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Article ItemCollege of Science selects recipients of grant to support innovative teaching ideas , article
The College of Science’s innovative teaching grant program invites instructors, professors of practice, collegiate faculty, tenure-track, and tenured professors to submit proposals for projects that would enhance the learning experience of undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in existing courses offered by the college.
Date: Sep 20, 2023 -
Article Item‘The real deal’: Students thrive and grow in summer hands-on research experiences , article
This was the seventh summer of programs aimed at engaging and training the next generation of scientists. This year, 34 students from colleges in Virginia, North Carolina, and as far away as California, and from five area high schools, participated in summer undergraduate research fellowship programs at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
Date: Sep 20, 2023 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine program expands to support more underrepresented students , article
The Early Identification Program provides intensive medical school preparation over two summer sessions for rising undergraduate juniors pursuing their dream of medical school.
Date: Sep 06, 2023 -
Article ItemIn its seventh year, College of Science Dean’s Discovery Fund supports new research efforts , article
The Lay Nam Chang Dean’s Discovery Fund recently announced research awards to support projects that include the discovery of non-opioid pain killers, wildlife disease, a mobile app for rural parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and bat guano. This year's awarded grants exceed $120,000.
Date: Aug 23, 2023 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech experts available to discuss headlines in the news , article
The Virginia Tech media relations office has the following experts available for interviews this week surrounding issues in the news. To schedule an interview, please contact mediarelations@vt.edu.
Date: Aug 21, 2023 -
Article ItemStudy from School of Neuroscience urges more research into sex differences in depression , article
Neuroscientists Georgia Hodes and Dawson Kropp propose that future studies go beyond whether there are sex differences — the question researchers have focused on since 2016 — and start asking why there are sex differences and how these differences can help with developing personalized therapeutics.
Date: Aug 21, 2023 -
Article ItemTOUR Scholars visit the National Institutes of Health , article
The Translational Obesity Undergraduate Research Scholars Program is a research-intensive summer experience that prepares students for graduate and medical education in translational obesity research.
Date: Jul 25, 2023 -
Article ItemTherapy framework reveals promise for intensive pediatric rehabilitation for children with motor disabilities , article
Virginia Tech researchers with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have demonstrated that children with a wide range of diagnoses that affect their motor function improve after receiving intensive pediatric rehabilitation called ACQUIRE Therapy.
Date: Jun 16, 2023 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech neuroscientist offers insight into how loneliness can affect health , article
Virginia Tech neuroscientist Georgia Hodes says that reports of depression and anxiety are up at least 3-fold since the start of the COVID epidemic. “While loneliness and isolation are likely contributors, the COVID infection itself triggers a depressive episode in approximately 20 percent of people. Understanding how infection impacts mood may help us find new ways to treat individuals that do not fully respond to current antidepressants.”
Date: May 09, 2023 -
Article ItemClass of 2023: Classy Shepherd pursues her 'CSI'-inspired passion for forensics , article
Working at the morgue may not be the typical summer job for a Hokie, but for clinical neuroscience major and future forensic pathologist Classy Shepherd, it offered a body of evidence that she was on the right path.
Date: May 05, 2023 -
Article ItemNeuroscientist to explore how diversity of neurons supports learning and memory in mammals , article
With support from the Whitehall Foundation, Daniel English will explore how anatomical differences among neurons of the hippocampus translate to differences in how they support behaviors like episodic memory, the brain’s ability to hold onto sequences of experienced events.
Date: May 05, 2023 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech scientist identifies narrow opportunity to address a disease connected with autism, schizophrenia , article
A National Institutes of Health grant will allow a team led by Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, a professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, to further his 20-year deep dive into DiGeorge syndrome, a genetic disorder that is usually diagnosed too late for treatment.
Date: Mar 31, 2023 -
Article ItemEveryone invited to learn about our ‘electric’ brains at 10th annual Brain School , article
Neuroscientists with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and the School of Neuroscience will celebrate the amazing brain with their 10th annual Brain School program, “The Electric Brain,” starting at 5 p.m. March 13 at 4 Riverside Circle in Roanoke.
Date: Mar 03, 2023 -
Article ItemFralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC professor celebrates authoring ‘tour of the human brain’ , article
The seventh edition of “Neuroscience” introduces undergraduate, graduate, and medical students to the field.
Date: Feb 24, 2023 -
Article ItemSchool of Neuroscience and Department of Engineering Education receive University Exemplary Department or Program Award , article
The 2022 award from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning recognizes innovative approaches to helping early career faculty develop as effective teachers.
Date: Feb 21, 2023 -
Article ItemNeuroscientists learn why PTSD patients relive highly charged fear memories in sleep , article
Sujith Vijayan of the Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience has led a research team in creating biophysically based models of the sleeping brain to explore at a deeper, mechanistic level how the brain may — or may not, with PTSD — effectively process and extinguish fear memories.
Date: Feb 07, 2023 -
Article ItemNeuroscience’s Matt Howe seeks to better understand how ingredients interact with people's dopamine system , article
To figure out how individual foods affect the dopamine system and what happens when all of the ingredients are presented in combination, Matt Howe recently was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million National Science Foundation grant.
Date: Oct 11, 2022 -
Article ItemDennis Dean Undergraduate Research Scholarships help students connect research to issues central to their lives , article
This summer's research projects ranged from the neuroscience of addiction to returning the voices of Native women to the historical record to studying the emotional interplay between mothers and children.
Date: Sep 29, 2022 -
Article ItemNeuroscience doctoral student receives NIH award to study the little-known astrocyte , article
Beatriz T. Ceja Pinkston will use a National Institutes of Health grant to study astrocytes, cells in the brain that have complex, sponge-like shapes with thousands of branches from their cell body that allow them to interact with thousands of things at once.
Date: Sep 26, 2022 -
Article ItemStudents selected for Roanoke’s first undergraduate biomedical research cohort , article
The students studying in majors in the College of Science are part of the inaugural Integrated Health Sciences and Research Program at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
Date: Sep 22, 2022
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