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        <description><![CDATA[ The Secure Energy Future Center at Tech Center Research Park connects researchers, industry, and local leaders working on energy resilience across Hampton Roads. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new GO Virginia investment will help Virginia Tech and regional partners accelerate innovation, expand workforce pathways, and strengthen Southwest and Southern Virginia’s position in advanced manufacturing. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The popular 34-mile rail trail generates more than $61 million annually and supports hundreds of jobs across four counties, reflecting its vital role in the region’s economy as communities rebuild after Hurricane Helene.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The seed grant, designed to support place-based collaborations between faculty and communities, helped build trusted partnerships that expanded into a coordinated effort to reduce harm and support recovery in the New River and Roanoke valleys. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A partnership led by the Virginia Tech Southwest Center will prepare residents for careers in land reclamation, environmental restoration, and clean energy, linking local expertise with new regional opportunities. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Drawing on data and community insight, the Center for Economic and Community Engagement helped shape a strategy to drive growth across Southern and Southwest Virginia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As Hokies sample oysters at West End at Cochrane Hall on Oct. 21, Virginia Tech programs and partners are helping sustain a $60 million industry through education and workforce development.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new strategy developed by Virginia Tech through its Center for Economic and Community Engagement is fueling growth, improving sustainability, and boosting permit sales across a thriving outdoor recreation network in Southwest Virginia.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ This month, Virginia Tech will convene manufacturers, researchers, and policymakers for three connected events aimed at expanding advanced manufacturing in Virginia and preparing the talent to power it. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Through hands-on training, classroom resources, and industry partnerships, Virginia Tech is supporting workforce development in a vital Virginia industry. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The reorganization will foster faculty collaboration and expand experiential learning and career development opportunities for students. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Susan E. Short, associate vice president for engagement with Outreach and International Affairs, explains why the most meaningful partnerships involve faculty and students who approach communities with curiosity and respect.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students gain valuable field experience while helping the Center for Economic and Community Engagement study battlefield tourism’s economic impact in the Shenandoah Valley. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech is collaborating with the Roanoke Blacksburg Innovation Alliance and Carilion Clinic to lead efforts to strengthen Southwest Virginia’s position at the forefront of fields such as medical devices, oncology therapeutic research, and neurotechnology.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Center for Economic and Community Engagement is collaborating with the New River/Mount Rogers Workforce Development Board to provide graduate students with hands-on experience while generating crucial workforce data and insights for Southwest Virginia&#39;s economic development. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Harder highlighted the Department of Computer Science’s initiative CS/root and shared his belief that the entrepreneurship process can be learned and applied to various novel ideas.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Department of Computer Science&#39;s cs/root program kicked off in 2023 through a GO Virginia Region Two grant to support and encourage computer science-focused entrepreneurship. Local entrepreneurs and Virginia Tech students and faculty are invited to apply to join the program’s twice-yearly cohorts that provide business development resources, mentorship, and networking.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With food, music, and a passion for volunteering, Travis is leading the charge to revitalize downtown Christiansburg through the Rockin’ Food Truck Rodeo. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Through comprehensive research, data gathering, and collaborative partnerships, the Center for Economic and Community Engagement is working to understand the unique child care challenges facing different regions and develop targeted solutions to address gaps. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Harjas Singh, London-based co-founder of Shares.io, is on his way home to Virginia Tech in September for a series of talks and visits with faculty, staff, and local entrepreneurs. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Anuj Karpatne, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, received a five-year, $595,738 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program award to explore a unified approach for accelerating scientific discovery using scientific knowledge and data.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ About 200 miles from their offices and classrooms in Blacksburg, Virginia Tech faculty, researchers, and students are working with a group of St. Paul’s College alumni and Brunswick County community members who want to keep the traditions of the former liberal arts college alive. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The latest conceptual development project by the Community Design Assistance Center helped stakeholders in St. Paul, Virginia, leverage $990,000 in grant funding for economic revitalization. The center has worked with more than 230 communities on hundreds of projects throughout Virginia to improve natural and built environments through community engagement and interdisciplinary design. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Could a 1940s theater bring more people to Stuart, Virginia? A team of graduate assistants at the Center for Economic and Community Engagement put their knowledge to work to help town leaders figure it out.  ]]></description>
