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        <description><![CDATA[ A collaborative research team  will seek to understand how rising sea levels will impact coastal communities, merging social science with geospatial information to help Virginia communities adapt to a changing landscape. ]]></description>
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        <title>Chris Shean defines what it means to be a Hokie</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/10/pamplin-chris-shean-profile.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Since 2016, when Virginia Tech first revealed plans for the Global Business and Analytics Complex, Shean ’87 has acted as one of the project’s most vocal champions. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Inspiring philanthropy</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Pamplin alumna Mary McVay recently committed to provide a second $1 million toward the Global Business and Analytics Complex, through a matching gift, hoping to inspire even more donors to give. ]]></description>
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        <title>This lab teaches students to debunk false information</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The inaugural Open Source Intelligence Lab course teaches students majoring in computer science and political science how to analyze publicly available sources to find misinformation (false information) and disinformation (false information that’s deliberately spread).     ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech research unleashing robotic technology on campus construction sites</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Faculty and students from Myers-Lawson School of Construction are partnering with the Division of Campus Planning, Infrastructure, and Facilities and Procon Consulting to deploy Spot, a mobile robot dog, to conduct innovative research around autonomous construction progress monitoring. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 10:13:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>In memoriam: Robert Schulman, professor emeritus with the Department of Statistics</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/05/science-in_memoriam_robert_schulman.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Schulman, a member of the Virginia Tech community since 1974, died April 27, 2021. He was 74. ]]></description>
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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/05/science-fracking_earthquakes_west_texas_zhai_Shirzaei.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ In a newly published paper, Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences researchers have found that shallow wastewater injection can drive widespread deep earthquake activity in unconventional oil and gas production fields.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Class of 2021: Pamplin graduate student stands out in classroom and on the golf course</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/05/pamplin-spicergradstudent.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Sarah Spicer was selected as the Outstanding Graduate Student for the Pamplin College of Business from a very competitive field. This marks the second year in a row the award has gone to a student in the Master of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Business Analytics program. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech’s Academy of Data Science and Northern Virginia Technology Council announce data science lecture series</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/04/science-academy_data_sciences_seminar_nvtc.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Tech College of Science’s Academy of Data Science and the Northern Virginia Technology Council are launching a series of virtual events to showcase the impact of data science. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:39:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Data scientists combat hate crimes and other violence</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/04/data-scientists-at-sanghani-center-and-social-scientists-at-prin.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Every complex problem has many multidisciplinary angles. In today&#39;s first installment of a series this week, read about how the Sanghani Center helps to capture data to document the true prevalence of hate crimes and other forms of violence that Princeton&#39;s Bridging Divides Initiative can share with national and local leaders who want to make better informed policy decisions. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:48:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Project teams humans and artificial intelligence to scan social media posts for risk data to aid disaster response</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/04/pamplin-zobel-cert.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ A computer can do large-scale searching through millions of social media posts much more quickly and effectively than a human can, says business information technology professor Chris Zobel. &#34;But, the machine needs to be trained — it needs to learn what to search for — to do this correctly.” ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2021 10:37:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title> Researchers receive grant to study misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/04/fralinlifesci-COVID-19-vaccine-misinformation-study.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers at Virginia Tech are looking into how social media misinformation influences people’s intention to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, especially those within the Appalachian region, with help from a grant funded by the Fralin Life Sciences Institute and the Data and Decisions Destination Area. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:14:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Data privacy: Subterranean footstep blues with computational modeling and data analytics</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/03/science-capstone_footsteps_tracking_data_cmda_foresee.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Students in the computational modeling and data analytics program in the College of Science’s Academy of Integrated Science help separate the data of footsteps from other tiny seismic activity in a complex capstone project. ]]></description>
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        <title>Destination Areas continue to advance Virginia Tech’s transdisciplinary strengths, impacts</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/03/destination-areas-continue-growth-impacts.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Destination Areas are designed to support and accelerate Virginia Tech’s transformation of areas of interdisciplinary strength into dynamic, transdisciplinary collaborations.  ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 08:28:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Viswanath Venkatesh named Verizon Professor</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/03/pamplin-endowed-venkatesh.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Venkatesh has published more than 100 journal articles in fields that include human-computer interaction, information systems, and organizational behavior and is also among the most widely cited scholars. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:40:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Biodiversity, fishing, and the environment: thinking globally to protect our oceans</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/03/cnre-ocean-biodiversity-fishing.