doctors to quantify blood flow in the heart can improve their ability to diagnose potentially deadly coronary artery disease (CAD), an international study led by School of Medicine investigators has found. The technique represents an advance in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) used in conjunction with stress testing to diagnose coronary artery di  more

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Nov. 21 (TNSres) -- University of Virginia Health issued the following news release: Weight-loss and diabetes drug tirzepatide can reduce the risk of death or worsening heart failure for patients with heart failure, preserved heart pump function and obesity, new research from UVA Health reveals. The drug, from pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Co., was tested in the SUMMIT clinical trial at 146 sites in the United States and abroad. A total of 731 patients with di  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, Nov. 20 -- Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Virginia, issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced that according to BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics ("LAUS", or "the household survey"), the labor force increased by 3,649 to 4,575,255 and Virginia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in October remained unchanged at 2.9 percent, which is 0.1 percentage points below the rate from a year ago. Job growth for the month was mixed, wit  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Nov. 20 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: It's been said that we know more about the surface of the moon than the floor of Earth's oceans. For more than two decades, Virginia Tech's Center for Marine Autonomy and Robotics has been developing robots that can find what lies beneath the sea surface with the support of the Office of Naval Research. Bringing together faculty and students from the College of Engineering and the Virginia Tech National Security Institut  more

LEXINGTON, Virginia, Nov. 21 (TNSres) -- Virginia Military Institute issued the following news: Maj. Christopher N. Shingledecker, assistant professor of chemistry at Virginia Military Institute, is a member of a research team responsible for discovering three new molecules in space. The team co-authored research articles recently published in Science and Nature Astronomy, two prestigious science journals, describing the observation of the molecules 1-, 2- and 4-cyanopyrene. The project, calle  more