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- - Tanushree Mitra among first to receive research grant providing access to Facebook data
    The assistant professor of computer science and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center is also one of only two women to receive the Social Media and Democracy Research Grant. Mitra and her team will study how misinformation and other problematic content spread on the platform.
- - Google Faculty Research Award supports work in detecting human-object interaction in images and videos
    With the award, Jia-Bin Huang will tackle challenges of modeling the relationship between a person and relevant objects/scene to gather contextual information and mining hard examples automatically from unlabeled but interaction-rich videos.
- - Researchers find that probiotic bacteria reduces the impact of white-nose syndrome in bats
    It is widely accepted that probiotic bacteria are beneficial to human health, but what if they could also be used to reduce wildlife disease and conserve biodiversity? Researchers from Virginia Tech and UC Santa Cruz did just that. The findings were published recently in Scientific Reports.
- - 'Sneezing' plants contribute to disease proliferation
    Virginia Tech researchers have found that jumping droplets have an impact in the spread of wheat leaf rust spores.
- - Students win international vehicle safety design competition
    A group of engineering graduate students won the international championship for the 2019 Collegiate Student Safety Technology Design Competition, hosted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the Netherlands last week.
- - Industry turns to Newport News program to build data science workforce
    The first cohort of 12 graduates will complete the business analytics certificate program on June 22.
- - Virginia Tech researcher discovers cellular contributor of Lyme arthritis that could open door to treatment
    Virginia Tech biochemist Brandon Jutras has discovered the cellular component that contributes to Lyme arthritis, a debilitating and extremely painful condition that is the most common late stage symptom of Lyme disease.
- - FDA deems molecular test for concussions ‘breakthrough device’
    BRAINBox Solutions, a molecular diagnostics innovator that works extensively with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, announced it has been granted U.S. Food and Drug Administration Breakthrough Device Designation to speed development of a product that includes a blood-based test to aid in prognosis and diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury.
- - Beyond Queen’s stomp-stomp-clap: Computer scientist finds social media boosts engagement during live shows
    Sang Won Lee, an assistant professor of computer science in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, and his collaborators tested some theories about not only engaging large audiences, but sustaining that engagement in a live music performance.
- - Student engineering team advances to global vehicle safety design competition
    A team of Virginia Tech engineering students is advancing to the global round of the Student Safety Technology Design Competition, sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They will present their prototype safety system aimed at reducing injuries for vehicle occupants during a rear-end collision.
- - Virginia Tech helps lead broadest study of battery electrode failure in new journal article
    Feng Lin, an assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Science and an affiliated faculty member of the Macromolecules Innovation Institute, led efforts along with researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Purdue University, and European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France.
- - Low-speed ahead: Meet VTTI’s automated shuttle
    Researchers at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and North Carolina A&T State University are evaluating whether an automated shuttle system could improve public transportation access for vulnerable road users, such as the elderly and people with disabilities.
- - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute addiction scientist to receive international honor for translational research
    Addiction researcher Warren Bickel, the Virginia Tech Carilion Behavioral Health Research Professor, will receive the Scientific Translation Award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis on Saturday in Chicago, Illinois.
- - University Libraries creates digital library of multimedia learning tools
    The University Libraries' digital library Odyssey is an online collection of unique resources to help professors and librarians teach students how to become confident researchers.
- - Three faculty members named to lead planning for university shared research facilities
    These three accomplished researchers are part of the inaugural cohort of the Faculty Fellows Program of the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, which puts faculty leaders at the forefront of strategic research initiatives.
- - Virginia Drug Discovery Consortium meeting to focus on opioids, addiction, data science
    The Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery will host a May 21-22 meeting of the Virginia Drug Discovery Consortium to be held at the Hotel Roanoke, with such topics as opioid abuse, addiction, and data science in medicine as topics.
- - Economical and Sustainable Materials SGA sponsors four Virginia Tech internships at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Four Virginia Tech students will take part in enrichment activities at ORNL, including professional development workshops, laboratory tours, lectures, seminars, and poster presentations.
- - Judges, neuroscientists consider how science and criminal justice converge at Roanoke neurolaw conference
    Neuroscientists and addiction experts at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC believe that emerging neuroscientific discoveries could complement criminal justice.
- - Coastal@VT researchers lead Kids’ Tech University session about sea level rise
    The Kids' Tech University program is different from other kids' programs because it puts real researchers in front of children to give exciting interactive sessions based on those famous "why" questions that have always intrigued children.
- - Virginia Tech joining IBM Q Network to accelerate research, educational opportunities in quantum computing
    Virginia Tech researchers and students will have direct access to IBM Q’s most-advanced quantum computing systems for research projects that advance quantum science, exploring early uses of quantum computing, and for teaching.

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