Personal Financial Planning Offers New Approach to Retirement

Award-winning research questions whether a one-size-fits-all strategy makes more sense for retirees.

Office of the Vice President for Research Aims to Improve Services

New strategic action plan supports research, scholarship and creative activity in every discipline.

Undergraduate Research Task Force Releases Report

Team was charged with examining the state of undergraduate research and recommending improvements.

Let's Get Ready to Humble

Graduate student presents research on controversial Christian mixed martial arts group.

Boomers turn home equity into 401(k) funds

MarketWatch-In other words, these people, mostly baby boomers, are getting a tax break on both sides of the deal, according to Hyrum Smith, an assistant professor at Virginia Tech’s College of Agricultural and Applied Economics; Michael Finke, an associate professor at Texas Tech University; and Sandra Huston, who is also an associate professor at Texas Tech University.

What’s love got to do with it?

Brunswickan-Marilyn Montgomery and Gwendolyn Sorell, researchers at Texas Tech University, asked high school students about their experiences with love. In every grade, more boys than girls said they had been in love at least once. The boys also reported falling in love for the first time at a younger age than the girls, and were more likely to say they were in love with someone they were dating.

White ‘Cobwebs’ Found in Nuclear Waste Pool

ABC News-“If I were going to be a moose,” said Robert Baker of Texas Tech University, “I would want to live in the exclusion zone.” Baker and a colleague, Ron Chesser, tracked the plants and animals around the wrecked nuclear plant in the decades after the accident.

Charity on the campaign trail

CNN Money-President Barack Obama and Oval Office hopefuls Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have all released at least one year of tax returns. And they all gave big money to charity.