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        <description><![CDATA[ Dori Mitchell, a biochemistry graduate in Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will attend veterinary school after building a strong foundation in science, service, and community. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Gene Copenhaver ’83 brings decades of industry experience to his new role as president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The student-run Hokie Harvest livestock sale has raised $4.5 million over three decades and continues to fund future learning. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A gift in memory of veterinary college alum and rural veterinarian Doc Fuller ’88, DVM ’97 is helping Shelly Underwood prepare for a career in caring for farm animals. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The youth organization founded in 1925 by four agricultural educators is now the nation’s largest student-led organization, with more than 1 million members. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Their lasting contributions to Virginia’s beef, dairy, pork, sheep, and horse industries are now memorialized in the Alphin-Stuart Livestock Arena. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Kelli Gillespie is the first recipient of the Sydney and Fran Memorial Veterinary Scholarship and now in her second year of receiving the award. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With one of the nation’s longest-running performance programs, Virginia Tech has helped sheep producers make better breeding decisions for five decades. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Tech media relations office has experts available for interviews this week surrounding issues in the news including, egg prices and avian flu, President-elect Trump&#39;s inauguration, Southern California wildfires, utility companies and fires, Meta ending fact-checking, Supreme Court TikTok ban ruling, and winter salt environmental damage. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With help from scholarships, Dunn was able to study abroad, perform veterinary research, and be a highly involved student. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Ninety-three Hall of Famers have been honored since 2009 for their significant impact on the state&#39;s sheep, beef, dairy, pork, and horse industries. ]]></description>
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        <title>In memoriam: Arthur L. ‘Ike’ Eller, renowned Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension animal scientist</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Eller served the beef cattle industry for over 45 years as a Virginia Cooperative Extension agent, animal scientist, and beloved faculty member. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Senior Alexis &#34;Lexi&#34; Clapp investigates pre-weaning death loss in pigs, hoping to provide evidence-based insights for future intervention strategies. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Childs, an Extension agent for 34 years, leaves behind a legacy of impact and service in youth development, animal science, and agricultural leadership in Virginia. ]]></description>
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        <title> A partnership from field to filet</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/07/cals-VCE-beef-support.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Cooperative Extension partners with beef producers across the commonwealth to ensure their livelihoods — and Virginia’s second-largest agricultural product — have a bright future.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech forms unique partnership with Roanoke Valley SPCA</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Each summer, the Middleburg Agricultural Research and Extension Center hosts several undergraduate interns to help conduct research and maintain the center&#39;s herd of thoroughbreds. “We’re able to give the interns and students that come through the ability to learn equine-based research that not a lot of schools are able to offer,” said Madison Barshick, Ph.D. Candidate and ICTAS Doctoral Scholar. ]]></description>
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        <title>In the British Isles, students find new routes to pursue agriculture passions</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A study abroad experience exploring policies, practices, and livestock in the United Kingdom and Ireland was eye-opening for 26 students studying animal and poultry sciences. The experience inspired many to consider new possibilities for their future careers, graduate degrees, and travel opportunities. ]]></description>
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        <title>Alzheimer’s Awareness Month: Virginia Tech researchers work toward better treatments</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ June marks Alzheimer&#39;s and Brain Awareness Month, and June 20, the summer solstice, will see a nationwide fundraising effort to counter Alzheimer’s and similar diseases, known as The Longest Day. Virginia Tech researchers are engaged in research meant to advance treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and assist caregivers of loved ones with dementia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Tech-led study shows that beef from market-ready steers transitioned and held on less-expensive maintenance diets maintained quality indicators for longer than previously believed. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A member of the Virginia Tech community for more than 33 years, Wong made significant research contributions to poultry molecular biology focusing on the role of the intestine and yolk sac in nutrient uptake and host defense. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2014, Persia’s scholarship focuses on the mechanisms of nutrient utilization in chickens and turkeys. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ After graduation, Solomon is headed to a Ph.D. program in immunology. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The disease could be economically devastating to Virginia’s poultry industry and could  cause backyard owners to lose their entire flock, says Michael Persia, a Virginia Tech expert. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Delaney Groves’ research on improving laying hens’ health and performance earned the Don R. Sloan Award as the top undergraduate oral presentation. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In collaboration with the Regional Center for Animal Care and Protection in Roanoke, students and researchers help dogs find forever homes. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The five new inductees’ portraits joined those of 86 other Hall of Famers dispalyed in the Virginia Tech Alphin-Stuart Livestock Arena on Plantation Road in Blacksburg. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A researcher in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is collaborating with PetSmart Charities to help improve animal welfare of dogs in need of adoption. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Jarome, an associate professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences&#39; School of Animal Sciences, explores the neurobiological mechanisms responsible for post-traumatic stress disorder. ]]></description>
