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Results for: Highly Prestigious - Prestigious Awards
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Accomplishments, scholarship, and impact honored at research celebration , articleMore than 70 Virginia Tech faculty members were recognized during the annual event on Oct. 10.
Date: Oct 16, 2023 -
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Virginia Tech’s Linsey Marr named 2023 MacArthur Fellow , articleThe University Distinguished Professor is one of 20 people who will receive an $800,000 award, a highly prestigious award commonly called a “genius grant.”
Date: Oct 04, 2023 -
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Pinar Acar receives NSF CAREER award to design the materials of the future , articleAcar’s team specializes in creating digital profiles of materials. In this project, the team will be creating digital models set to music.
Date: Jul 27, 2023 -
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Alireza Haghighat earns Gerald C. Pomraning Memorial Award , articleThe prestigious award recognizes key contributions to the fields of mathematics and computation and their applications to the field of nuclear science and engineering. Haghighat, the Robert E. Hord, Jr. Endowed Professor in Mechanical Engineering, is director of the department's nuclear engineering program.
Date: May 18, 2023 -
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Virginia Tech’s Robert J. Bodnar and Shuhai Xiao elected to the National Academy of Sciences , articleBodnar, University Distinguished Professor of Geochemistry, and Xiao, a renowned paleobiologist and geobiologist, are among 120 new members and 23 international associates recognized for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Date: May 03, 2023 -
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Michael Bartlett receives NSF CAREER award to study soft composite manufacturing , articleBartlett, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, will use the $590,600 National Science Foundation CAREER award to research and understand new strategies for manufacturing liquid metal-based soft composites.
Date: Feb 28, 2023 -
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Robert Gourdie named senior member of the National Academy of Inventors , articleFor the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC professor, thinking about important questions leads to innovations that can improve lives.
Date: Feb 14, 2023 -
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A legacy of inventors , articleHome to a number of serial inventors with nearly 1,000 inventions under active management in wide ranging areas of science and technology, Virginia Tech is making major contributions to the innovation ecosystem.
Date: Feb 08, 2023 -
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M.A. Saghai Maroof named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , articleMaroof, a professor in the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, has made fundamental contributions to plant genetics.
Date: Jan 31, 2023 -
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Rafael Davalos elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors , articleDavalos, who directs the Center for Engineered Health, has made significant contributions to the fields of cancer detection and treatment using advanced electroporation, biotransport, and dielectrophoresis.
Date: Dec 19, 2022 -
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Roe-Hoan Yoon elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors , articleSince the 1980s, Yoon, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and his colleagues at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering have developed various advanced separation processes for the minerals and coal industries.
Date: Dec 08, 2022 -
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Charlene Eska receives Guggenheim Fellowship for research on early Irish law , articleEska, a linguistics professor in the Department of English, earned the $75,000 fellowship for work on her fourth book.
Date: May 18, 2022 -
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Love, sex, and robots: Doctoral candidate Sara Wenger receives prestigious fellowship for work on the ethics of humanoid robots , articleWenger received an Andrew W. Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her work, which combines gender and sexuality studies with the study of science, technology, and society in an examination of the controversial issue of humanoid sex robots.
Date: Apr 27, 2022 -
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Javiera Jaque Hidalgo awarded National Endowment for the Humanities support for research on Indigenous funeral rituals in colonial Santiago , articleJaque Hidalgo, an assistant professor of Spanish, received the agency’s prestigious Summer Stipend. The grant will fund her upcoming research trip to Chile, where she will gather primary sources for a book-length project.
Date: Apr 26, 2022 -
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Navdeep Sokhey receives prestigious national fellowship for research on survival of dialects through social media , articleSokhey, an assistant professor of Arabic, was awarded a 2022 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for her project, “Personae of Bahrain: The Survival of a Dialect through Social Media.” She was one of only 60 fellows selected out of a pool of nearly 1,000 scholars nationally.
Date: Apr 21, 2022 -
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Fear or revere: Virginia Tech researcher dives into the complex history of the American alligator , article“When we peer into the eyes of an alligator, what we see reflected back is as much a product of our own preconceptions and fears as the unvarnished reality of the creature that stands before us,” said Mark Barrow, a professor in the Department of History.
Date: Feb 08, 2022 -
Article ItemMarc Edwards named MacArthur Fellow for drinking water safety efforts , article
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Date: Sep 26, 2007