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- - The Kennedy family’s legacy of giving supports forestry and wildlife research
    Brothers Jan and Kit Kennedy continue a legacy of generosity that began decades ago with their father, Robert J. Kennedy.
- - Virginia Tech launches its most ambitious fundraising campaign ever
    Boundless Impact: The Campaign for Virginia Tech has a goal to raise $1.5 billion to fuel excellence across all university programs and drive forward major strategic priorities. A second goal is to engage 100,000 alumni in meaningful ways over the course of the campaign.
- - Nizhoni Tallas is first Hokie to receive Udall Scholarship in tribal policy
    Udall Scholarships are awarded annually to students who demonstrate exceptional leadership, a dedication to public service, and a commitment to environmental issues, particularly as they relate to Native American communities.
- - Student channels life-threatening diagnosis into a passion for wildland fire management
    Forestry major John Kese dreamed of playing college baseball until a shocking diagnosis set him on a completely different course.
- - 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.
- - Corps of Cadets alumna 1st Lt. Samantha Reed named Miami game Hokie Hero
    Reed is deployed to the United Arab Emirates as a member of the 380th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron. She is the weather operations flight commander, overseeing a team that provides environmental intelligence.
- - Professors take part in journal’s test for peer review bias in major international study
    Editors of the journal Functional Ecology are testing to see the hidden biases in scientific peer review.
- - College of Natural Resources and Environment welcomes eight new faculty members
    New faculty members have joined each of the college’s four departments: fish and wildlife conservation, forest resources and environmental conservation, geography, and sustainable biomaterials.
- - Extension and cooperatives hold 43rd annual Forestry and Wildlife Field Tours
    The field tour series, the longest running program of its kind in Virginia, will start on Oct. 11.
- - Students scale new heights during Rocky Mountain field course
    Seven meteorology students traveled to Colorado to learn about weather systems and meteorology while negotiating the challenges of high altitudes and rapidly changing weather conditions.
- - Virginia Tech launches ‘Tech for Humanity’ to ensure technologies are in service to humanity
    Led by Sylvester Johnson, the initiative reflects Virginia Tech’s commitment to advancing human-centered approaches to technology innovation.
- - Students’ summer research experience focuses on forest ecological assessment
    The students gained valuable experience while collecting a range of data in a patch of forest on the edge of the Blacksburg campus.
- - Welcome Week activities continue through Saturday
    A packed schedule of Welcome Week events and activities will help students get to know campus and find friends.
- - Forest landowners 'retreat' to the woods
    The retreat, designed for beginning woodland owners, will take place Sept. 20-21 near Providence Forge, Virginia.
- - Researchers receive NSF grant to create Ecological Forecasting Research Coordination Network
    A group of researchers, led by Quinn Thomas, associate professor in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech, received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to tackle environmental challenges with the creation of a new network.
- - Search committee for Fralin Life Sciences Institute director announced
    Stefan Duma, executive director of Virginia Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, will chair the search committee.
- - Jason Holliday receives $2.5 million NSF grant to research poplar genome
    Holliday’s research will seek to understand how variation in genomes and environmental conditions impact desirable traits in poplars, fast-growing trees that are a crucial source of forest products.
- - Scientists seek to understand genomic variation in American chestnut to help restore it to North American forests
    Associate Professor Jason Holliday will work with the American Chestnut Foundation to research methods for utilizing genetic diversity as part of broader efforts to introduce disease-resistant American chestnuts to U.S. forests.
- - 'Leaving no stone unturned' at the Ninth Eastern Hellbender Symposium
    The hellbender is one of the largest salamanders in North America and the third largest salamander in the world after the closely related Chinese and Japanese giant salamanders.
- - Grant helps Virginia Tech scientists find new ways to use secondary logging materials
    The study, in collaboration with Auburn University, West Virginia University, and the University of Maine, will examine the collection of branches, tops, and other residue materials to determine how to make them an economically viable resource.

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