Virginia Tech, along with TORC Technologies, won the $500,000 third place prize last weekend at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge. In a close race with teams from Carnegie Mellon and Stanford universities, the Virginia Tech team used National Instruments LabVIEW software and CompactRIO hardware in its vehicle.

Three Virginia Tech students who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning were transferred to Duke University Medical Center Sunday evening. All three are conscious and alert, and they are listed in stable condition.

Virginia Tech holds its 2007 University Commencement ceremonies at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 11, in Lane Stadium/Worsham Field. General John Philip Abizaid, U.S. Army (Ret.), former Commander of the United States Central Command, will deliver the keynote address where some 32 associate degree candidates and 3,585 bachelor degree candidates will be honored.

Classes resume later Monday at Virginia Tech university, one week after 32 people were killed on campus in the shooting rampage of a gunman who also killed himself. University officials have given students the option of not returning to class for the remainder of the semester and having their grade based on their work up to the attack.

Engineering students are usually required to design and implement a senior project before graduation. Engineering majors at one Virginia university have put together a project hoping to get a good grade and, more importantly, to bring electricity to a clinic in a small Kenyan village.

Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine declared Friday a day of mourning and called for a moment of silence at noon to honor the 32 victims in Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech. Churches around the country, from California to the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., have scheduled vigils and special prayer services.

Investigators said Thursday the disturbing video images of the student responsible for the worst shooting spree in U.S. history did not add much to their probe of what happened and why at Virginia Tech University on Monday. But the airing of gunman Cho Seung-hui's ranting video has angered relatives of the victims and some students.

There were subtle signs that Cho Seung-Hui had problems. The 23-year-old South Korean immigrant - an outcast by his own account, a bully and a perverted loner by others' - who took his life and 32 others at Virginia Tech this week had troubled classmates and professors more than a year earlier with his dark writings and brooding.

At 7:53 a.m. a Virginia Tech operator received a threat against President Charles Steger. Police officers responded to Steger's office in Burruss Hall to make him aware of the potential threat. The increased police presence in and around Buruss Hall led to rumors and false assumptions about what was going on, this then led to an unwarranted report of a suspicious person in Buruss Hall. Officers immediately responded to the report of a suspicious person, which was unfounded.

Earlier today, NBC News headquarters in New York received correspondence believed to be from Cho Seung-Hui, the gunman responsible for the fatal shootings at Norris Hall. The correspondence includes multiple photographs, video, and writings.

The 32 victims of the massacre at Virginia Tech University come from across the United States and a number of countries across the world. Details are beginning to emerge in media reports about the identities of a few of the victims, although authorities say it may be days before all their names can be released.