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        <description><![CDATA[ Effective July 1, board member Jim Miller will serve as rector and Nancy Dye will serve as vice rector. Each will serve a one-year term. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The hub brings together clinicians, researchers, and data scientists to speed the development of artificial intelligence technologies designed specifically for children. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The shows  on June 5-6 will not only include the original retelling of the efforts leading up to and including the Normandy invasion, but a new prelude connecting those events to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence’s signing.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Immunotherapy combined with histotripsy may offer new hope for both dogs and people with osteosarcoma, an aggressive bone cancer. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Chromosome numbers and cell size fuel cancer progression, according to new studies published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Cancer Research.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers from the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech and the University of Memphis recently deployed a program that leverages a modified version of the 2007 game, “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare,” at Marine Corps University in Quantico. ]]></description>
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        <title>Sandponics offers more affordable path for farming in water‑scarce regions</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers are working on improvements to sustainable agriculture that could reduce environmental damage, lower production costs, and expand food growing opportunities in water-limited regions. The system they’re using, referred to as sandponics, reimagines aquaponics by replacing expensive synthetic substrates with one of the world’s most abundant natural materials. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Three studies led by addiction researcher Roberta Freitas-Lemos examine approaches to reducing tobacco use, including tax policies and menthol bans.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Four alumni to be honored for distinguished service and achievement</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Preston M. White ’63, Jean Dickinson Gibbons Fielden ’62, Jerry Hulick ’73, and Sarah Franklin ’97 will be honored with the university’s top honors — the Ut Prosim Medal, the University Distinguished Achievement Award, and the Alumni Distinguished Service Award, respectively — at University Commencement on Friday. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Scientists are engineering viruses to carry a cancer-killing molecule directly to brain tumors — a novel approach to treating glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive and treatment-resistant cancers.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Belinda Sturm appointed head of the Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Sturm, currently the Ross McKinney Endowed Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Kansas, will join the department July 25.   ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Listening sessions scheduled for Presidential Search Committee</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A session for students will occur this Thursday, May 7. A separate session for faculty and staff will take place next Monday, May 11.  ]]></description>
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        <title>No digital content is safe from generative AI, researchers say</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Cybersecurity researchers discovered that simple artificial intelligence tools can defeat security techniques meant to protect authentic content from use in deepfakes, facial identity theft, or artistic style mimicry. ]]></description>
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        <title>Grant backs early-career study on metabolism and food choices</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The award from the National Institutes of Health will support Mary Elizabeth Baugh ’09, M.S. ’13, Ph.D. ’18 and her research into better understanding how changes in brain activity translate into how people make choices about what to eat.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers identified a new therapeutic strategy for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, that could move beyond delaying the disease to reversing lung scarring. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The research analyzed over 300,000 transplant surgeries from 2007-19 and provides causal evidence that task switching — transitioning between cognitively different procedures — can affect patient outcomes. ]]></description>
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        <title>Team works to deliver wireless power through sound waves</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Shima Shahab is leading a team that is using acoustic energy waves to send power to batteries that might be difficult to access. ]]></description>
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        <title>Whit Babcock to retire from athletics director role</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Beginning July 1, Babcock will continue serving as athletics director emeritus, an advisory role to the university president and the new athletics director. ]]></description>
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        <title>Four appointed to Virginia Tech Board of Visitors</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Sharon Brickhouse Martin ’83, MEA ’88 of Arlington; Christopher Ramos ’12 of Falls Church; Jane Cady Rathbone ’80 of Virginia Beach; and Mehul Sanghani ’98 of McLean will join the board on July 1. ]]></description>
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        <title>Researchers develop scalable method for safer, compostable packaging</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The work brings safer, compostable packaging closer to everyday use. ]]></description>
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        <title>Warren Dixon named dean of the College of Engineering</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Dixon, an internationally recognized leader in robotics and autonomous technologies, currently is the interim dean of the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida and a distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. His appointment will begin on July 10. ]]></description>
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        <title>Elif and Alp Tural help students see that meaningful design begins with understanding people</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students in the School of Design learn to move beyond designing for users to collaborating with them, emphasizing people-first approaches that prioritize partnership and empathy. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ After thoughtful discussion to seek a balance between access and affordability with preserving the quality of a Virginia Tech degree and investing in world-class faculty and campus programs, the board approved a 2.9 percent increase in tuition for resident and non-resident undergraduate students for the 2026-27 academic year. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Sushree Sahoo, assistant professor in the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute’s Cancer Research Center — D.C., studies the hidden window between genetic mutation and cancer, seeking ways to intervene before disease ever develops. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ To elevate research and critical discoveries, Virginia Tech and Virginia Commonwealth University collaborated on a strategic research instrument expected to accelerate breakthroughs in everything from precision medicine to agricultural resilience. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Debswapna Bhattacharya, associate professor of computer science, has received a five-year, $2.1 million National Institutes of Health Outstanding Investigator Award to build on groundbreaking work to develop innovative AI approaches to decode disease and find treatments. ]]></description>
