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- - Climate change sea-level rises could increase risk for more devastating tsunamis worldwide
    A new study done in part by Virginia Tech shows a startling prediction: As sea levels rise due to climate change, so do the global hazards and potential devastating damages of tsunamis that are triggered by earthquakes.
- - Drug researcher receives $1.2 million to find compounds to treat fatty liver disease
    A grant, along with the matching funds, will support Webster Santos' research to develop drugs to treat nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, a type of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
- - Richard Turner reflects on five-decade career in polymer chemistry
    After working more than three decades in industry, Turner came to Virginia Tech in 2004 to serve as the first director of the Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute, now known as the Macromolecules Innovation Institute.
- - Virginia Tech researchers collaborate with global scientists to study vector behavior and disease transmission
    Virginia Tech researcher Leah Johnson, in collaboration with a colleague at Imperial College London, created VectorBiTE RCN to encourage the collection and consolidation of key data and development of analytical tools to better understand the behavior of vectors, such as mosquitoes and ticks, in disease transmission.
- - 400 first-year cadets to arrive on campus for New Cadet Week
    During New Cadet Week, first-year cadets will be taught everything from military training — how to salute, to march and perform drill, to wear uniforms properly — to life skills of this inclusive and diverse Hokie community.
- - Fulbright fellowship awarded to VTCRI research assistant
    Brennan Delattre will research the mental health benefits of cooperative movement in Niterói, Brazil.
- - Heart association to support VTCRI biological sciences grad student's research into sudden cardiac death
    Patrick Calhoun is investigating how a viral infection that causes a mild cough in the lungs may have a much more severe effect in heart tissue.
- - Virginia Tech researcher receives ASLO Early Career Award
    Cayelan Carey, an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Science, is an expert in freshwater ecology who studies how human activities, land use, and climate change alter water quality in freshwater lakes and reservoirs
- - Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholars showcase first fruits of lab work
    Imagine waking up in the morning, turning on the water faucet to brush your teeth, and seeing orange liquid pouring out. Rusty Rouillier, one of the first group of Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholars, posed this scenario last month while discussing her research.
- - Virginia Tech researchers receive NSF grant to research how plants and bacteria communicate
    Birgit Scharf, an associate professor at Virginia Tech, recently received a $991,204 grant from the National Science Foundation to study plant-bacteria communication. The outcome of her work could result in fewer fertilizers applied to plants and higher crop yields.
- - Opportunities bloom: Student research within Academy of Integrated Science grows
    The Academy of Integrated Science carries a forward-looking approach to undergraduate education.
- - Virginia Tech graduate student pursues innovative microbe-based cancer therapy
    Katherine Broadway, a Virginia Tech graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences, is researching a cutting-edge, microbe-based cancer therapy as her dissertation project.
- - Virginia Tech scientist: Yellowstone super-volcano eruptions were produced by gigantic ancient oceanic plate
    The long-dormant Yellowstone super-volcano in the American Midwest has a different history than previously thought.
- - In memoriam: U.S. Navy Ensign Sarah Mitchell, Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets alumna
    Mitchell, a 2017 graduate of Virginia Tech and the Corps of Cadets, died July 8 during a training exercise in the Red Sea. She was 23.
- - Recent graduate wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship, aims to unlock quantum computing
    Renewable energy. Transportation. Medicine. Instead of pursuing just one of the many fields that he has a passion for, Romain Debroux ’16, MS ’18 wants to make a fundamental impact on all of them though quantum computing — a technology that has the potential to radically transform computing capability.
- - VTCRI professor to discuss artificial intelligence, psychology at international conference workshop
    The worlds of addiction research and artificial intelligence research are colliding for Warren Bickel, a professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.
- - VTCRI scientist earns third concurrent grant from the National Cancer Institute to study breast cancer
    Deb Kelly, who is also an associate professor of biological sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, is working to better detect, prevent, and repair the mutations found in cancers related to the breast cancer susceptibility protein, BRCA1.
- - Second year of College of Science Dean’s Discovery Fund provides support for innovative faculty research
    Virginia Tech College of Science Dean’s Discovery Fund awards for 2018 support faculty research projects in the departments of Psychology, Geosciences , and Biological Sciences.
- - Alan Esker named chair of Department Chemistry in College of Science
    Esker is a longtime professor of chemistry, having joined the department in 1999. He also is an affiliated member of the Academy of Integrated Science’s nanoscience program and a core faculty member of the Macromolecules Innovation Institute.
- - Professors in Ecuador learn teaching tips inspired by Virginia Tech graduate program
    The workshops are based on the Graduate School’s Transformative Graduate Education Initiative, which offers students across disciplines a range of programs, courses, and activities to help them succeed and prepare for any profession, not only academia.

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