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Summer  HOK-E-NEWS  2010
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Laura Nye, a senior English major from Staunton, Va., won first prize for her poem "neti neti" in the competition for the Steger Award for undergraduate poetry at Virginia Tech.
Sheep farmer Craig Rogers of Patrick County, Va. was a member of a Growers Academy's expert panel. Offered by VT Earthworks, the eight-week program helps people new to agriculture learn about the business.
A talented group of graduate students in a class called Economic Development Studio @ Virginia Tech proposed new green business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural Floyd County, Va.
Student receives Steger prize for poetry >>

Laura Nye, a senior English major from Staunton, Va., won first prize for her poem "neti neti" in the competition for the Steger Award for undergraduate poetry at Virginia Tech.
NYE READS HER WINNING POEM (3:05)
Growers Academy helps farmers, growers break new ground >>

A new service provided by VT EarthWorks, the Growers Academy offers an eight-week program for those wishing to begin farming in the region.
PROGRAM FOCUSES on BUSINESS of GROWING (2:10)
Students help town of Floyd reinvent itself >>

Graduate students in Economic Development Studio @ Virginia Tech proposed new green business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural Floyd County, Va.
STUDENT THOMAS MOORE
EXPLAINS the PROJECT (3:10)
In March, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell appointed Laura Fornash, director of state government relations for Virginia Tech, as the commonwealth's deputy secretary of education.
An international team of scientists from Brazil and the United States have completed the draft genome sequences of two strains of the Xanthomonas bacteria that cause citrus canker.
Joe Loferski, a wood science and forest products professor in the College of Natural Resources, has been working to improve deck safety for the past 10 years.
Fornash appointed Virginia deputy director of education >>

In March, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell appointed Laura Fornash, director of state government relations for Virginia Tech, as the commonwealth's deputy secretary of education.

Genomes of citrus canker pathogens decoded >>

A team of scientists from Brazil and the United States have completed the draft genome sequences of two strains of the Xanthomonas bacteria that cause citrus canker.
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Professor's research increases awareness of deck safety >>

Joe Loferski, a wood science and forest products professor in the College of Natural Resources, has been working to improve deck safety for the past 10 years.

LOFERSKI EVALUATES an OUTDOOR DECK (6:20)
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