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers estimate that 90 percent of the ocean’s biodiversity could be preserved by strategically protecting just 21 percent of the ocean, and that protecting high-priority areas would have significant ramifications for critically endangered ocean species. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:05:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Data and Decision Sciences Building construction underway</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/03/gbac-groundbreaking.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ The first building of Virginia Tech’s Global Business and Analytics Complex at Virginia Tech is coming to life. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Q&amp;A: Vaccine basics, their history, importance, and role in COVID-19 </title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/02/unirel-langwig.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Kate Langwig, a quantitative disease ecologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech, breaks down the basics about vaccines, how they work, and how they have protected humans from lethal diseases for decades.   ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Virginia Tech researchers garner two major awards in COVID-19 forecasting challenges </title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/02/virginia-tech-researchers-garner-two-major-awards-in-covid-19-fo.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ DeepOutbreak, a team of researchers from Virginia Tech&#39;s Sanghani Center, Georgia Tech, and the University of Iowa, took first place in the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge using Facebook symptom survey data and second place in the COVID-19 Grand Challenge.        ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2021 09:01:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Pamplin partners with Ballad Health and Appalachian School of Law in new legal and health services program</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/01/pamplin-mlp.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ The Pamplin College of Business will contribute descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to track and measure the program’s success, with the aim of turning raw medical and business data into actionable knowledge.  ]]></description>
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        <title>$10M gift will help fuel discoveries at Innovation Campus</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/01/innovation-campus-sanghani-gift-rdr.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech’s growing impact in the greater Washington, D.C., metro area will receive a significant boost thanks to a multimillion-dollar gift from Octo founder and CEO Mehul Sanghani ’98 and his wife, Hema Sanghani ’99.  ]]></description>
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        <title>$10M gift will help fuel discoveries at Innovation Campus</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/01/innovation-campus-sanghani-gift.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech’s growing impact in the greater Washington, D.C., metro area will receive a significant boost thanks to a multimillion-dollar gift from Octo founder and CEO Mehul Sanghani ’98 and his wife, Hema Sanghani ’99.   ]]></description>
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        <title>Grant awarded to University Libraries to study curation of interdisciplinary data and collaborative research</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2020/12/univlib-IMLSgrant-data.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ The project will generate deep knowledge of data practices in interdisciplinary research, engage the library and archives communities in collaborative development and evaluation, and enhance the long-term sustainability of these complex datasets and their necessary infrastructures for use in future research.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Warmer mountaintops, wetter coasts</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2020/11/cnre-mountaintops-to-coastlines.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Lynn Resler and Anamaria Bukvic investigate how climate change affects two vastly different ecosystems. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:42:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[ For the first time, researchers at the Discovery Analytics Center will use an automated data analytics system to help identify suspicious timber trade records that relate to possible illegal activity. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ During the inaugural “Fish and Ships” workshop researchers brainstormed ways to merge different data sets to address critical questions about human impacts on ocean biodiversity and sustainability. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Connie Stovall’s position in the University Libraries started out as a few side projects after a conversation between University Libraries Dean Tyler Walters and Brandy Salmon, associate vice president for innovation and partnerships and managing director for the new Innovation Campus.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The sociology professor’s research on a range of topics — including culture, race, and mental health — has made him an ideal candidate for the Southern Sociological Society’s highest honor.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech will name the KPMG / Lynne and Ben Doughtie Undergraduate Programs Suite, within its planned Global Business and Analytics Complex, in recognition of a recent $2.5 million commitment toward the project. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new research hub will support computer-aided design and modeling of glycomaterials through a virtual user facility that will provide critical tools and services to the scientific community. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Childs had followed reports released by government health agencies around the world, and realized that communities would need much more information about who was being tested, who was not, and how many of the untested could be carriers of the virus.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Digital Literacy is a set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that people use to engage with their digital lives. “I think about engaging with digital life as being able to make informed decisions, including  how we learn, create, and interact with each other online,” said Julia Feerrar.      ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Tom Woteki has been named founding director of the Academy of Data Science, a new program within the College of Science.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Khansa ranks among the top 50 researchers worldwide for research productivity in the information systems field and top 10 in the world for publications in the Journal of Management Information Systems, one of Pamplin’s elite journals.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The virtual event celebrated the completion of a crowdsourcing drive to transcribe handwritten survey responses from World War II soldiers as part of The American Soldier project.    ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students in a Virginia Tech history course presented in-depth research on the 1918 flu pandemic in a National Library of Medicine videocast as part of the library’s ongoing partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities. ]]></description>
