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Article ItemEveryday Ut Prosim: How engineering student Omar Almasri serves at the Engagement Center for Creative Aging , article
The biological systems engineering senior isn't just a volunteer at Virginia Tech’s Engagement Center for Creative Aging. For the older adult participants, he's a dear friend — and the feeling is mutual.
Date: Feb 17, 2025 -
Article ItemHow the dirt under our feet could affect human health , article
Jingqiu Liao is linking human activity to increased gene transfer from soil bacteria to humans.
Date: Dec 11, 2024 -
Video ItemLearning Landscape Labs Design Charrette , video
Assistant Professor Jenn Engelke led Virginia Tech students in a design charrette—an intensive, hands-on workshop that brings people from different disciplines together with members of the community to explore design options for enhancing the functionality and design of the Stroubles Creek watershed through campus and surrounding properties.
Date: Nov 13, 2024 -
Article ItemSewage surveillance proves powerful in combating antimicrobial resistance , article
Sewage surveillance is emerging as a powerful tool in the fight against antimicrobial resistance with the potential to protect vulnerable communities more effectively.
Date: Nov 05, 2024 -
Article ItemHow agriculture, water systems are fighting AI pitfalls with AI , article
Feras Batarseh’s team at Virginia Tech was chosen as a founding member of the Food and Agriculture Information Sharing Analysis Center University Partner Program, along with Iowa State, Nebraska, and Purdue.
Date: Oct 21, 2024 -
Article ItemStudents engineer solutions in remote corners of the world , article
Virginia Tech students learned about water quality in the remote Himalayan mountains of Nepal during a three week long trip to improve irrigation.
Date: Oct 09, 2024 -
Article Item'Curious Conversations' podcast: Feras Batarseh talks about artificial intelligence and water security , article
Feras Batarseh joined Virginia Tech’s “Curious Conversations” to discuss the intersection of water systems and technology, specifically focusing on aspects of artificial intelligence (AI). He shared the importance of using AI to predict and prevent water quality issues, such as high turbidity, and highlighted the need for water systems to become more intelligent and cyber-secure.
Date: Oct 07, 2024 -
Article ItemFaculty, staff honored with annual College of Agriculture and Life Sciences awards , article
Seven people were honored in the college's 29th annual Celebration of Faculty and Staff.
Date: Sep 17, 2024 -
Video ItemBuilding Irrigation Canals in Nepal With the Help of Virginia Tech Engineers , video
This past summer, Biological Systems Engineering and Aerospace Engineering Students at Virginia Tech spent time abroad in Nepal building irrigation systems for the village of Dumba. These canals provide important access to nearby water, making them essential for Dumba's local economy, food production, agriculture, and crop yield.
Date: Sep 06, 2024 -
Article ItemRestoration Ecology Working Group provides guidance for Town of Blacksburg , article
The group, based in Virginia Tech's Global Change Center, has been instrumental in helping the town restore Heritage Park to its native ecology.
Date: Aug 23, 2024 -
Article ItemNOAA, Biden-Harris Administration announce $1.97 million for joint Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware project as part of Investing in America Agenda , article
Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department of Commerce and NOAA have recommended $1.97 million for a project in Virginia to make the state’s coast more resilient to climate change and other coastal hazards.
Date: Aug 06, 2024 -
Article ItemExperts available: VP candidates, Fed meeting, Olympic storylines, water quality, and more , article
The Virginia Tech media relations office has the experts available for interviews this week surrounding the Democratic vice presidential sweepstakes, how the presidential race will impact Virginia elections, possible interest rate cuts from the July Federal Reserve Board meeting, storylines from the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, and a number of issues surrounding water quality.
Date: Jul 31, 2024 -
Article ItemRetired U.S. Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Dwayne R. Edwards to serve as interim commandant , article
Edwards, head of Virginia Tech’s Department of Biological Systems Engineering, will serve as the interim commandant until the arrival of U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. William H. Seely III, who has been named the next commandant of the Corps.
Date: Jul 22, 2024 -
Video ItemProgram seeks to educate homeowners on the quality of their water , video
The Virginia Household Water Quality Program provides homeowners of private water systems with affordable testing, interpreting those results, and help to deal with maintaining safety. The program is offered in over 70 counties across Virginia, in collaboration with the Virginia Cooperative Extension and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Date: Jul 10, 2024 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech researchers work to create biodegradable bioplastics from food waste , article
Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are making affordable bioplastics.
Date: Jul 05, 2024 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech researchers receive Fulbright Scholar Awards , article
The focus of the Fulbright research projects seek to improve global transportation safety, environmental policy, and climate change.
Date: Jul 02, 2024 -
Article ItemVenkat Sridhar to support global food and water security as a National Academies Jefferson Science Fellow , article
Sridhar will share his expertise in global water resource management to impact federal policy through a fellowship awarded by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Date: Jun 24, 2024 -
Video ItemTurning food waste into bioplastics , video
This multi-disciplinary project brings together five faculty from three different institutions, along with numerous graduate and undergraduate researchers. The first-of-its kind pilot project will develop and demonstrate an affordable modular bioprocessing system to produce biodegradable bioplastics from food waste.
Date: Jun 18, 2024 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech’s College of Engineering ranks highly in the U.S. News & World Report Graduate Rankings for 2024 , article
In 2024 Virginia Tech's College of Engineering was ranked 31st in the nation, and rose in its aerospace, biological, industrial and systems, and computer engineering programs, while holding steady in civil and environmental engineering.
Date: Jun 18, 2024 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech research initiative to investigate environmental impact of utility-scale solar sites , article
In collaboration with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Virginia Tech researchers investigate runoff from utility-scale solar sites.
Date: Jun 13, 2024
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