Suzanne Irby
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Neuroscientists link musical theatre to lower anxiety and higher cognitive states in performers with disabilities , articleA Virginia Tech research team found that participation in musical theatre brought positive effects to the brain for people with disabilities.
Date: Mar 01, 2024 -
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Students explore bamboo’s potential for sustainable housing in Ecuador , articleAssociate Professor Jonas Hauptman and a group of students teamed with the Regeneration Field Institute to build an experimental cabin on the institute’s 71.5-acre Los Arboleros Farm, a tropical dry forest in the rural, agrarian community of Chone, Ecuador.
Date: Sep 21, 2023 -
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Collaboration on music textbook connects students to historically excluded composers , articleFor decades, music textbook publishers have relied on music available in the public domain for études — short compositions used to teach performing and conducting techniques. Music in public domain is mostly by the same batch of composers — such as Ludwig van Beethoven and Gustav Mahler. This new freely available textbook breaks that mold.
Date: Aug 28, 2023 -
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Astrophysicists to wield James Webb Space Telescope in three new supernova studies , articleFor Chris Ashall's research group, the chance to study a rare, nearby, and young supernova over the course of the James Webb Space Telescope’s lifespan, recently projected to last up to 20 years, was irresistible.
Date: Jul 31, 2023 -
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Zooming in on microplastics , articleThese tiny particles are creating big challenges worldwide and are at the core of emerging fields of study for researchers, including many at Virginia Tech.
Date: Jul 19, 2023 -
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Poultry geneticist Paul Siegel traces storied career back to roots in 4-H , articleFor decades, Siegel’s insights on chicken genetics have shaped the poultry industry’s understanding of the biological effects of breeding for desirable traits. But before the international collaborations, the formation of his research group, and getting his doctoral, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees, 4-H pushed him forward.
Date: Jul 10, 2023 -
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Sixth Frascari Symposium at Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center focuses on the idea of 'finishing' , articleThe biennial conference in memory of Virginia Tech Professor Marco Frascari promotes history and scholarship in the field of architecture.
Date: Jun 30, 2023 -
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Study explains unusual deformation in Earth’s largest continental rift , articleIn a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, Associate Professor Sara Stamps and her team explored the processes behind the East African Rift System using 3D thermomechanical modeling developed by the study’s first author, Tahiry Rajaonarison, who earned his Ph.D. at Virginia Tech as a member of Stamps’s lab.
Date: Jun 07, 2023 -
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Neuroscientist to explore how diversity of neurons supports learning and memory in mammals , articleWith support from the Whitehall Foundation, Daniel English will explore how anatomical differences among neurons of the hippocampus translate to differences in how they support behaviors like episodic memory, the brain’s ability to hold onto sequences of experienced events.
Date: May 05, 2023 -
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Psychology doctoral student to explore student perspectives on barriers to reporting sexual assault on college campuses , articleUnder the mentorship of assistant psychology professor Meagan Brem and as a member of Dr. Brem’s Research for Alcohol and Couples Health (REACH) lab, graduate student Allison Tobar will survey Virginia Tech students for their perspectives on barriers to reporting sexual assault and accessing resources for support on college campuses.
Date: Apr 17, 2023 -
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Researchers to investigate a gap in animal evolution between two of Earth’s most explosive biodiversity events , articleWith support from NASA’s exobiology program, Ben Gill is leading a team of geologists and geochemists from Virginia Tech, Florida State University, Smith College, and Yale University to collect and study sedimentary rocks and fossils deposited globally under the ocean during the 40-million-year delay in diversification between the Cambrian Explosion and the Ordovician Radiation.
Date: Apr 12, 2023 -
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This ecosystem toxicologist is tracking microplastic consumption in dolphins , articleBiological sciences' Assistant Professor Austin Gray’s research has led him and fellow team members to find an average of 1,400 microplastics in the gastrointestinal tracts of dolphins in Charleston Harbor.
Date: Feb 17, 2023 -
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Neuroscientists learn why PTSD patients relive highly charged fear memories in sleep , articleSujith Vijayan of the Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience has led a research team in creating biophysically based models of the sleeping brain to explore at a deeper, mechanistic level how the brain may — or may not, with PTSD — effectively process and extinguish fear memories.
Date: Feb 07, 2023 -
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Unraveling the neutrino’s mysteries at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment , articleAt the Virginia Tech Center for Neutrino Physics, Camillo Mariani and Patrick Huber have woven theoretical and experimental physics together in contributing to the DUNE project.
