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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[ Based on fiscal year 2023 data estimates, federal, state, local, and private research awards grew a combined 17 percent, while research expenditures rose to more than $650 million — a 13 percent increase over last year&#39;s totals. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Elementary students judged Virginia Tech graduate students&#39; research presentations  at the Flip the Fair event held at the Melrose Branch Library in Roanoke.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The interactive, two-semester cohort program is designed for faculty pursuing research in social science disciplines who have strong potential for success in seeking external funding but who are relatively new to the proposal writing process or those whose past proposals did not receive funding.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech looks to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With the support of a $360,000 National Science Foundation grant, an interdisciplinary team of Virginia Tech researchers is using water science to respond to the concerns of rural and Indigenous communities in Guatemala and empowering individuals to conduct their own water monitoring. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The former reporter who delved into the opioid crisis with her landmark book &#34;Dopesick&#34; and its follow-up, &#34;Raising Lazarus,&#34; will be the community keynote speaker Aug. 23 as part of the Rural Education Summit. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Hosted by Virginia Tech’s +Policy Network, the Policy Camp on Aug. 14 will emphasize the importance of researchers and students gaining exposure to policy concepts and applying them to real-world challenges. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ About 200 miles from their offices and classrooms in Blacksburg, Virginia Tech faculty, researchers, and students are working with a group of St. Paul’s College alumni and Brunswick County community members who want to keep the traditions of the former liberal arts college alive. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Each year, the Fralin Life Sciences Institute’s Global Change Center and the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment allocate seed funding program to support researchers who are interested in tackling major global change issues from both biophysical and sociological perspectives. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Chanit&#39;a Holmes cares so much about her students that her research focuses on how to best help them succeed in college. Holmes recently completed two studies exploring the success weekly electronic feedback and support might have on students’ academic success. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Alexandra Hanlon, director of the Virginia Tech Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science, was awarded a $1.25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the Collaborative Undergraduate Biostatistics Experience, an eight-week summer program geared toward underrepresented undergraduate students.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With the $500,000 award, Lim will investigate how computer models have been developed and used in management of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in the eastern United States and the Baltic Sea watershed in northern Europe.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ For its signature seed funding program, the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment has awarded up to $30,000 each to seven interdisciplinary teams. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Weaving together research, education, and practice, Virginia Tech faculty and community members are developing a consortium focused on the transformative concept of whole health. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Linsey Marr, the Charles P. Lunsford professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering,  recounted her experiences interacting with governmental and health policymakers as the guest speaker for this year’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Policy program. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ An interdisciplinary research team aims to quantify the economic and health implications of using multiple water sources, such as natural springs and bottled water, when in-home water is not accessible or the quality is questionable.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In a time when technological advancements are breaking new ground in health, artificial intelligence, and transportation, one factor that must be considered yet is often overlooked: the social impact. Virginia Tech faculty will discuss such social implications of emerging technologies in a variety of fields during the Governance of New and Emerging Technologies virtual symposium on April 6 beginning at 9:30 a.m.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Christine Hunter, the acting director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health, will provide a virtual presentation during the event on March 31. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students and faculty in the Department of Geography trialed the use of silver-infused ceramic tiles as a way to provide clean water to schools in rural India.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new community has emerged as a result of the work of Virginia Tech’s Destination Areas. An outgrowth of the Policy Destination Area, the +Policy Network, reflects the original Destination Area’s mission and expands the breadth of engagement across Virginia Tech. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The institute launched the Preparing your Research for an Extramural Proposal Program this fall with a call for applications. The program helps faculty develop the skills and experience needed to lead projects regarding human, societal, and environmental research. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The researchers will develop a proposal to create a citizen science program that will train youth to collect, monitor, and communicate data on temperatures in Roanoke and how residents experience heat.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Ashley Dayer of the College of Natural Resources and Environment and Dana Hawley of the College of Science are leading a multifaceted project funded by the National Science Foundation to study the effects of bird feeding. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The German Fulbright Summer Institute program Communicating across Disciplines was back in person for its “most exciting and robust year,” according to Patty Raun, director for the Center for Communicating Science. Over the summer, 26 German students immersed themselves in American culture and the Virginia Tech campus experience in Blacksburg. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Tracy Gaudet, past executive director of the Veterans Health Administration&#39;s National Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation, will speak at Virginia Tech on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 2 p.m. in the Fralin Hall Auditorium. Sponsored by the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Gaudet’s presentation is free and open to the public. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Tae-Ho Lee and Ben Katz have earned a five-year $3.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to study attention networks in the brain with the goal of examining those networks when one is trying to focus in a distracting or stressful environment.