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Disability doesn’t stop diehard , articleDonald Bridges Jr. ’84 suffered a neck injury during an amateur sports league rugby league match in 1987 that left him a quadriplegic. He needs assistance, a ventilator, and other special equipment just to survive every day, but not even that, nor a three-hour ride from suburban Richmond, deters him and close friend Chet Willis ’80 from doing something that they’ve been doing off and on since 1989 — attend a Virginia Tech football game.
Date: Nov 08, 2023 -
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Caribbean parrots are relics of human-driven millennial-scale extinction, research shows , articleJulie Allen, assistant biological sciences professor, co-authored a paper about changes in parrot diversity after the arrival of humans in the Caribbean.
Date: Oct 23, 2023 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute researchers take on public health challenge of hepatitis C , articleThe institute’s Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory will lead efforts to provide genomic sequencing to help decrease spread of the virus that can cause liver damage.
Date: Oct 09, 2023 -
Video ItemSwooping into Science: Tree Swallows and Bluebirds at Kentland Farms , video
Jared Gladbach, an aspiring biologist, shares his intriguing journey of studying cavity-nesting bird behavior, focusing particularly on tree swallows and bluebirds.
Date: May 31, 2023 -
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Class of 2023: Classy Shepherd pursues her 'CSI'-inspired passion for forensics , articleWorking at the morgue may not be the typical summer job for a Hokie, but for clinical neuroscience major and future forensic pathologist Classy Shepherd, it offered a body of evidence that she was on the right path.
Date: May 05, 2023 -
Video ItemWhat's Your Major? - Biological Sciences , video
Nathan shares his study of biological sciences and psychology and how he learns how the human body interacts with and impacts the world.
Date: Apr 13, 2023 -
Video ItemFeathered friends visit ornithology class , video
Students had the opportunity to observe two owls and an American kestrel up close when senior staff from the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center visited Dana Hawley's ornithology class.
Date: Feb 28, 2023 -
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Can the fungus from ‘The Last of Us’ really create zombies? An expert explains , articleThe HBO television series, “The Last of Us,” a tale of survival in a zombie apocalypse that was already a hugely popular video game before it invaded our screens this year, imagines a zombie plague caused by a fungal infection that exits in nature. Jordan Metzgar, curator of the Massey Herbarium at Virginia Tech, answered a few questions about what humankind should realistically fear from the millions of species of fungi that live on our planet.
Date: Feb 24, 2023 -
Video ItemWhat's Your Science? - Sera Choi , video
Sera describes her interest in DNA replication and 3D printing as a biological sciences major.
Date: May 11, 2022 -
Video ItemWhat's Your Science?- Nikki Keith , video
Nikki shares her excitement to begin research using ultrasound to break up cancerous cells.
Date: May 11, 2022 -
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When mitochondria lose their might , articleSchool of Neuroscience Assistant Professor Alicia Pickrell will use a $1.9 million U.S. National Institutes of Health grant to study how dysfunctional mitochondria lead to neurodegenerative diseases, congenital heart disease, strokes, and cancer.
Date: Mar 29, 2022 -
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Academic Leaders Network unites 15 ACC schools in learning, leadership development , articleNinety faculty and administrators from ACC schools gathered at Virginia Tech in March to network, share ideas, and leverage the power of world-class research institutions.
Date: Mar 23, 2022 -
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Scientists partner on multi-university grant to establish a field of ‘imageomics’ , articleThe new institute will create a new frontier of biological information using vast stores of existing image data to characterize and discover patterns or biological traits of organisms and gain insights into how function follows form in all areas of biology.
Date: Mar 08, 2022 -
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Teaching COVID-19 , articleIn classrooms that span disciplines, faculty members are helping students explore the pandemic as an academic subject.
Date: Feb 01, 2022 -
Video ItemPropagating mussel power to purify Virginia's freshwater , video
The Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Center at Virginia Tech is a cooperative research and propagation facility to restore and recover endangered freshwater mollusks in Virginia and adjacent states.
Date: Aug 26, 2021 -
Video ItemUnderstanding Mosquito Behavior to Prevent Disease Spread , video
<div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Researchers in the Fralin Life Sciences Institute study the granular details of how mosquito brains work in hopes of solving one of the biggest problems facing mankind: how to prevent the transmission of mosquito-borne viral diseases.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
Date: Jun 23, 2021 -
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Former student-athletes ready for next chapter after graduation from VCOM , articleTara Feehan and Marie Johnston, two former Virginia Tech student-athletes, graduated from the Via College of Osteopathic Medicine on May 8, and with their formal education complete, the two doctors now are getting ready for the next chapter of their careers — multiyear residencies in their preferred fields of interest
Date: Jun 03, 2021 -
Video ItemWhat's your science? - Antonia Mendrinos , video
<div><div><div><div><div>Antonia shares how she came to Virginia Tech to study science and found a passion for the brain and research.</div></div></div></div></div>
Date: Apr 06, 2021 -
Video ItemWhat's your science? - Katie Duffett , video
<div><div><div><div><div>Katie Duffett shares how she wants to use her training to become a pediatrician or ER doctor in the future.</div></div></div></div></div>
Date: Apr 06, 2021 -
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Five new projects win seed funding , articleThe Junior Faculty Awards from the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science fund interdisciplinary collaborations led by early-career faculty.
Date: Mar 25, 2021
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