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        <title>Redefining architecture for accessible design</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ For most people, architecture begins with what they see. For Andrew Gipe-Lazarou and his students it begins with sound, touch, memory, and movement. This year, Gipe-Lazarou, is expanding his work in accessible design for people who are blind or visually impaired. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Physician-scientist Jesse Tettero is part of a national effort to improve and standardize detection of residual disease after leukemia treatment. A Postdoctoral Excellence Award will support his work. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Faculty members at the Virginia Tech National Security Institute are leveraging their knowledge in artificial intelligence to help civilian researchers and engineers for the U.S Navy keep pace with emerging technologies and threats. ]]></description>
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        <title>Meet the Hokie shaping Virginia’s economic future</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/03/cals-carrie-chenery.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ With experience across government, business, and regional development, Carrie Chenery ’08 brings a cross-sector perspective to Virginia’s top economic role. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Katie Frazier ’04 brings deep roots in Virginia 4-H and FFA, along with dual degrees from Virginia Tech, to her new role as Virginia’s secretary of agriculture and forestry. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers from the Brain-Inspired Computing, Communication, and Security Center based in the D.C. area is working to put an end to spam calls altogether.  ]]></description>
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        <title>A lifetime of service comes full circle</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In 2023, Timothy Williams &#39;84 retired after 40 years of serving in various military capacities and he stayed retired — for all of two months. Fast forward two years and he now serves as the secretary of veterans and defense affairs for the Commonwealth of Virginia, accepting the position after Gov. Abigail Spanberger tapped him for the role in mid-December, approximately a month after her election. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The new fellows are among nearly 500 scientists, engineers, and innovators who have been recognized for their scientific and socially distinguished achievements by one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals. ]]></description>
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        <title>Dancing to invisible choreography, quantum computers can balance the noise </title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/03/science-quantum-choreography.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ When it comes to error sensitivity, quantum computers are huge divas. Virginia Tech physicists devised a technique that draws on hidden quantum geometry to simplify the problem.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The project, known as Re-Analysis of Water for Society, is building a detailed, daily record of the world’s freshwater systems spanning 60 years.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The study shows that human activities can amplify natural processes in surprising ways. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Julia Gohlke, who has studied environmental disasters throughout her career, is turning her attention to the storm’s aftermath in regions near and dear to her personal history. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The surge in single-family home rentals from the 2009 Great Recession yielded higher educational outcomes for kids of all ages, a Virginia Tech researcher found. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ An international group of researchers that includes Virginia Tech’s Xiaofeng Wang and Boris A. Vinatzer discovered the identity of fungal proteins that can catalyze ice formation at high subzero temperatures, which may enable engineered weather. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The National Academy of Inventors currently counts 945 senior members who collectively hold more than 11,000 U.S. patents — intellectual property that strengthens competitiveness, attracts private-sector partnership, and converts research into tangible economic and societal value. ]]></description>
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        <title>$9 million effort will tackle soft biofouling on naval vehicles</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A multi-institutional team, led by Virginia Tech, will study how thin biofilms on ship hulls affect drag and noise for the Office of Naval Research. ]]></description>
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        <title>Catawba Sustainability Center grows as hub for applied research</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Using DNA-based predictions, researchers show how blight-resistant trees can retain the growth and forest role of the iconic American chestnut. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ New research helps explain how steatotic liver disease can appear in babies — and the role early nutrition may play. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ During his 10th State of the University Address on Wednesday, Sands said the university will continue to focus on global distinction and Virginia Tech Advantage while also moving athletics to the forefront of priorities. He also said that the university could face challenges this year and is making contingency plans in preparation for those challenges. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ President Tim Sands highlighted the findings during his annual State of the University Address on Wednesday. ]]></description>
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        <title>Stavrou family gifts establish $350,000 to support junior faculty and graduate scholarships in the D.C. area</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Angelos Stavrou and his wife, Daliborka, both completed their graduate education in the United States after growing up abroad and deeply value the transformative role institutions of higher education play in shaping lives.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A gift from the Hickman family establishes a graduate fellowship in agricultural and applied economics, honoring the legacy of alumnus E. Phillip “Phil” Hickman ’74 and the generations of Hickmans he inspired to follow in his path in the field. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Every year, Giving Day empowers the community to support the areas that matter most to them. To multiply the impact, computer science alumnus Jim Miller ’97 is sponsoring three challenges for Virginia Tech engineering. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers are studying how DJing and hip-hop music production could help improve ADHD symptoms in young adults through creative, non-drug therapy. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The university climbed in the latest National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development Survey, reflecting sustained growth in externally funded research and continued leadership in engineering, computing, and natural resources. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech to observe 2026 Day of Remembrance</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The university will observe the 2026 Day of Remembrance to honor the students and faculty members who lost their lives on April 16, 2007. ]]></description>
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        <title>Energized leadership: A Q&amp;A with Julie Ross</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Building on her experience guiding strategic vision as dean in the College of Engineering, Ross is excited to foster collaboration and create momentum on a universitywide scale. Her focus as the university&#39;s new executive vice president and provost is on listening, learning, and shaping a shared path toward the university&#39;s future. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Former Virginia Tech All-American diver Kaylea Arnett &#39;16 is competing internationally as a high diver, plunging into various bodies of water from platforms as high as 70 feet in the air — and loving it. ]]></description>
