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Affiliated institutions
The Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, founded in 1978,
is a separate institution on the same campus, funded by the Commonwealth of
Virginia and the state of Maryland and jointly operated by VT and the University
of Maryland. VMRCVM and VT jointly operate an equine center in Leesburg,
Virginia, and VMRCVM has a small operation on the University of Maryland's
College Park, Maryland campus.
In 2003, a school of osteopathic medicine called the Edward Via Virginia College
of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) opened in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research
Center an office park adjacent to and owned and operated by the university as a
local business incubator. VCOM is incorporated as a private, non-profit
institution with no state interest, but it is very closely affiliated with
Virginia Tech on an operational level.
In 2002, a biomedical engineering program, called the School of Biomedical
Engineering and Sciences (SBES), was created as a cooperative venture between
Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University. SBES offers opportunities to
undergraduates and grants M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering.
Virginia Tech has recently developed a relationship with the T.C. Williams
School of Law at the University of Richmond located in Richmond, Virginia. The
relationship consists of a joint degree program between the VT College of
Science and Richmond Law, which allows a student entering VT to earn both a B.S.
from VT and a J.D. from Richmond in a total of six years.
The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI), a premier public bioinformatics.
computational biology, and systems biology research facility, was opened on the
Blacksburg campus of Virginia Tech in 2003. It houses nearly two-hundred
employees, multiple supercomputing clusters, and several sequencers, including a
massively-parallel high-throughput sequencer from 454 Life Sciences. VBI
receives millions of dollars of private and public grants yearly for research
that runs the gamut from microbiology through human health.
The Virginia Tech Center for European Studies and Architecture (CESA) is
Virginia Tech's European campus center and base for operations and support of
its programs in the region surrounding Riva San Vitale, a small village in the
canton Ticino in southern Switzerland. Housed in the 250 year old Villa Maderni,
the Virginia Tech Center for European Studies and Architecture provides a
varying degree of academic programs for the undergraduate and graduate students
of Virginia Tech. The main offering of the center is its student residence
program. In this program, students live in Riva San Vitale and attend classes in
the Villa Maderni learning facilities and participate in field trips around
Europe that pertain to the current lessons of the program. Other offerings of
the center includes summer study abroad programs.
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