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- - 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.
- - Virginia Tech researchers develop system-of-systems framework to unify knowledge across disciplines
    Little and colleagues recently published a study in the journal Environmental Modelling and Software. They proposed that a tiered, system-of-systems framework would be most useful in developing sustainable and resilient solutions for complex socio-environmental problems.
- - Amazon Research Award supports developing algorithms that tackle unfairness in recommendation engines
    While other research focuses almost exclusively on situations where group identities of users are known, Bert Huang, professor of computer science and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, and Ph.D. student Sirui Yao look at settings where they do not know, or do not trust, information about who belongs to what groups.
- - Satellite built by Virginia Tech undergraduates ready for launch into space
    An interdisciplinary team of 50 undergraduate students developed Virginia Tech’s CubeSat at the Center for Space Science and Engineering Research over the past several years.
- - Hackathon tests students' analytical, creative-thinking, and problem-solving skills
    Experiential learning aside, students also got to see the skills most sought by employers in job candidates, said Alex Kampman, manager of strategy and analytics at Deloitte, which sponsored the challenge.
- - Researchers develop method to improve 3D-printed prosthetics by integrating electronic sensors
    A Virginia Tech professor and his interdisciplinary team of undergraduate student researchers have made inroads in integrating electronic sensors with personalized 3D-printed prosthetics — a development that could one day lead to more affordable electric-powered prosthetics.
- - Mobile Autism Clinic wins innovation award from Virginia State Office of Rural Health
    The clinic — a converted 2004 Itasca Spirit Winnebago — provides clinical care, support, and therapy sessions for families and children who have autism spectrum disorder, a group of developmental disorders that impacts a person’s ability to communicate and function socially in many areas of life.
- - Get up to speed with self-driving vehicles
    Somewhere between fact and fiction lies the potential reality of self-driving cars. How will this technology affect rural communities, such as the New River Valley? An upcoming forum looks at the possibilities and encourages a community dialogue to begin planning for the future.
- - ACCelerate Festival to showcase exploration, innovation across ACC
    The three-day festival offers a unique opportunity for schools across the Atlantic Coast Conference to convene and celebrate creative exploration and research happening at the nexus of science, engineering, arts, and design.
- - FORWARD: Allyson Bailey
    A series of traumatic brain injuries in high school left Bailey unable to walk and struggling to communicate. Now she is taking advantage of all Virginia Tech has to offer and using her experiences to help others.
- - First Policy, Technology, and Society mini-series event highlights the interdisciplinary nature of policymaking
    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.
- - Jay Winkeler joins Pamplin to lead Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics
    Winkeler will lead the Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics as it enters a new phase of growth and expansion and contributes more broadly to the university’s critical data and decisions initiative.
- - Anuj Karpatne appointed assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science
    A primary focus of Karpatne’s research aims to advance the novel paradigm of theory-guided data science, where machine learning methods are deeply integrated with scientific knowledge, or theories, that underlie real-world phenomena in physical and life sciences.
- - Interdisciplinary team discovers double helix structure in synthetic macromolecule
    The discovery that a high-strength polymer called "PBDT" has a rare double helix structure opens possibilities for use in a variety of applications.
- - Virginia Tech professor researches vaccine efficacy
    Kate Langwig, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, is researching ways in which vaccine effectiveness can be improved.
- - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute to present the good, bad, and ugly at 7th Annual Brain School
    Experts will share insights and extraordinary facts during the series of community lectures and hands-on activities from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 11, through Thursday, March 14, at 2 Riverside Circle in Roanoke.

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