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        <title>Bringing heart to AI: Alumnus redefines technology with compassion</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A campus tragedy weeks before George Luc &#39;07 graduated inspired him to build GivePulse, a software platform that connects more than 650,000 universities and colleges, K-12 schools, nonprofits, businesses, cities, and municipalities to the people they serve. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers the university have been awarded $300,000 by the National Science Foundation to create a more resilient, responsible, and secure artificial intelligence research ecosystem. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Aboard an aircraft carrier, jet engine noise is an ever-present concern. This research team is leading a project to lower the risk posed to the hearing of naval personnel. ]]></description>
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        <title>Cancer prevention: Can future-focused thinking help smokers quit?</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Jeff Stein of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute has been awarded a new grant that will allow his lab to test a low-cost intervention to help people, particularly those in rural areas, stop smoking. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Clark Scholars Program supports the next generation of engineering leaders, like Joe Tramontano &#39;25, now a Myers-Lawson School of Construction graduate student who&#39;s worked on building projects on the Blacksburg campus. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine partnered with CHIP of Roanoke Valley and Feeding Southwest Virginia to expand reliable food support for local families while giving future physicians a deeper understanding of the community they serve. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The lab tested 33 helmets, giving each a star rating from 0 to 5, with the latter being the top performing products. ]]></description>
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        <title>From industry to inspiration: Jay Rule guides the next generation of engineers</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Rule &#39;75, M.S. &#39;76, Ph.D &#39;88 came to campus in 1971 and never really left. After a career in industry, he remains connected to future engineers. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech and partners unveil a digital atlas mapping decades of bird data to guide conservation, research, and land-use decisions across the commonwealth. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Human Magnetometry Laboratory at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC is developing magnetoencephalography techniques to study brain activity during natural social interactions between parents and their babies. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Nine research teams received funding for innovative collaborations that will pave the way for large-scale, transformative research funding. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ During the commencement ceremony in Blacksburg, the Graduate School will present its Alumni Achievement Award to Thomas Debass ’97, M.S. ’01.  ]]></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[ Five faculty members are bringing together their teams to develop a new additive manufacturing process to create the next generation of nature-inspired smart materials. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden’s AstaZero are working together to pioneer a new method aimed to standardized the evaluation of automated vehicle safety. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In a new study, 18- to 21-year-olds put on to a diet high in ultra-processed foods were more likely to overeat — even when full. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The university continues to promote environmental responsibility, earning national recognition and implementing wide-reaching sustainability efforts across academics, student life, infrastructure, and operations. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech research continues upward trajectory amid uncertain federal funding landscape</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation Dan Sui reported to the Board of Visitors that the university&#39;s research enterprise remains on track to reach $600 million in externally sponsored research expenditures by 2029.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Improve Campus Accessibility project will support pedestrian mobility in the southeastern residential region with a continuous universally accessible pathway stretching from East Eggleston Hall, through the Peddrew-Yates quad, and ultimately connecting to the Quillen Spirit Plaza.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Newly named head football coach James Franklin and his wife, Fumi, made a surprise visit to the Board of Visitors quarterly meeting in Alexandria on Tuesday, just one day after Franklin’s hiring was announced. His appearance energized the room and underscored the university’s commitment to both athletic excellence and academic distinction.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Balanced Living with Diabetes helps participants take control of their health through nutrition, exercise, and goal setting. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new Virginia Tech study by Scott Johnstone of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC identified a target for new therapies to improve recovery and reduce complications after stent procedures and bypass surgeries. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Backed by a National Institutes of Health grant, a four-university research team led by Alasdair Cohen of Virginia Tech will test water filters in approximately 480 households across 10 counties in Southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Leaders from Children’s National Hospital and the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC outlined plans to expand their growing collaboration to accelerate pediatric innovations from the research lab to clinical care during the Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council’s Emerging Tech conference. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A global company that maintains the Web of Science, Clarivate compiles an annual list of researchers who demonstrated significant influence through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers are working to make participatory science projects, such as Project FeederWatch, one of North America’s largest bird observation programs, more welcoming for everyone. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Every sheet of frost contains ionic defects. In a new paper published in Small Methods, Jonathan Boreyko’s team uses high voltage to polarize these ions and rip off the frost.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new scholarship funded by Terra Constructs CEO Babur Mian ’92, M.S. ’94 addresses the hidden costs of bridge experiences, making construction industry internships more accessible for Myers-Lawson students.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Around the world, Hokies thrive together</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As International Education Week highlights global well-being, stories from across the university’s worldwide community reveal how connection fuels joy and learning. ]]></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[ Civil and environmental engineering students Garrett Beggs and Leah Goulet are building their futures with the support, mentorship, and generosity from the CEE Alumni Board Scholarship. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The study shows that active bodies burn more calories throughout the day and don’t conserve energy in other areas. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As suicide and overdose attempts rise among youth nationwide, researchers at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine are uncovering patterns that could help families prevent tragedy. A study led by Associate Professor Abhishek Reddy links late-night hours, screen use, and easy access to medications to intentional overdose attempts in adolescents.  ]]></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 the contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, an interdisciplinary research team led by Virginia Tech and Linsey Marr will create a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent and defuse the next pandemic. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The official enrollment of 38,995 is on target with university goals and shows an increase in both undergraduate students and in-state students.