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Alumna gift has big impacts on inaugural Davis scholars , articleChemical engineering alumna Mary Parker Davis and husband Mark, a former Virginia Tech chemical engineering professor, said they want to encourage chemical engineering alumni to follow their lead in supporting student success through endowed scholarships. It has already had big impacts on the recipients.
Date: Jan 04, 2022 -
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New Catawba Sustainability Center trail provides access to Appalachian Trail, McAfee Knob , articleThe 2.9-mile Catawba Greenway winds its way through the 377-acre Roanoke County farm, showcasing Virginia Tech research in sustainable farming, before connecting to the Appalachian Trail. The trailhead’s new parking lot will help ease the burden on Route 311 for one of region’s most popular hikes.
Date: Oct 10, 2021 -
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New study examines quality of life in mini pigs , articleAt the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, researchers want to examine which factors are important when miniature pig owners — also known as “pig parents” — measure their pigs’ happiness.
Date: Oct 07, 2021 -
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Weight or energy: Undergraduate student's research finds ACL recovery results and implications for returning to sport , articleIn a study published in Clinical Biomechanics, undergraduate biomedical engineering student Jenna Mesisca and Robin Queen, professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics in the College of Engineering, discovered the importance of factoring both weight and jump height into the tests that are used to clear athletes to resume physical activity following an ACL injury.
Date: Sep 28, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech launches National Security Institute; Eric Paterson appointed executive director , articleDrawing on the experience of its faculty members and experts, the institute will produce research and impact policy related to legal and practical challenges facing national intelligence, defense, law enforcement, homeland security, and cybersecurity communities.
Date: Sep 28, 2021 -
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Virginia Cooperative Extension agents to be trusted messengers for COVID-19 vaccine information , articleA group of Virginia Tech researchers, along with partners at Virginia State University, are working to deliver facts about the COVID-19 vaccine to the hesitant in rural Virginia via messengers they know and trust: Virginia Cooperative Extension agents.
Date: Sep 22, 2021 -
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Additional mental health counselors now on board to help Virginia Tech stay at the forefront of counseling services , articleFour counselors are embedded in various colleges, allowing for easier access for students, and the university plans on adding counselors to be embedded in residence halls for 2022-23 as part of a new approach to addressing the needs of students.
Date: Sep 15, 2021 -
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'A day many years in the making': Virginia Tech celebrates Innovation Campus groundbreaking , articleThe university expects to welcome students, faculty, and staff into the completed building in the fall 2024.
Date: Sep 14, 2021 -
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Geologists look to past for answers on future tsunami threats , articleTina Dura’s Coastal Hazards Lab uses sand beds deposited by tsunamis and preserved in coastal environments to reconstruct past tsunami inundation over hundreds to thousands of years, helping better define coastal hazards in a region.
Date: Sep 14, 2021 -
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Transdisciplinary collaborations essential to tackling cancer , articleA dynamic collaboration between researchers in the veterinary college’s new Animal Cancer Care and Research Center and Virginia Tech’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics has attracted substantial funding for a unique approach to treating osteosarcoma, a notoriously painful and aggressive bone cancer that primarily afflicts large-breed dogs, children, and adolescents.
Date: Jun 21, 2021 -
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Students help to clear up pandemic communication , articleTransparenSee, a group of Master of Public Health students and a graduate engineering student, produced clear, fog-resistant face masks to allow for better communication with the deaf and hard of hearing community.
Date: Jun 03, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech research unleashing robotic technology on campus construction sites , articleFaculty and students from Myers-Lawson School of Construction are partnering with the Division of Campus Planning, Infrastructure, and Facilities and Procon Consulting to deploy Spot, a mobile robot dog, to conduct innovative research around autonomous construction progress monitoring.
Date: May 20, 2021 -
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Poetry like a marriage between a comet and a meteor , articleThe Academy of American Poets chose Carmen Giménez Smith, a Virginia Tech professor of English, for one of its most prestigious honors.
Date: May 17, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech researchers identify a missing piece of the Lyme disease puzzle , articleVirginia Tech Assistant Professor Brandon Jutras and his lab have continued to tackle the Lyme disease epidemic over the past year, and they have recently identified another missing piece of the Lyme disease puzzle.
Date: May 13, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech launches ‘next generation’ human brain imaging lab , articleResearchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have received a $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, part of the National Institutes of Health, to measure the brain’s subtle magnetic signals in two research volunteers simultaneously as they interact, capturing the rich complexity of the brain’s signaling during face-to-face social interactions in real-time.
Date: May 12, 2021 -
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Newman Library group study tables now available thanks to architecture students’ work , articleA group of College of Architecture and Urban Studies students put their expertise to work in a project that allows their fellow Hokies to work together again in Newman Library.
Date: May 04, 2021 -
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COVID Companions collaboration benefits students and the community , articleIsolation is still on the rise from the COVID-19 pandemic, and Virginia Tech and organizations within the New River Valley community are offering a way to minimize feelings of loneliness among older adults.
Date: May 04, 2021 -
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Boeing commits $50 million to innovation campus to become first foundational partner , articleTransformative investment will help diversify the technology industry and bolster the Washington, D.C., region as a global innovation hub.
Date: May 04, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech helps launch English language center at Iraqi university battered by Islamic State , articleThe Language and Culture Institute is training faculty members and administrators at the University of Mosul as they work to rebuild after the four-year occupation.
Date: May 03, 2021 -
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Finding a forest in the trees: students design management plans for forest landowners , articleIn their capstone course, forestry students take what they’ve learned in the classroom and the lab throughout their college career and apply it to a real-world field project.
Date: Apr 19, 2021
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