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- - FutureHAUS Dubai takes shape at Virginia Tech’s Research + Demonstration Facility
    Led by the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, students from five Virginia Tech colleges will compete as the only U.S. collegiate team in the Solar Decathlon Middle East in Dubai, November 2018. The team now has three months to complete the world’s smartest modular solar home – a prototype they hope will become a global model for housing sustainability.
- - Virginia Tech scientists who identified dangerous Giant Hogweed in Clarke County hopeful that it will be contained
    “It’s a dangerous plant but I’m not overly concerned about it. This seems to be an isolated incident,” said Virginia Tech’s Michael Flessner, an assistant professor and extension weed science specialist.
- - Research team to use the science of all data to understand soldier performance
    The Social Decision and Analytics Laboratory of the Biocomplexity Institute has received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Army Research Initiative to study social characteristics of soldiers.
- - Physics researchers bring in federal funding to boost quantum science and technology research
    Faculty researchers in the Virginia Tech Department of Physics are building a major program in quantum information sciences thanks in part to multiple federal grants that have brought $3.7 million directly to the university.
- - Virginia Tech-led study finds oldest footprints of bug dating back 540-plus million years
    Found in a small chunk of sediment rock in a shallow sea bottom in China, the tiny tracks – millimeters in width – were made by an unknown bug-like creature no bigger than a thumb.
- - Chemistry’s Richard Turner honored with emeritus status by Board of Visitors
    Turner, research professor of chemistry and former director of Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of director emeritus of the Macromolecules Innovation Institute and research professor by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
- - College of Science’s Gary Long receives Sally Bohland Excellence in Access and Inclusion Award
    The Sally Bohland award was established in 2011 to recognize a faculty member who is a model for others and whose leadership fosters a culture of access and inclusion.
- - Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation announces promotions of research faculty
    The Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation has announced promotions of research faculty for the 2017-18 research professorial promotion cycle.
- - Brittany Nichols will research drug-delivery systems in Germany
    Nichols, the first African-American student from Virginia Tech to win a Fulbright award, will take her graduate research to the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland.
- - Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approves 2018 promotions, tenure, continued appointments
    The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved these promotions, tenure, and continued appointments at its June 4 meeting.
- - Amanda Morris’ chemistry lab mimicking how plants energize in bid to create clean, sustainable energy
    Morris and her student researchers are trying to mimic the ways plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide to storable food.
- - VTCRI researcher to deliver internationally renowned Dorcas Cummings Memorial Lecture
    Read Montague will become the 41st person to present the annual Dorcas Cummings Memorial Lecture on June 2 at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium on Quantitative Biology, Brains, and Behavior: Order and Disorder in the Nervous System.
- - Funding awarded to diverse group of social and behavioral science researchers
    ISCE has awarded six interdisciplinary teams seed funding for 2018-19 to prepare them to successfully compete for external funding through such agencies as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and other sources of public and private funding.
- - VTCRI scientists identify novel cellular mechanism that can lead to cancer metastasis
    Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have added a new dimension to the understanding of how cells alter their communication with one another during development, wound healing, and the spread of cancer.
- - William Hopkins receives Mitchell A. Byrd Award for outstanding achievement in ornithology
    Hopkins is the fourth Virginia Tech faculty member to receive this award, named in honor of a three-time Virginia Tech alumnus.
- - New council charged with enhancing equity in work, life at Virginia Tech
    Gender@VT is a new council formed last fall to research and suggest ideas to improve the work/life environment for employees and students at Virginia Tech. Many of the issues affect both women and men, but often they fall disproportionately on women.
- - Chemistry’s John Matson honored as outstanding young faculty by Dreyfus Foundation
    Matson is one of 13 honorees selected by the nonprofit Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
- - New sequencing technology helps researchers understand brain cell development
    Using the Biocomplexity Institute's NovaSeq 6000, Michelle Olsen is forging new ground in the understanding of the development of astrocytes, crucial cells in brain health.
- - Virginia Tech graduate becomes first African-American woman to earn degree in nanoscience
    Ginai Seabron credited the support she received from the Black Cultural Center throughout her time at the university.
- - Policy Strategic Growth Area faculty discuss solutions to complex problems at spring forum
    Faculty from across the campus are working together to advance Virginia Tech's Policy Strategic Growth Area through interdisciplinary research discussions and presentations.

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