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The 2026 Times Higher Education World University Rankings were released Wednesday, and Virginia Tech came in ranked within the 251-300 range out of nearly 2,200 universities worldwide. The university has been ranked in this range for five consecutive years. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Sami Hasnine, in partnership with the Virginia Department of Transportation and the  and Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation, is identifying and testing transportation demand management strategies to help Virginia agencies reduce car dependence, and build more sustainable, connected communities. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Overall, Virginia Tech landed at No. 35 among all 500 universities included in the 2026 Wall Street Journal/College Pulse ranking of U.S. colleges released Oct. 2. The rankings focus on two key metrics: how much a school improves students’ chances of graduating and their future earnings and the overall student experience. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With her more than $500,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award, Xiong will focus on mitigating transient execution attacks with new testing methods, stronger encryption methods, and improved hardware design to protect computer memory.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Maggie Campbell and Kevin Xu were honored as part of the Class of 2025 at the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s annual Innovators Symposium and Gala in Houston, Texas.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech&#39;s 2025 Global Agricultural Productivity Report warns that innovation is falling behind demand, leaving farmers without the tools needed to keep food affordable and sustainable. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The new members are Cayelan Carey, William &#34;Bill&#34; Hopkins, Liwu Li, Hesham Rakha, and Julie Ross. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Former baseball standout Chad Pinder thought about becoming an agent after retiring from Major League Baseball. He once gave graduate school a try. But a chance meeting with a Chicago White Sox executive led to him spending the summer as a minor league baseball manager, providing him with a great experience in a sport that he loves. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers from across the nation, including Virginia Tech scientists, have made the first release of data from the nation’s largest long-term study of early brain and child development. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The university is tied for No. 51 overall and tied for No. 21 among Top Public Schools, both in the National Universities class, in the rankings released Tuesday ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Scientists have developed a new method to separate nonbiting male mosquitoes from disease-carrying females, a breakthrough that could make mosquito control faster, cheaper, and easier to scale. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Little is known about how novel viruses like SARS-CoV-2 evolve or conditions like dementia develop at the molecular level, but an artificial intelligence model developed at Virginia Tech helps fill those gaps and generate more accurate maps of the inner landscape. Now, instead of guessing, drug developers can analyze where viruses attach to human proteins and design treatments to block them.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Funding will help researchers refine after-school robotics program, add artificial intelligence ethics components, and share curriculum more broadly. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine will expand its interdisciplinary health research with a new Smart Health Care Hub and strategic leadership under Tom Martin, strengthening collaborations across medicine, engineering, and design.   ]]></description>
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        <title>Strategic planning support helps popular Spearhead Trails chart its path forward </title>
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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[ The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine&#39;s Class of 2029 is made up of 56 students and is part of a strategic growth plan aimed at increasing access to medical education and addressing workforce shortages, especially in Virginia and surrounding regions.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Tunes that turn back time</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers in the IMAGINE Lab are exploring how listening to and playing music can positively impact the well-being of people with Alzheimer&#39;s disease and their caregivers. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ For the first time, scientists measured dopamine and serotonin in real time in people with Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor. The signals showed a fundamental difference  — a key step forward for treatment. ]]></description>
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        <title>First-Year Experiences program offers students holistic help, right from the start</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The First-Year Experiences program, now in its 14th year, helps first-year and transfer students thrive by embedding courses directly within each academic college and major. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The research from Kevin Boyle, the Willis Blackwood Professor of Real Estate, shows that where trees grow, home values follow — but the location of those trees matters. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Coalition for Smart Construction at Virginia Tech launched a seed grant program centered around key areas of interest in the construction industry, providing recipients with resources to strengthen their projects so that they can secure external funding. ]]></description>
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        <title>Project to improve data compression, from your smart glasses to the stars</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A Department of Energy-funded partnership between Virginia Tech, Argonne National Laboratories, and the Ohio State University is working to develop a flexible, customizable data compression technique for the future. ]]></description>
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        <title>A welcome message from President Tim Sands</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ It is exciting to see Hokies filling our campuses in Blacksburg, Roanoke, Alexandria, and other locations across the commonwealth and beyond, ready to take on new challenges and serve our communities. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The 13 funded projects involve partnerships with peers at universities across the commonwealth and investigate areas of strategic interest for Virginia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The board approved a $10 million planning authorization for the design of a new on-campus residence hall that would accommodate up to 600 beds.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Combining a mechanical engineering major with a biomedical engineering minor, senior John Linehan used a six-month stint with Adidas in Germany to explore the biomechanics of athletic shoes. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The university and mining company have agreed to establish a collaborative framework centered on heavy rare earth elements, a vital component of high-performance magnets for green technologies. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ These forests, which scientists consider globally rare, once played a vital role in carbon storage, water retention, regulating microclimates, and maintaining biodiversity, a critical component for tourism. Many were severely degraded from exploitative harvesting and wildfire a century ago and have been slow to recover. ]]></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[ An exhibition at the Reynolds Homestead showcases breathtaking satellite imagery in a collaboration that blends research, creativity, and community engagement. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Competing at the Civil Engineering Student Championships in San Luis Obispo, California, student design teams won national recognition with their concrete canoes, steel bridges, sustainable designs, and surveying prowess.