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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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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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Team taps into wastewater antibiotic-resistant gene monitoring , article“This really excites me because we can really be proactive,” said Liqing Zhang, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and NSF principal investigator. “The need for wastewater monitoring has been recognized internationally, but there is no unified cyberinfrastructure system in place to enable the monitoring.”
Date: Oct 07, 2020 -
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Sterling Nesbitt receives NSF CAREER award to study the evolution of vertebrate communities during the Triassic Period , articleSterling Nesbitt, an associate professor of geobiology in the College of Science, and a team of researchers will use a NSF CAREER Award to learn more about how extinction events -- and time itself -- drive evolution in vertebrate communities.
Date: Aug 24, 2020 -
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Researchers develop predictive tools to tackle childhood diarrheal disease outbreaks in Botswana , articleKathy Alexander, a professor of fish and wildlife conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment, and her collaborators have discovered a critical link between environmental dynamics and human health.
Date: Jan 06, 2020 -
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Multidisciplinary team seeks Rosetta Stone of insect communication , articleA multidisciplinary team of researchers from Virginia Tech, Rutgers, and SRI International has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to delve deeper into a particularly rich set of insect communication compounds called terpenes.
Date: Nov 14, 2019 -
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Professor will use new machine learning techniques to decrease deaths resulting from traumatic brain injury , articleChandan Reddy, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and faculty at the Discovery Analytics Center, has received a National Science Foundation grant to use new machine learning techniques for computational models to predict short- and long-term outcomes, categorize traumatic brain injury patients, and provide interventions tailored to a specific patient injury.
Date: Jan 15, 2019 -
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Researchers awarded NSF grant to build computational framework to test gene mutations in living cells , articleVirginia Tech and Colorado State University researchers have been awarded a $1.52 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new algorithms and mathematical models with the goal of predicting the effects of novel combinations of gene mutations in living cells.
Date: Nov 12, 2018 -
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What do drones, augmented reality, and quadditch have in common? , articleVirginia Tech received a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant to study the use of unmanned aircraft systems for inspection of civil infrastructure.
Date: Oct 24, 2018 -
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Virginia Tech researchers receive NSF grant to study parental care in eastern hellbender salamanders , articleThese giant salamanders were once common in streams across the eastern United States, but have experienced drastic population declines in the past 30 years due to habitat loss caused by erosion and pollution and are increasingly threatened by climate change.
Date: Oct 11, 2018 -
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Virginia Tech researcher to study the effects of drying streams , articleMeryl Mims, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science, received a new grant from the MacroSystems Biology program of the National Science Foundation.
Date: Sep 05, 2018 -
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Natural habitat can help farmers control pests, but the benefits vary widely across the globe , articleAn international team of authors, including Megan O’Rourke, assistant professor in the Virginia Tech School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, found that natural habitat surrounding farm fields is not always an effective pest-control tool for farmers worldwide.
Date: Aug 23, 2018 -
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Changhee Jung receives CAREER Award to make high-performance computing more efficient and error-resilient , articleJung's research award will focus on reducing the ever-increasing error rate in high-performance computers without sacrificing energy efficiency or increasing the complexity of hardware.
Date: Jun 26, 2018 -
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Physics researchers bring in federal funding to boost quantum science and technology research , articleFaculty researchers in the Virginia Tech Department of Physics are building a major program in quantum information sciences thanks in part to multiple federal grants that have brought $3.7 million directly to the university.
Date: Jun 13, 2018 -
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Gang Wang receives CAREER Award to thwart email phishing attacks , articleWang will use the five-year grant, totaling $538,522, to create novel techniques that combine human intelligence and machine learning to combat real-world phishing attacks.
Date: May 16, 2018 -
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Chemistry researcher developing new computational methods of modeling complex molecules , articleNick Mayhall in the Department of Chemistry wants to develop new computational modeling programs to help scientists study so-called “strongly correlated” molecules that have thus far been difficult to pin down.
Date: Apr 23, 2018 -
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Geosciences’ Michelle Stocker seeks evolutionary story behind snake-like animals that use heads to burrow , articleGeosciences' Michelle Stocker is mapping the evolution of animals that use their heads to dig into the ground.
Date: Apr 12, 2018 -
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Statistics’ Leah Johnson seeks to improve quantitative models for fighting diseases in humans, trees , articleJohnson, an assistant professor in the College of Science, will use a $700,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to help fight deadly diseases by using mathematical and statistical modeling.
Date: Apr 10, 2018 -
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B. Aditya Prakash receives NSF CAREER award to find data-driven network strategies to enhance national security and public health , articleThe assistant professor of computer science and faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center is also committed to strengthening the big data and mining curriculum for Virginia Tech students.
Date: Feb 27, 2018 -
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Virginia Tech’s Kevin Wang earns NSF CAREER award , articleWith the $526,930 grant, Wang will study the two-way interaction of cavitation bubbles with hard and soft solid materials, including the resulting microscopic material damage and macroscopic fracture.
Date: Feb 06, 2018
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