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VT Capabilities
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Virginia Tech Overview
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
is a comprehensive land grant university serving the state and nation
since 1872 through teaching, research, and outreach. Reknowned for
its agricultural science and engineering programs (ranked in the nation's
top 25), Virginia Tech has built on its ag/tech background to become
a major research center in the fields of bioinformatics and information
technology.
Virginia Tech has over 25,000 students, 1,300 of them foreign,
and almost 2,000 faculty. The university offers 110 graduate degree
programs and has over 80 specialized research centers, laboratories,
and institutes.
Virginia Tech has two facilities for graduate work in the Washington,
D.C. area: the Alexandria Research Institute and the Northern Virginia
Center. In Switzerland, Virginia Tech runs the Center for European
Studies and Architecture.
At its main campus in Blacksburg, it is home to the Virginia-Maryland
Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. It also houses 104 technology
companies at its Corporate Research Center.
Of Virginia Tech's 6,000 graduate students, 1,400 are engaged in
IT-related research and development. Virginia Tech consistently
ranks among the top 15 schools in the nation in number of patents
received. High-tech research centers at Tech include the Virginia
Bioinformatics Institute, the International Institute for Information
Technology, and the Laboratory for Advanced Scientific Computing
and Applications.
In the field of agriculture, Virginia Tech continues to be a leader
through the broad spectrum of research and extension conducted in
the colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Natural Resources,
as well as at 10 experiment stations located throughout the state.
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OIRED Capabilities
The Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED)
at Virginia Tech supports the international mission of the University
through collaborative programs in research, education, and technical
assistance. It manages projects in more than 40 countries throughout
Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Russia, and Eastern Europe.
The current portfolio of over $21 million includes projects dealing
with natural resource management, information technology, agriculture,
environmental management, capacity-building, greenhouse reduction,
biodiversity and biotechnology.
OIRED has fine-tuned a comprehensive participatory approach to
project implementation and adapted it to sites around the world.
This approach has promoted a local sense of ownership-necessary
in order for change to occur. It has facilitated the involvement
of a full range of stakeholders including men, women, farmers, traders,
policy-makers, government officials, and others who have mutually
identified and then honored each others' roles in the pursuit of
making sustainable changes.
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