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The lab’s peer-reviewed and published STAR helmet rating system is now available in all the store&#39;s retail locations. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Collaborative discovery amongst the Honors College students and faculty led to Virginia Tech&#39;s inclusion in this year’s Biennale Architettura, the theme of which is “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech SeaQL Lab is collaborating with the nonprofit organization International SeaKeepers Society and Virginia Tech’s Genomics Sequencing Center to detect white sharks across the Mediterranean Sea. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Safety improvements to helmets led the lab to update its STAR rating system to ensure it is differentiating the most high-performing helmets. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Rob and Robin Bell turned their love for Clydesdales into a horse breeding business at their farm in Southwest Virginia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Steve Hopkins ’88 and his family, owners of Riverview Farms Cattle in Louisa County, have deep ties to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Virginia Cooperative Extension. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ New research explains how low levels of the electrolyte sodium in the blood can disrupt the timing of the heartbeat in patients taking widely used rhythm-control medications such as flecainide. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Van de Gevel brings a global perspective shaped by living in both the Netherlands and the United States and by her interest in diverse forest ecosystems worldwide.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Hokies on the Hill experiential learning program in Washington lets students experience the inner workings of government. Two students in the most recent cohort said they saw Capitol Hill in a way they had never seen, despite growing up in the D.C. area. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Nearly a quarter of Virginia&#39;s 128 public school superintendents is a graduate of the university&#39;s Educational Leadership and Policy Studies doctoral program, housed in the School of Education. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students in Collegiate Associate Professor Sally Hamouda’s database class worked with an Egyptian official and “visited” ancient monuments using virtual reality tools funded by a grant from the Global Education Office. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Helen Dessin Spurr and Frank Arthur Spurr Jr. Endowed Research Fund for Domestic Canine and Feline Pets will enable novel treatments and diagnostic procedures to be applied in a compassionate, safe environment for the pets of owners who often have few other options and who can benefit through drastically reduced costs for treatment. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech is using artificial intelligence to help Children’s National Hospital improve patient outcomes in Washington, D.C. Patrick Butler and Kenny McKinley will present their work at Tech on Tap in Alexandria on Tuesday, June 24, at 6 p.m.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The grant will support multi-tiered programming designed to help K-12 students and their families engage early with college preparation and planning through STEM workshops and field trips and financial and academic support for students as they transition to college. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Subscriptions are now available for the center’s newest season, which features spectacular orchestras and brilliant ensembles, Broadway blockbusters, bold jazz and global sounds, innovative dance and theatre works, family-friendly favorites, and cherished holiday classics. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With funding from The Water Research Foundation, Virginia Tech is leading a research initiative to use a One Water approach and advanced modeling to identify PFAS sources in the Occoquan Reservoir. The goal is to create a national model for managing forever chemicals in water systems. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Assistant Professor Alaa Algargoosh is pioneering research at Virginia Tech that integrates architecture, neuroscience, and technology to design sound-responsive spaces that enhance well-being, focus, and sustainability. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Orders  will provide strategic leadership and operational oversight for Virginia Tech’s safety and security functions. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ At its quarterly meeting this week, the Board of Visitors also approved a resolution to rename its performing arts center to the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Qassis wanted to earn a master&#39;s degree and complete an internship to prepare for a career as a dietitian, and the Online Master of Agriculture and Life Sciences degree allowed her to do both at the same time. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The board approved the following promotions, tenure, and continued appointments at its June 3 meeting. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Sible will succeed Rachel Holloway, who announced her retirement after 11 years as vice provost and 36 years of service to Virginia Tech.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists were able to slow glioblastoma progression in lab and animal studies by targeting treatment-resistant cancer cells. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In a whirlwind study abroad, students in the Online Master of Natural Resources program learned firsthand how New Zealand is leveraging modern techniques and Māori traditions to preserve a shared world. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Van de Gevel officially starts on July 1, succeeding Paul Winistorfer, who is retiring after 16 years as dean. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The institute will support new industry and government partnerships that advance research and learning opportunities and enable graduate students to address global-scale problems in close proximity to the nation’s capital.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The new dean met with students and stakeholders to identify essential priorities for the college: community and ecological health, land and water use, and workforce development. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers have discovered that microscopic structural changes in the aging heart may reduce the risk of irregular heartbeats. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As chief academic officer, Clarke worked closely with President Tim Sands, college deans, administrators, and faculty across the institution to advance the university’s impact as a 21st century global land-grant institution. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Four individuals — Patricia A. Caldwell, Bill Henika, Deseria Creighton-Barney, and Mark Lawrence — will be recognized by the university for their support and contributions to their communities at commencement. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As we come to the end of our spring semester, I want to congratulate the members of the Class of 2025 as they prepare to graduate.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A dream comes true for former Virginia Tech athletes George Probst ‘95 and Jeff Holland ‘95 on Wednesday night when Metallica takes the stage at Lane Stadium for the band’s ongoing M72 World Tour.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Thomas Feely and Katherine “Katie” Drinkwater will serve as undergraduate and graduate/professional student representatives, respectively. These representatives act as important liaisons between the university’s governing board and the broader student population. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Muhammad Ali Gulzar’s research team wasn’t looking for a quirk in digital advertising systems that exploits screen reading technologies and could lead to accessibility violations for web developers. But the discovery could improve the lives of more than 2 billion people worldwide and help website developers make their content more accessible. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Four employees received this year’s Administrative and Professional (A/P) Faculty Award for their extraordinary contributions, accomplishments, and consistent performance for Virginia Tech. