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        <description><![CDATA[ Hurricane hunter and Hokie Rebecca Keller ’18 recently returned to Virginia Tech to speak with students and alumni about her work with NOAA at the Student Engineers’ Council 2026 Distinguished Lecture, part of Engineers Week. A graduate of Virginia Tech’s aerospace engineering program, Keller shared her passion for her unique job flying into the eye of the storm to gather data that improves weather forecasts. She credits the problem solving skills she learned at Virginia Tech with her career success in engineering. Want to learn more about hurricane hunters? Read more: eng.vt.edu/magazine/stories/fall-2024/hurricane-hokies.html ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech geoscientists demonstrate how satellite data can help us understand how rivers and streams move sediment and shape the Earth&#39;s surface. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With support from the Virginia Space Grant Consortium, biological systems engineering senior Jessica Dodson looks to bridge synthetic biology and space agriculture, with potential applications for NASA and climate-resilient farming on Earth.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In his four years on campus, Davis has developed a strong passion for human spaceflight and fluid dynamics, forged professional and leadership skills, and worked with younger generations to bolster their interests in engineering and aerospace. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech geoscientists created the first large-scale high-resolution map of wind speed and direction over small bodies of water. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The heart of the CubeSat is the electron multiplying charged coupling device, which will make it possible to detect nitric oxide with a really low level of light, which is crucial given the small telescope size. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech researchers, along with several partners and collaborators, received a $2 million grant for a proposed future satellite mission that will investigate the region where space weather clashes with the lower atmosphere.  ]]></description>
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        <title>New research shows unprecedented atmospheric changes during May&#39;s geomagnetic superstorm</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ On May 11, Virginia Tech researchers captured surprising data using a NASA instrument to measure charged particles as they moved around the earth. The data gathered during the strongst geomagnetic storm in 20 years revealed patterns of particles that swirled and migrated from the poles in a manner that hadn’t been recorded before, raising the question: Has this ever happened before?  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The NASA-funded project proposes nontraditional strategies to prevent predicted collisions without adding to the accumulation of space junk. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A team of students from Virginia Tech will launch high altitude scientific weather balloons along the total solar eclipse path in Missouri as part of the National Eclipse Ballooning Project for NASA. Media are invited to attend a public demonstration on Saturday, April 6, 2024, in Poplar Bluff&#39;s Ray Clinton Park. The balloon launch takes place April 8. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Building on an earlier phase of NASA Harvest’s research that showed using remotely sensed data can help rapidly identify agricultural conditions and weather extremes over large areas, researchers at Virginia Tech are now working to help translate this work into applications for agricultural risk management products, such as agricultural insurance.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The project is sponsored by NASA through their Transformational Tools and Technologies program. It&#39;s a part of a broader initiative to enable the aerospace industry to rely more on computer simulations for certifying aircraft. The Virginia Tech Stability Wind Tunnel generates highly documented aerodynamic data from experiments that can be used to test whether simulations are up to the task. ]]></description>
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        <title>Astrophysicists to wield James Webb Space Telescope in three new supernova studies</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ For Chris Ashall&#39;s research group, the chance to study a rare, nearby, and young supernova over the course of the James Webb Space Telescope’s lifespan, recently projected to last up to 20 years, was irresistible.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As noise levels in urban spaces swell, a multi-university partnership seeks to turn down the volume on urban air mobility vehicles. To address key challenges facing the future of air transport, NASA has awarded $5.7 million to the partnership as part of the agency’s University Leadership Initiative. ]]></description>
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        <title>Researchers to investigate a gap in animal evolution between two of Earth’s most explosive biodiversity events</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With support from NASA’s exobiology program, Ben Gill is leading a team of geologists and geochemists from Virginia Tech, Florida State University, Smith College, and Yale University to collect and study sedimentary rocks and fossils deposited globally under the ocean during the 40-million-year delay in diversification between the Cambrian Explosion and the Ordovician Radiation.  ]]></description>
