Virginia Tech to buy Canadian land in first acquisition outside U.S.

Virginia Tech to buy Canadian land in first acquisition outside U.S.

Virginia Tech will expand its global reach for the first time with a future purchase of land in Canada for research on space weather events and their effects on the Earth.  A resolution to purchase more than 100 acres of land in Kapuskasing, Ontario, was approved by the university board of visitors at a meeting earlier this month.  The fields of view of the radars in the northern hemisphere indicate the scale of the Virginia Tech research proje…