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- - Professor receives $1 million NSF award to study regulation of motility and biofilm formation in bacteria
    Zhaomin Yang, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to understand how bacteria decide whether to stay and build a biofilm or to initiate motility and move to new territory.
- - College of Science’s NanoCamp brings dozens of high school students to campus
    The Virginia Tech College of Science hosted its eighth annual NanoCamp recently, bringing 46 high school students to campus to learn about nanoscience and nanomedicine.
- - Virginia Tech researchers receive $2.9 million grant with China to study infectious diseases
    Researchers from the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science received the award from the National Science Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation of China to understand the long-term host and pathogen dynamics of white-nose syndrome in bats.
- - 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.
- - Services for Students with Disabilities' annual awards ceremony highlights inclusive efforts
    An awards celebration hosted by Services for Students with Disabilities recognized outstanding inclusive efforts across campus and included Moose the therapy dog.
- - Researchers earn Presidential Early Career Awards
    Two Virginia Tech faculty are among the 314 recipients of the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which was last awarded in 2016.
- - iTHRIV, community groups partner to improve health of Virginians
    The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia has awarded a total of $80,000 in community health research grants to four multi-institutional biomedical research projects.
- - Timothy Luke returns as chair of Department of Political Science
    Thirty-eight years ago, Luke joined Virginia Tech as an assistant professor of political science. Since then, his legacy has included university accolades in service, leadership, and program creation. And now, for the fourth time, he has been chosen for a familiar role.
- - Campus and community continue to focus on welcoming, serving students
    From The Inn at Virginia Tech to the Town of Blacksburg and from residential life to dining services, teams of campus and community leaders are working together to ensure students have the info and services they need to begin the new academic year.
- - Sally Morton to serve as interim director of Fralin Life Sciences Institute
    Morton, who will continue to serve as dean of the College of Science, will succeed founding director Dennis Dean, who has chosen to return his focus to his laboratory and research program.
- - American Chemical Society names Chemistry’s Joe Merola as Fellow
    He is among 70 new Fellows of the nation’s central chemistry organization inducted this year and is the ninth to be so honored by ACS from the department, part of the Virginia Tech College of Science.
- - Virginia Tech researchers lead breakthrough in quantum computing
    Virginia Tech researchers have advanced quantum simulation by devising an algorithm that can more efficiently calculate the properties of molecules on a noisy quantum computer.
- - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientist earns grant to examine ‘catastrophic’ seizure disorder
    Sharon Swanger, an assistant professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, has won a $150,000 Dravet Syndrome Foundation research grant.
- - Graduate student earns prestigious NIH award to map unexplored brain region, study optic nerve regeneration
    Ubadah Sabbagh, a Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health (TBMH) graduate student, has won a National Institutes of Health award that will fund his remaining TBMH predoctoral research and his future postdoctoral research. The award supports outstanding graduate students of underrepresented backgrounds in neuroscience research.
- - Student-built satellites deployed into orbit from the International Space Station
    The data and measurements will give researchers a better, more accurate modeling of atmospheric conditions in low orbit, as well as provide opportunities for students to gain experience in networking, cloud computing, and network storage.
- - Virginia Tech researchers: Wastewater injected deep underground sinks, inducing stronger earthquakes
    Virginia Tech scientists have found that in regions where oilfield wastewater disposal is widespread — and where injected water has a higher density than deep naturally occurring fluids — earthquakes are getting deeper where heavy wastewater has sunk.
- - iTHRIV research portal now open for faculty, students
    The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV) portal is a new tool available to researchers and students at Virginia Tech who are interested in conducting research that will improve health outcomes across the commonwealth.
- - Virginia Tech alumna takes science to pageant stage
    Wearing a lab coat, goggles, and high heels, Camille Schrier performed an exploding chemistry demonstration as her talent in the Miss Virginia competition — and she won.
- - Researchers publish new study on citrus greening disease
    A new study published by researchers at Virginia Tech with a team of international researchers in Journal of Applied Ecology investigates the thermal suitability for transmission of citrus greening disease with implications for surveillance and prevention.

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