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech researchers are leading the way for the future of workforce development by combining virtual reality with digital twin technology to create safe, immersive, and effective training. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC created the Experimental Beverage Marketplace to study how taxes affect consumers’ purchase of soft drinks, energy drinks, and other sugary beverages.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The university earned the No. 73 spot among universities worldwide and the No. 45 spot among U.S. universities. Both lists rank the top 100 universities being granted U.S. utility patents. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Building on previous research, the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab released an updated set of equestrian ratings that considers impact scenarios where the horse and rider are moving with horizontal velocity, which typically occurs in racing and cross-country events. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A group of faculty and students are participating in an interdisciplinary project that recreates artifacts and drawings of relics found in the tomb of Meketre and uses digital technology to allow people to step inside the world of Egypt thousands of years ago. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Controlled Environment Agriculture Innovation Center, Virginia Tech&#39;s collaborative project based at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, is enhancing food efficiency by using advanced techniques to grow flavorful, nutrient-rich crops in indoor environments. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine student Varun Mishra blends a love of long-distance running with his pursuit of medicine, finding purpose, community, and balance in both.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As members of the first cohort of the GenerationOne living-learning community prepare for graduation, their achievements mark a milestone for First-Generation Student Success.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Theatre alumnus Dylan Bomgardner helped light the way for Metallica’s M72 World Tour</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Metallica fans rocking out at the M72 World Tour are seeing the creative work of Virginia Tech alumnus Dylan Bomgardner, who supported the tour’s cutting-edge lighting design. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers make sustainable packaging more durable, offering a less-expensive, energy-efficient alternative to plastic. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Emily Sarver and her team are using state-of-the-art electron microscopy tools to detect and analyze mineral particles in lung tissue. Their goal: keeping people safe from respirable dust–based illnesses like silicosis. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Over the past three months, a number of federal memoranda, proclamations, and executive orders have been released that impact federal funding for research universities.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A celebration of life for renowned poet and former Virginia Tech professor, Nikki Giovanni, will be held on Sunday, June 8, at 2 p.m. at Moss Arts Center. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ After a first-year failure, a College of Engineering double major scaled the largest student robotics team in the university’s history — and scored a job at YouTube. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ An estimated 15,500 people joined together Saturday, April 12, on the Blacksburg campus for this year’s 3.2-Mile Run in Remembrance, the annual run to honor the 32 students and faculty members who lost their lives in 2007. ]]></description>
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        <title>Five employees receive President’s Award for Excellence</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ On April 9, President Tim Sands announced five winners for the 2025 President’s Award for Excellence out of 13 nominees. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Frank Aylward and Maria Paula Erazo Garcia discovered the largest virus ever recorded with a latent infection cycle in the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardti. Their findings were published in Science.  ]]></description>
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        <title>A message from President Tim Sands</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ At last week’s community conversation, I noted how much we value the international members of our community. Representing more than 130 countries, their talent, global perspectives, and diverse ideas are an important part of our teaching and research mission. Their cultures, traditions, and histories enrich all of our lives and they are true Hokies. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Established in 2023, the Virginia Alliance for Semiconductor Technology has made progress to reskill and upskill adult learners in different aspects of the semiconductor industry. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Many baseball teams have established pipelines with Virginia Tech, selecting sports media and analytics students to be their voice for the season.  ]]></description>
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        <title>What overrides the brain’s satiety signals and promotes overeating?</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/04/research_fralinbiomed_obesityneuro_0410.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ A team of Virginia Tech neuroscientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC will capture real-time brain signals that govern people’s decisions about food with help from a $2.75 million grant. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech receives $1.3 million grant to revolutionize energy industries in Appalachia </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The goal is to establish a premier hydrogen innovation hub — or a network of facilities, industries, and partners — to efficiently turn natural gas into cleaner and more economically viable products. ]]></description>
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        <title>Six things to know about the Run in Remembrance</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ No matter where you are, there are many ways to participate in this year’s 3.2-Mile Run in Remembrance, the annual run to honor the 32 students and faculty members who lost their lives in 2007.    ]]></description>
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        <title>Search committee for vice president for marketing and communications announced</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The vice president for marketing and communications is a strategic leadership role responsible for developing and executing comprehensive marketing and communication strategies. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A team of chemists found a way to see into battery interfaces — tight, tricky spots buried deep inside the cell have long frustrated battery designers.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Campus job illuminates a new career path</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/04/mac-cj-jessie-lighting-designer.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ CJ Jessie arrived at Virginia Tech as a student with a love for film, but was soon captivated by the stage. ]]></description>
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        <title>Helping international students thrive in the classroom</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/03/outreach-cranwell-international.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Faculty development programs offer strategies to support learning styles and enrich the classroom experience. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The new dean will replace Paul Winistorfer, who announced his retirement effective this fall, after 16 years of leadership and service to the college and Virginia Tech. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In Virginia Tech research, trail managers reported that technology, specifically social media, has led to the trail’s degradation, overcrowding, and the spread of misinformation among hikers.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Step through a story with the 2025 Book Walk</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Through April 6, members of the Virginia Tech community big and small can read Laura Numeroff&#39;s classic children&#39;s books while walking along the Duck Pond. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Connor McGuire has worked in the food industry for 15 years and today oversees a 15-per staff that meets the nutrition needs for one of the NFL&#39;s most noticeable franchises. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, in collaboration with Amazon and Alexandria’s Torpedo Factory Art Center, is holding a series of hands-on workshops that blend art, technology, and innovation. These monthly sessions, held at Amazon’s HQ2 and open to the public at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, explore topics ranging from artificial intelligence to spatial audio. ]]></description>
