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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers from the African countries of Ghana, Malawi, Senegal, and Uganda traveled to Virginia to better understand aerial imaging and how to use precision agriculture technologies to improve their peanut crops. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A Graduate Research Assistantship Program provides joint graduate scholarships for exceptional Ph.D. students who will be co-mentored by CAIA affiliate faculty and Sanghani Center faculty for up to two years. The first two recipients are Sangwoo Kim and Runing Yang. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A recent publication by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Virginia Tech researchers highlights that these innovative techniques could increase yields, enhance nutrition, improve access to local foods, and provide better year-round access to fresh food than traditional large-scale outdoor production. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Six Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension projects have been awarded funding through the Specialty Crop Block Grants program. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In response to the ongoing threats to the world’s water utilities, Virginia Tech opened the AI and Cyber for Water and Ag lab, combining cyberbiosecurity and artificial intelligence automation to research water security. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The new construction projects include a high tunnel installation at the Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center and upgrades to the Hahn Horticulture Garden on Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With thoughtful and resolute leadership, Grant has served the university for 15 years and guided the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences into a bright future. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech researchers are exploring new ways to grow better blackberries and turn them into tasty beverages. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech’s culture of collaboration and innovation is just one of many strengths that attracted Burrows, who has spent the past 17 years at Montana State University, to the university and the position. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The innovation scholars program encourages students to consider tech transfer. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers in Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are deploying teams of dogs and their owners to help detect spotted lanternfly eggs before they become a major threat to growers. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Commonwealth Cyber Initiative researchers from Virginia Tech and Virginia Military Institute researchers are collaborating to reinforce cybersecurity on dairy farms while also developing a workforce development platform to address dairy farm labor shortages.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Two U.S. Department of Agriculture grants are funding novel approaches to manage the spread of this deadly disease that decimates crops across the commonwealth and beyond.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are studying how to make sweet snacking peppers suitable for growing in indoor environments, which have different specifications for the plant. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers in the Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture and the Virginia Tech Applied Research Cooperation will use the $750,000 Convergence Accelerator program grant to develop climate-smart, economically efficient, and environmentally sustainable precision agricultural practices. ]]></description>
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        <title>Technology and agriculture collide at the inaugural Ag-Tech Field Day</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The exhibition featured dozens of technology industry representatives who showcased the latest tools that are supporting the commonwealth’s largest private industry — agriculture. ]]></description>
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        <title>Aerial sensor technology on display at Eastern Virginia Agricultural Research and Extension Center</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech researchers are testing the use of drones across the state to help stakeholders determine nitrogen rate and timing of wheat, an important crop of the commonwealth.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A team of faculty in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is part of an award-winning, multistate project that has helped accelerate the use of unmanned aircraft systems in agriculture and natural resources. ]]></description>
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        <title>MARE Center offers ‘thorough’ experience for students</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Animal science students from Virginia Tech gain real-world research experience with former thoroughbred racehorses at the Middleburg Agricultural Research and Extension Center. ]]></description>
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        <title>Flexing cyber superpowers in Southwest Virginia</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Diverse and sometimes unlikely collaborations equip Commonwealth Cyber Initiative  research teams to address today’s widely varied cybersecurity challenges. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech researchers use artificial intelligence to combat soybean nematodes</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers at the Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center are studying how to use artificial intelligence to identify the presence of plant-parasitic soybean nematodes that cause upward of $1 billion worth of soybean loss each year in the United States. ]]></description>
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        <title>In memoriam: Sue Duncan, associate director of Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, director of Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Sue Duncan, an ebullient and well-respected leader, professor, and researcher in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for more than 32 years, passed away suddenly on Oct. 12. ]]></description>
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        <title>Students bring spark, power, and drive to cybersecurity research</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Meet a few of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative student researchers in Southwest Virginia who are reframing the big questions and finding the answers – all while training to be future cybersecurity leaders.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ To help combat burgeoning costs for producers, the research will seek to deploy a self-learning control and diagnostic system that can identify cows with health or production problems and control feeding at the milking robots to generate individualized diets. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech’s SmartFarm Innovation Network of skilled and dedicated faculty researchers is rapidly expanding as part of a strategic effort to create a statewide network of interconnected faculty, partners, and resources for scientific discovery and developing and deploying new technologies. ]]></description>
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        <title>Undergraduate student researches effects of fusarium head blight, grows career</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ “Creating my own experimental design and working on my project with minimal supervision allowed me to understand exactly what working on research is like and then use that as experience to get started in and further my career,” said Megan Pollok. ]]></description>
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        <title>Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture, Virginia Cooperative Extension help Virginia Tech showcase its land-grant mission at 2022 Virginia Ag Expo</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The members of Virginia’s largest private industry will gather at the 2022 Virginia Ag Expo on Aug. 4 to examine the latest trends, technologies, and research in agriculture that will help shape the agricultural future.  ]]></description>
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        <title>New livestock and poultry facilities at Virginia Tech help grow agriculture</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences recently finished $31 million of construction on a series of new and renovated buildings around the Blacksburg campus that helps cement the university’s role as a source of research, education, and outreach that serves the commonwealth’s largest private industry – agriculture.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Newly formed School of Animal Sciences cements Virginia Tech’s reputation as an animal sciences powerhouse </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Today, the departments of Dairy Science and Animal and Poultry Sciences – which include the former departments of Poultry Science and Animal Science – are being combined into a new School of Animal Sciences, which strengthens their impact on Virginia, the nation, and the world. ]]></description>
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        <title>New director named for Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research and Extension Center</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Arash Rashed brings more than two decades of teaching, Extension, and research experience to the university. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Alson H. Smith Jr. Agricultural Research and Extension Center serves Virginia’s commercial fruit and value-added, horticultural food crops industries through research, educational programs, development of sustainable production systems and technologies, and increased public knowledge of horticultural opportunities and benefits. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As the world works toward economically and environmentally friendly ways to power these devices, two Virginia Tech researchers investigate how food waste and its associated biomass can be converted into rechargeable batteries. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Taylor McFadden earned a rare National Institute of Mental Health supplement grant that covers the final two years of her Ph.D. program. ]]></description>
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