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With this grant, Gohlke will improve the ways that government agencies estimate damage caused by weather events.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment welcomes Shalini Misra as its new administrative fellow. Misra is an associate professor of urban affairs and planning in the School of Public and International Affairs, which is located in the Virginia Tech Research Center — Arlington. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Imagine a gathering of the most innovative and prominent scholarly researchers who are offering their intelligence, experience, and time. That describes the Rural Education Summit, held at The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center on Aug. 26, which officially launched the new Center for Rural Education. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As the founding director of the center, Amy Price Azano has studied how structural challenges related to poverty and educational inequities can adversely affect rural schools and communities. As a first-generation college student from a rural community, Azano understands these challenges both professionally and personally but also believes in the power and promise of rural schooling. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ From July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022, affiliated faculty demonstrated their ability to address large-scale research opportunities by crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries, contributing to the overall growth of the institute and the research enterprise. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech sponsored research expenditures and awards increased by 12 percent, with growth in federal, state, private, and local funding.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Through seed funding provided by the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Jennifer Russell and her students are working with a retirement company to study how it could increase its sustainability efforts. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Ben Katz studies executive function — working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility — throughout the lifespan. How people stay sharp as they grow older and what happens to the brain during the aging process are questions he contemplates. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Jennifer Russell, assistant professor of sustainable biomaterials at Virginia Tech, uses a unique approach to biological systems analysis. By looking at a facility as an organism, she compares the material inflows with the material outflows (trash) to determine the health of the facility. In Russell’s examination of the outflows of a Retirement Unlimited, Inc. (RUI) senior living residence, she found not only food waste, but also a lively dialogue about sustainability with its residents and an extended commitment. Russell hopes to build on this foundation of research by obtaining sponsored research grants in order to have broader impacts and improve sustainability at assisted living facilities. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ What happens to your brain when you hear an Appalachian accent? Walker, an associate professor in the Department of English, and a colleague from Penn State are investigating that question, and the National Science Foundation is funding their efforts.  ]]></description>
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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2022/03/clahs-vaccines-and-latinx-community.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Julie Gerdes, an assistant professor in the Department of English, has been awarded a grant through the Council on Vibrant Virginia to study vaccine hesitancy among Latinx communities.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment will host Anna Harvey, president of the Social Science Research Council, on March 31 as part of Virginia Tech’s Sesquicentennial celebration and in recognition of the institute’s 15-year anniversary. ]]></description>
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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2022/02/building-safer-communities-commonwealth-cyber-initiative-grant.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ A multi-university team of sociology researchers will conduct a survey of unprecedented scale to determine how cybercrime has affected Virginians. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In celebration of the fifth anniversary of its opening celebration in March 2017, the Center for Communicating Science has planned a Communicating Science Week full of activities and events, with keynote speaker Elin Kelsey as the centerpiece. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ “The Virginia Tech Sesquicentennial provides us with a great opportunity to consider the importance of the liberal arts more broadly in a technology-inflected university,” said Laura Belmonte, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. “The traditional separations across disciplines are more and more giving way to creative explorations that braid together insights from all approaches.” ]]></description>
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        <title>Robin Queen elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The College of Fellows – which honors the top 2 percent of medical and biological engineers in the country – consists of 1,500 individuals who are outstanding leaders, engineers, entrepreneurs, and innovators in the field. ]]></description>
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        <title>Institute&#39;s COVID-19 Reset Program supports social science faculty</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Created by the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment, the program offers both funding and mentoring for a cohort of five social science faculty whose research has been interrupted during the pandemic. The program began last fall and will continue this spring as the five faculty develop and submit proposals for external funding.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Middle school students learn the importance of heat resilience in communities</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Theo Lim, an affiliate with the Global Change Center and scholar with the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment, focuses his research on green infrastructure planning, urban hydrology, water resource planning, and the linkages between land, water, infrastructure, and people.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Data-Driven Research Accelerator Workshop jump-starts social science research</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Policy Destination Area and University Libraries collaborated to offer a research accelerator workshop in July to help social scientists refocus their research efforts after a year affected by the pandemic.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In her new role as chair, Baum will work closely with the members of the board and the Human Subject Research Protection Program to carry out the mission to protect the rights and welfare of individuals who volunteer to participate in human subjects research. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Queen is a professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics in the College of Engineering. Fellows are selected in recognition of their exceptional scientific and professional achievement in biomechanics and their service to the society.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In the spirit of Ut Prosim, (That I May Serve), a group of dedicated and creative Virginia Tech students and faculty, in partnership with the Virginia Department of Health, are working to make vaccines more available to the community with mobile vaccine clinics and the COVID vaccine car.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Commonwealth Cyber Initiative funds seven projects to curb the spread of misinformation campaigns</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/07/cci-disinfoprojects.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Funded projects across Virginia universities explore the role of cybersecurity in limiting the spread of disinformation and misinformation.    ]]></description>