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        <title>Board approves New Business Building, sets tuition at quarterly meeting</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In other action the board addressed resolutions on campus housing and federal executive orders. ]]></description>
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        <title>Katrina Powell honored as Alumni Distinguished Professor</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Since joining Virginia Tech in 2006, Powell has strived to bring awareness to issues of social justice and displacement through her teaching and research.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers discovered distinct molecular differences in how the brain processes directly experienced versus witnessed trauma — a finding that could lead to more targeted treatments for PTSD.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As we mark this important milestone, please take time to reflect on how these principles have supported the growth and success that Virginia Tech enjoys today, and their role in our vision for the future.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In May, the Virginia Tech Honors College will present its students&#39; and faculty&#39;s work at the prestigious Biennale Architettura 2025. The exhibitions “unEarthed” and “Second Nature/PolliNATION” embody the college&#39;s mission of fostering transdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and global impact. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The presidents of Virginia Tech and Egypt’s Alexandria University signed a memorandum of understanding that formalizes a long-standing partnership and aims to encourage student mobility and collaborative projects benefiting both institutions and their respective communities. ]]></description>
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        <title>Bridging continents: Semiconductor research continues with strategic exploration in Slovenia</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ When Masoud Agah, executive director of the Virginia Alliance for Semiconductor Technology traveled to Slovenia earlier this year, he initiated a promising dialogue that could redefine international semiconductor collaboration and underscores the importance of global partnerships in driving technological advancement. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Hokies had nine wrestlers automatically qualify for the NCAA Wrestling Championships at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, March 20-22. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech will celebrate Homecoming with activities for alumni, students, community members, and friends. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Leo Walsh ’56 graduated from Virginia Tech with an engineering degree and then worked on several notable projects for Chrysler, including being part of a team of engineers who helped design what eventually became the automobile industry’s first minivan. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With his nonprofit organization in Nigeria, a new book, and a degree from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Oyedare aims to make leadership education a mainstay in African schools. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Academies honor the exemplary contributions of faculty members of all classifications in formal service roles or in areas of leadership.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Bott-Knutson will assume leadership of the Honors College on July 1, succeeding Paul L. Knox, who announced his retirement after nearly 40 years of service to Virginia Tech. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ MacArthur Fellow and award-winning choreographer Kyle Abraham returns to the Moss Arts Center with his visionary, Black-led contemporary dance company A.I.M by Kyle Abraham on Saturday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The growing presence and network of innovation in the D.C. area supports new partnerships, advances research and learning opportunities to address global-scale problems. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Alaa Algargoosh, Anna Duraj-Thatte, Jonas Hauptman, Brook Kennedy, Guoliang &#34;Greg&#34; Liu, Roop Mahajan, and Danfeng &#34;Daphne&#34; Yao were among 162 emerging inventors from across the nation to make up the 2025 class of senior members for the National Academy of Inventors. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In just 24 hours, more than 24,100 Hokies around the world stepped up to raise more than $21 million for Virginia Tech on Giving Day. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ For the fifth straight year, Virginia Tech has set a new high for the number of first-year applications for admissions with 57,622 first-year applications submitted for fall 2025 admission.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Emily Myers, a registered dietitian and faculty member in the Virginia Tech Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, suggests that it may be better to approach chocolate with more neutrality, instead of as a functional food. ]]></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[ Continued emphasis on Virginia Tech Advantage and Virginia Tech Global Distinction, along with the buildout of Virginia Tech’s innovation network, will remain a focus going forward. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Through her 36 years at Virginia Tech, Holloway has maintained a singular focus on students and exerted a transformative impact on the undergraduate experience. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The partnership brings together Children’s National, ranked among the nation’s top pediatric hospitals by U.S. News &amp; World Report, and Virginia Tech, a leading academic research institution.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Campus internEXP creates on-campus internship opportunities for students – and students who have participated in it overwhelmingly speak highly of all the program offers. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ While adoption of generative artificial intelligence is increasing in higher education and at Virginia Tech, gaps and roadblocks still exist on the way to improved integration. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Rossmeisl, whose research focuses on developing treatment options for brain cancers that are difficult to treat in dogs and humans, received a 2025 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The test will occur between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. During the test, there will also be outdoor sirens with annunciators on the Blacksburg campus.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As chronic kidney disease continues to affect millions of Americans, Professor Webster Santos and his team are aiming to disrupt harmful cellular signaling and improve patient outcomes. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech entomologists have partnered with Virginia Cooperative Extension to help track and prevent the spread of hybrid fire ants in the commonwealth.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ On Nov. 27, U.S. Army officials sent Maj. Gen. Jasper Jeffers III ’96, a native of Giles County who works as a commander in the U.S. Special Operations Command Central to Beirut, Lebanon, for the “implementation and monitoring mechanism” of the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Lebanon. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The year begins on a high note with the completion of one of our highly anticipated projects, Academic Building One in Alexandria.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Researcher studies the power of native plants to combat road salt pollution </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Salt pollution from road deicing salts threatens freshwater ecosystems and urban green infrastructure. Megan Rippy&#39;s research on salt-tolerant plants like cattails highlights their potential role in mitigating this pollution, though broader strategies are essential for long-term solutions. ]]></description>
