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Article: BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING IS A NATURAL STEP FOR VIRGINIA TECH.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- December 2, 2001
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Byline: LARRY HINCKER
Melvin Fuller's disjointed and generally churlish letter, ``Virginia Tech is wasting state funds on its biomedical-research quest (Nov. 25), contains errors and innuendos that we must correct.
Virginia Tech recently announced a partnership with Wake Forest University to create a school of biomedical engineering and expand our current biomedical engineering program. It matters not that the University of Virginia already has a program. So does Virginia Tech.
Indeed, the state of Virginia, within its public institutions, has six colleges of engineering, four law schools, two medical schools and countless biology, chemistry ...