Researchers at Virginia Tech may have found a new way to treat Emerald Ash Borer-infected ash wood that will be used as firewood.

Two Virginia Tech researchers have received a $1.4 million grant to investigate the genetic regulatory networks that will allow an important bioenergy crop to be bred so it will grow in less than ideal soils and climate.

Building and construction markets are already in recovery, and the post-Sandy reconstruction plans are starting. How will Obama's election impact the cabinetry, furniture and other wood manufacturing segments? We could win, with a reational industrial policy.

Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment is accepting applications for graduate and undergraduate fellowships in urban forest offered by two prominent conservation organizations.

Virginia Tech's VTLeanTeam announced it will host its second workshop, "Why Lean Administration," in the Raleigh-Durham, NC, area. The two-day workshop will be March 29-30 at the Holiday Inn in Morrisville, NC.

BLACKSBURG, VA -- Audrey Zink-Sharp, a wood science and forest products professor in Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment, has been elected a Fellow of the Society for Wood Science and Technology, an international organization dedicated to advancing the profession of wood science.

BLACKSBURG, VA -- Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension, in conjunction with the USDA Forest Service's Wood Education and Resource Center (WERC), announced a workshop on “Rough Mill Yield Improvement Using ROMI 3.1.