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        <title>What if cows could talk?</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers are using audio data and machine learning to help interpret what cows are telling us. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The interdisciplinary team is working to pioneer innovative therapies by exploring a natural compound’s potential to manage both blood sugar and obesity.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ To meet the need for safe, sustainably-produced food for a growing global population, biosensing expert Azahar Ali points to smart, connective technologies yet to be fully explored. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A grant from the National Institute on Aging will help Associate Professor Tim Jarome determine whether a protein complex in the brain can be manipulated to retain and rebuild memory. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The college announced its 2023 award winners at the 28th annual Celebration of Faculty and Staff picnic. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Matthew Miller was a member and later a coach of the team and brings decades of competition experience to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Siegel, active professor emeritus, received a Golden Goose Award for his tremendous work that impacted both people and economy from federally funded research projects on Sept. 27. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The discovery by a team at Virginia Tech could have substantial impact on the rising cost of feeding egg laying hens that can be passed onto egg consumers. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Summer Veterinary Student Research Program aims to train shelter cats to ride in carriages, making them more adoptable and socially involved in the lives of pet owners. ]]></description>
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        <title>Take a walk on the wild side</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Recognizing the potential impact of time spent outdoors on feline welfare, behavior, and adoption prospects, Virginia Tech student researchers set out to examine whether training shelter cats to use strollers could be a cost-effective solution. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Relocated to Northern Virginia after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, a group of Afghan nationals is starting a sheep farm with the help of Virginia Cooperative Extension. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ For decades, Siegel’s insights on chicken genetics have shaped the poultry industry’s understanding of the biological effects of breeding for desirable traits. But before the international collaborations, the formation of his research group, and getting his doctoral, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees, 4-H pushed him forward. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Alan Grant, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, highlighted USDA’s impact on the college, including the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station and Virginia Cooperative Extension, to the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A number of technological advances to research facilities in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are being implemented this year that will help support the college and the university’s commitment to smart farming and modern research and agricultural methods. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech researchers discovered a protein that could lead to better therapeutic treatment for females with post-traumatic stress disorder. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Post-traumatic stress disorder is more commonly diagnosed in women than in men. Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have uncovered how a common protein could lead to better therapeutic treatment for females with PTSD. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Numerous students and faculty will be honored for their outstanding service, leadership, engagement, personal growth and development, and academics. ]]></description>
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        <title>Class of 2023: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences celebrates departmental outstanding seniors </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students are honored for their service, leadership, engagement, personal growth and development, and academics. ]]></description>
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        <title>Anthony Shafron practices civility, one person at a time</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ For his efforts, Shafron received Virginia Tech’s Aspire! Award for Civility. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ An internship with Virginia Cooperative Extension introduced Ampy-Thomas to a career path that combined her passions for working with animals and kids. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Clemmer, who grew up on a multigeneration commercial cattle farm, hopes to start a youth arm of the Virginia Cattlemen’s Association to encourage young beef producers. ]]></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[ College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty and students, with the help of CALS Global, traveled to Cambodia to create demand for fortified rice that vastly improves the nutritional content of the most popular food in the country. ]]></description>
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        <title>Researching how detection dogs can combat invasive species and plant disease</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The spotted lanternfly is an invasive insect plaguing plants, especially grapes, across the globe. Faculty at the Alson H. Smith Jr. Agricultural Research and Extension Center are researching how trained detection dogs can help farmers and vineyard owners better prepare their crops against these insects. ]]></description>
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        <title>A farmer&#39;s death sparks Hokie alumna&#39;s advocacy for wellness efforts in agriculture</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Amy Johnson found her calling as an advocate for mental and physical wellness in the farming industry after responding to an emergency in rural Virginia. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech researchers study PTSD effects on bystanders</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Tim Jarome, an associate professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, received a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study how bystanders to a traumatic event can suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With the help of her trusty service dog Gideon, Devin Wynne, a senior in the School of Animal Sciences, is experiencing the same renowned educational opportunities available to other students. ]]></description>
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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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        <description><![CDATA[ The college announced its 2022 award winners at the 27th annual Celebration of Faculty and Staff picnic. ]]></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[ The research, which is conducted in partnership with the University of Missouri-Columbia and Florida International University, aims to create Alzheimer’s disease models that better replicate the disease in humans. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences received an $80 million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to pilot a program that will pay producers to implement climate-smart practices on farms of all sizes and commodities, an initiative that could have significant impacts on curbing climate-changing gases. ]]></description>
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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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        <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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        <description><![CDATA[ By tracking and isolating rams that are resistant to the barber pole worm, the Southwest Virginia Agricultural Research and Extension Center helps the entire sheep industry. ]]></description>
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