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- - Two College of Science faculty members receive 2019 SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award
    Sterling Nesbitt, an assistant professor with the Department of Geosciences, and Leo Piilonen, a professor with the Department of Physics, are recipients of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia’s 2019 Outstanding Faculty Awards.
- - The super wolf blood moon, 'a full 62 luxurious minutes of totality'
    This coming Sunday night and Monday morning (January 20 and 21), a rare ‘super wolf blood moon’ should be on full display in the eastern United States, a trifecta of lunar viewing.
- - Cadet Brett Smith named a national ROTC Student of the Year
    This spring, Smith will be the cadet wing commander for the Air Force ROTC. It’s the top position a student can hold, responsible for 275 ROTC students.
- - Students meld creativity and innovation in the University Libraries Fusion Studio
    Undergraduate students combine their interests and talents to create a program to promote bicycle transportation and safety. The University Libraries Fusion Studio gives students the environment to innovate.
- - Physics researchers bring in federal funding to boost quantum science and technology research
    Faculty researchers in the Virginia Tech Department of Physics are building a major program in quantum information sciences thanks in part to multiple federal grants that have brought $3.7 million directly to the university.
- - VTCRI researcher to deliver internationally renowned Dorcas Cummings Memorial Lecture
    Read Montague will become the 41st person to present the annual Dorcas Cummings Memorial Lecture on June 2 at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium on Quantitative Biology, Brains, and Behavior: Order and Disorder in the Nervous System.
- - Keep calm and carry on: VTCRI scientists make first serotonin measurements in humans
    Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have begun to unravel how serotonin acts, based on data collected in a first-of-its-kind experiment that utilized electrochemical probes implanted into the brain of awake human beings.
- - Alma Robinson receives Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching
    Robinson came to Virginia Tech to help recruit and train the next generation of high school physics teachers.
- - Launch of NASA’s All-Sky Satellite Mission takes space exploration to the next level, says expert
    With the expected launch of NASA’s new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) this week, Virginia Tech astronomical science expert Nahum Arav says the all-sky survey mission is an important step forward that will enable space explorers to discover thousands of exoplanets around nearby bright stars.
- - Clare Boothe Luce Program supports research by female undergraduates
    The funding will be used over the next three years to provide 24 Clare Booth Luce Undergraduate Research Awards that will help make it possible for students to participate in research over the summer.
- - Rana Ashkar is named assistant professor of physics in College of Science
    With her research area focusing on experimental soft condensed matter physics and biophysics, Ashkar is the first faculty hire for the department in the area of Economic and Sustainable Materials.
- - Lara Anderson, Marc Michel named Luther and Alice Hamlett Junior Faculty Fellows
    The Luther and Alice Hamlett Junior Faculty Fellowships were established in the College of Science by the estate of Luther J. and Alice Hamlett.
- - College of Science inducts six new members during fifth annual Hall of Distinction ceremony
    The College of Science Hall of Distinction ceremony honors alumni and friends who have excelled in their professional careers, as well as in their service and philanthropy to civic groups and the university itself.
- - Chemistry’s John Morris named Dr. A.C. Lilly Jr. Faculty Fellow in Nanoscience by Board of Visitors
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 1999, Morris develops nanoscience approaches that can be used to build new catalysts and to provide insight into how the unique properties of small-scale materials affect the environment.
- - Satoru Emori named assistant professor of physics in College of Science
    His research focuses on “spintronics” and magnetic thin films, or more specifically, nanometer-thick materials with robust spin-driven physics. Many of these phenomena are considered essential for next-generation computing and communications technologies.
- - Physics researchers hosting NSF-funded workshop on quantum information, future of communications security
    Virginia Tech Department of Physics faculty will lead a three-day workshop in Arlington, Virginia, focused on quantum information, which could provide communications a revolutionary boost in security and privacy.
- - Cadets chosen to highlight the colors at the Pittsburgh game
    The cadets, selected based on their performance during training, render honor to the flags and then carry them off the field.
- - John Simonetti part of worldwide effort in detection of two merging neutron stars and resulting explosion
    Last Monday, an international group of scientists announced they had detected a kilonova — the collision of two neutron stars that unleashed a set of gravitational waves into outer space. Among the astronomers is Virginia Tech’s John Simonetti.
- - Army research grant could employ physics theory to control epidemics, understand brain
    Two Virginia Tech College of Science researchers are spearheading a $1.6 million U.S. Army Research grant with the ultimate goal of finding order and control in the most chaotic and noisy patterns.
- - Theoretical physicist Nigel Goldenfeld is fourth speaker in J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series
    The Virginia Tech College of Science opens its J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series for the fall 2017 semester on Sept. 14 with Professor Nigel D. Goldenfeld, a theoretical physicist.

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