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        <title>Protecting species on the move</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/06/fralinlifesci-protecting-species-on-the-move.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ As temperatures and sea levels rise as a result of climate change, flora and fauna are migrating into new and unknown lands to survive. With a grant from the National Science Foundation, an interdisciplinary team of researchers is helping conservation agencies and other stakeholders across state and local boundaries to rethink biodiversity protection approaches for this new era of climate change.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The scholars are awarded up to $30,000 for a period of a year and typically work in interdisciplinary teams and conduct pilot studies or other preparatory research. Six new teams will begin conducting research this summer or fall. ]]></description>
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        <title>New STEP program bridges the gap between science and decision-making</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Tech Policy Destination Area launched its interdisciplinary graduate certificate program, Science, Technology, and Engineering in Policy, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Launching the certificate under current conditions has made clear how important such a certificate is for STEM-H students who are looking to work at the interface of science and policy. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Now with a commitment of funding from the Fralin Life Sciences Institute, the center will be able to continue and expand upon its mission to help researchers and scholars develop the art of connecting across racial, cultural, religious, educational, and academic differences. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Since 2018, the Virginia Tech +Policy Fellows have been incorporating policy into collaborative research teams. This year&#39;s cohort are still integrating policy into research, but can now expand their knowledge into new content areas under the guidance of a mentor.   ]]></description>
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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/01/clahs-extended-family-caretakers-grant.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Karen Roberto and Tina Savla, both core faculty members of Virginia Tech’s Center for Gerontology, are leading a five-year study funded by the National Institute on Aging that will examine the role of extended family caregivers and their service use, needs, and challenges. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Toni Calasanti, a Virginia Tech sociology professor, was interviewing both heterosexual and same-sex couples for an Alzheimer’s disease and dementia grant when the COVID-19 pandemic changed the parameters for many of those couples. A supplemental grant is now allowing her team to study those changes. ]]></description>
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        <title>The show must go on: The Center for Communicating Science announces virtual format for annual Nutshell Games</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Instead of presenting in front of a Moss Arts Center audience, this year’s Nutshell Games competition will be moving to a first-ever virtual format. You can watch 29 graduate student researchers present their research on Saturday, Nov. 7.  Did we mention that they have only 90 seconds to present? ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Tech’s investment institute focused broadly on the social sciences, has been highlighting the research and expertise of its social scientists through its COVID-19 publication repository, which was established this spring. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With only the eyes and forehead showing from behind a face covering, pay close attention to body language, eyes, and tone when communicating with others, say Virginia Tech experts. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Throughout her career, Ritchie has studied the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Hurricane Katrina, and various earthquakes across the globe.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Three research teams at Virginia Tech were awarded RAPID grants from the the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate of the National Science Foundation to spur the development of social science–oriented research related to COVID-19. ]]></description>
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        <title> Virginia Tech research sees continued growth</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Research expenditures are up and sponsored awards have increased by 15 percent, building upon the prior year’s expenditure total of $542 million, despite the impact of COVID-19 felt nationally by higher education institutes, according to preliminary fiscal year-end reports.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ After the TECH Together Campaign launched in July, a whopping 76 applications from 20 different colleges and departments were submitted. Of those, 10 finalists and 5 winners have been chosen to implement their creative, innovative, and integrated solutions for the reopening of Virginia Tech campuses this fall. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Seed Fund has initiated a campus-wide competition open to Virginia Tech students, seeking proposals for creative, innovative, and integrated solutions for a safe reopening of Virginia Tech campuses this fall.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ To support COVID-related research and provide immediate support for Virginia Tech researchers, the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation collaborated with Virginia Tech institutes and colleges to establish a COVID-19 Rapid Response Seed Fund. As a result, nine projects were selected for funding. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech graduate student co-organizes #BlackBirdersWeek</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Amber Wendler, a biological sciences Ph.D. student in the College of Science studying the behavior of tropical birds, was one of the organizers of #BlackBirdersWeek, a social media movement that took place from May 31 to June 6. ]]></description>
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        <title>ISCE Scholars focus on timely societal issues</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Four projects that focus on significant issues facing the world today have been selected to receive funding from the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment for 2020-21. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Although animal and poultry sciences and theatre may seem like worlds apart, this enterprising senior has blended her skillsets to help other students in scientific disciplines be better communicators. ]]></description>
