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School of Education assistant professor revolutionizing the older adult wellness narrative , article“We want to change the conversation about aging from one of decline to one of opportunity,” said Matthew Fullen, an assistant professor of counselor education. “Eschewing definitions of wellness that merely emphasize physical health is one way to change that conversation.”
Date: Dec 10, 2020 -
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Veterinary college alumni uniquely prepared for a pandemic , articleFrom public health veterinarians and pathologists to veterinary epidemiologists and disease surveillance experts, the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine's One Health-trained alumni have their boots on the ground in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Date: Dec 09, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech paleontologists find pterosaur precursors that fill a gap in early evolutionary history , articleWith the help of newly discovered skulls and skeletons that were unearthed in North America, Brazil, Argentina, and Madagascar, Virginia Tech researchers Sterling Nesbitt and Michelle Stocker from the Department of Geosciences have demonstrated that a group of "dinosaur precursors," called lagerpetids, are the closest relatives of pterosaurs.
Date: Dec 09, 2020 -
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Search committee for vice president and dean for graduate education announced , articleThe new vice president and dean will replace Karen P. DePauw, who announced her retirement earlier this year after a distinguished 18-year career at Virginia Tech.
Date: Dec 08, 2020 -
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Linsey Marr selected as the speaker for Virginia Tech’s fall commencement exercises , articleFall commencement will be held online Friday, Dec. 18, at 6:15 p.m. ET. During the online broadcast, graduates will be honored, degrees will be conferred, and special guests and student leaders will speak.
Date: Dec 04, 2020 -
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Through the looking glass , articleVirginia Tech alumna and visual artist Jackie Sanders charts her own course to artistic development and early career accomplishment.
Date: Dec 04, 2020 -
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Forbes names graduate student at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC to list of '30 under 30' to watch , articleUbadah Sabbagh, a fifth-year student in Virginia Tech’s Translational Biology, Medicine and Health program, is included in Forbes Magazine’s 2020 list of 30 young innovators in science with potential to make it big.
Date: Dec 02, 2020 -
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Student volunteer group donates $10K in grocery cards to help fellow Hokies , articleA volunteer group created by Virginia Tech graduate students recently donated $10,000 worth of grocery-store gift cards to help efforts to address the problem of food insecurity.
Date: Dec 01, 2020 -
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Cortney Steele: Virginia Tech will always feel like home , articleSteele, who recently defended her doctoral dissertation in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise in Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will be the fall graduate commencement student speaker on Dec. 18.
Date: Dec 01, 2020 -
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Annual HBCU/MSI Research Summit draws online audience , articleMore than 170 faculty members and more than 200 students participated in the summit, which was held in October.
Date: Dec 01, 2020 -
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Computer science welcomes eight new faculty members , articleEight new faculty have joined the Department of Computer Science this year, bringing the total number of faculty to nearly 60 at campuses in Blacksburg and the greater Washington, D.C., metro area. In addition, five faculty members have accepted offers with start dates in 2021.
Date: Nov 25, 2020 -
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Medical student vows to pay it forward in honor of scholarship namesake , articleA life of service to others was instilled in Celine Marlin Andrews at an early age. Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, she attended a school focused on developing students’ intellectual, artistic, and practical skills in an integrated and holistic manner.
Date: Nov 24, 2020 -
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Introducing the flavor of community and the humanities to food studies , article“The Food Studies Program was created to forge community around food studies from a humanities and social science perspective in service to faculty, staff, students, and the public,” said Anna Zeide, director of Virginia Tech’s new Food Studies Program.
Date: Nov 24, 2020 -
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Joanie Banks-Hunt: engineer, educator, and trailblazer , articleBanks-Hunt, an instructor in the Virginia Tech Honors College who will complete her Ph.D. in education psychology with engineering education certification this fall at Virginia Tech, is one of six women featured in a new documentary series titled, “Inspire! Six Trailblazing Women Engineers Inspire the Next Generation.”
Date: Nov 24, 2020 -
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Ron Fricker named interim dean of the College of Science , articleFricker’s appointment as interim dean follows the announcement that current Dean Sally C. Morton has accepted the position as executive vice president of the Knowledge Enterprise at Arizona State University effective at the end of the year.
Date: Nov 23, 2020 -
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Motivating movement and creating community during COVID-19 , articleLaunched in October, the app-based fitness group, Hokie Movement Club, has already grown to more than 700 users. It features weekly challenges and prizes and allows for users to encourage each other from afar.
Date: Nov 20, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech sharpens focus on students at Roanoke campus , articleLeanna Blevins, Virginia Tech’s assistant vice president for health sciences education and student affairs, has assumed an expanded role to support graduate students at the health sciences and technology campus in Roanoke.
Date: Nov 19, 2020 -
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Researchers refine antibiotic resistance surveillance tools in Puerto Rican watersheds after Hurricane Maria , articleIn the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Virginia Tech researchers and collaborators developed a new way to apply metagenomics to track antibiotic resistance in watersheds, identify targets for stopping its spread, and help keep antibiotics working for future generations.
Date: Nov 18, 2020 -
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Students can apply the safety practices they've learned when traveling for Thanksgiving , articleMost Virginia Tech students will probably have more experience with safe in-person activities than their families and friends. This is an opportunity for students to share their insights and take a leadership role in keeping those they celebrate with safe.
Date: Nov 18, 2020 -
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Home for startups: Virginia Tech ranked among nation’s top schools for entrepreneurship studies , articleDerick Maggard, executive director of the Apex Center for Entrepreneurs, said interest in entrepreneurship has grown significantly among Virginia Tech students, many of whom see it as a means to create positive change.
Date: Nov 17, 2020
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