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Rigorous mathematical approaches could help protect military personnel , articleTwo Virginia Tech researchers are a part of a multi-institution Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program to improve the security of the U.S. military in mixed-reality environments.
Date: Mar 12, 2025 - -
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Six outstanding alumni inducted into Virginia Tech Academy of Engineering Excellence , articleThe academy welcomed its newest class in May and brought its total membership to 185 alumni who have achieved exceptional career successes.
Date: May 22, 2024 - -
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William Ducker named Robert E. Hord Jr. Professor in Chemical Engineering , articleA member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2008, Ducker has made a number of game-changing and high-impact contributions to the fields of colloid and surface science.
Date: Sep 22, 2023 - -
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Aiming for a home run with electrical engineering education , articleWith a $944,231 National Science Foundation CAREER award, Nicole Pitterson in the Department of Engineering Education will develop models for how faculty can design and teach content for their courses in a way that aligns holistically with their students’ needs.
Date: Aug 09, 2023 - -
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Pinar Acar receives NSF CAREER award to design the materials of the future , articleAcar’s team specializes in creating digital profiles of materials. In this project, the team will be creating digital models set to music.
Date: Jul 27, 2023 - -
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NSF CAREER award invests in the future of stable computing , articleWilliams recently received a five-year, $600,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award to explore new ways to stabilize and update the existing Linux kernel — globally one of the most frequently used kernels. The grant also will support educating new generations of computer scientists in the skills needed to work with the kernel.
Date: Jun 29, 2023 - -
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Rui Qiao named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers , articleQiao, a professor and John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, directs the Laboratory of Transport Phenomena for Advanced Technologies.
Date: Jun 16, 2023 - -
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William Devenport appointed Alumni Distinguished Professor , articleA member of the Virginia Tech community since 1985, Devenport has championed experiential learning opportunities for undergraduate engineering students.
Date: Jun 13, 2023 - -
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Linsey Marr honored as University Distinguished Professor , articleMarr’s expertise on airborne pathogenic viruses helped shape national and global policies during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as empowered the public to make sound decisions backed by science.
Date: Jun 07, 2023 - -
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Biomedical engineering and mechanics' Stefan Duma honored as University Distinguished Professor , articleDuma has dedicated his career to defining the fundamental engineering processes that unfold in bones and tissues when they’re damaged. As an internationally renowned expert in injury biomechanics, Duma has dedicated his career to preventing injuries by understanding how and why they happen.
Date: Jun 07, 2023 - -
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Don Taylor earns prestigious award for career contributions to industrial, systems engineering , articleTaylor, executive vice provost and Charles O. Gordon Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, received the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the organization.
Date: Jun 02, 2023 - -
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Ling Li leads team to see through eyes made of stone , articleLi, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded $1.05 million over three years to lead a team studying the visual abilities of a unique underwater creature with thousands of eyes.
Date: May 31, 2023 - -
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Researchers use autonomous technologies to make mines safer , articleDrones have become an essential part of surface mine operations to boost safety and efficiency. Virginia Tech researcher Richard Bishop sees a day when that will be true for underground operations, too, and that could have broad impacts on safety and economic growth.
Date: May 30, 2023 - -
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Vehicle stop study illuminates importance of officer's first words , articleEugenia Rho is the lead author of a new research paper that illustrates how a law enforcement officer’s first 45 words during a stop with a Black driver can often indicate how the stop will end. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the peer-reviewed research also found that Black males could often predict a stop’s outcome simply by listening to those same 45 words, which generally spanned less than 30 seconds.
Date: May 29, 2023 - -
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Virginia Tech partners with Micron Technology Inc., National Science Foundation, and 10 other universities to develop semiconductor talent in U.S. and Japan , articleVirginia Tech is a founding member of an 11-university network spanning the U.S. and Japan that has partnered with Micron Technology Inc. and the U.S. National Science Foundation to cultivate a more diverse and robust talent pipeline for the semiconductor workforce.
Date: May 22, 2023 - -
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Virginia Tech, George Mason University partner to develop networking infrastructure for satellite constellations , articleIn a project funded by the National Science Foundation, researchers will develop an open-source cyber-infrastructure and new space-based networking technology intended to forge connections among satellite networks around the globe.
Date: May 15, 2023 - -
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College of Engineering inducts six members into Virginia Tech Academy of Engineering Excellence , articleEstablished in 1999, the academy celebrated its newest class in April and brought its total membership to 179 alumni who have achieved exceptional career successes.
Date: May 12, 2023 - -
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Lifu Huang receives NSF CAREER award to lay new ground for information extraction without relying on humans , articleAn assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and core faculty at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, Huang is developing new extraction techniques that could help analyze millions of research papers, reports and emerging events around the world and preserve thousands of languages in danger of becoming extinct.
Date: May 05, 2023 - -
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Researchers study the crowdsourced investigation of Jan. 6, 2021 , articleResearchers in the Department of Computer Science analyzed the online community Sedition Hunters to understand how the group successfully used Twitter to help law enforcement and prosecutors — including the FBI and Department of Justice — identify suspects who took part in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Date: May 03, 2023 - -
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Amazon-Virginia Tech Initiative showcases innovative approaches to robust and efficient machine learning , articleVirginia Tech and Amazon gathered for a Machine Learning Day held at the Virginia Tech Research Center — Arlington on April 25 to celebrate and further solidify their collaborative Amazon–Virginia Tech Initiative for Efficient and Robust Machine Learning.
Date: May 02, 2023 -
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