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Is better health just a mouse click away?
Psychologists in the College of Science have developed a free Internet health program that helps people make permanent lifestyle changes to improve their health. The program, "Guide-to-Health," provides the skills, support, and information people need to increase physical activity, eat more nutritiously, and prevent weight gain. "Guide-to-Health," which seeks to help people make healthy changes a permanent lifestyle via a state-of-the-art Internet program, is a free program but participants must be 18-64 years of age, not be physically active, and have access to the Internet. To learn more about the program or to register, go to www.guide-to-health.info.
Battle of the bugs featured in Virginia Tech Research Magazine
An invader is destroying America's hemlocks. Virginia Tech forest entomology researchers are using the predators provided by nature in the villain's homeland to do battle in the United States. The research is reported in the latest issue of the Virginia Tech Research Magazine. The eastern hemlock, a tall, long-lived coniferous tree that shelters river and streamside ecosystems throughout the eastern United States and Canada, is in serious danger of extinction because a tiny, non-native insect is literally sucking the life out of it. Entomologists at Virginia Tech are now studying a beetle from Japan that may be a natural predator of Adelges tsugae, or hemlock woolly adelgid. To learn more about this and other stories in the issue--including tornado chasing, wearable computers, data mining, cognitive and emotional development in children, and recovery in Bosnia--read the magazine online at www.research.vt.edu/resmag/ or request a copy by e-mailing strulove@vt.edu.
Tech receives grant to help with ongoing recovery efforts
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools has awarded Virginia Tech a $960,685 grant to assist with ongoing recovery efforts on campus, as well as to help develop a model for assessing and responding to at-risk behaviors in a higher education setting. The grant will be used, among other things, to establish a sustainable institutional infrastructure for identifying, assessing, and responding to at-risk students, faculty, and staff with appropriate mechanisms for mental health services and/or referrals; conduct an initial and follow-up needs assessment to determine mental health needs of staff and students; provide case management and services coordination for at-risk students, faculty, and staff; provide education and outreach to the university community to identify and serve at-risk students, faculty, and staff; and engage in national discussions on assessing and responding to at-risk individuals in a higher education setting. To learn more about the university's work, go to http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2007&itemno=566.
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