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- - Home of the future takes first place at international competition
    After years of research and development contributed by over 100 Virginia Tech students and faculty, the FutureHAUS Dubai team has officially built the world’s best solar home.
- - Researchers engineer nano-textured surfaces to reduce medical device infection
    Virginia Tech mechanical engineers and chemists are researching methods to apply a nano-textured biofilm on such items as urinary catheters. The research could lead to products that lower the instance of device-associated infections.
- - Researchers expand breakthroughs in 3D printing Kapton, the “ultimate” polymer
    An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Virginia Tech's Macromolecules Innovation Institute have developed a new process to 3D print one of the most-desired materials in the electronics and aerospace industries.
- - House of the future and team that built it head to international competition
    FutureHAUS Dubai, an innovative, interdisciplinary, and ambitious project to design and build a futuristic, modular smart home, is the lone American team competing against 14 other university teams at the Solar Decathlon Middle East in Dubai.
- - Immersive theatrical installation brings the works of Edgar Allan Poe to life
    A theatrical installation in the Cube of the Moss Arts Center titled "Poe's Shadows," opens on Oct. 31 and includes a series of short expert talks on related and complementary topics.
- - Researchers study Iron Man-like exoskeletons to improve worker productivity, safety, and well-being
    With a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation, Virginia Tech researchers will perform fundamental research to develop whole-body powered exoskeletons for augmenting human performance in industrial use and to understand the dramatic impacts they may have on the socio-technological landscape of jobs.
- - Engineering and arts join forces at Moogfest
    Faculty in mechanical engineering, a media engineering with the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, and a commercial audio company teamed up to create a concert experience that could change the way artists approach sound in a live performance.
- - Thinking inside the box lands students $10,000 prize
    Three mechanical engineering seniors received a $10,000 prize from Lockheed Martin after solving one of the company’s toughest engineering problems.
- - Sea urchins may be key to developing lightweight engineered cellular materials
    Studying the sea urchin is part of a $540,000 National Science Foundation grant being investigated by Ling Li.
- - Michael von Spakovsky named Robert E. Hord Jr. Mechanical Engineering Professor
    The professorship acknowledges and rewards faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering who have shown exceptional merit in research, teaching, and/or service. Recipients hold the position for a five-year term.
- - Alan A. Kornhauser honored with emeritus status
    A member of the university community since 1989, Kornhauser served as the associate director of the Energy Management Institute, which involved direction of educational outreach activities and the organization of many workshops and short courses.
- - Lockheed Martin on campus Sept. 4 and 5, job offers and virtual reality demos
    Lockheed Martin, developing critical technologies to solve global security issues, will be at the Inn at Virginia Tech, to recruit a variety of engineering disciplines, including computer science, aerospace engineering, computer programming, software development, finance, and accounting.
- - Virginia Tech researchers develop novel process to 3D print one of the strongest materials on Earth
    Because of its strength - graphene is one of the strongest materials ever tested on Earth - and its high thermal and electricity conductivity, 3D printed graphene objects would be highly coveted in certain industries, including batteries, aerospace, separation, heat management, sensors, and catalysis.
- - Through partnership with local rescue squad, Virginia Tech students develop lifesaving device
    The device, called the Emergency Lift Assist, operates by safely and quickly rolling a patient onto a tarp. Once strapped in, a hydraulically powered set of frames lifts the patient with just the push of a button.
- - New approach to super slippery packaging aims to cut down on food waste
    Not only will the technique help sticky foods release from their packaging much more easily, but for the first time, it can also be applied to inexpensive and readily available plastics, such as polyethylene and polypropylene. These hydrocarbon-based polymers make up 55 percent of the total demand for plastics in the world today.
- - Virginia Tech graduate student pursues innovative microbe-based cancer therapy
    Katherine Broadway, a Virginia Tech graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences, is researching a cutting-edge, microbe-based cancer therapy as her dissertation project.
- - Virginia Tech receives Department of Defense instrumentation awards
    The awards will enable the university to support research and education in autonomous underwater vehicle, submarine, and ship hydrodynamics.
- - Engineering students take lifesaving concept to market with help from university environment and donors
    Starting a company as a student is no easy feat. But Virginia Tech’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and financial support from investors like Ray Zinn are emboldening students to start building their empires early.
- - FutureHAUS Dubai takes shape at Virginia Tech’s Research + Demonstration Facility
    Led by the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, students from five Virginia Tech colleges will compete as the only U.S. collegiate team in the Solar Decathlon Middle East in Dubai, November 2018. The team now has three months to complete the world’s smartest modular solar home – a prototype they hope will become a global model for housing sustainability.
- - Virginia Tech agBOT autonomous watermelon harvester takes top prize
    The Virginia Tech agBOT team clinched first place in the third annual agBOT Challenge at Gerrish Farms in Rockville, Indiana.

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