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- - Tweet led student to a project untangling the genomes of large viruses
    Alaina Weinheimer, an ICTAS Doctoral Scholar, loved coding and working with marine microbes. She found a way to combine them.
- - Graduate Commencement student speaker Najla Mouchrek focuses on empowering others
    Mouchrek is the first Virginia Tech graduate student to earn an Individualized Interdisciplinary Ph.D., called an IPhD. She also will be the student speaker at the Fall Graduate School Commencement Ceremony at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 20 at Cassell Coliseum.
- - Student’s research seeks to educate consumers on driver assistance technologies
    What should drivers know about emerging vehicle technologies? Graduate student and VTTI researcher Alexandria Noble is studying driver training methods and received an award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society for her research.
- - Class of 2019: Engineering graduate student Whitney Tatem uses car crash data to improve safety
    The first time she entered a university lab, Tatem knew biomedical engineering was the field for her.
- - Class of 2019: Karanpreet Singh uses artificial intelligence to accelerate the optimization of aircraft structures
    Singh, who will graduate from Virginia Tech in December with a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering, is focused on using artificial intelligence to improve the structural design and optimization of aircraft structures.
- - Biomedical engineering and mechanics doctoral student studies spacewalks with NASA
    Grace Wusk, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering and mechanics in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, is simulating spacewalks using virtual reality headsets.
- - Highly sensitive epigenomic technology combats disease
    A Virginia Tech team of researchers has created new technology to help in understanding how the human body battles diseases with a scope at the entire genome.
- - MII selects 2019 Wilkes Interdisciplinary Scholars
    The Macromolecules Innovation Institute has named Camden A. Chatham, a fifth-year Ph.D. student in macromolecular science and engineering, and David A. Dillard, the Adhesive and Sealant Science Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, as this year’s recipients of the Garth L. Wilkes Interdisciplinary Scholar Awards.
- - MII Technical Conference highlights polymer science and engineering research across Virginia Tech
    The theme of this year’s conference, which will be held at the Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center, is “Macromolecular Materials Discovery at the Intersection of Science, Engineering, and Society.”
- - Workshops break down barriers to developing research protocols that require IRB review
    A new workshop on protocol development will be held for graduate students and faculty.
- - Researchers study the mechanisms behind learning and long-term memory in the brain
    Hehuang “David” Xie, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, and his collaborators just published a new study in the journal Nature Communications.
- - Veterinary college researchers aiming to develop therapeutic strategies for pregnant women with lupus
    To help women with lupus experience healthy pregnancies and successful outcomes, a team of researchers in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine explored the possible role of gut microbiota in the link between pregnancy and the exacerbation of lupus.
- - Veterinary college welcomes new students in graduate and professional programs
    The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine welcomed new students in its doctor of veterinary medicine, master of public health, and biomedical and veterinary sciences M.S. and Ph.D. programs.
- - Veterinary college’s summer research program opens alternative career paths to DVM students
    The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine’s Summer Veterinary Student Research Program, now in its 13th year, addresses the high demand for veterinarians with biomedical research backgrounds and inspires career reconsiderations in the process.
- - Engineering students win $25,000 in international product-pitching competition
    An exoskeleton concept put Maroon Assistive Technologies in first place in the Virginia Tech Global Entrepreneur Challenge, a pitch competition won last year by a student team from Chile.
- - Davon Woodard heads to South Africa for first phase of research on social networks in minority communities
    The Ph.D. student and National Science Foundation research trainee in the multidisciplinary UrbComp program, administered through the Discovery Analytics Center, will compare online and offline social networks to provide urban planners and local leaders with insights and expanded tools to increase the voice and visibility of historically marginalized citizens.
- - Professor receives $1 million NSF award to study regulation of motility and biofilm formation in bacteria
    Zhaomin Yang, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to understand how bacteria decide whether to stay and build a biofilm or to initiate motility and move to new territory.
- - Virginia Tech researchers receive NIH grant to look at how oral bacteria contributes to colorectal cancer
    Colorectal cancer is the second most common form of cancer in the world, with rates about 30 percent higher in developed countries. It’s expected to cause 51,020 deaths in the United States during 2019.
- - Tanushree Mitra among first to receive research grant providing access to Facebook data
    The assistant professor of computer science and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center is also one of only two women to receive the Social Media and Democracy Research Grant. Mitra and her team will study how misinformation and other problematic content spread on the platform.