In fact,the orientation program for new students at Virginia Tech this summer includes a meeting for parents called "Parents as Partners."

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Show spokeswoman Jennifer Bemisderfer says the Sustainable Planet Tech Zone is four times bigger than last year.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

One is Bob Knight, the former coach at Indiana University and Texas Tech University.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

Students from Virginia Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory designed the Blind Driver Challenge car.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

"One of the key elements here was flattening the hierarchy in the operating room so that everybody, the scrub tech,the nurse, the surgeon,the anesthesiologist, whomever it is in the operating room could bring up any concerns they had about the patient."

VOA: special.2010.10.20

The actors wear high-tech outfits dotted with sensors that record their every movement including the subtlest facial expressions.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

It's a question tech watchers pose following the success of anti-government protesters in getting their message out last June following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

But the study also suggests a more low-tech solution might be helpful.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

So we can deal with the high-tech and the crisis. Our problem is we're not focusing upstream on the prevention and the primary care, and the developing countries are just the opposite."

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

The high point of President Medvedev's stay in the United States will be his visit to Silicon Valley - an area in northern California known for its high-tech companies, venture capitalists and forward-looking entrepreneurs.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

The bill from Democratic Senator Charles Schumer and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham seeks to reinforce border controls and calls for the creation of a high-tech Social Security card to ensure that employers hire only legal workers.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

"And their struggle and barrier is having an adequate health workforce and facilities for the kind of high-tech things that happen to mothers that are at risk " In contrast,Boufford says developed nations have excellent medical technology.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23