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- - New opportunities for transdisciplinary collaboration are the focus of upcoming event
    On Sept. 24, the Virginia Tech community will have a chance to reflect on how the Destination Areas and Strategic Growth Areas have shaped research and education and learn about new opportunities, including seed-funding programs.
- - Disaster aid: new research uses analytics to improve placement of supplies
    In a recent research project, business information technology professor Chris Zobel used analytics to develop a new approach to help the Red Cross address the challenges of more effectively pre-positioning resources needed for emergency shelters.
- - Veterinary college scientist awarded NIH grant to study infectious disease
    The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a new two-year grant to Clay Caswell, assistant professor of bacteriology in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, to study the disease-causing mechanisms of the bacteria that causes brucellosis.
- - Cal Ribbens named interim executive director of the Biocomplexity Institute at Virginia Tech
    Ribbens has been the head of the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering since 2015.
- - Center for Humanities to celebrate its official launch
    Led by Sylvester Johnson, the newly approved center reflects Virginia Tech’s commitment to elevating the presence and profile of humanities disciplines across the university.
- - Faculty Writing Group Grant program creating transdisciplinary connections
    Faculty collaborations and interdisciplinary support networks are being created across the campus as a result of the Faculty Writing Group Grant program, which encourages faculty research and writing productivity outside of home departments.
- - Vitali Mindel joins business information technology faculty
    His research examines the sustainability and governance of decentralized online information systems and the role of technology in improving both clinical and administrative healthcare operations.
- - Marriott Foundation grants $2.1 million to Virginia Tech Global Business and Analytics project
    The HOKIE Lab will be located in what will be the high-traffic, high-visibility commons area of the first academic building in the project.
- - Idris Adjerid joins business information technology faculty
    Adjerid was hired as part of the effort to strengthen Virginia Tech's faculty expertise in integrated security. His research interests are privacy and security, health information technology and health information exchanges, and health care analytics.
- - Study explores connections between land management, water quality, and human response in lake catchments
    The study, which examines the ecological effects of humans on lakes and vice versa, offers a new model for those invested in protecting and maintaining lakes.
- - Eric Lyon receives Guggenheim Fellowship to explore the edges of spatial orchestration
    The Moss Art Center’s Cube is an inspirational muse for the associate professor of music technology, who is using the space’s 150 speakers to compose new music during his year as a Guggenheim Fellow, a prestigious honor for which only 4 percent of the competition’s applicants receive funding.
- - Funding awarded to diverse group of social and behavioral science researchers
    ISCE has awarded six interdisciplinary teams seed funding for 2018-19 to prepare them to successfully compete for external funding through such agencies as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and other sources of public and private funding.
- - Adaptive Brain and Behavior DA workshops engage campus for updates, information
    Informational workshops hosted recently by Adaptive Brain and Behavior Destination Area brought together faculty and researchers to learn about work in brain plasticity as it pertains to decision-making, physical and psychological trauma, and development across the lifespan.
- - Destination Area courses, student experiences continue to move Virginia Tech forward
    Destination Area and Strategic Growth Area faculty are developing innovative courses and student experiences through the lens of transdisciplinary engagement.
- - Clancy offers Capitol Hill testimony on telecommunications supply chain operations
    Charles Clancy, director of Virginia Tech’s Hume Center for National Security and Technology, gave expert testimony in Washington, D.C., before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
- - Policy Strategic Growth Area faculty discuss solutions to complex problems at spring forum
    Faculty from across the campus are working together to advance Virginia Tech's Policy Strategic Growth Area through interdisciplinary research discussions and presentations.
- - Despite bumps in the road, engineering team places third in North American autonomous vehicle competition
    Virginia Tech’s AutoDrive team faced challenges at home before ever stepping foot in Yuma, Arizona, to compete against seven other universities from the U.S. and Canada.
- - Steven Sheetz named PricewaterhouseCoopers Senior Faculty Fellow of Accounting and Information Systems
    Sheetz joined Virginia Tech in 1996 as an assistant professor. He received tenure in 2002 and was promoted to full professor in 2015.
- - Dwayne Pinkney named senior vice president for operations and administration
    Pinkney will bring 23 years of financial and administrative management in higher education and state legislative experience to Virginia Tech, spending the last 14 years in progressively higher-level management positions at UNC-Chapel Hill.
- - Paul Benjamin Lowry is named the Suzanne Parker Thornhill Professor in Business Information Technology
    The Suzanne Parker Thornhill Professorship in Business Information Technology was established in 1998 to provide support for the Pamplin College of Business and to recognize teaching and research excellence.

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