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News Features #N277

Welcome to Virginia Tech's News Features page. Here you can preview and/or download Virginia Tech's News Features programs for use as you see fit. The programs below were distributed in April 2001. You need QuickTime 3.0 or higher to preview these audio tracks.

Archived News Features.

1. Weight Loss Gimmicks (0:51) - (Janet W. Rankin/Nutrition, Foods, & Exercise) w/reporter Karin Cronin. Weight loss gimmicks mostly lighten buyer's pockets. PC version. Mac version.

2. Concrete Representations of Scientific Concepts (:51) - (Mitzi Vernon/Industrial Design) w/reporter Karin Cronin. If scientific concepts were presented differently, would girls become more interested in science and engineering? PC version. Mac version.

3. Women in Science and Engineering (1:00) - (Mitzi Vernon/Industrial Design) w//reporter Karin Cronin. Could there be a 'female perspective' in science and engineering? A Virginia Tech professor thinks there is.PC version. Mac version.

4. Buying a Workforce (:54) - (Terry Cobb/Management) w/reporter Karin Cronin. Employer/employee loyalty used to be the norm. Other interests are now used instead. PC version. Mac version.

5. Fairness Helps the Bottom Line (:51) - (Terry Cobb/Management) w/reporter Karin Cronin. Employee perceptions of fairness of their employer can make a big difference to an organization. PC version. Mac version.

6. Veterinary College Strives for Excellence (0:51) - (Peter Eyre/Veterinary College) w/reporter Gabrielle Amos. As Virginia Tech strives to become a top 30 research institution, the Veterinary College may be able to help. PC version. Mac version.

7. Deer Poplulations & Foot & Mouth Disease (1:03) - (Ernest Hovingh/Veterinary College) w/reporter Gabrielle Amos. A Virginia Tech expert says that deer are also susceptible to foot and mouth disease, making controlling transmission of the disease more complicated. PC version. Mac version.

8. Virginia Tech Agriculture Working Around the World (0:54) - (Andy Swiger/Agriculture College) w/reporter Gabrielle Amos. Research initiatives in Virginia Tech's college of Agriculture go beyond state and national borders. PC version. Mac version.

9. The Strength of the Land Grant System (:55) - (Andy Swiger/Agriculture College) w/reporter Gabrielle Amos. Virginia Tech is a land grant institution, and its the land grant system that helps get research knowledge out into the field. PC version. Mac version.

10. Retirement Savings and Stock Market Volatility (:51) - (Alex White/Applied Economics) w/reporter Gabrielle Amos. A Virginia Tech expert says that with the unpredictability of the stock market, you need to be careful with your retirement investments. PC version. Mac version.

11. Stonewall for Children (0:42) - (James Robertson, Jr./Alumni Distinguished Professor of History) w/reporter Paul Lancaster. Virginia's premier civil war author has followed up his award-winning Stonewall Jackson biography with a distillation written for children. PC version. Mac version.

12. Writing for Children (0:47) - (James Robertson, Jr./Alumni Distinguished Professor of History) w/reporter Paul Lancaster. What's challenging for the author of more than a dozen books on the war? How about writing a civil war history for children? PC version. Mac version.

13. A Universal Message (:47) - (James Robertson, Jr./Alumni Distinguished Professor of History) w/reporter Paul Lancaster. It's a children's book, but a Virginia Tech author expects his new book to inspire a lot of adults as well. PC version. Mac version.

14. Virginia's African-American History (1:00) - (Gail McMillan/Library) w/reporter Paul Lancaster. Tracking down information on Viginia's African-American history may soon be a mouse-click away thanks to Virginia Tech and other universities and libraries. PC version. Mac version.

15. Pooling Scarce Resources (1:03) - (Gail McMillan/Library) w/reporter Paul Lancaster. With limited state funding, Virginia's premier libraries have pooled their resources to get more information to the public. PC version. Mac version.

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