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- - Geosciences’ Shuhai Xiao finds fossils dating back 550 million years, among earliest known displays of animal mobility
    In a remarkable evolutionary discovery, a team of scientists co-led by a Virginia Tech geoscientist has discovered what could be among the first trails made by animals on the surface of the Earth roughly a half-billion years ago.
- - Researchers receive NSF grant to create Ecological Forecasting Research Coordination Network
    A group of researchers, led by Quinn Thomas, associate professor in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech, received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to tackle environmental challenges with the creation of a new network.
- - Search committee for Fralin Life Sciences Institute director announced
    Stefan Duma, executive director of Virginia Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, will chair the search committee.
- - When invasive plants take root, native animals pay the price
    A Virginia Tech research team has discovered that native animals are diminishing as invasive plants gain a foothold in their habitats. Their study, which took place over a two-year period, is published in the journal Global Change Biology.
- - 'Leaving no stone unturned' at the Ninth Eastern Hellbender Symposium
    The hellbender is one of the largest salamanders in North America and the third largest salamander in the world after the closely related Chinese and Japanese giant salamanders.
- - Researchers publish new study on citrus greening disease
    A new study published by researchers at Virginia Tech with a team of international researchers in Journal of Applied Ecology investigates the thermal suitability for transmission of citrus greening disease with implications for surveillance and prevention.
- - 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.
- - Twenty students awarded Fralin Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
    The SURF program is designed to give students hands-on research experiences during a 10-week curriculum that mimics graduate training.
- - Virginia Tech researchers discover connection between symbiotic worms and the magnetic orientation of crayfish
    Researchers have found that ectosymbionts – species that live on the outside of the host’s body and have mutually beneficial relationships with their hosts – affect a crayfish’s use of the earth’s magnetic field as a directional reference.
- - Biological Sciences’ Frank Aylward awarded Simons Foundation grant to study evolution of oceans
    The three-year, $540,000 grant will help Aylward to understand evolutionary trends in prokaryotes and the roles they play in carbon and nitrogen cycling, and other biogeochemical processes that are vital to the Earth’s climate.
- - Island lizards are expert sunbathers, and it’s slowing their evolution
    According to a new study by Assistant Professor Martha Muñoz at Virginia Tech and Jhan Salazar at Universidad Icesi, physiological evolution in Anolis lizards is actually much slower on islands than on the mainland.
- - Deirdre Conroy named 2019 Outstanding Senior for the College of Natural Resources and Environment
    The wildlife conservation major has been involved in research projects that have taken her from the forests of Virginia to the jungles of Belize.
- - Virginia Tech paleontologist finds, names new 3-foot-tall relative of Tyrannosaurus rex
    A new relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex – much smaller than the huge, ferocious dinonsaur made famous in countless books and films, including, yes, "Jurassic Park" – has been discovered and named by a Virginia Tech paleontologist and an international team of scientists.
- - 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 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.
- - Researchers use high-powered computer simulations to study reintroduction of bull trout
    A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by Meryl Mims, has assessed how environmental, demographic, and genetic factors play a role in the reintroduction of bull trout in Washington State. Their project is one of the first to use an advanced computer model to project 200 years into the future.
- - Researchers study people who feed birds in their backyards with implications for bird conservation
    Researchers analyzed how people who feed birds notice and respond to natural events at their feeders by collaborating with Project FeederWatch, a program managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that engages more than 25,000 people to observe and collect data on their backyard birds.
- - Researchers analyze biodiversity patterns in Antarctic Dry Valleys
    Antarctica is a nearly uninhabited, ice-covered continent ravaged by cold, windy, and dry conditions. Virginia Tech researcher Jeb Barrett was part of an international collaborative team that analyzed biodiversity patterns in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica.
- - Grad students host first communication science conference
    About 50 Virginia Tech graduate students recently honed their abilities to connect complex topics to people as part of the campus’ first ComSciCon-Virginia Tech.
- - Virginia Tech researchers receive NSF grant to study the honey bee gut microbiome
    Researchers Lisa Belden, David Haak, T.M. Murali, and Richard Fell from Virginia Tech and Jenifer Walke from Eastern Washington University are collaborating to study the critical role of the honey bee gut microbiome in health and defense against parasites using a systems biology framework.

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