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- - Hume Center awarded $3.8 million for advanced manufacturing education by the Department of Defense
    The goal is to establish programs to better position the current and next-generation manufacturing workforce to produce military systems and components that assure technological superiority of the department, according to the Department of Defense’s website.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - Rayne Zheng receives Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
    Zheng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, has received the award to study rational design and additive manufacturing of 3D piezoelectrics with arbitrary anisotropy for maritime self-sensing structures.
- - New biomedical gel could ease pain in cervical cancer treatment
    Tim Long, a professor of chemistry at Virginia Tech, and Tim Showalter, a radiation oncologist at UVA’s Cancer Center, are testing a gel that could be used during radiation treatment for cervical cancer.
- - Researchers expand breakthroughs in 3D printing Kapton, the “ultimate” polymer
    An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Virginia Tech's Macromolecules Innovation Institute have developed a new process to 3D print one of the most-desired materials in the electronics and aerospace industries.
- - Economical and sustainable materials team furthers partnership, collaboration with Oak Ridge
    Virginia Tech faculty and graduate students recently visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to further collaboration and provide faculty and students with a better understanding of ORNL capabilities and research interests.
- - NSF awards two grants for polymer research
    Professor Kevin Edgar’s research focuses on drug delivery within the body while Assistant Professor Li Shuai’s research examines the utilization of lignin.