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Forbes names graduate student at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC to list of '30 under 30' to watch , articleUbadah Sabbagh, a fifth-year student in Virginia Tech’s Translational Biology, Medicine and Health program, is included in Forbes Magazine’s 2020 list of 30 young innovators in science with potential to make it big.
Date: Dec 02, 2020 -
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Unlocking the secrets of chemical bonding with machine learning , articleIn a report published in Nature Communications, Hongliang Xin, associate professor of chemical engineering at Virginia Tech, and his team of researchers developed a Bayesian learning model of chemisorption, or Bayeschem for short, aiming to use artificial intelligence to unlock the nature of chemical bonding at catalyst surfaces.
Date: Nov 30, 2020 -
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Computer science welcomes eight new faculty members , articleEight new faculty have joined the Department of Computer Science this year, bringing the total number of faculty to nearly 60 at campuses in Blacksburg and the greater Washington, D.C., metro area. In addition, five faculty members have accepted offers with start dates in 2021.
Date: Nov 25, 2020 -
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Study shows cloth face coverings help protect both wearers and those nearby , articleA newly released Virginia Tech study examining the efficacy of common face coverings may help a concerned public breathe a sigh of relief.
Date: Nov 23, 2020 -
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Order 2021 calendar featuring work of fish and wildlife graduate studentsStudents in the Fish and Wildlife Graduate Student Association in Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment are selling 2020 calendars highlighting their work around the world.
Date: Nov 19, 2020 -
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Lurking in genomic shadows: How giant viruses fuel the evolution of algae , articleViruses are tiny invaders that cause a wide range of diseases, from rabies to tomato spotted wilt virus and, most recently, COVID-19 in humans. But viruses can do more than elicit sickness — and not all viruses are tiny.
Date: Nov 18, 2020 -
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Researchers refine antibiotic resistance surveillance tools in Puerto Rican watersheds after Hurricane Maria , articleIn the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Virginia Tech researchers and collaborators developed a new way to apply metagenomics to track antibiotic resistance in watersheds, identify targets for stopping its spread, and help keep antibiotics working for future generations.
Date: Nov 18, 2020 -
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New study: East African Rift System is slowly breaking away, with Madagascar splitting into pieces , articleThe 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 -
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Ph.D. students bring research-backed insights on inclusive action to film series on women in science , articleAs scientists let viewers briefly into their worlds, Breakthrough offers an Inclusive Action Tool Kit to follow the films up with actionable steps for advancing equity and inclusion in STEM. Fourth-year engineering education Ph.D. students Teirra Holloman and Jessica Deters joined the project to contribute recommendations and resources informed by research to the toolkit.
Date: Nov 12, 2020 -
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Veterinary college alumna Lauren Dodd serves the world , articleA dual-degree graduate of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Dodd continued a family legacy of service when she commissioned in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps.
Date: Nov 10, 2020 -
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World Wildlife Fund partners with Discovery Analytics Center on automated system to help save forests , articleFor the first time, researchers at the Discovery Analytics Center will use an automated data analytics system to help identify suspicious timber trade records that relate to possible illegal activity.
Date: Nov 10, 2020 -
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Geosciences doctoral student discovers new species of ancient rat-like cynodont, 220 million years old , articleFossilized 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 -
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Virginia Tech launches Infectious Disease Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program , articleThe new program offers graduate students the opportunity to get involved in research as diverse as SARS-COV-2 reverse genetics, treating microbial contamination in drinking water, and reducing mosquito-borne diseases.
Date: Oct 26, 2020 -
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Geoscience’s Ben Gill seeks answer to how the planet changed during Triassic mass-extinction event 200 million years ago , articleGill, 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 -
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Andi Ogier appointed University Libraries’ assistant dean and director of data services , articleOgier will improve the University Libraries' embedded role in data-intensive research and affiliated research policies. She will also reset the strategy for library-wide metadata strategies.
Date: Oct 19, 2020 -
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Study: Land development and climate change threaten clear water lakes, but there is hope for protecting them , articleA recent study from the Virginia Tech Department of Biological Sciences shows that the negative effects from climate change on clear water lakes can be mitigated by limiting nutrient pollution from land development in clear-water lakes.
Date: Oct 14, 2020 -
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Team taps into wastewater antibiotic-resistant gene monitoring , article“This really excites me because we can really be proactive,” said Liqing Zhang, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and NSF principal investigator. “The need for wastewater monitoring has been recognized internationally, but there is no unified cyberinfrastructure system in place to enable the monitoring.”
Date: Oct 07, 2020 -
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Interdisciplinary molecular and cellular biology graduate program flourishes , articleVirginia Tech launched this new interdisciplinary doctoral program in 2018. The first, second, and third cohort are made up of impressive students from diverse backgrounds with extensive research experience, and the program is now recruiting for its fourth cohort.
Date: Sep 30, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech, Facebook team up to develop a new way for video editors to erase unwanted objects , articleThe method developed by Jia-Bin Huang, assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, Ph.D. student Chen Gao, and their Facebook collaborators uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to achieve flow-edge guided video completion.
Date: Sep 28, 2020
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