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        <title>NASA grant to fund critical research on sea-level rise in Virginia</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A collaborative research team  will seek to understand how rising sea levels will impact coastal communities, merging social science with geospatial information to help Virginia communities adapt to a changing landscape. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech geoscientists shed a light on life’s evolution 800 million years ago</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Is nitrate responsible for algae, flowers, and even your neighbors? A team from Virginia Tech has unearthed evidence that may indicate yes. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech&#39;s Innovation Campus partnered with College of Engineering undergraduate and graduate students and faculty to provide a Red Rover Robotics Program to middle schoolers in Alexandria City Public Schools. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ After a yearlong effort to explore the use of urban air mobility and regional air mobility vehicles within a firefighting scenario, three Virginia Tech capstone design teams swept the top three spots at this year’s NASA Aeronautics University Design Challenge. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems Lab is diligently pushing 3D printing to its next level and helping teams of students rack up a series of international design competition wins that introduce major cost savings for industry, catapult new possibilities for work in space, supercharge engines, and enrich quality of life.   ]]></description>
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        <title>Hokienauts on a special mission to advance space exploration</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Hokienauts are one of 10 university-based teams from across the country that demonstrated augmented-reality solutions designed for use in spacesuits in a lunar analog environment. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A Virginia Tech undergraduate student team is developing a 3D-printing system capable of autonomously creating drones that could fly away as soon as their fabrication is complete.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Born out of a continued partnership with the Tech Center Research Park in Newport News, Virginia, the integration of entrepreneurial education and NASA technology into Virginia Tech’s Executive MBA Program is a match made in – to paraphrase – the heavens. ]]></description>
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        <title>One Giant Leap For Plant-kind:  VT Soil Judging Team Grows Vegetables In Lunar Soil</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Members of the VT Soil Judging team participate in a NASA crowdsource project to experiment with different techniques for growing plants in lunar soil; a process that will be important for potential lunar colonization. For years, Hokies have played key roles in aeronautics and space exploration. Read more in the spring 2020 issue of the Virginia Tech magazine. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech remembers Chris Kraft &#39;44</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Chris Kraft &#39;44, NASA’s first flight director and a pioneer who led multiple space missions, died Monday in Houston. He was 95 years old. Across the nation, he is remembered as the face of NASA and father of the mission control center, which he created to communicate with spacecraft in orbit. At Virginia Tech, Kraft is known as a generous alumnus who served and gave back to his alma mater in countless ways. In an interview given approximately 20 years ago, Kraft reflected on his time at Virginia Tech. ]]></description>
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        <title>A tribute to Chris Kraft ’44</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ This archive video honors the memory of Chris Kraft, a Virginia Tech alumnus who received his degree in aeronautical engineering. Kraft was NASA’s first flight director and was instrumental in the nation’s first spaceflight, first orbital, first spacewalk, and the first lunar landing. In 1972, he became director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, later renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. In 2002, Kraft received the Ruffner Medal, Virginia Tech’s highest honor. NASA announced Monday that Kraft had passed away at the age of 95. ]]></description>
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        <title>Why shoot for the moon when you can shoot for Mars?</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Dylan Fraley, an aerospace engineering major from Wisconsin, has his sights set on Mars. When he was a kid, he would look at planes and wonder how they flew. Today, he believes he will live to see a manned mission to Mars. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A group of seniors in Virginia Tech&#39;s engineering science and mechanics undergraduate program is stepping up to the challenge of their capstone design project in a big way. Through the NASA Student Launch Initiative, they&#39;ll build a rocket completely from scratch that they hope to launch at the competition&#39;s launch day activities in April 2019. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech professor Scott King with the Department of Geosciences in the College of Science, watched NASA’s new InSight lander as it touched down on Mars Nov. 26. King is part of one of the teams selected by NASA to receive data collected by the robotic explorer. ]]></description>
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