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- - NSF fellowship allows graduate student to balance research, service, and support
    Cora Esparza is a first-year biomedical engineering doctoral student who studies the complex network of blood vessels found in glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer. Thanks to a recent Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation, she'll now have more flexibility to balance her research interests alongside community engagement.
- - Carla Finkielstein and team honored with award for research into circadian rhythms and cancer
    A team of Virginia Tech researchers led by Finkielstein, an associate professor in the College of Science, has been honored with the 2019 J. Shelton Horsley Research Award from the Virginia Academy of Science.
- - Study investigates lack of disclaimers on Facebook and Google’s advertising during the 2016 presidential election
    When a communication faculty member and a graduate student joined forces, they discovered the roles Facebook, Google, and the Federal Election Commission all played in digital advertising during the 2016 presidential election. The team recently published their results.
- - 'Sneezing' plants contribute to disease proliferation
    Virginia Tech researchers have found that jumping droplets have an impact in the spread of wheat leaf rust spores.
- - Students win international vehicle safety design competition
    A group of engineering graduate students won the international championship for the 2019 Collegiate Student Safety Technology Design Competition, hosted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the Netherlands last week.
- - Bubble of an idea leads to new research on freezing
    A mechanical engineering professor and his students studied soap bubbles to learn how the "snow globe" effect takes place and learned about the nature of freezing.
- - Virginia Cyber Range challenges hackers for good
    The Virginia Cyber Range contributed to the 2nd Annual AWS Hackathon for Good by sponsoring a challenge during the Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C.
- - Pamplin College of Business names Becky Freemal as its director of communication and marketing
    As the Pamplin College of Business moves forward with its mission to lead technology and business intelligence, Becky Freemal will lead efforts to build integrated and cohesive messaging to engage alumni, students, parents, and corporate partners.
- - Virginia Tech graduate students selected to join competitive Society for Neuroscience program
    Amnah Eltahir and Alyssa Brunal-Brown, Virginia Tech graduate students at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, were accepted into the Society for Neuroscience’s fellowship and associate programs, respectively.
- - New master's degree for Innovation Campus
    The degree is designed to prepare graduates for mid-level and advanced positions in industries related to computing technology.
- - ‘An extraordinarily positive day for Virginia’
    Community, business, and political leaders expressed excitement about Virginia Tech’s Innovation campus at Monday’s site announcement in Alexandria.
- - Graduate student awarded NIH fellowship to study cardiac arrest recovery
    David “Ryan” King, a student in the Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health graduate program at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, has won a National Institutes of Health individual research fellowship to support the last two years of his doctoral research.
- - Virginia Tech Publishing launches first peer-reviewed book under its own imprint
    “Viral Networks” is a collaborative work of the University Libraries’ Virginia Tech Publishing, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Library of Medicine.
- - Student engineering team advances to global vehicle safety design competition
    A team of Virginia Tech engineering students is advancing to the global round of the Student Safety Technology Design Competition, sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They will present their prototype safety system aimed at reducing injuries for vehicle occupants during a rear-end collision.
- - Virginia Tech researchers discover connection between symbiotic worms and the magnetic orientation of crayfish
    Researchers have found that ectosymbionts – species that live on the outside of the host’s body and have mutually beneficial relationships with their hosts – affect a crayfish’s use of the earth’s magnetic field as a directional reference.
- - Virginia Tech engineers victorious with another first place at agBOT
    The agBOT competition consisted of two separate contests: a weed and seed event and a competition to design an autonomous system that can collect, store, and prepare a soil sample for analysis.
- - Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approves 2019 promotions, tenure, continued appointments
    The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved these promotions, tenure, and continued appointments at its June 3 meeting.
- - Bats have an ambulance in their ears
    Engineering researchers think the study of ear-generated Doppler shifts in bat biosonar could give rise to new sensory principles that could enable small, yet powerful sensors.
- - Virginia Tech creates partnership to build center for frontier materials in India
    The $2 million research center in Patiala, in northern India, will be named the Thapar-Virginia Tech Center of Excellence in Frontier Materials.
- - Jennifer Wayne named head of Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics
    Wayne comes to Virginia Tech from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she has been a faculty member in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery since 1991.

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