Virginia Tech

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Dates:
Establishment 1872-06-20

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Virginia Tech (VT), formally Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. In 1872, with federal funds provided by the Morrill Act of 1862, the Reconstruction-era Virginia General Assembly purchased the facilities of Preston and Olin Institute and 250 acres of nearby Solitude Farm. The commonwealth incorporated a new institution on the site, a state-supported land-grant military institute named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. Under the 1891–1907 presidency of John McLaren McBryde, the school organized its academic programs into a traditional four-year college and a graduate department was founded. The evolution of the school's programs led to a name change in 1896 to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. The "Agricultural and Mechanical College" portion of the name was popularly omitted almost immediately; in 1944, the name was officially changed to Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI). In the early 1990s, university administration authorized the official use of Virginia Tech as equivalent to the full legal name

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  • African American universities and colleges
  • African Americans
  • Atomic bomb
  • Hydrogen bomb
  • Nuclear arms control
  • Nuclear energy
  • Nuclear energy
  • Nuclear energy
  • Nuclear weapons
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  • Nuclear energy
  • Nuclear energy

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  • Virginia (as recorded)
  • Virginia--Blacksburg (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
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  • VA, US
  • VA, US

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