Sharing pandemic research in under 90 seconds at Virginia Tech

research 1:49 Sharing pandemic research in under 90 seconds at Virginia Tech

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Craig Newcomb

11 Aug 2025 136

The Virginia Tech-led National Science Foundation Center for Community Empowering Pandemic Prediction and Prevention from Atoms to Societies (NSF COMPASS Center) and Virginia Tech’s Center for Communicating Science hosted the first ever Pandemic Science in a Nutshell Games. Participants were challenged with presenting their pandemic science research or related topic to an audience and panel of judges in just 90 seconds. The fast-paced presentation competition took place inside the Boeing Auditorium at Virginia Tech’s Academic Building One in Alexandria. Learn more at https://news.vt.edu/

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