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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Virginia Tech among top 100 universities by National Academy of Inventors , articleThe university earned the No. 73 spot among universities worldwide and the No. 45 spot among U.S. universities. Both lists rank the top 100 universities being granted U.S. utility patents.
Date: Apr 29, 2025 - -
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Category: academics David Popham named fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science , articlePopham, professor of biological sciences, was selected for “distinguished contributions to studies of the structure, synthesis, and hydrolysis of the peptidoglycan wall components of bacteria vegetative cells and endospores.”
Date: Mar 27, 2025 - -
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Category: research Physics’ Rana Ashkar named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow , articleThe Sloan Research Fellowship recognizes exceptional early career researchers whose creativity, innovation, and accomplishments are poised to revolutionize their fields.
Date: Mar 03, 2025 - -
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Category: research National Academy of Inventors names seven senior members , articleAlaa Algargoosh, Anna Duraj-Thatte, Jonas Hauptman, Brook Kennedy, Guoliang "Greg" Liu, Roop Mahajan, and Danfeng "Daphne" Yao were among 162 emerging inventors from across the nation to make up the 2025 class of senior members for the National Academy of Inventors.
Date: Feb 24, 2025 - -
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Category: research Jeff Reed elected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors , articleOver the course of his 30-year career at Virginia Tech, Reed has mentored countless students, received $86 million in research funding, and holds 20 U.S. patents and six foreign patents in the field of wireless communications.
Date: Dec 10, 2024 - -
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Category: research Lina Quan named 2024 Early Career Research Program awardee by U.S. Department of Energy , articleQuan’s research focuses on electron spin, a property that influences magnetic behavior and has the potential to unlock new technological possibilities.
Date: Nov 21, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Research achievements and excellence honored during annual celebration , articleMore than 80 Virginia Tech faculty members were honored during the Celebrating Scholarly Distinction ceremony.
Date: Nov 13, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Inaugural recipients named for Lutz Awards , articleSophia Economou, Zheng “Phil” Xiang, John Rossmeisl, and Markus Breitschmid earned the first Jacob A. Lutz III Awards for Eminent Scholars during Virginia Tech’s annual research awards ceremony, Celebrating Scholarly Excellence, on Nov. 6.
Date: Nov 12, 2024 - -
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Category: research Medals and minerals: Nancy Ross’ banner year , articleAmong the many awards and honors bestowed on her over the past few months, geoscientist Ross received the prestigious 2024 Roebling Medal.
Date: Nov 07, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Pioneering transportation research , articleVirginia Tech's Hanowski has worked with researchers and universities in Malaysia and Indonesia to better quantify the dangerous landscape of motorcycle travel there and explore potential interventions.
Date: Oct 01, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction CAREER award recipient to fight rare diseases using AI , articleWhile not a perfect system, human reasoning still outshines artificial intelligence in a number of critical areas. College of Engineering Assistant Professor Dawei Zhou wants to help change that.
Date: Aug 05, 2024 - -
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Category: research Virginia Tech researchers receive Fulbright Scholar Awards , articleThe focus of the Fulbright research projects seek to improve global transportation safety, environmental policy, and climate change.
Date: Jul 02, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Zhenhua Tian receives National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop invisible acoustic tweezers , articleThe ability to precisely move small objects such as embryos, cells, and bacteria without physical contact could be a valuable tool for health care. Tian’s research group is developing these techniques with the $649,000 award.
Date: May 13, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Professor emeritus wins prestigious national award from the American Chemical Society , articleS. Ted Oyama is the 2023 recipient of the George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry.
Date: May 13, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Rodrigo Sarlo receives National Science Foundation CAREER award to create structural digital twins on campus , articleSarlo's research will facilitate the conversion of sensor data to structural models, which has applications in structural monitoring for safety and maintenance.
Date: May 01, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Bridging the software-hardware divide , articleWith applications that require more robust processing speed and efficiency, the pressure is on to make every server in every data center work harder. Under the auspices of a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program award, Huaicheng Li's group will work to bridge the gap between emerging hardware technologies and the needs of modern software applications.
Date: Apr 24, 2024 - -
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Category: research Rock talker: Robert Bodnar excavates secrets from deep space, deep Earth, deep past , articleBodnar studies ancient droplets of fluid trapped within minerals from deep under the Earth and from outer space. His findings have shed light on future volcanic eruptions, life on other planets, and the location of deposits of “critical minerals,” identified as vital to our economic future and national security. For these accomplishments and more, Bodnar will be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences on April 26.
Date: Apr 23, 2024 - -
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Category: research Rock reader: Shuhai Xiao deciphers the geologic past to prepare for the future , articleXiao studies the interactions between life and Earth, especially at a critical point in geologic history when animals first emerged on the scene. Among his many accomplishments, Xiao discovered the earliest known evidence of a moving animal. On April 26, he will be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.
Date: Apr 23, 2024 - -
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Category: research Six Virginia Tech faculty elected AAAS Fellows , articleThe newly elected lifetime fellows represent the fields of biological sciences, chemistry, medical sciences, and engineering followed by neuroscience and physics.
Date: Apr 18, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Alba Yerro-Colom to use National Science Foundation CAREER award to better predict and prevent landslides , articleAlba Yerro-Colom is developing a numerical framework to study how different rainfall patterns affect the interaction between water, roots, and soil during a landslide.
Date: Apr 15, 2024 -
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