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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2020/03/univlib-whiskeydescriptor.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ A research project by Department of Food Science and Technology researchers Jacob Lahne and Leah Hamilton and University Libraries’ data consultants Chreston Miller, and Michael Stamper received a SEAD Major Grant from The Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ University Libraries at Virginia Tech faculty members Anne M. Brown and Jonathan Briganti challenged their undergraduate data students in the library’s DataBridge program and the Bevan &amp; Brown Lab to jump in and create tools and look for patterns and trends in COVID-19 research data using machine learning and molecular modeling.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Pending approval from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the school would expand the university’s already award-winning communication programs. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ When the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the American Statistical Association to cancel this year’s annual DataFest, it seemed like another hands-on opportunity that some Virginia Tech students would miss out on this spring. Then, Socially Determined, a data company founded by Virginia Tech alumni, stepped in to help. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Michael Stamper, University Libraries at Virginia Tech&#39;s data visualization designer, plays a unique role in the research process by transforming faculty and student clients’ complex research data into vibrant, interactive, and dynamic visualizations to better communicate their findings to a broad audience.    ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Ron Fricker of the Department of Statistics has co-authored a timely new book that touches on the recent novel coronavirus outbreak known as COVID-19 that has rattled many nations, particularly China.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Every day, Virginia Tech faculty, researchers, and students delve into data, experiment, and study research findings to address real-world challenges. In the latest installment on complex problems, hear how data is used to boost safety, improve efficiency, and promote equity.    ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The 2019 Lancet Countdown presents the findings and provides a collaborative perspective from 35 universities, institutions, and agencies on how climate change will influence human health. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A study by a Virginia Tech economist that shines a spotlight on the reasons why 6 million women are &#34;missing&#34; each year worldwide has won the 2020 Kuznets Prize of the Journal of Population Economics. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech researchers studied whether individuals perceive fonts to have liberal or conservative leanings. The results have implications for political campaigns. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ David Schmale and Shane Ross plan to launch an NSF Harnessing the Data Revolution: Data Science Corps program at Virginia Tech, which will offer opportunities to underserved biology and engineering undergraduate students. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ At the Center for Simulation, Research, and Patient Safety (SIM Center) in Roanoke, students from the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine are using data-driven research to help find ways of delivering safe, efficient, quality medical care. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ C.L. Bohannon, assistant professor of landscape architecture, director of the Community Engagement Lab, and faculty principal in the Leadership and Social Change Residential College, teaches students that data represent people. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Quinn Thomas is a quantitative ecosystem ecologist who focuses on understanding how forests and other ecosystems will respond to global environmental change. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:14:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Sengupta, assistant professor of statistics in the College of Science and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, received a Research Project Grant to develop methods to analyze detailed information that spans multiple categories and can be more valuable in identifying an event than just checking off a category.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Ken Pomeroy has gone from running a bracket challenge in his dorm room to becoming a pioneer of charting all of basketball’s 353 Division I men’s teams with advanced statistics. Just prior to the new season tipping off, he visited Blacksburg to share insights from his work and journey.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Center for Packaging and Unit Load Design tests packaging to ensure that it meets the demands of the shipping and delivery process. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Law enforcement agencies use this data to determine patterns and answer questions about vehicle crashes, such as why a large number may happen at a particular intersection.    ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The coalition’s primary goal is sharing data and encouraging members and other institutions to make data both more accessible and more transparent.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ When Deborah Mayo, an emerita professor of philosophy, and Aris Spanos, a professor of economics, joined forces to provide researchers with a better understanding of statistical errors in research, they set in motion a new field of philosophy. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Kelly Cobourn has been exploring the ecological impact of humans on lakes, as well as how these bodies of water can impact people, with a goal of producing a new model for use in protecting and maintaining lakes. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Launched earlier this year, the program is based at the Virginia Tech Carilion Health Sciences Campus in Roanoke. As director, Hanlon and her team will collaborate with researchers from across Virginia Tech and the region who are studying health-related issues. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Walters&#39; presentation was based on a paper he co-authored with members of the Public Access to Data Committee at Virginia Tech. The paper describes the process and need to create guidance for Virginia Tech researchers to know when government-funded data should or could be shared and when it must remain secure.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Lara Khansa works with colleagues to ensure that business analytics, innovation and entrepreneurship, and sustainable global prosperity are the foundation for student academic experiences. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With support from the Center for Humanities, Carlos Evia helps create and maintain open standards for technology.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Hammer is a three-time Hokie alumna, earning her bachelor’s degree in 1983, a master’s degree in 1984, and a Ph.D. in 1990, all from the Department of Mathematics, part of the College of Science. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ DataBridge is an undergraduate research experience that gives students interested in working with data a chance to increase knowledge and hone skills by helping graduate students and faculty with data challenges. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A digital humanities project led by Edward Gitre, an assistant professor of history at Virginia Tech, received its second National Endowment for the Humanities grant.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Davon Woodard heads to South Africa for first phase of research on social networks in minority communities</title>
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