Date: Jan 04, 2023 -
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Physicists model cell migration to learn how cancer cells navigate tissue , articleIn a study published by Biophysical Journal, scientists Wenya Shu and Nadir Kaplan explored mesenchymal migration through cell simulations and mathematical modeling.
Date: Jan 03, 2023 -
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Study: Pandemic challenges compounded work-related stress for parents of children with special needs , articleIn a new study, Virginia Tech psychologists Charles Calderwood and Rosanna Breaux found that when parents who worked in jobs that were more chronically stressful, the daily family challenges they faced at home had a greater impact on their emotional well-being and sense of work-life balance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: Nov 01, 2022 -
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Astrophysicist using James Webb Space Telescope to study supernovae as source of heavy elements in universe , articleChris Ashall, an assistant professor of astrophysics in the Virginia Tech College of Science, will collect data on the presence of heavy elements — the building blocks of life — in exploding dying stars, or supernovae.
Date: Oct 19, 2022 -
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Neuroscience doctoral student receives NIH award to study the little-known astrocyte , articleBeatriz T. Ceja Pinkston will use a National Institutes of Health grant to study astrocytes, cells in the brain that have complex, sponge-like shapes with thousands of branches from their cell body that allow them to interact with thousands of things at once.
Date: Sep 26, 2022 -
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Biological Science’s Cayelan Carey to expand modeling capabilities for daily water quantity and quality forecasts , articleThe Fulbright Future Scholar aims to give water managers the tools to forecast the effects of droughts, storms, and algal blooms on driving water conditions in lakes and reservoirs as regularly as we predict the weather.
Date: Sep 20, 2022 -
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Casting for data on microplastics in the ocean , articleWith the new Seale Coastal Zone Observatory, Robert Weiss, a professor of geosciences, aims to model the present and future effects of microplastics on the marine environment and its life.
Date: Sep 02, 2022 -
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Modeling reveals how dwarf planet Ceres powers unexpected geologic activity , articleThrough modeling, Scott King and a team of scientists from multiple universities as well as the United States Geological Survey and the Planetary Science Institute found that the decay of radioactive elements within Ceres’s interior could keep it active.
Date: Jul 28, 2022 -
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Study: Seismic waves from earthquakes reveal changes in the Earth’s outer core , articleOur understanding of convection in the Earth’s outer core and its role in driving the planet’s magnetic field is based on theory. Geoscientist Ying Zhou puts proof forward for the first time, by studying seismic waves that once passed through the outer core during earthquakes.
Date: Jun 23, 2022 -
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New study: A vicious cycle of oxygen loss threatens water quality in lakes , article
In a seven-year field experiment that manipulated oxygen levels in the bottom waters of a nearby reservoir, Cayelan Carey and her research team found that with anoxic conditions came effects they had expected: The sediments release a lot of nutrients and carbon.
Date: May 25, 2022 -
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Tapping into 5G and 6G cellular networks and artificial intelligence could make immersive technologies go further, faster , articleImmersive technologies have given rise to aspirations of countless applications in virtual education, entertainment, gaming, and health care. But to realize a future of vivid 3D gaming, crisp holographic meetings, and smooth remote surgical operations, we’ll need to think bigger than the setups we have now, according to electrical and computer engineering researcher Walid Saad.
Date: Oct 04, 2021 -
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Sanket Deshmukh receives NSF CAREER award to study and design hybrid materials with aid of AI , articleDeshmukh, assistant professor of chemical engineering in the College of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to study and develop two-dimensional, hybrid nanosheets that combine thermo-sensitive polymers and metals.
Date: Aug 10, 2021 -
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Researchers are pulling movements out of microfilm with digital history , articleFirsthand accounts and images of Black soldiers hold hidden chapters of U.S. history. Historians and computer scientists are harnessing technologies like virtual reality and AI to equip the public to immerse themselves in those perspectives, learn from them, and broaden historical dialogue.
Date: Jul 19, 2021 -
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The New Cryptographers , articleThe Zodiac Killer's second cipher went unsolved for 51 years. Two programmers and an applied mathematician turned to computing tools born after the coded 1969 message to finally crack it.
Date: Apr 21, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech, Virginia State University to lead USDA urban agriculture projects , articleThe Virginia Tech Center for Food Systems and Community Transformation and the Virginia State University Small Farm Outreach Program will support two urban agriculture projects from the department’s Farm Service Agency: the National Urban Agriculture Initiative and Advancing Urban Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems in Virginia.
Date: Feb 23, 2024