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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech is committed to educating the leaders of the future — and to creating the opportunities that move leadership into action. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ For more than 30 years, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) has supported college and K-12 students through a community of people-powered academic and summer programs driven by mentorship and guidance. The programs, such as Summer STEP, C-Tech², and more, assist underrepresented engineering students through the pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate curriculum. After creating the center in 1992, Associate Dean of Equity and Engagement and Director of CEED, Bevlee Watford, reflects on the organization’s growth and its impact on the Virginia Tech community past and present. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Faculty from the Virginia Tech National Security Institute developed “Cyber Snackz Adventures in Cybersecurity.” The activity book teaches elementary school students about internet safety in an age-appropriate, fun and educational way using engaging activities and coloring pages. ]]></description>
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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/04/eng-bevlee-watford-commencement-address.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ After a career of achievements and impact at Virginia Tech, Watford will share her insight on navigating life’s transitions before retiring this summer. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The inaugural Synergy Conference, an event hosted by the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity, focused on stimulating the New River Valley workforce, building community connections across STEM fields, and developing graduate students for their lives beyond their degree journey. ]]></description>
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        <title>Engineering junior Jayden Warren earns Patti Grace Smith Fellowship</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/03/eng-aoe-patti-grace-smith-fellowship.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Warren is the first Virginia Tech student to be honored by the prestigious fellowship program, which connects leading aerospace companies with talented Black students seeking to enter the aerospace industry.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Collective agency, collective change</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The National Science Foundation has awarded Virginia Tech engineering faculty $1.2 million to study efforts to overcome isolation and scholarly devaluation among Black discipline-based education researchers. The three-year study is a collaboration with Ohio State and Vanderbilt universities. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech awarded a $250,000 Sloan Foundation grant</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The grant is part of an initiative aimed at improving university systems and processes associated with graduate education to make them more equitable and inclusive across all programs and campuses. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students and parents attended a STEM Discovery Fair at Francis C. Hammond Middle School in Alexandria. The event was sponsored by the Innovation Campus, College of Engineering, Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity, College Access Collaborative, and the College of Science. ]]></description>
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        <title>Closing the inclusion gap in computer science</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In the United States alone, National Center for Education Statistics show that in 2020, self-identified males constituted 77 percent of computer science graduates, and 36 percent of degree recipients self-identified as white — the largest single ethnic demographic in the discipline. The Department of Computer Science continues to fund an initiative to support diversity and inclusion in computing. ]]></description>
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        <title>College of Engineering selects inaugural Dean&#39;s Fellows cohort</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The new program will help faculty and staff from across the college better understand how to take a project from ideation through implementation, and the first cohort will concentrate on graduate education, offering support to the college’s PROTEGE initiative. ]]></description>
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        <title>Summer camp spotlights Black excellence in engineering</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ BEE VT (Black Engineering Excellence) is a summer camp for rising junior and senior high school students. The camp offers an opportunity to explore the many facets of engineering while learning about college life. During the two-week camp, staff from Bloomberg Industry Group visited with the students to provide feedback and advice on an engineering design project. ]]></description>
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        <title>TechGirls exchange program bridges cultures through STEM</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ TechGirls is an international summer exchange program designed to empower and inspire young women from around the world to pursue careers in science and technology. These young women participated in STEM activities, including a final project that focuses on developing technology to benefit in their communities. The TechGirls program is offered by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, and Legacy International in partnership with Virginia Tech. Learn more at https://techgirlsglobal.org/ ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) offers this program to rising junior and senior high school girls. The two week camp focuses on hands-on learning activities to help guide budding engineers in their future college and professional career paths. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech joins regional coalition aiming to create mid-Atlantic clean hydrogen hub</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/05/outreach-crc-hydrogen-hub-application.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Through the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, the university has partnered with more than 60 others to potentially bring green hydrogen — and the good-paying jobs and improved energy security that comes with the zero-carbon fuel — to the Hampton Roads region.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Corporate Research Center-led coalition wins GO Virginia grant to advance green hydrogen in Hampton Roads</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The $1.6 million in state funding will build a hydrogen power demonstration lab at Tech Center Research Park in Newport News. It will also provide workforce training for the clean energy sector and deliver educational programming through the Center for Economic and Community Engagement and the Newport News Center. ]]></description>
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        <title>Transforming the engineering graduate student experience</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With the support of a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the College of Engineering will focus on changing the graduate engineering education system by connecting, integrating, and improving numerous processes in addition to providing support for graduate students. ]]></description>
