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Category: research 'Curious Conversations' podcast: Matt Wisnioski and Michael Meindl talk about the magic behind 'The Magic School Bus' , articleWisnioski and Meindl discuss the enduring impact of “The Magic School Bus,” which is best known as a long-running educational television show for children.
Date: Apr 28, 2025 - -
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Virginia Tech Advantage Where passion meets possibility , articleThrough the Student-Initiated Research Grant program, students in the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design are transforming bold, personal ideas into innovative, hands-on research with real-world impact.
Date: Apr 25, 2025 - -
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Category: research What overrides the brain’s satiety signals and promotes overeating? , articleA team of Virginia Tech neuroscientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC will capture real-time brain signals that govern people’s decisions about food with help from a $2.75 million grant.
Date: Apr 08, 2025 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Researchers receive $2.17 million grant to study noninvasive treatment for traumatic brain injury symptoms , articleFunding from the National Institutes of Health will allow the team to investigate how a technique called cranial osteopathic manual manipulation might affect brain fluid motion and help balance the autonomic nervous system.
Date: Mar 14, 2025 - -
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Category: research Whole Health Consortium at Virginia Tech funds teams to tackle community health challenges , articleFive multidisciplinary teams received seed grants to develop community-informed solutions for better health.
Date: Mar 03, 2025 - -
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Category: research Virginia Tech leads research to expose new privacy concerns with virtual reality , articleEye tracking by VR/AR headsets produces what’s called “gaze data,” or information gleaned from where your eyes focus attention. How it is captured and used — and by whom — could pose significant security and privacy challenges. Brendan David-John and Bo Ji are leading a National Science Foundation project to better secure these systems.
Date: Feb 10, 2025 - -
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Category: research What a magic school bus taught us about science education , articleMatthew Wisnioski, associate professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Science, Technology, and Society, received a National Science Foundation grant to explore the history of “The Magic School Bus,” and to better understand how multimedia, educational entertainment experiments transformed science education.
Date: Jan 14, 2025 - -
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Category: research Virginia Tech researcher receives collaborative grant to improve cancer therapies , articleProfessor Padma Rajagopalan, industry partner Ramona Optics, and Wake Forest Medical School received a $2.4 million National Institute of Health Small Business Innovation Research grant to design 3D liver organoids using patient derived cells and new microscopy imaging technology.
Date: Nov 27, 2024 - -
Video ItemVirginia Tech Advantage Learning 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 - -
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Category: research Transportation institute awarded nearly $1 million in trucking education grants , articleThe Virginia Tech Transportation Institute was recently awarded two grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to develop and enhance tractor-trailer educational programs.
Date: Nov 05, 2024 - -
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Category: research National Science Foundation supports Hoda Eldardiry's research to enhance AI ethics education , articleThe research includes ethics issues related to artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous vehicles, privacy, and bias and seeks to improve AI ethics education from the perspective of industry professionals.
Date: Nov 04, 2024 - -
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Category: campus experience Environmental Health and Safety awarded grant that focuses on hazards in agriculture and farm settings , articleEnvironmental Health and Safety was recently awarded its eighth Susan Harwood Grant.
Date: Oct 22, 2024 - -
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Category: research Grant unites humanities and health sciences for infectious disease coursework , articleFaculty from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences are teaming up with colleagues in the College of Science and the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine to create courses centered around the human dimensions of infectious disease.
Date: Oct 15, 2024 - -
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Category: academics New College of Science STEM education center awards instructional teaching grants , articleIn an effort to encourage innovation in teaching methodologies, four projects were selected as grant recipients in the new awards from the Center for Advancing Undergraduate Science Education.
Date: Oct 07, 2024 - -
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New USDA grant helps Virginia Tech researchers combat barley yellow dwarf virus in southeastern winter wheat , articleBarley yellow dwarf virus has been a threat to winter wheat in the southeastern United States in recent years, but thanks to a new a Virginia Tech-led project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that may soon be changing.
Date: Sep 04, 2024 - -
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Category: research Collaborative research to benefit coastal flounder populations and fishers , articleFaculty in the College of Natural Resources and Environment have received $1.79 million from the National Science Foundation for an interdisciplinary research project that will examine the dynamics of socio-environmental factors impacting coastal fisheries.
Date: Sep 03, 2024 - -
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Category: research Team of scientists awarded prize for biomedical research innovation , articleA multi-university team including Jennifer Munson of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute earned a Complement Animal Research in Experimentation Challenge prize with a proposal for a novel platform for studying and treating neuro-immune infections including the flu, COVID-19, potential biothreats, and conditions such as Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, and brain cancer.
Date: Aug 28, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Building a COMPASS to navigate future pandemics , articleAn $18 million grant announced by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will bring together five universities and more than 20 researchers, academics, and public health experts to establish the Virginia Tech-led Center for Community Empowering Pandemic Prediction and Prevention from Atoms to Societies (COMPASS).
Date: Aug 22, 2024 - -
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Category: research Veterinary students take summer dive into biomedical research , articleIn a program now in its 17th year, veterinarians explored scientific questions that could impact both animal and human health.
Date: Aug 21, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Advantage On Virginia Intern Day, Virginia Tech celebrates being named one of the top employers for interns , articleA new grant will create twice as many opportunities this fall for Hokies to take on professional internships around campus, thanks to Career and Professional Development's Campus internEXP program.
Date: Jul 24, 2024 -
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