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Video ItemPark(ing) day exhibition displays stories of Appalachia , video
International Park(ing) Day is a global event that encourages the public to take ordinary parking spaces and turn them into safer, greener, social spaces. In this case, Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia (MAAV) is using it to announce the creation of six to ten new monuments in the Applachian region.
Date: Sep 21, 2023 -
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Collaborative seed grants nurture high-impact social and environmental research , articleEach year, the Fralin Life Sciences Institute’s Global Change Center and the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment allocate seed funding program to support researchers who are interested in tackling major global change issues from both biophysical and sociological perspectives.
Date: Jun 23, 2023 -
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Appalachian drinking water quality and health data lacking, Virginia Tech-led study finds , articleAlasdair Cohen, assistant professor of environmental epidemiology in public health, has studied drinking water and health challenges in rural areas internationally and in California. Since arriving at Virginia Tech in 2019, he has been studying similar issues in rural Appalachia.
Date: Jun 21, 2023 -
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'Get a good pair of boots' , articleFive graduates who came to Virginia Tech as transfer students talk about the highlights and challenges of studying fish and wildlife conservation and how growing up in rural Appalachia motivates them as Hokies.
Date: May 18, 2023 -
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Class of 2023: Austin Holloway named Outstanding Senior for the College of Natural Resources and Environment , articleHolloway, a first-generation college student, had numerous field and research experiences, including building stream habitats and doing tagging for eastern hellbenders
Date: Apr 18, 2023 -
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Grant fuels project to highlight untold history across Appalachia , articleEmily Satterwhite and Katrina Powell have received a $3 million grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation for a three-year project to work with communities across the state’s Appalachia region to commemorate neglected histories.
Date: Mar 02, 2023 -
Video ItemTesting water quality in the springs of rural Appalachia , video
Leigh-Anne Krometis, Associate Professor of Biological Systems Engineering, and her team are testing the water of local springs in Welch, WV. Welch is located in McDowell County, one of the 8th poorest counties in the United States.
Date: Jan 30, 2023 -
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Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment partners with The Nature Conservancy on $60 million grant to advance agroforestry , articleThe USDA-funded agroforestry project will help farmers reduce carbon emissions, improve water quality, enhance biodiversity, and increase profitability.
Date: Nov 01, 2022 -
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Sending flood victims an old-fashioned symbol of love and support: a homemade quilt , articleFor students in Danille Christensen's Folk Cultures in Appalachia class, tying quilts at Solitude and Fraction House offered a glimpse of a longstanding cultural practice — and a way to help those in need.
Date: Sep 23, 2022 -
Video ItemEnrichment Experience for Students from Rural Communities , video
Video by Mark Blane for Virginia Tech. SEE VT, the Summer Enrichment Experience at Virginia Tech, hosted its inaugural session this summer. SEE VT is an opportunity for middle school students living in rural communities throughout Southwest Virginia. During the free, one-week residential summer camp on Virginia Tech’s campus, students had the opportunity to learn and reflect on what it means to live and thrive in rural communities.
Date: Sep 07, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech students to help Kentucky county hit hard by destructive flooding , articleAs part of a Societal Health course, students will travel to Letcher County, Kentucky Sept. 2-4 to muck out houses, prepare food, organize supplies, and assist with a benefit concert for flood relief. They are raising money to buy supplies to help the community.
Date: Aug 29, 2022 -
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Listening to marginalized communities , articleGraduate students in the Virginia Tech Department of Psychology seek to gain more knowledge about the unique and challenging experiences of stress, trauma, and resilience with Black and African American communities in Southwest Virginia.
Date: Aug 01, 2022 -
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Uprooted in Appalachia , articleAaron Purcell, director of University Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives, recently published a book that describes seven case studies of public land acquisition and removal of families and communities in Virginia, Kentucky, the Carolinas, and Tennessee from the 1930s through the 1960s.
Date: Jul 15, 2022 -
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Students score a victory in the battle against substance use disorder in Appalachia , articleAfter an Appalachian Community Research class sparked a passion for change, four students from the College of Science and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences campaigned the state government for a feasibility study to turn a local hospital into a substance use disorder treatment facility. Now it's happening.
Date: Jun 24, 2022 -
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Former energy center director prospects for Appalachian opportunity , articleMichael Karmis said although he's retiring after four decades in the Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering, he's not leaving the coalfields behind. He's now ready to use all the research, teaching, and networking he has done over the past four decades to help rural Virginia reverse economic decline from the falling fortunes of coal.
Date: Feb 03, 2022 -
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The class fighting for Appalachia , articleTo tackle the substance use disorder epidemic, the Appalachian Community Research course gets undergrads emotionally off campus and into communities they can help.
Date: Jan 20, 2022 -
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A new map reconstructs the social landscapes of Southwest Virginia prior to European arrival , articleThe map was a collaborative project, bringing together the mapping skills of College of Natural Resources and Environment advanced instructor Stewart Scales with knowledge and input from professors, historians, and members of Virginia tribal communities.
Date: Nov 15, 2021 -
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Bear’s-eye view: Cameras on black bears provide research and outreach opportunities , articleResearchers in the College of Natural Resources and Environment are gaining a closer look at our elusive neighbors by putting collars mounted with small video cameras on bears to record their day-to-day activities.
Date: Jul 22, 2021 -
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Protecting species on the move , articleAs temperatures and sea levels rise as a result of climate change, flora and fauna are migrating into new and unknown lands to survive. With a grant from the National Science Foundation, an interdisciplinary team of researchers is helping conservation agencies and other stakeholders across state and local boundaries to rethink biodiversity protection approaches for this new era of climate change.
Date: Jun 28, 2021 -
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The amazing ecosystem engineer of Southwest Virginia: the bluehead chub , articleFish conservation and engineering researchers will use a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to decipher the nest-building secrets of the bluehead chub.
Date: Jun 03, 2021
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