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Article ItemBlack Cadet Organization provides community for all cadets , article
The organization started in spring 2019 as a way to bring Black cadets together. Today, it has grown into a group that offers support for any cadet who feels in the minority.
Date: Feb 12, 2021 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech researchers discover 635 million-year-old fungi-like microfossil that bailed us out of an ice age , article
A team of scientists from Virginia Tech, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guizhou Education University, and University of Cincinnati has discovered the remains of a fungi-like microfossil that emerged at the end of an ice age some 635 million years ago.
Date: Jan 28, 2021 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech geoscientist receives prestigious National Academy of Sciences geology prize , article
Presented every six years, the $20,000 prize went to Shuhai Xiao for “re-envisioning our understanding of evolution” through his research into “the interactions between the biosphere and its environments at critical transitions in Earth history."
Date: Jan 21, 2021 -
Article ItemNew fossil provides clarity to the history of Alligatoridae , article
A new fossil has been identified by Michelle Stocker, of the Department of Geosciences in the College of Science, which will provide some much needed clarity into the complex, and incomplete, history of caimans and their movements across time and space.
Date: Jan 15, 2021 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech paleontologists find pterosaur precursors that fill a gap in early evolutionary history , article
With the help of newly discovered skulls and skeletons that were unearthed in North America, Brazil, Argentina, and Madagascar, Virginia Tech researchers Sterling Nesbitt and Michelle Stocker from the Department of Geosciences have demonstrated that a group of "dinosaur precursors," called lagerpetids, are the closest relatives of pterosaurs.
Date: Dec 09, 2020 -
Article ItemThe human dimensions of water , article
Luke Juran’s research ranges from flooding and drought in India to residential water quality in Virginia.
Date: Nov 18, 2020 -
Article ItemNew study: East African Rift System is slowly breaking away, with Madagascar splitting into pieces , article
The African continent is slowly separating into several large and small tectonic blocks along the diverging East African Rift System, continuing to Madagascar – the long island just off the coast of Southeast Africa – that itself will also break apart into smaller islands.
Date: Nov 12, 2020 -
Article ItemGeosciences doctoral student discovers new species of ancient rat-like cynodont, 220 million years old , article
Fossilized jaw bone fragments of a rat-like creature found at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona last year are in fact a newly discovered 220-million-year-old species of cynodont or stem-mammal.
Date: Nov 04, 2020 -
Article ItemGeoscience’s Ben Gill seeks answer to how the planet changed during Triassic mass-extinction event 200 million years ago , article
Gill, a geoscientist within the College of Science, will seek the answer or answers to what caused the Triassic mass-extinction event — one of the largest extinction events in the history of our planet — 200 million years ago.
Date: Oct 19, 2020 -
Article ItemNanoscience group wins a second nod from the NSF , article
A Virginia Tech center with unique expertise in Earth and environmental nanotechnology has again been selected for a prestigious national network funded by the National Science Foundation.
Date: Sep 24, 2020 -
Article ItemCollege of Science debuts annual magazine , article
When COVID-19 shook the world at the start of 2020, eventually killing more than 900,000 people worldwide and shuttering economies, the Virginia Tech College of Science took action. The 2020 Virginia Tech College of Science Magazine covers these actions from across every department and program.
Date: Sep 21, 2020 -
Article ItemGeosciences’ Steve Holbrook to lead multi-university effort to study the Earth’s hidden critical zone , article
As part of a new, $5.3 million five-year National Science Foundation grant, Holbrook and collaborators at eight other universities in the U.S. and Canada will study the delicate and complex balance of processes — physical, hydrological, biological, and chemical — of the Earth's critical zone.
Date: Sep 14, 2020 -
Article ItemEarly career faculty earn 14 National Science Foundation CAREER awards , article
Over the past 25 years, Virginia Tech researchers have earned 171 National Science Foundation Early Career Development Awards (CAREER). For the 2020 fiscal year, 14 Virginia Tech early career scientists and engineers have been granted CAREER awards, totaling over $4 million in research funding.
Date: Aug 28, 2020 -
Article ItemSterling Nesbitt receives NSF CAREER award to study the evolution of vertebrate communities during the Triassic Period , article
Sterling Nesbitt, an associate professor of geobiology in the College of Science, and a team of researchers will use a NSF CAREER Award to learn more about how extinction events -- and time itself -- drive evolution in vertebrate communities.
Date: Aug 24, 2020 -
Article ItemD. Sarah Stamps receives $625,000 NSF CAREER grant to study role of volcanism in continental rifting , article
Stamps, an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences, has received a five-year Faculty Early Career Development Program award to investigate early phase continental rifting at the Natron Rift in Tanzania.
Date: Aug 06, 2020 -
Article ItemResearchers: What’s in oilfield wastewater matters for injection-induced earthquakes , article
According to this new theory, the density difference between wastewater and deep basement fluids is much more important for induced earthquake occurrence than was previously known.
Date: Aug 05, 2020 -
Article ItemGeosciences’ Marc Michel switches from nanoparticles to 3D printing nasal swabs , article
Michel, an associate professor of geosciences, diverged from his normal path to lead a project involving numerous Virginia Tech faculty, alumni, and specialists from Carilion Clinic to use 3D printing to create nasopharyngeal swabs during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Date: Jul 14, 2020 -
Article ItemCOVID-19 research projects propelled by Rapid Response Seed Fund , article
To support COVID-related research and provide immediate support for Virginia Tech researchers, the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation collaborated with Virginia Tech institutes and colleges to establish a COVID-19 Rapid Response Seed Fund. As a result, nine projects were selected for funding.
Date: Jun 26, 2020 -
Article ItemIn memoriam: Don Bloss, first professor to be honored as Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech , article
Frederick Donald “Don” Bloss, a longtime professor with the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences, died April 22, 2020, a month shy of his 100th birthday.
Date: May 19, 2020 -
Article ItemClass of 2020: Studying abroad was the tip of the iceberg for senior Shelly Worek , article
A study abroad experience in Switzerland connected geosciences senior Worek with her post-graduation plans of researching glaciers in the Alps.
Date: May 13, 2020
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