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        <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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        <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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        <description><![CDATA[ John Provo, executive director of the Center for Economic and Community Engagement, knows that payoffs can be big when faculty members collaborate with industry leaders: Companies thrive, communities prosper, and students’ lives are transformed. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Emerging leaders from Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria visited Virginia Tech to develop the skills to successfully develop and implement projects that will help their communities. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Jason Schwartz, a master&#39;s student in urban and regional planning, says his work as a graduate assistant for the Center for Economic and Community Engagement prepared him for the challenges of public service. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students turn to data analytics to help the nonprofit Black BRAND better understand the factors that affect the economic and social progress of Black residents in the region. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Kaine visited the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute to learn more about a university-led effort to create the most advanced real-world test environments for automated vehicles and delivery technologies. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new book from the Center for Economic and Community Engagement and Virginia Tech Publishing examines Virginia’s urban-rural continuum and offers practical guidance for communities striving for a more resilient and prosperous future. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Michael Karmis said although he&#39;s retiring after four decades in the Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering, he&#39;s not leaving the coalfields behind. He&#39;s now ready to use all the research, teaching, and networking he has done over the past four decades to help rural Virginia reverse economic decline from the falling fortunes of coal. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech is in the running for as much as $100 million in federal funds to support economic development through a regional transportation and logistics cluster that will accelerate the adoption of electric and automated vehicles and revitalize the economy of Southern and Southwest Virginia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Extension specialists in the College of Natural Resources and Environment are working with industry professionals and utilizing new technologies to enhance the hardwood market in Appalachia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The new initiative from the Center for Economic and Community Engagement aims to connect students and young professionals to work-based learning opportunities in the region. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The monthly housing report helps companies and individuals close the gap between changes taking place in the housing industry and their impacts on the hardwood and softwood industries. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) is partnering with the Virginia Tech School of Plant and Environmental Sciences and the Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center to launch a Controlled Environment Agriculture Innovation Center on IALR’s campus in Danville, Virginia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Part of Outreach and International Affairs, the new university-level center will engage with internal and external partners to drive economic growth, address workforce needs, and build resilience in communities across Virginia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Elevate Roanoke County 2026 Plan is among the projects the office is supporting through the Economic Development Administration CARES Act funding. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new economic impact report takes a close look at what drone delivery could do for consumers, businesses, and the environment in three representative communities. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Office of Economic Development program is among 15 finalists nominated in the University Economic Development Association’s Awards of Excellence.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The virtual forum, introduced by President Tim Sands and Executive Vice President and Provost Cyril Clarke, examined Virginia’s economic recovery as well as higher education’s response and role in that recovery. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The deep-well exploration project aims to characterize and explore deep natural gas resources in Central Appalachia that have the potential to positively impact communities and economies hit hard by downturn in coal. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Appalachian Beginning Forest Farmer Coalition will use new funding to increase awareness about forest farming, improve producer capacity, and strengthen market connections for forest farmers in Appalachia and beyond. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech economists Shaowen Luo and Kwok Ping ‘Byron’ Tsang have completed a study showing the cost of the coronavirus, or COVID-19, on the GDP (gross domestic product) on the Chinese and worldwide economies.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A team of graduate students with the Office of Economic Development worked with a Christiansburg children’s museum to capitalize on its new, expanded space. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Addition by subtraction helps a Virginia city grow.  ]]></description>
