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Adult Day Services celebrates its 25th anniversary , articleTime spent with the Virginia Tech program for older adults looks like fun and games, but through an exhibit commemorating the milestone, its impact is seen through photos and testimonials.
Date: Dec 13, 2017 -
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Nanoscience students find opportunities for internships, jobs on visit to Oak Ridge National Laboratory , articleRecently, 24 students majoring in Virginia Tech’s nanoscience degree program visited the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to meet scientists at the federal lab and explore opportunities for future internships and careers.
Date: Nov 29, 2017 -
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Study contradicts common practice of tailgating at traffic lights , articleThe practice of packing tightly at traffic lights is widely accepted. Traditional thinking says the closer a car is to a traffic light, the more likely that car will be to pass through the intersection before the light turns red again, but thanks to new research by Virginia Tech engineering professors and students, drivers now have a good reason to dismiss this line of roadway intuition.
Date: Nov 29, 2017 -
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White meat or dark meat? Serving up big data to decipher Thanksgiving dinner , articleRichard Helm, an associate professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Department of Biochemistry, challenged his students to consider the science behind Thanksgiving. The students investigated the difference between white and dark meat by analyzing the proteins that give turkey its color.
Date: Nov 20, 2017 -
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Alumnus propels research with donation of 16 motion capture suits , articleVirginia Tech researchers and students plan to use the donated motion capture suits to study body motion and injury prevention, thanks to Jamie Marraccini (electrical engineering '93), founder, CEO, and president of Inertial Labs.
Date: Nov 16, 2017 -
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John Simonetti part of worldwide effort in detection of two merging neutron stars and resulting explosion , articleLast 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.
Date: Oct 23, 2017 -
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Astronaut scholarship honors triple major Arianna Krinos for cross-discipline research , articleKrinos, a junior with a triple major in biological sciences, computer science, and computational modeling and data analytics, has won an Astronaut Scholarship Foundation award. She is the first and only student at Virginia Tech to receive the scholarship.
Date: Oct 18, 2017 -
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Virginia Tech team brings relief to well owners following hurricanes Harvey and Irma , articleAn NSF grant will fund the on-the-ground distribution of water sampling kits and educational training in Texas and Florida, which faculty from Texas A&M’s AgriLife Extension Service and University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension program will lead. The Virginia Tech team will analyze the samples and distribute the results to well owners.
Date: Oct 17, 2017 -
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Undergraduate research is a petri dish for budding scientists , articleFor students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, research opportunities don’t have to wait until graduate school. Thanks to financial awards such as Pratt Scholarships, undergraduates can start working on projects early in their academic careers and during the summer months.
Date: Sep 21, 2017 -
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Army research grant could employ physics theory to control epidemics, understand brain , articleTwo 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.
Date: Sep 19, 2017 -
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Virginia Tech institute launches effort to help government embrace big data , articleIn recent years, big data has revolutionized the way business leaders approach decision-making.
Date: Sep 19, 2017 -
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Virginia Tech Hyperloop team ventures to SpaceX for global competition , articleWhile the team was not selected by SpaceX to be one of the three teams to compete in the external Hyperloop test track on competition day, it did complete many of the prerequisite tests with its pod.
Date: Sep 04, 2017 -
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Mechanical engineering team creates multimaterial 3-D printer , articleBy combining several additive manufacturing technologies into a single desktop unit, four recent Virginia Tech graduates have created a new way to manufacture complex, multimaterial products.
Date: Aug 31, 2017 -
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Neuroscience marks end of inaugural summer research experience for 18 undergraduate students , articleThe School of Neuroscience recently finished its inaugural Summer Research Program, providing 18 Virginia Tech undergraduate students with 10 weeks of "hands-on, minds-on" research experience with faculty.
Date: Aug 29, 2017 -
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Virginia Tech Life Science Seminar Series launches Sept. 1 , articleThe talks, open to the public, will take place from 12:20 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. on Fridays in the renovated Fralin Auditorium at 102 Fralin Hall.
Date: Aug 28, 2017 -
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Hyperloop at Virginia Tech team uses cold-gas propulsion system in Hyperloop Competition II at SpaceX , articleA titanium sphere designed for NASA rockets will provide the additional thrust Virginia Tech students hope will launch them into first place at the next Hyperloop competition, held Aug. 25-27 at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
Date: Aug 22, 2017 -
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Making the invisible visible: Biocomplexity Institute launches summer program in metagenomics , articleStudents will present the results of their original research projects at a public reception on Aug. 11.
Date: Aug 09, 2017 -
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Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program hosts interns for 25th summer , articleDaniel Essandoh (left), chemical engineering major at Virginia Tech, briefly explains his research project at the MAOP Summer Research Symposium.
Date: Aug 08, 2017 -
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Fralin Fellow aims to create the most bee-friendly flower garden in Virginia , articleLaura Stange observes and analyzes the behavior patterns of pollinators around plots of native wildflowers. She will present her findings at the 2017 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium on July 27 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Goodwin Hall.
Date: Jul 24, 2017 -
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Virginia Tech’s Global Change Center and Hollins University partner to increase student careers in life science research , articleThe two universities recently signed a memorandum of understanding to offer Hollins undergraduate students summer research experience in Virginia Tech labs, which allows students to develop relationships with faculty who anticipate recruiting graduate students within the next couple of years.
Date: Jul 24, 2017
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