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- - Interdisciplinary ISCE Scholars address topics from healthy aging to occupational roles of engineers
    Six interdisciplinary research teams were recently awarded funding through the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment’s (ISCE) signature program, the ISCE Scholars Program, to address a broad range of pressing contemporary social issues.
- - Students develop open-source hops dryer design to share with growers everywhere
    A team of mechanical engineering students partnered with researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to develop a low-cost solution to drying hops.
- - Field campaign exposes students to data and decisions research at the interface of engineering and biology
    Shane Ross and David Schmale brought six undergraduate students from partnering colleges to Virginia Tech to conduct data and decisions research in March during spring break.
- - Virginia Tech researchers join global effort to develop a new vector control strategy to prevent malaria
    Malaria, according to the U.S. Agency for International Development, continues to be a leading cause of illness and death worldwide. Despite extensive work that has produced widespread improvements in fighting the spread of the disease, global efforts have hit a plateau.
- - Virginia Tech researchers find novel insights into soil biodiversity, Earth’s global engine
    A Virginia Tech professor was part of an international team of researchers that discovered new advances about the major ecological patterns driving the changes in soil biodiversity that occur over millions of years.
- - Virginia Tech researchers decipher and codify the universal language of honey bees
    Researchers Margaret Couvillon and Roger Schürch have decoded the language of bees in a way that will allow other scientists across the globe to interpret the insects’ highly sophisticated and complex communications.
- - Virginia Tech researchers receive NSF grant to study the honey bee gut microbiome
    Researchers Lisa Belden, David Haak, T.M. Murali, and Richard Fell from Virginia Tech and Jenifer Walke from Eastern Washington University are collaborating to study the critical role of the honey bee gut microbiome in health and defense against parasites using a systems biology framework.
- - Researchers discover microscopic tornadoes of spores released during rainfall
    Recent research in the Schmale Lab at Virginia Tech and the Jung Lab at Cornell University has shown how splashing of rain droplets can transport spores of pathogens from infected plants.
- - Virginia Tech researchers tackle the biological invasions crisis
    Examples of invasive species threatening Virginia include a sap-sucking invasive insect called the hemlock woolly adelgid, which has decimated the hemlock tree population, and the spotted lanternfly, which attacks grapes, peaches, hops, and many tree species.
- - Virginia Tech to host gender and international development conference
    Open to the university community, including students, the conference offers intensive learning and networking opportunities as well as exposure to prominent experts in international development.
- - Students examine impacts of pipeline construction through ecological and cultural lens
    This summer, the Virginia Tech Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates program brought a multidisciplinary team of more than 20 mentors together with students from universities around the country to answer important research questions surrounding a common concern: Is the pipeline harming our region’s environment and communities?
- - Virginia Tech student and coach named international soil judging champions
    The Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences was well-represented at the Third International Soil Judging Contest in Seropédica near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 11.
- - Natural habitat can help farmers control pests, but the benefits vary widely across the globe
    An international team of authors, including Megan O’Rourke, assistant professor in the Virginia Tech School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, found that natural habitat surrounding farm fields is not always an effective pest-control tool for farmers worldwide.