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Chemistry’s Feng Lin Lab is splitting water molecules for a renewable energy future , articleWater may seem basic as a molecule made up of just three atoms, but the process of splitting it is quite difficult. But Lin’s lab has done so. Even moving one electron from a stable atom can be energy-intensive, but this reaction requires the transfer of four to oxidize oxygen to produce oxygen gas.
Date: Sep 03, 2020 -
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DREAMS lab designs novel respirator for health care workers fighting COVID-19 , articleLed by mechanical engineering professor Chris Williams, the DREAMS lab has designed a novel respirator using rapid tooling and 3D printing resources from on-campus makerspaces and research labs.
Date: Aug 27, 2020 -
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Hokie hooked on storms: sharing his passion and building a following , articleGeography grad student Peter Forister’s photos and tweets on weather and other natural phenomena have garnered national attention.
Date: Aug 26, 2020 -
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Investigator Webinar Series: responsibly sharing and managing data in a digital world , articleThe Division of Scholarly Integrity and Research Compliance is hosting two Investigator Series webinars that will provide researchers with information about tools and technologies that are available to help them to transfer research data from one institution to another and conduct research and manage data at a distance.
Date: Aug 14, 2020 -
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Animal Model Research for Veterinarians Ph.D. training program awarded NIH grant , articleThe Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine is among a relatively small group of veterinary colleges awarded a T32 grant to train post-D.V.M. veterinarians in biomedical research.
Date: Aug 11, 2020 -
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Students return to work in laboratories, research spaces for fall semester , articleUndergraduate and graduate students returning to Virginia Tech for the fall semester on sponsored research or course credit may return to established or new research projects.
Date: Aug 11, 2020 -
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Wave Drinker team wins a spot in Waves to Water Prize , articleA team of graduate and undergraduate students advanced in a national competition aimed at providing fresh water, powered by the motion of large bodies of water.
Date: Aug 11, 2020 -
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Let me clear my throat: Capturing coughing sounds provides data for predicting epidemiological trends , articleSeeking ways to improve prediction methods to preempt future global health crises, Virginia Tech researchers are developing a cost-effective and highly deployable approach for monitoring respiratory illness for public health epidemic forecasting.
Date: Jul 31, 2020 -
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Pandemic forces Virginia Tech’s Autism Clinic to go online, opening new ways to help more families than ever , articleIn the face of novel coronavirus pandemic, the Virginia Tech Autism Clinic — headed by Angela Scarpa, a professor in the Department of Psychology — moved all in-person consultations, therapy, and diagnostic assessments to a secure, online format.
Date: Jul 27, 2020 -
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Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-borne Pathogens to tackle infectious diseases , articleThe center will be administratively established as an institute-level center in the Fralin Life Science Institute and will include faculty participants from at least seven colleges and more than 25 departments on campus.
Date: Jul 27, 2020 -
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As students, researchers, and instructors, graduate students will be key to fall reopening , articleThat was the overarching message of an hourlong webinar on Tuesday that explored the university’s approach to graduate education this fall.
Date: Jul 21, 2020 -
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TECH Together Campaign wants students to create innovative campus solutions , articleThe Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Seed Fund has initiated a campus-wide competition open to Virginia Tech students, seeking proposals for creative, innovative, and integrated solutions for a safe reopening of Virginia Tech campuses this fall.
Date: Jul 14, 2020 -
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Doctoral student awarded Fulbright to study diseases in migratory birds , articleKrisangel Lopez, a first-year Ph.D. student in Jonathan Auguste’s lab at Virginia Tech, received the fellowship to research how migratory birds can transmit diseases and which pathogens they may carry.
Date: Jul 13, 2020 -
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SCHEV approves new Ph.D. program in School of Neuroscience , articleBy the time it is fully operational, the number of total students in the program, set to launch in fall 2021, will be about 24. The program requires a minimum of 96 credit hours of coursework and research.
Date: Jul 13, 2020 -
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Innovations in science and engineering lead to 3D printed latex rubber breakthrough , articleThis novel process could unlock the ability to 3D print a variety of elastic materials with complex geometric shapes.
Date: Jul 13, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech partners with Dive Technologies to launch next-generation autonomous underwater vehicle , articleThe multiyear collaboration provides an opportunity to apply research discoveries and technology developed in the academic lab and deploy them in next-generation commercial applications.
Date: Jul 06, 2020 -
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Scientists discover cellular structure of poorly understood visual brain region , articleThe brain’s ventral lateral geniculate nucleus receives signals from the eye, but it is not associated with classical image-forming. In a new study, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC neuroscientists reveal newly identified brain cell subtypes unique to this region that form a striking layered formation.
Date: Jun 24, 2020 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists confirm usually benign virus attacks the heart’s electrical system , articleVirginia Tech researchers made their findings via first-of-their-kind experiments to observe adenovirus effects on human heart cells in a culture dish.
Date: Jun 16, 2020 -
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Uncovering hidden flow patterns in coastal waters likely leads to faster disaster response , articleWith more accurate modeling data, response teams can better predict the search area grid from the air and reduce emergency response time when lives are on the line.
Date: Jun 16, 2020 -
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Students focus on COVID-19 impacts on sustainability, education, and society , articleStudents in the urban computing graduate certificate program gave their group presentations via Zoom at the end of semester 2020 Spring Retreat.
Date: Jun 16, 2020
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