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        <title>Science on Tap NRV moves online during the coronavirus pandemic </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Science on Tap NRV organizers haven&#39;t let the current situation stop them from celebrating scientific thought in the Blacksburg community. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Karen Roberto encourages families to stay connected with their older loved ones while practicing social distancing, even as new challenges increase the complexity of staying in touch.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A statistician and journalist will address the gap between modern research advances and our &#34;Stone-Age&#34; brains to kickoff the second-ever ComSciCon-Virginia Tech.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Hankey is the first faculty member from the Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award from the National Science Foundation.  ]]></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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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2019/10/isce-to-offer-support-for-approved-projects-using-restricted-mic.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ The Institute for Society, Culture and Environment provides assistance for researchers to have access to a specially protected federal data set.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Kathleen Fitzpatrick, author of &#34;Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University&#34; and director of digital humanities at Michigan State University, will visit multiple Virginia Tech locations Oct. 8-10. ]]></description>
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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2019/09/provost-tech-for-humanity-launch.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Led by Sylvester Johnson, the initiative reflects Virginia Tech’s commitment to advancing human-centered approaches to technology innovation. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With more than 15 years of expertise in data protection and privacy, Potter will ensure that Virginia Tech’s researchers have access to the resources they need to keep data secure and compliant with university, state, and federal regulations.   ]]></description>
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        <title>Twenty students awarded Fralin Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2019/06/twenty-students-awarded-fralin-summer-undergraduate-research-fel.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ The SURF program is designed to give students hands-on research experiences during a 10-week curriculum that mimics graduate training.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Interdisciplinary ISCE Scholars address topics from healthy aging to occupational roles of engineers</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2019/05/050119-Fralin-ISCE-Scholars-Program.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Six interdisciplinary research teams were recently awarded funding through the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment’s (ISCE) signature program, the ISCE Scholars Program, to address a broad range of pressing contemporary social issues.  ]]></description>
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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2019/04/040519-OVPRI-HRPP-protocol-coordinators.html</link>
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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2019/03/03222019-ISCE-policy-technology-society-event.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Saul Halfon and Anne Khademian spoke at the inaugural Policy, Technology and Society Conversation and Networking seminar at Virginia Tech sponsored by the Policy Strategic Growth Area on March 4.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers analyzed how people who feed birds notice and respond to natural events at their feeders by collaborating with Project FeederWatch, a program managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that engages more than 25,000 people to observe and collect data on their backyard birds.   ]]></description>
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        <title>As research grows, new program brings faculty perspective to maximizing opportunity</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2019/02/ovpri-factulyfellows.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ The Faculty Fellows Program from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation taps faculty expertise to tackle initiatives that will support a growing research enterprise.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Tech Policy Strategic Growth Area (SGA) is taking aim at helping research teams place policy considerations front and center in interdisciplinary projects focused on pressing contemporary issues.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Scholarly Integrity and Research Compliance division of the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation is implementing changes to comply with new federal Institutional Review Board regulations. ]]></description>
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        <title>Seed grants helping to grow Virginia Tech’s transdisciplinary capacities, contributions</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Grant awards are designed to enhance research and collaboration in areas that address global issues including rural health, infectious disease, coastal mitigation and security. ]]></description>
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        <title>Home of the future takes first place at international competition</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2018/11/eng-caus-futurehausresults.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ After years of research and development contributed by over 100 Virginia Tech students and faculty, the FutureHAUS Dubai team has officially built the world’s best solar home. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ One of the biggest challenges for new, tenure-track faculty is obtaining external grant funding. The Proposal Development Institute was created to provide guidance for faculty and help alleviate some of that stress.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The four institutes invest in high-risk, high-reward ideas, expanding Virginia Tech&#39;s research portfolio and opening up new opportunities for its faculty and students.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Furniture manufacturer and workspace design company Steelcase Inc. is working with a Virginia Tech team to transform a 20-year-old classroom into a living laboratory to examine the impacts of active-learning strategies. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Faculty from across the campus are working together to advance Virginia Tech&#39;s Policy Strategic Growth Area through interdisciplinary research discussions and presentations. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Research on aging makes for two entertaining and informative events as the center commemorates its first four decades. A collaboration with a local retirement community and a talk by a Cornell University professor will mark the milestone. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ More than 70 faculty from eight colleges and 28 departments gathered for the institute’s 10-year anniversary during a two-hour event on Jan. 23. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Goldstein wove the stories of a small city and its people together in &#34;Janesville: An American Story.&#34; All events on Feb. 19 are free and open to the university community and general public.  ]]></description>
