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Viruses don’t have a metabolism, but some have the building blocks for one , articleIn the genomes of giant viruses, researchers discovered genes that match metabolic cycles in the viruses' cellular hosts. The viruses may be rewiring the hosts' metabolism when they invade.
Date: Apr 06, 2020 -
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Pathogen levels in the environment drive disease outbreaks in bats , articleIn a new study led by Joseph Hoyt, researchers have found that the pathogen levels in the environment play a major role in whether bat populations are stable or experience severe declines from white-nose syndrome.
Date: Mar 16, 2020 -
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Canceled: Innovative conservationist and business entrepreneur to present public lecture in Blacksburg on March 20 , articleLeigh-Kathryn Bonner, a fourth-generation beekeeper and founder and CEO of Bee Downtown, is featured as part of the public Distinguished Lecture Series, which brings some of the world’s leading scholars to Blacksburg to discuss critical environmental and societal issues in an open forum.
Date: Mar 10, 2020 -
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ComSciCon returns to Virginia Tech , articleOn Feb. 27 and 28, graduate students and communicators came together to strengthen their science communication abilities at the second annual ComSciCon–Virginia Tech.
Date: Mar 05, 2020 -
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Regina Nuzzo keynote speaker for ComSciCon–Virginia Tech 2020 , articleA statistician and journalist will address the gap between modern research advances and our "Stone-Age" brains to kickoff the second-ever ComSciCon-Virginia Tech.
Date: Feb 25, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech paleontologists identify 1 billion-year-old green seaweed fossils, ancestors to modern land plants , articleProfessor Shuhai Xiao said the fossils are the oldest green seaweeds ever found. They were imprinted in rock taken from an area of dry land — formerly ocean — near the city of Dalian in the Liaoning Province of northern China.
Date: Feb 24, 2020 -
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Mosquitoes are drawn to flowers as much as people - and now scientists know why , articleResearchers have discovered the chemical cues that lead mosquitoes to pollinate a particularly irresistible species of orchid.
Date: Feb 11, 2020 -
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Researchers seek to impact New Zealand water quality by understanding forest-water interactions , articleThe ambitious collaborative project will utilize remote sensing technology, isotopic tracing, and manipulative field studies to develop a comprehensive model of water and nutrient flow through forested watersheds and streams.
Date: Feb 07, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech’s Luis Escobar contributes to international report on health and climate change , articleThe 2019 Lancet Countdown presents the findings and provides a collaborative perspective from 35 universities, institutions, and agencies on how climate change will influence human health.
Date: Jan 30, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech launches the Center for Coastal Studies to address complex issues in the coastal zone , articleThe new center, housed under the Fralin Life Sciences Institute, will engage with a diverse set of stakeholders, create a safe space for difficult conversations with the public around coastal-zone issues, and establish a Coastal Zone Observatory.
Date: Jan 29, 2020 -
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New research finds ranchers consider diverse factors in managing their land , articleIn a new study published in Rangeland Ecology and Management, Ashley Dayer, an assistant professor in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech, explores the diverse factors that influence how ranchers manage their land.
Date: Jan 14, 2020 -
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Researchers develop predictive tools to tackle childhood diarrheal disease outbreaks in Botswana , articleKathy Alexander, a professor of fish and wildlife conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment, and her collaborators have discovered a critical link between environmental dynamics and human health.
Date: Jan 06, 2020 -
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Tweet led student to a project untangling the genomes of large viruses , articleAlaina Weinheimer, an ICTAS Doctoral Scholar, loved coding and working with marine microbes. She found a way to combine them.
Date: Jan 01, 2020 -
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Helping coastal communities face the challenges posed by flooding and sea level rise , articleAssistant Professor Anamaria Bukvic is using a fellowship from the National Center for Atmospheric Research to examine the issue of population mobility in the face of coastal vulnerability.
Date: Dec 03, 2019 -
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New expert findings seek to protect national parks from invasive animal species , articleAssistant Professor Ashley Dayer serves on a panel tasked with charting a course to face the challenges invasive animals pose to the survival of national parks.
Date: Dec 02, 2019 -
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Global Change Center partners with Hollins University to promote undergraduate research opportunities , articleThe partnership, continuing into its third year, pairs distinguished undergraduate students with Virginia Tech professors for a summer of unique research opportunities.
Date: Dec 02, 2019 -
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Virginia Tech faculty receive top honors from the American Association for the Advancement of Science , articleElected by their peers and representing a broad range of AAAS “sections,” including statistics, neuroscience, engineering, psychology, and geology/geography, the Virginia Tech professors are among 443 newly elected scholars.
Date: Nov 26, 2019 -
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Researcher receives NSF grant to study the fate of terrestrial carbon in freshwater ecosystems , articleErin Hotchkiss, an ecosystem ecologist and assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science, and her collaborators received the grant to study how carbon moves across land-water boundaries and the multi-scale consequences of terrestrial carbon losses for freshwater ecosystems and global carbon budgets.
Date: Nov 25, 2019 -
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Scientists using collaborative NSF grant to understand hydrologic controls on carbon processes in wetlands , articleScientists will research the links between hydrological and carbon dynamics taking place in forested wetlands to better understand the role that these ecosystems play in the export, storage, and emission of carbon.
Date: Nov 22, 2019 -
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Using data to predict the future of ecosystems , articleQuinn Thomas is a quantitative ecosystem ecologist who focuses on understanding how forests and other ecosystems will respond to global environmental change.
Date: Nov 13, 2019
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