The school, which is formally called Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, claimed that the first two shootings appeared isolated and related to domestic violence.

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At Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, electrical engineering professor Dong Ha and his team are in the early stages of studying how to employ body heat to power a circuit.

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Institutions involved include Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, SRI International, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Boston University, Burnham Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the University of Chicago, and the Institute for Systems Biology.

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Faculty said the school its full name is Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University responded far more quickly Thursday than it did in 2007, when student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people before taking his own life in the worst campus massacre in U.S. history.

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