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- - Virginia Tech reveals $75 million plan to emphasize intelligent infrastructure
    More than 80 faculty members from multiple colleges and institutes are involved in the initiative, as the university ties new assets into existing programs and research facilities.
- - Virginia Tech’s new data repository helps researchers share data
    The easier data is to evaluate and reuse, the simpler it is for researchers to verify others’ results and understand what has already been tested in their fields. Open data repositories allow researchers to spend less time pursuing false leads and more time creating new knowledge.
- - New academic offerings at Virginia Tech for the 2016-17 year
    The university has exciting new offerings for students in the 2016-17 academic year, including programs, curriculum revisions, resources, and spaces.
- - New Virginia Tech building opens, providing students with state-of-the-art learning spaces
    The classrooms have features that include moveable furnishings, wall-mounted writing spaces, and multiple screens for projecting shared material and student work.
- - Major process improvements at Virginia Tech advance speed and success of research proposals
    Summit is the university's customized solution for research administration processes. It is expected that the new system will enable faculty to improve the quality of submitted proposals and shorten the time required to prepare them.
- - Virginia Tech to spearhead $19.4 million effort to build new software institute dedicated to molecular, chemical computational modeling
    The university will lead a new initiative to build a national team of software scientists to design and build new, powerful software tools, in what will be called the Molecular Sciences Software Institute.
- - Virginia Tech faculty awarded $2.5 million from NSF to advance future wireless technologies
    The National Science Foundation has awarded the research funding to Wireless @ Virginia Tech to address critical issues concerning emerging wireless communication networks and technology, which are vital to economic growth and development in the United States.
- - Natasha Smith and Alex Guest use technology to improve academic advising
    Smith and Guest are admired by their colleagues for their creative problem solving. Their teamwork was recognized this spring when they were nominated for the Governor's Award program.
- - Outdoor Wi-Fi now available between Peddrew-Yates and Pritchard residence halls
    There is a new exterior wireless access point across the large outdoor area between the residence halls where the university's only solar-powered table is located.
- - Virginia Tech and the National Science Foundation provide cybersecurity training for high school teachers
    The Information Technology Security Office and the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are hosting the GenCyber Teacher’s camp for 20 high school teachers from across the country.
- - New journal launched for up-and-coming field of computational psychiatry
    Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute are teaming up with neuroscientists around the world.
- - Indoor emergency phones being installed on campus
    In an ongoing effort to improve campus safety and security, 145 new indoor emergency phones are being installed on Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg, Virginia, campus this summer. The phones are small blue call boxes with two-way speakers that are mounted to walls in central building locations.
- - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists are first to visualize breast cancer protein in precise detail
    The team developed a “tunable” microchip that can capture proteins from human breast cancer cells to directly view them with high precision and to study how they function and interact with other molecules.
- - Simulation science takes on Zika with big data
    With locations in Blacksburg and Arlington, Virginia, researchers at the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech can forecast the spread of the disease using a variety of factors.
- - Advisory board for master of IT program will focus on recruitment and measures of success
    Ranked No. 2 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, the program has grown to more than 400 students with 3,800 course registrations.
- - Virginia Tech researchers earn grant to study big data sharing and reuse
    Following this research, the university's libraries will be better prepared to support data intensive and big data projects.
- - Geosciences team to place GPS sensors around Tanzanian volcano in effort to predict eruptions
    Assistant Professor D. Sarah Stamps of geosciences is launching an observatory in Tanzania to track activity of the famed volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, the Mountain of God.
- - Free open access publishing opens doors for Virginia Tech research
    University faculty, staff, and students can publish at no cost if their submission passes peer review.
- - Virginia Tech’s Center for Geospatial Information Technology provides governor’s office means to assess state’s broadband coverage
    The center developed a website survey to collect and map broadband access information from Virginia citizens.
- - Mary Dunker appointed director of secure identity services
    The unit provides the systems for identity management, authentication, and secure access to information resources used throughout the university and by its federated partners.

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