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University Libraries receives 2024 Insight Into Diversity magazine’s Library Excellence in Access and Diversity Award , articleUniversity Libraries was recognized for its initiatives supporting diversity and inclusion. It is the only library in Virginia to receive the national honor out of 56 academic libraries across the country.
Date: Jan 16, 2024 -
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Robin McCarley elected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors , articleAs visionary leader of the Fralin Life Sciences Institute, McCarley was elected fellow for his groundbreaking contributions to the first clinically available test for HIV as well as personalized medicine diagnostic devices for the detection of cancer and treatment-resistant bacterial infections.
Date: Dec 15, 2023 -
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Virginia Tech has seismic role in earthquake center , articleThe National Science Foundation has awarded a $15 million grant over five years for the establishment of the Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center, and Tina Dura is the principal investigator for Virginia Tech.
Date: Sep 08, 2023 -
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Making a CAREER on bridging scientific knowledge and AI , articleAnuj Karpatne, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, received a five-year, $595,738 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program award to explore a unified approach for accelerating scientific discovery using scientific knowledge and data.
Date: Aug 28, 2023 -
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COVID expansion of SNAP benefits expires, hunger and food insecurity likely to rise, says family nutrition expert , articleWith the expiration of the pandemic-era enhancement of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), millions of Americans dependent on those benefits will find buying food harder and the poverty rate will rise. Elena Serrano, director of the Virginia Cooperative Extension Family Nutrition Program, explains what the end of the emergency allotments will mean and what can be done to address food insecurity.
Date: Mar 03, 2023 -
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Anne M. Brown receives NSF CAREER award to use computational modeling to study amyloid interactions , articleWith the five-year, $800,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, Brown will use her molecular dynamics simulation expertise to shed more light on the differences between amyloids that harm and those that don’t.
Date: Feb 21, 2023 -
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Medical school honored for commitment to diversity and inclusion , articleThe Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine was recognized by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine with its Health Professions Higher Education in Diversity award for 2022. This is the fifth consecutive year the school has received this award for its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Date: Nov 15, 2022 -
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Studying vampire bats to predict the next pandemic , articleSupported by the National Science Foundation, the team will examine how geography, population traits, and climate change affect the spread of infectious disease from vampire bats to other species, and propose new models for predicting when and where wildlife virus transmission might occur in the future.
Date: Sep 26, 2022 -
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Large doses of intensive therapy better for children with cerebral palsy, Virginia Tech scientists, partners find , articleThe study, funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, shows that higher doses of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy – 20 three-hour sessions over four weeks – yield significant and lasting improvement in use of their arms and hands, especially in everyday functional activities.
Date: Oct 14, 2021 -
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New book explores coal's legacy and Appalachia's future , articleCarl Zipper, professor emeritus in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, co-edited “Appalachia’s Coal-Mined Landscapes: Resources and Communities in a New Energy Era” with Jeff Skousen, a professor of soil science in the Division of Plant and Soil Sciences at West Virginia University.
Date: Jun 25, 2021 -
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Redirect ItemDr. Sanjay Gupta: The complicated calculus of mask-wearing , redirect Date: May 12, 2021
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Redirect Item1A: Going medieval on white supremacists , redirect Date: May 12, 2021
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Redirect ItemThe virus is an airborne threat, the C.D.C. acknowledges. , redirect Date: May 12, 2021
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Redirect ItemVirginia Tech wastewater samples target COVID-19 testing , redirect Date: May 12, 2021
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Redirect Item1A: The high cost of dying , redirect Date: May 12, 2021
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Redirect ItemPassenger rail service on track to return to the New River Valley , redirect Date: May 12, 2021
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Redirect ItemWhy did it take so long to accept the facts about COVID? , redirect Date: May 12, 2021
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