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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2020/01/outreach-townssixfive.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Save Our Towns tells the story of a town and a woman banding together to bring a million-dollar project to fruition.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With &#34;Building the Beloved,&#34; urban affairs and planning alumna Ellie Muraca questions what it means to belong in the world of equitable community planning and design. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A century after Big Mary’s execution, Save Our Towns shows how leaders in Erwin, Tennessee, found a way to change the narrative.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Small local communities leverage help from Virginia Tech students and the Community Design Assistance Center to fund revitalization efforts and to draw new residents.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech&#39;s inaugural Blocksburg Summit: Blockchain and Beyond set the stage for an intimate gathering of thought-provoking discourse and a chance to fuel curiosity with more than 160 in attendance in Blacksburg. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In 2019, Link, License, Launch has seen 20 new intellectual property licenses, six tech start-ups, and 148 invention disclosures from the Virginia Tech community. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech received $546,800 from the Growth and Opportunity for Virginia program to spearhead two programs aimed at helping students land internships, boost the Roanoke and New River valley economies, and establish Blacksburg as a blockchain hub. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The campus is an expansion of Children’s National that is located on a nearly 12-acre portion of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and is set to open its first phase in December 2020. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As expected, Virginia Tech’s agreements with the state – one outlining undergraduate growth and one for graduate growth – include $167.7 million in capital funding for the Innovation Campus’s first academic building in Alexandria and $69 million in capital funding for a data and decisions building in Blacksburg.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech’s agreements with the state – one outlining undergraduate growth and one for graduate growth – include $167.7 million in capital funding for the Innovation Campus’s first academic building in Alexandria and $69 million in capital funding for a data and decisions building in Blacksburg.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Industry advisers see promising ways to expand IT sector in rural Virginia </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ President Tim Sands hears ideas for replicating Northern Virginia’s success in smaller towns. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The town capitalizes on a new idea for an old road. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:11:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Students grow through international agricultural research</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Agriculture students gain lessons of global citizenship through human-centered research and study abroad.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Save Our Towns: Fincastle finds its way</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A tiny Virginia town that had remained self-contained since colonial days experiences growing pains. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The season six premiere also explores absentee land ownership in Appalachia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Danville, Virginia, was characterized in national discourse as a ghost town “left for dead.” But that rhetoric didn’t ring true at City Hall, where leaders saw a different reality unfolding. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ West Virginia’s floods in 2016 resulted in fatalities and hundreds of destroyed homes. One tiny city picked itself back up after the disaster. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Harshawardhan Deshpande, Daniel Hoagland, and Ryan King will talk about their experiences at a presentation at noon on Feb. 19 at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Boosters like Terry Caldwell, director of aquatics, are heartened by evidence the investment was a good one.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new bookstore’s owner finds that complying with the sign ordinance is part of doing business in Lewisburg, West Virginia.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Hellbenders get help and a no-holds-barred mayor spices things up in season five premiere.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Ridge and Valley chapter of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International met to reflect on a banner year for unmanned systems in Virginia.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Can a heat wave spark ideas? One did for a team of student entrepreneurs from India who competed recently at the Virginia Tech Research Center — Arlington. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Professor Jeff Alwang has a 20-year history with Zimbabwe doing poverty analysis through periods of hyperinflation and political unrest, but he&#39;s hopeful for the upcoming election. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The new center seeks to create breakthrough products for North American markets, while the company’s Virginia Tech research project in mechanical engineering aims to advance emerging farm technologies like fruit-picking robots. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Mayor Steve Williams and Fire Chief Jan Rader command national attention as Huntington, West Virginia, chooses to confront the opioid epidemic rather than downplay it. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The small Kentucky city celebrates success in taking only 10 months to fill its industrial park. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Williamson, steeped in Hatfield-McCoy history and once rich in coal, may now be more well known outside Appalachia than in. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A small town near a much bigger city, Vinton lacked dynamism until a key project started revving things up again. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Boone, North Carolina, leads the pack among towns that seek to convert to renewable energy, while Pennington Gap revs up motorsports. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Lab Director Josep Bassaganya-Riera announced a successful round of Series A funding for his private biotherapeutics venture to treat inflammatory bowel disease. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Burgess co-leads the group whose drones delivered burritos on campus last fall. His keynote speech will explore how autonomous systems can earn the public&#39;s trust.