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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2018/01/clahs-communicating-science-workshops.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ The weekly sessions will offer a range of creative techniques to help Virginia Tech faculty, students, and staff communicate ideas and forge collaborations. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The purpose of the forums was to “provide an opportunity for faculty from diverse disciplines to come together to share their interests and make new connections related to policy,” said Isabel Bradburn, research director in the Department of Human Development and Policy SGA program manager.     ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Approximately 70 members of Virginia Tech’s Global Systems Science Destination Area and the Policy Strategic Growth Area met recently to identify opportunities for collaboration. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech hosted 24 German undergraduates for a three-week summer institute. The students participated in a class called &#39;Communicating Science,&#39; where they learned to communicate, collaborate, and connect across differences and disciplines. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers at the Virginia Tech College of Science have built an experimental neutrino detector that they say could lead to a turning point in how the United Nations tracks rogue nations that seek nuclear power.      ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The team argues in a literature review that more research needs to be conducted to determine how the unique topography and industries of the Appalachian region, including coal and natural gas, impact the health of people living in the region. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The recipients from across campus are pursuing an array of interdisciplinary pilot projects in preparation for seeking external funding from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and elsewhere to support their research agendas.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech Associate Professor Mariana Falconier leads TOGETHER Program</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The unique program teaches relationship skills for communication and problem-solving by centering on economic stress; devotes almost half of the time to financial literacy; and focuses on  how partners can manage stress together.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Center for Communicating Science will host a launch celebration Thursday beginning with the first annual Nutshell Games, in which graduate students aim to condense years of their research into a 90-second, compelling description. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Scholars Program from the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment is designed to support faculty in strengthening the proposals for external funding, the collection of preliminary data, and other proposal development activities. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment funds the summer grant program. This year&#39;s recipients will study everything from emotion socialization in Appalachia to food security and sovereignty in Guatemala. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Transdisciplinary orientation is an intrapersonal disposition that emerges over the course of one&#39;s scholarly career.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Her appointment is expected to enhance the university&#39;s entrepreneurial and innovative culture, grow commercialization opportunities, build relationships with corporate and foundation partners, and continue support of the academic research enterprise, officials said. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Robert W. Walters, vice president for research, has announced plans to retire effective Sept. 1, 2015, Virginia Tech President Timothy Sands said today. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ This NSF grant will give Sonja Schmid the means to develop a research, education, and outreach program for the next generation of nuclear emergency responders. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Srinath Ekkad, the Rolls Royce Commonwealth Professor for Aerospace Propulsion Systems in College of Engineering, has been appointed the associate vice president for research programs at Virginia Tech, effective today ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Rising one slot to No. 40 in university research expenditures in the United States, Virginia Tech is the only Virginia institution in the top 50 of National Science Foundation rankings and remains among the top 25 public research universities. ]]></description>
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        <title>Bernice Hausman named Edward S. Diggs Professor in Humanities</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Moss Arts Center will host the second annual TEDxVirginiaTech Nov. 9 with 16 speakers and technology expo hall featuring student engineering teams and others. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech students and retirees will join together for a tweetup focusing on the role of social media in elections. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech researcher to serve on National Institutes of Health study section on social psychology, personality, and interpersonal processes. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Elizabeth Stine-Morrow, a distinguished scholar and nationally recognized expert in the field of aging and cognition with the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois will deliver the keynote lecture for the Virginia Tech Center for Gerontology’s 35th anniversary. ]]></description>
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        <title>Center for Autism Research established at Virginia Tech</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ University Honors graduate Nicole Faut will explore creative expression in Bangalore, India, with a Fulbright Award. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Rosemary Blieszner,an expert in gerontology, shares her thoughts on aging and well-being  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech&#39;s School of Education receives $1.3 million from the National Science Foundation for an after school program for middle school youth in STEM education. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ &#34;Human Rights: Witnessing and Responsibility,&#34; a research forum, will be held at Virginia Tech on Jan. 27. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Sonia Hirt is the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment&#39;s first senior fellow ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ David Brunsma named professor in sociology at Virginia Tech ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Francois Debrix named Director of the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. and certificate program at Virginia Tech. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Tech-University of Kent Partnering Program has awarded grants for research that examines volunteer tourism, land and justice, and the performance of the organic foods market. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A Center for Public Health Practice and Research has been created at Virginia Tech. ]]></description>
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