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        <title>Alexandria City middle schoolers become NASA engineers during Project Red Rover</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ This past week, 36 students from four Northern Virginia middle schools were called upon to help NASA launch a mock Mars mission. Dubbed the Project Red Rover Robotics Program, the mission tasked students with the building, programming, and automation of a Vex IQ robot that simulated a Mars rover.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Jim Egenrieder named 2023 National ACTE Postsecondary Professional of the Year</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Egenrieder, who leads the STEM-focused Thinkabit Lab at Virginia Tech&#39;s Northern Virginia Center in Falls Church, received national recognition from the Association for Career and Technical Education for his commitment to helping students prepare for successful technical careers. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Kostas Triantis is exploring how cognitive biases influence trust in automation and decisions to delegate tasks to automated technologies.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Professors Walid Saad and Harpreet Dhillon of Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering have been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop technologies that use current and emerging wireless systems to “view” and map the surrounding environment. ]]></description>
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        <title>TechGirls from around the world converge on Blacksburg</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Teenage girls from around the world converged on Virginia Tech&#39;s Blacksburg campus for this year&#39;s TechGirls technology camp. TechGirls is an international summer exchange program designed to empower and inspire young women from around the world to pursue careers in science and technology, offered in partnership with the U.S. Department of State and Legacy International. ]]></description>
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        <title>Dong Dong receives NSF CAREER Award to build more efficient power conversion platforms for high-voltage systems </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ To increase efficiency of larger power systems like those found in the electrical grid, ships, and aircraft, Dong and his team will focus on the medium-voltage and high-voltage application of this technological research.  ]]></description>
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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2022/04/eng-asbeck-career.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Asbeck, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and his team will study the way people walk and adapt to exoskeleton assistance.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Kathryn Robertson will graduate from Virginia Tech with a degree in electrical engineering and then head to a job at NASA&#39;s Johnson Space Center as a full-time electronics engineer. She has known that she wanted to be an engineer since she was in the third grade.      ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Matusovich will focus on implementing the college’s strategic plan in regards to graduate students, graduate and professional programs, and related activities as a member of the College of Engineering’s leadership team. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Shahab, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has worked with her team to develop focused ultrasound as an effective tool for treating issues within the brain. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In the summer of 2020, four students in Virginia Tech’s C-Tech2 program, designed for high school girls interested in engineering, started a project to turn an ordinary water bottle into a makeshift desalination system. Now, with the help of faculty member Jonathan Boreyko, their research is getting published in Soft Matter.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As she prepares to participate in her first in-person commencement, Senger will be the third in her family to graduate from Virginia Tech, following both her father and grandfather who also earned engineering degrees. “I knew when I became interested in STEM that I wanted to come study at Virginia Tech,” she said. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Excellence at scale as well as increasing the college’s representational diversity and access to experiential learning opportunities were among the priorities Dean Julia Ross outlined at a recent Virginia Tech Board of Visitors meeting.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Six graduate students from across five departments of the College of Engineering have been selected for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program in 2021.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Thanks to an anonymous $100,000 endowment, the Department of Engineering Education created two new doctoral awards in honor of Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement in the College of Engineering. Kirsten Davis and Cynthia Hampton are the inaugural recipients. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ “I feel like not enough messages are about like self-love, self-confidence, trying to look within instead of outward for the things that you&#39;re trying to change within yourself or improve within yourself or even love about yourself,” said Gelila Reta. “So, with ‘live like the sun,&#39; it&#39;s like working on yourself to then be the best person for other people.” ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The multiyear Pathways for Future Engineers program aims to encourage first-generation students’ interest in engineering and equip them with key information about building the academic foundation for a career in it. The program partnered with VDOT to offer these opportunities to Virginia high school students virtually in 2020. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ &#34;It is often said that a decade in computer science is a century in other sciences,&#34; said Jian, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, of the aspects of his field that fascinate him. &#34;New computer hardware technologies constantly emerge.&#34;   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ For Walter Lee, an aspiration to &#34;uncover information that will better inform university efforts to support undergraduate engineering students, particularly students of color,&#34; led to his pursuit of a five-year project aiming to contribute to a deeper understanding of how marginalized students navigate undergraduate engineering programs.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Panda took advantage of all that Virginia Tech had to offer, joining student groups, engaging in service activities, and exploring opportunities for undergraduate research - and ultimately found her calling. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Emerging wide bandgap-based technologies, leading to higher power density and efficiency, can accelerate the aging and degradation of insulation systems and lead to unexpected failures. Ghassemi, an assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will conduct research that addresses this issue. ]]></description>
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