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Category: research Researcher investigates the key to heat and disease resilient crops , articleFunded by a multinational, multi-organization grant, Courtney Leisner will seek to better understand how pepper plants respond when simultaneously infected with the pathogen Xanthomonas and exposed to extreme heat.
Date: Jun 13, 2025 - -
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Category: research Groundbreaking study maps the movements of marine megafauna , articleVirginia Tech joined a global research team that tracked more than 100 species and identified ocean hotspots critical for protecting threatened marine megafauna that fall beyond current conservation zones.
Date: Jun 05, 2025 - -
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Virginia Tech Advantage It’s already tomorrow in New Zealand , articleIn a whirlwind study abroad, students in the Online Master of Natural Resources program learned firsthand how New Zealand is leveraging modern techniques and Māori traditions to preserve a shared world.
Date: May 29, 2025 - -
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Category: academics Career exploration program cultivates student success , articleA combined 14 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows took part in the Translational Plant Sciences Center's Career Explorations Initiative's annual industry tour, which took place in St. Louis, Missouri, this year.
Date: May 27, 2025 - -
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Category: research Problem-solving cells called pericytes could inspire a new species of supercomputer , articleA group of engineering and philosophy researchers are looking to the cells’ little-known clustering behavior for computing inspiration.
Date: Apr 04, 2025 - -
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Category: academics Virginia Tech dominates 2025 ASCE Student Symposium , articleVirginia Tech succeeded in the 2025 Virginias ASCE Student Symposium at WVU Tech, winning first place in nearly every competition, including surveying, sustainability, technical paper, concrete canoe, and steel bridge. The civil and environmental engineering undergraduate students now prepare to compete on the national stage.
Date: Apr 01, 2025 - -
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Category: research Researchers are driving the charge of zero emissions , articleNew published research from Virginia Tech and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institution finds that electric vehicles generally produce less non-exhaust emissions compared with gasoline-powered vehicles.
Date: Feb 14, 2025 - -
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Category: research Researcher studies the power of native plants to combat road salt pollution , articleSalt pollution from road deicing salts threatens freshwater ecosystems and urban green infrastructure. Megan Rippy's research on salt-tolerant plants like cattails highlights their potential role in mitigating this pollution, though broader strategies are essential for long-term solutions.
Date: Jan 17, 2025 - -
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Category: research Satellite imaging techniques help researchers understand Libya's 2023 flooding disaster , articleAging infrastructure, political instability, climate change, and human decisions created conditions for the catastrophic flood disaster in Libya in 2023, according to a new Virginia Tech-led study published in Nature Portfolio Journal Natural Hazards.
Date: Jan 16, 2025 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction A new forest health champion at Virginia Tech , articleJust 16 short months ago, Carrie Fearer stepped onto Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus, ready to make her mark. Now, she’s not just a faculty member in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, but also a driving force in the College of Natural Resources and Environment’s conservation efforts.
Date: Jan 15, 2025 - -
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Virginia Tech Advantage Students gain international experience at climate conference in Azerbaijan , articleTwo College of Natural Resources and Environment students attended the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Date: Jan 08, 2025 - -
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Category: impact Virginia Tech’s Alliance to Advance Climate-Smart Agriculture enrolls 1,300-plus farms in first year of landmark pilot program , articleThe $80 million USDA-funded project — the largest grant in Virginia Tech’s history — provides financial support for farmers in selected counties in four states to implement agricultural practices that protect water, soil, and air.
Date: Jan 07, 2025 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Greg Liu is in his element using chemistry to tackle the plastics problem , articleLiu, a professor in the Department of Chemistry, details how he converted plastic wrappers such as these into soaps and detergents in an article published by Nature Sustainability. The next step is to scale up his process and make it a continuous one, while, more importantly, making it cost effective.
Date: Nov 27, 2024 - -
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Category: research Climate-driven hazards increase risk for millions of coastal residents, study finds , articleA new study published in Nature Climate Change estimates that a 1-meter sea level rise by 2100 would affect over 14 million people and $1 trillion worth of property along the southeast Atlantic coast.
Date: Nov 21, 2024 - -
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Category: research Virginia Tech awarded NASA grant to advance resilience in vulnerable communities facing geohazards , articleA research team that includes Manoochehr Shirzaei from Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences, has been awarded a prestigious grant from NASA’s Equity and Environmental Justice Program to develop innovative tools for addressing geohazards in vulnerable communities.
Date: Nov 13, 2024 - -
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Category: impact Uniting science and social equity, speaker explores building bridges for climate action , articleAs a student in Nepal, Kalpana Giri discovered a disconnect between academic understanding and people’s lived experiences around forests. In a public discussion on Nov. 14, Giri, a senior manager at the World Resources Institute, will examine the nuances of integrating the human dimension into natural resource management.
Date: Nov 11, 2024 - -
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Category: research Scientists suggest amping up efforts to mitigate effects of climate change , articleIn an article published in Nature Climate Change, three Virginia Tech Center for Ecosystem Forecasting researchers were among 23 global experts to call for scaling up current near-term iterative ecological forecasting.
Date: Nov 11, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Virginia Tech selected to lead $11.6 million research study for industrial decarbonization in the Roanoke Valley , articleThe project, dubbed Project CARDINAL, would prevent an estimated 50 million metric tons of carbon from going into the atmosphere in the next three decades.
Date: Nov 06, 2024 - -
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Category: research PREP Program cultivates grant writing skills for early career researchers , articleFive faculty members from three departments, one school, and three colleges have been selected for the 2024-25 cohort, receiving up to $10,000 each to develop research proposals.
Date: Oct 11, 2024 - -
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Category: impact Tech entrepreneurship takes root , articleThe Department of Computer Science's cs/root program kicked off in 2023 through a GO Virginia Region Two grant to support and encourage computer science-focused entrepreneurship. Local entrepreneurs and Virginia Tech students and faculty are invited to apply to join the program’s twice-yearly cohorts that provide business development resources, mentorship, and networking.
Date: Oct 11, 2024 -
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