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- - New tool could find relief for America’s overworked energy grid
    A new model developed by researchers at the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech may be just the answer to help government and industry leaders alleviate our overworked energy infrastructure.
- - Research calls for enhancing long-term benefits of Farm Bill programs
    Many landowners rely on conservation incentive programs to make improvements that also benefit the environment and society as a whole.
- - Virginia Tech’s Global Change Center and Hollins University partner to increase student careers in life science research
    The 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.
- - Graduate student at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute receives NIH fellowship to study risky behavior in teens
    Nina Lauharatanahirun is specifically focusing her study on risky behavior with unclear outcomes.
- - Third medical student earns St. Baldrick’s fellowship to study cancer at the VTC Research Institute
    Lamvy Le is the third medical student at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine to receive the grant, which will support her research in therapies that could potentially treat pediatric brain cancer.
- - National Capital Region location strengthens Pamplin’s hospitality and tourism graduate program
    Professor and Program Director Mahmood Khan said said that outstanding Hokie alumni in the region are a great asset for the program.
- - Graduate students awarded prestigious immunology fellowships
    The fellowship is designed to support the career development of young scientists by providing one year of salary support. Only 45 fellowships are awarded nationally each year.
- - Smartwatch app could inspire more frequent physical activity, Virginia Tech study finds
    The study found that the ability of participants to use a glanceable interface rather than having to log into a website or be interrupted by updates was also key to the success of participants' physical activity.
- - Biocomplexity Institute’s Ebola-tested tools help set new standard for federal disease control
    When a major outbreak occurs, government agencies need to be one step ahead of the disease, sending medical resources to regions that have already been hard-hit as well as those that are likely to be infected next.
- - Graduate students document legacy businesses for Arlington County
    As part of the studio, the students created a website to post maps and oral histories with business owners. Arlington’s Center for Local History, which had identified the early business history of Arlington as a critical gap in its collection, will permanently house full transcripts of the oral histories.
- - Virginia Tech named Diversity Champion by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine
    This is the second consecutive year that the university has received the champion recognition from INSIGHT Into Diversity, which is the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education.
- - Camera-trap research paves the way for global monitoring networks
    A team of researchers from universities, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations all over the world compiled camera-trap data from 12 countries to evaluate impacts on 96 carnivore species, ranging from Arctic foxes to Sumatran tigers.
- - Child safety or parental duty: new study maps out core concepts in the vaccination debate
    Around the edges of every headline-grabbing outbreak, there’s a vast range of opinions being circulated about the risks and benefits of early childhood immunization.
- - Overlap in computer modeling holds key to next-generation processing, Virginia Tech researchers find
    Exascale computing — the ability to perform calculations at 1 billion billion per second — is what researchers are striving to push processors to do in the next decade.
- - Top students selected for summer program that will help shape government policy
    The program at the Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory in the National Capital Region will give students expert data science training, while helping policymakers in the local, state, and federal government improve quality of life in their communities.
- - Professor Patrick Miller receives Graduate School's outstanding mentor award
    Students who nominated Miller applauded his strong record of advising doctoral students and dedication to educating the next generation of the academy.
- - Professor David Bevan receives Graduate School's outstanding mentor award
    Bevan’s research involves the application of computational molecular modeling to relate the structure and dynamics of molecular systems to function.
- - Professor William Hopkins receives Graduate School's outstanding mentor award
    Hopkins’ research focuses on physiological ecology and wildlife ecotoxicology, addressing pressing questions in both basic and applied science. To date, he has published more than 165 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters on subjects pertaining to environmental stressors, pollution, and the physiological ecology of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and bats.
- - Engineering professor Amy Pruden receives Graduate School's outstanding mentor award
    Pruden currently does research on antibiotics that get into our water supply and how to remove them.
- - Nonnative catfish not primary driver of American shad declines in James River
    A study found that although nonnative catfish do prey on American shad and other native species, predation is not solely responsible for declines in these fish populations.

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