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- - Three College of Science faculty receive Luther and Alice Hamlett honors to support research
    Three faculty members in the Virginia Tech College of Science were recently honored with faculty fellowships named for Luther and Alice Hamlet by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
- - Donald J. Orth receives American Fisheries Society award for public outreach
    Orth, who joined the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation in 1980, is the creator of Virginia Tech Ichthyology, a blog he uses to share stories and news about fisheries research, education, and other issues.
- - Kray Luxbacher named Charles T. Holland Professor of Mining and Minerals Engineering
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2008, Luxbacher has gained an international reputation as one of the leading experts in the area of underground mine ventilation with specialized expertise in atmospheric monitoring, ventilation system characterization, mine fire simulation and prevention, and mine risk analysis.
- - Chemistry’s Guoliang Liu honored with Blackwood Junior Faculty Fellowship
    Liu's efforts to use extremely thin layers of fibers known as nanofibers to cover windows in buildings and cars in a multiprong effort to cut energy consumption and reduce the often bright, blinding glare of the sun earned Liu a five-year, $585,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
- - Six College of Science faculty receive fellowships from Board of Visitors to support research
    Each of the three-year fellowships is dedicated to recognizing faculty for extraordinary research and teaching as well as recruiting scholars with exceptional records of achievement.
- - Kevin Heaslip named CACI Faculty Fellow
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2014, Heaslip is nationally recognized for his research on cyber-physical systems in civil infrastructure, especially critical infrastructure.
- - Danfeng ‘Daphne’ Yao reappointed CACI Faculty Fellow of Computer Science
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2010, Yao has made significant contributions to the field of cybersecurity.
- - Nina Stark named Anthony and Catherine Moraco Faculty Fellow
    Stark’s research examines the larger field of coastal sciences and engineering, including increasingly changing shorelines in response to extreme events, sea level rise, and climate change, as well as naval applications, such as beach trafficability and the detection of unexploded ordnances.
- - In memoriam: Walter F. O'Brien Jr., J. Bernard Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering
    O'Brien was a member of the Virginia Tech faculty for more than 52 years, and was the first faculty member from the mechanical engineering department to receive a named professorship.
- - Sarah Stein wins best paper award for developing a new learning resource on analytics
    The case study offers an important instructional resource, given the increasing drive to incorporate data and analytics into accounting curricula, a trend that also aligns with Pamplin’s focus on being a leader in business analytics.
- - Rajesh Bagchi appointed marketing department head in the Pamplin College of Business
    Bagchi was recently recognized by the American Marketing Association as being among the Top 30 scholars worldwide in terms of productivity in the premier marketing journals over the past 10 years (2009-2018).
- - Anthony Kwame Harrison named Edward S. Diggs Professor in Humanities
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2003, Harrison is a cultural anthropologist who conducts research on the impact of race in popular music, recreation, and higher education.
- - Dimitrios Nikolopoulos named John W. Hancock Professor of Engineering
    Nikolopoulos will rejoin the Department of Computer Science later this summer. He brings to Virginia Tech a world-class record of scholarship, teaching, service, and outreach, most recently serving as a professor of high performance and distributed computing at Queen's University Belfast.
- - Katharine Knowlton reappointed Colonel Horace E. Alphin Professor in Dairy Science
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2000, Knowlton has become a leader within her department in the development of online courses and faculty-led study abroad opportunities.
- - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute addiction scientist to receive international honor for translational research
    Addiction researcher Warren Bickel, the Virginia Tech Carilion Behavioral Health Research Professor, will receive the Scientific Translation Award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis on Saturday in Chicago, Illinois.
- - Friedlander named Fellow of Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
    After more than a century of achievement, the society has named its inaugural class of fellows — notably including Michael Friedlander, founding executive director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and vice president of health sciences and technology at Virginia Tech.
- - Robert Davidson named William S. Gay Senior Faculty Fellow
    The topics that Davidson has addressed in his teaching and research include income statement and balance sheet fraud, executives’ legal records and insider trading activities, and CEO materialism and corporate social responsibility.
- - W. Michael Aust named Honorable Garland Gray Professor of Forestry
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 1989, Aust has focused his teaching, research, and outreach activities on maintaining and improving the long-term sustainability of managed forests.
- - Dwight Viehland reappointed Jack E. Cowling Professor of Engineering
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2001, Viehland has been a pioneer in the development of magneto-electric composites and has conducted research on phase transitions in ceramics and physical phenomena like ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, magnetostriction, and magnetoelectricity.
- - Wing Ng appointed Alumni Distinguished Professor
    Ng, the Christopher C. Kraft Endowed Professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, has been named an Alumni Distinguished Professor by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.

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