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Fifteen leaders of business, industry, and education — including a former Virginia Tech president — have been named to serve on the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute’s advisory board.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Sometimes it takes a researcher with a flair for entrepreneurship to translate a laboratory breakthrough into a medical treatment. Rob Gourdie, the director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute’s Center for Heart and Regenerative Medicine Research, uses &#34;intrapreneurship&#34; to translate laboratory breakthroughs into medical treatments. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Scientists and clinicians throughout Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic will join forces at the new VTCRI Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors in an effort to protect the health of people in Virginia and the United States ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Blowback against anti-immigrant sentiment and a boost for manufacturing in Southwest Virginia are among the subjects closing out the season on the award-winning web-episode series. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ City leaders embraced local artists and their impact. A mural-painting project spiffed up downtown, businesses filled in vacant storefronts, and the renovation of the town’s historic theater drew near completion. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive Airport contributes more than $1 million to the local economy, according to a report commissioned by the Virginia Tech Montgomery Regional Airport Authority, which operates the airport. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Born in West Virginia and descended from coal miners, Crystal Cook Marshall knows the stereotype of Appalachians as clannish and feuding, poor, and uneducated — the image of a region filled with moonshining hillbillies. She said she believes Appalachia has untapped assets that can propel its “towns, people, and landscapes left for dead” into a new prosperity. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The wooden houses could be manufactured in the U.S. to specific international standards, packed in containers, and exported around the world. Virginia Tech researchers are investigating the market for the homes as a way to decrease the housing deficit.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The latest episode of the monthly video series looks at how city leaders took a chance on a developer who sought tax incentives to transform the aging Robert E. Lee Hotel. The result of the project ultimately brought visitors back downtown.  ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech is creating a business engagement center as part of a major push to expand its partnerships with leading companies. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The tiny West Virginia town of Bramwell pounced on the opportunity to locate a prominent trailhead less than a mile from downtown. Now, ATV riders are filling restaurants and spurring construction of lodging.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ This installment of the monthly video series produced by Outreach and International Affairs looks at the efforts town leaders made to bring Fries back to life. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The University Economic Development Association conference, held in Roanoke Oct. 16-19, had an estimated local economic impact of $600,000. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Located at the eastern gateway to the Crooked Road, Rocky Mount lacked a suitable performance venue to bring high-profile acts to town. Now, the Harvester Performance Center is bringing big names — and big money — to Rocky Mount. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers  have made a flexible solar panel to go inside buildings, on clothing, and much more, harvesting energy from indoor light sources as well as sunlight. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Homer is a Virginia Tech alum and previously worked in the Office of International Research, Education, and Development where she conducted country development strategy analyses. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ When it comes to success, location is key for Blowing Rock. Situated just two miles from the Blue Ridge Parkway, the town has leveraged its proximity to the scenic route to attract tourists. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Discovery Analytics Center and a Virginia-based defense company are working together on software that can predict and adapt to an intelligence analyst&#39;s needs. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Save Our Towns, a monthly video series geared toward small-town leaders, opens its third season with the story of Independence, Virginia.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The 333-mile route through Southwest Virginia draws visitors from outside the commonwealth and abroad to music events through marketing and programming.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The actions of town residents who made their voices heard after the tragic death of a child may have helped preserve the town of Appalachia, Virginia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Bioinformatics Institute-developed synthetic biology tool transitions to private sector ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech engineers and economic development specialists are working to convert students and faculty researchers into technology entrepreneurs. ]]></description>
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        <title>National Tire Research Center to open</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The National Tire Research Center will have a ribbon cutting on Oct. 24. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Rachel Cogburn is director of the I-81 Corridor Coaliton. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The 44th congress of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry is being held at Virginia Tech from June 24-29, 2012. The meeting will have an economic impact on the Blacksburg community of more than $2 million. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Ray Pethtel, director of the Transportation Policy Group at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, has been appointed interim executive director of the I-81 Corridor Coalition.   ]]></description>
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