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Virginia Tech set to host 2021 International Science of Team Science Conference , articleSciTS 2021 convenes science academics, leaders and members of cross-disciplinary teams, institutional leaders and administrators, and funding agencies to collaboratively rethink how science of team science research and practice may serve as a foundation for positive change and justice.
Date: Jan 22, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech geoscientist receives prestigious National Academy of Sciences geology prize , articlePresented every six years, the $20,000 prize went to Shuhai Xiao for “re-envisioning our understanding of evolution” through his research into “the interactions between the biosphere and its environments at critical transitions in Earth history."
Date: Jan 21, 2021 -
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New fossil provides clarity to the history of Alligatoridae , articleA new fossil has been identified by Michelle Stocker, of the Department of Geosciences in the College of Science, which will provide some much needed clarity into the complex, and incomplete, history of caimans and their movements across time and space.
Date: Jan 15, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech, Children’s National Hospital award $100,000 to fund collaborative cancer research pilot projects , articleChildren’s National Hospital and Virginia Tech have awarded two $50,000 one-year pilot grants to multi-institutional teams of scientists for pediatric brain cancer research.
Date: Jan 12, 2021 -
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iTHRIV announces health research pilot project recipients , articleMulti-institutional teams of scientists, physicians, and engineers will study Parkinson’s disease, celiac disease, pediatric heart transplant, pediatric telemedicine, and epilepsy.
Date: Jan 12, 2021 -
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Fatal attraction: Bats with white-nose syndrome prefer suboptimal habitats despite the consequences , articleVirginia Tech researchers have been studying little brown bat populations to see if bats alter their preferences across hibernacula, or hibernation sites, in response to the invasion of white-nose syndrome. But instead of avoiding these deadly sites, bats continue to use them year after year.
Date: Jan 08, 2021 -
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Commencing to succeed , articleEach fall and spring, a new group of Hokies moves their tassels, stepping away from life as students into new roles as alumni of Virginia Tech. Although graduation may feel like the culmination of a year of lasts, the ceremony is really a beginning.
Date: Jan 07, 2021 -
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New academy to braid disciplines together to tackle complex problems , articleMany of the most daunting issues facing humanity today demand solutions that draw on a range of technical, social, and cultural domains. The College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences has launched an Academy of Transdisciplinary Studies to help catalyze Virginia Tech’s response to such challenges.
Date: Dec 22, 2020 -
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Fralin scientists uncover mechanisms that wire the brain’s cerebral cortex , articleA research team led by Michael Fox, a professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, has identified the type of brain cell that produces collagen 19, a protein that is crucial for the formation of inhibitory circuits in the brain.
Date: Dec 21, 2020 -
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Erik Nilsen honored with emeritus status by Virginia Tech Board of Visitors , articleA member of the Virginia Tech community since 1983, Nilsen’s research and scholarship has focused on the physiological ecology of higher plants
Date: Dec 18, 2020 -
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In memoriam: Robert Benoit, associate professor emeritus in Department of Biological Sciences , articleBenoit joined the then Department of Biology between his master’s and doctoral degrees, in 1962. He became one of the founding members of the department’s microbiology program, teaching thousands of students over his career.
Date: Dec 18, 2020 -
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ThickSat satellite built by Virginia Tech students is headed to space , articleThe project provided students with a unique opportunity to design, develop, test, and monitor their own experimental payload, and see it successfully launched into space.
Date: Dec 18, 2020 -
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Diversity seed investments cement new partnerships , articleA program that helps Virginia Tech faculty jump-start new collaborations with colleagues at HBCUs is reaching more departments and continuing to attract external funding.
Date: Dec 17, 2020 -
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Biostatistics expert: Don't let thousands of daily COVID-19 deaths become ‘new normal' , articleIn light of a new report noting COVID-19 is once again the leading cause of death in the U.S., disease surveillance expert Ron Fricker says "we must redouble our efforts" to keep deaths from rising even higher than they are now.
Date: Dec 17, 2020 -
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Class of 2020: Rowan Wooldridge translates complex research into meaning , articleA biochemistry major graduating this fall with a minor in philosophy, Wooldridge was one of three recipients of the inaugural Undergraduate Research Excellence Award.
Date: Dec 16, 2020 -
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Class of 2020: Two decades and three degrees later, David Parks has no regrets , articleDavid Parks graduated from Virginia Tech in 2003 with a degree in political science. After serving in the U.S. Navy, where he was deployed to Iraq and Italy, Parks returned to Blacksburg and will graduate on Dec. 18 with a double major in economics and computational modeling and data analytics, both from the College of Science.
Date: Dec 11, 2020 -
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In memoriam: Lay Nam Chang, founding dean of the College of Science, professor of physics , articleChang was dean of the College of Science from 2003 to 2016. Prior to that, he was the last dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, serving from 2002 to 2003 when he guided the academic restructuring that resulted in two new colleges — the College of Science and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
Date: Dec 10, 2020 -
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Low oxygen levels in lakes and reservoirs may accelerate global change , articleIn a first of its kind study, researchers at Virginia Tech have experimentally tested, at the whole ecosystem-scale, how different oxygen levels in lakes and reservoirs affect the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and contribute to global change.
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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Managing salt pollution to protect drinking water resources and freshwater ecosystems , articleResearchers recently received a $3.6 million grant to catalyze solutions for salt pollution by merging ideas, approaches, and technologies from widely diverse fields of knowledge to stimulate innovation and discovery.
Date: Dec 09, 2020
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