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‘Curious Conversations’ podcast: Boris Vinatzer talks about fungi's potential influence on weather and more , articleResearch has revealed fungi's ability to help water freeze, and Vinatzer explains its potential to be used in cloud seeding and a host of other industrial applications.
Date: Apr 06, 2026 - -
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Fantastic fungi found with ability to freeze water , articleAn international group of researchers that includes Virginia Tech’s Xiaofeng Wang and Boris A. Vinatzer discovered the identity of fungal proteins that can catalyze ice formation at high subzero temperatures, which may enable engineered weather.
Date: Mar 11, 2026 - -
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Cayelan Carey, Amy Pruden named Virginia Outstanding Faculty , articleThe award is considered the commonwealth’s highest honor for faculty at public and private colleges and universities. Carey and Pruden were two of 12 recipients honored at a ceremony in Richmond.
Date: Mar 04, 2026 - -
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Rohit Kannan receives CAREER award to explore new approaches to energy and infrastructure problems , articleKannan, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering, received over $600,000 from the National Science Foundation for the five-year project that explores the potential of machine learning.
Date: Feb 10, 2026 - -
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AI microscope flips the popular understanding of cell movement , articleCell movement is a complex study, and Amrinder Nain is leading a team that has unveiled new insights into some of the biggest factors.
Date: Jan 21, 2026 - -
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Transforming acoustic waves with a chip , articleAcoustic waves can move objects like tiny hands. Zhenhua Tian’s team has devised new tools for this task in work published in Nature Communications.
Date: Dec 08, 2025 - -
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Jyotishka Datta receives CAREER award to create improved statistical models , articleDatta is developing scalable statistical methods to extract meaningful patterns from complex, high-dimensional data.
Date: Dec 02, 2025 - -
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National Science Foundation funding brings smarter and stronger advanced manufacturing , articleFive faculty members are bringing together their teams to develop a new additive manufacturing process to create the next generation of nature-inspired smart materials.
Date: Nov 24, 2025 - -
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Smarter robots could help autistic adults thrive in manufacturing jobs , articleVirginia Tech researchers are hopeful AI-powered collaborative robots could help autistic adults find meaningful work and fill gaps in manufacturing industries.
Date: Nov 13, 2025 - -
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New fellows to further research integrity , articleThe first cohort of Innovative Research and Ethical Impact Fellows launched this fall, its members charged with honing their abilities to identify and address ethical research-related issues and then share that skill set with colleagues across the university.
Date: Nov 10, 2025 - -
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Mathematicians model the menace of mosquitoes , articleResarchers tap a new method to model mosquito disease transmission.
Date: Nov 06, 2025 - -
Video ItemUncovering the mystery of dark matter, one rock at a time , video
Over the past 50 years, physicists have conducted all manner of dark matter experiments in hopes of uncovering evidence of its existence. In an unconventional approach, physicist Patrick Huber and a transdisciplinary team are looking at the crystal structure of ancient rocks for signs of dark matter interaction.
Date: Oct 13, 2025 - -
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Wenjie Xiong receives CAREER award to fight against stealthy computer attacks , articleWith her more than $500,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award, Xiong will focus on mitigating transient execution attacks with new testing methods, stronger encryption methods, and improved hardware design to protect computer memory.
Date: Oct 02, 2025 - -
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Chemist brings precision with polymers to high school science , articleChemist Adrian Figg works to create the foundation for the materials of the future by working with a type of macromolecule called polymers. High school students will get to play a key role in his research, getting to do polymer science in their own classrooms.
Date: Sep 29, 2025 - -
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New grant supports study of AI’s role in protecting cybersecurity systems , articleMost approaches to cybersecurity focus on detecting or neutralizing a specific kind of threat, such as malware or network breaches. But Bimal Viswanath’s collaboration intends to create a framework that can significantly enhance threat detection across several domains.
Date: Sep 25, 2025 - -
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Research awards strengthen communities, Virginia, and the nation , articleFrom predicting pandemics and advancing drone defense to developing new treatments for traumatic brain injuries, new research awards secured by faculty in fiscal year 2025 will drive a wide range of discoveries with a shared goal of improving lives in communities near and far.
Date: Sep 23, 2025 - -
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AI vs. cyberattacks: CAREER award funds research to make cybersecurity smarter , articleA five-year, $625,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award will support Peng Gao's vision of intelligent, knowledge-enhanced, context-aware, and human-inspired cyberthreat protection powered by artificial intelligence.
Date: Sep 18, 2025 - -
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Xuan Wang’s CAREER project makes sense of scientific discovery , articleA biological researcher turned computer scientist, Wang is building an accurate and trustworthy artificial intelligence system that can organize data from masses of published scientific papers so that it's easily searchable.
Date: Aug 29, 2025 - -
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Rescue effort begins for disappearing hellbenders in Virginia streams , articleA collaboration with the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources aims to stabilize Eastern hellbender populations by collecting eggs from at-risk nests, raising the larvae in captivity, and releasing them back into their native streams.
Date: Aug 21, 2025 - -
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Researchers join international environmental stewardship collaboration , articleWith support from the National Science Foundation, researchers will help build a global network of community-driven observatories.
Date: Aug 11, 2025 -
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