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- - Michel Pleimling named director of inclusion and diversity for College of Science
    Michel Pleimling has been named director of inclusion and diversity in the College of Science.
- - Leading scientists to gather in Roanoke for Central Virginia Society for Neuroscience symposium
    The challenges and opportunities of neuroscience will come into focus Sunday and Monday as researchers from universities across Virginia and special guests from elsewhere in the U.S. converge at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute for the annual symposium.
- - Solving the immunity puzzle takes collaboration among different fields
    Studying the human immune system and the problems caused when it doesn't work properly requires transcending disciplines to create models that will help understand just how the immune system works.
- - Neuroscience class takes learning into operating room at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
    The School of Neuroscience at Virginia Tech’s Clinical Neuroscience in Practice course offers undergraduate students the opportunity to experience the world of a neurosurgeon, both in the classroom and the operating room.
- - Virginia Tech musicians and singers to perform at Carnegie Hall
    Members of the Virginia Tech Wind Ensemble and the Virginia Tech Combined Choirs — the Chamber Singers, Tech Men, and Women’s Chorus — will be performing a special concert at Carnegie Hall on April 11.
- - Global Change Center researchers help water authority create ‘best water possible,’ prepare for warmer temperatures
    A Virginia Tech team has installed oxygenation systems in three reservoirs that serve Roanoke and surrounding county residents and are monitoring them to see how increased oxygen levels affect the amount of metals in the water.
- - Doctoral Fellow studies impact of climate change, deforestation in Namibia
    A Virginia Tech graduate student is living in one of the hottest and driest countries in the world this semester so that he can study how climate change, land management, and other human-caused phenomena impact a community of animals known as the cavity guild.
- - National Science Foundation grant provides 3-D printers for classrooms
    The last of 56 in-service and pre-service teachers recently received 3-D printers as part of a National Science Foundation, Research Experience for Teachers grant headed by faculty from mechanical engineering and the school of education.
- - Science student uses data analytics on the court for the Virginia Tech men’s basketball team
    A College of Science CMDA student is using data analytics to help the Virginia Tech men's basketball team score more on the court
- - Principles of Community Week furthers the #VTUnfinished conversation
    The events March 13-17 are opportunities to revisit conversations started with last semester’s #VTUnfinished initiative. Participants are encouraged to learn about each other and to communicate respectfully across differences, while also discovering some unexpected similarities in the process.
- - Molecular alarm system ensures body’s first response to an attack will be a healthy one
    Until recently, scientists were stumped as to what could be going on inside our cells to keep the body's alarm system in check. But a research team based at Virginia Tech may have just uncovered a key piece of the molecular puzzle.
- - Virginia Tech team to travel to Abu Dhabi for $5 million international robotics competition
    The team of undergraduate and graduate students is one of 15 to be sponsored by Khalifa University, the competition organizer. Only two other U.S.-based teams, Georgia Tech and Carnegie Mellon University, were awarded sponsorships from a $3 million fund.
- - Virginia Tech teams with Colorado School of Mines to help success rates of minerals explorations
    Virginia Tech researchers are working with the Colorado School of Mines to use earth science and mining expertise to create data sets and 3-D software models that better locate, categorize, and visualize mineral resources.
- - Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to deliver 2017 Virginia Tech University Commencement address
    Sandberg, author of the national bestseller "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead," will be introduced by Regina E. Dugan, a Virginia Tech alumna and vice president of engineering and leader of Facebook's Building 8 hardware product development team, at the May 12 University Commencement ceremony.
- - Researchers discover how breast cancer mutation in BRCA1 causes protein to self-destruct
    Of the more than 3 million people with breast cancer in the United Stated, about 10 percent carry an inherited mutation in their BRCA1 gene. In health, the gene is responsible for suppressing tumors. In disease, the gene goes terribly awry.
- - New center focuses on the art of communicating science effectively
    The Center for Communicating Science will host a launch celebration Thursday beginning with the first annual Nutshell Games, in which graduate students aim to condense years of their research into a 90-second, compelling description.
- - Virginia Tech hosts Faculty Women of Color in the Academy National Conference April 2-3
    This year's conference honors the legacy of the late Zenobia Lawrence Hikes, vice president for Student Affairs at Virginia Tech from 2005 through 2008. The registration deadline is March 26.
- - In Memoriam: Paul Zweifel of the Department of Physics, supporter of Moss Arts Center
    While at Virginia Tech, Zweifel was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy’s E. O. Lawrence Medal in 1972 and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1975. He also was a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
- - Lori Blanc honored for Excellence in Teaching for work with living-learning communities
    The National Resource Center for First-Year Experiences and Students in Transition recently honored Lori Blanc of the Virginia Tech College of Science with its 2017-2018 Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars award.
- - Update: Lecture by Martha Nussbaum has been postponed
    Based on an analysis of political leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela, Martha Nussbaum will explore the notion that it is possible to fight injustice without anger.

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