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        <title>Senior Vice President for Advancement Charlie Phlegar to retire</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Under Phlegar&#39;s near-decade of leadership, Advancement more than doubled the percentage of undergraduate alumni who make gifts — and the value of new gifts and commitments made each fiscal year. ]]></description>
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        <title>Winter Weeks of Welcome celebrates new Hokies Jan. 17-31</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Events organized by New Student and Family Programs and campus partners welcome new first-year and transfer students to campus.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Alumni-driven Moraco Fellowship Challenge fuels engineering research and innovation</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With only seven fellowships remaining, alumni donors are seeing how their support fuels cutting-edge research. ]]></description>
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        <title>Words activate hidden brain processes shaping emotions, decisions, and behavior</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/01/research-fralinbiomed-words-0106.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ An international team, led by Virginia Tech scientists, reveals the relationship of activity of neurotransmitters to how humans process the emotional content of language. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:53:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Everyday Ut Prosim: How professor and soil scientist John Galbraith serves with the Glean Team</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As a co-founder of the Glean Team, Galbraith and his fellow volunteers donate around 150,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables annually to help patrons of local food banks, including The Market of Virginia Tech.   ]]></description>
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        <title>A fast-moving belly flop: Researchers unveil the unique skills of cricket frogs</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The way cricket frogs move across the surface of water has long been thought to resemble walking on water, but researchers in the lab of Jake Socha have discovered a different reality. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 09:40:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[ It&#39;s a new year, Hokies. Here are some events and highlights to note for the year ahead.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech students unpack new experiences at PACK EXPO 2024</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A group of 24 Virginia Tech students attended PACK EXPO 2024, a packing and design industry trade show held in Chicago in November, exchanged ideas, networked, met with Virginia Tech alumni, and learned about the latest technologies and processes in a growing and ever-changing field. ]]></description>
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        <title>Friends join together to endow scholarship to honor Virginia Tech alumnus</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ One of last wishes of alumnus Nate Williams ’09 was to start a scholarship for architecture students at Virginia Tech. His friends, family, and a group of generous strangers made it happen. ]]></description>
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        <title>‘Young Artists’ exhibition celebrates the talent and creativity of area students </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Featuring work from 42 students from Shawsville Middle School, the Moss Arts Center’s “Young Artists: Layers of Me” debuts with an opening reception on Tuesday, Jan. 7, from 5-7 p.m. The exhibition runs through Saturday, Jan. 11. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech recognizes graduates at 2024 fall commencement</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Thousands of students were honored at two ceremonies on Dec. 20.  ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:03:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Looking back: Things we learned and did in 2024</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The end of the 2024 calendar year brings with it many achievements and milestones. Here are 24 highlights that stood out this year. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech study extends chart of life by nearly 1.5 billion years</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new Virginia Tech analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 billion years ago. ]]></description>
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        <title>D.C. area graduate programs to share new home at Innovation Campus Academic Building One opening in January </title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/12/dc-area-programs-at-academic-building-one.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Graduate programs in business and engineering will grow innovation and collaboration in Alexandria. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 07:58:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Virginia Tech research continues to grow federal support</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech was responsible for almost half of the growth in federally sponsored research expenditures in Virginia’s institutions of higher education in fiscal year 2023, according to the National Science Foundation’s latest Higher Education Research and Development survey. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Taylor has served as a senior leader in ascending roles within Virginia Tech’s Advancement Division since 2016. ]]></description>
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        <title>The most important building material for the future of construction? Collaboration</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ By inspiring collective brainstorming among industry and government leaders, Virginia Tech is laying the foundation for its Coalition for Smart Construction. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech to honor 3,100 graduates at fall commencement</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The University Commencement ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. ET. The Graduate School ceremony will follow at 2:30 p.m. ET. Both events will be available via livestream video from the university homepage for those unable to attend in person.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Everyday Ut Prosim: How police officer John Tarter serves at the Christmas Store</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Montgomery County Christmas Store shared some seasonal magic with low-income residents this week — but it takes Tarter and a handful of other core volunteers the better part of year to make the holidays so merry and bright. ]]></description>
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        <title>Tributes to Nikki Giovanni</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Read tributes from students, alumni, and all who were inspired by Giovanni&#39;s work and advocacy. A viewing will be held on Saturday, Dec. 14, at McCoy Funeral Home in Blacksburg beginning at 5 p.m. ]]></description>
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        <title>Global Distinction priority enters new phase</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/12/cm-global-distinction.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ The ongoing work is reflected in Virginia Tech’s successes in research and the continued accumulation of faculty honors for research, scholarship, and creative activities.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As the beginning of a new year approaches, thank you for all your efforts and contributions to Virginia Tech in 2024.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Washington, D.C., conference drew embassy staff, political and think tank representatives, academic experts, and students to discuss the future of European Union and U.S. relations. ]]></description>
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