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- - Destination Areas spark creative discussion among science and policy topics
    Approximately 70 members of Virginia Tech’s Global Systems Science Destination Area and the Policy Strategic Growth Area met recently to identify opportunities for collaboration.
- - Geoscience’s D. Sarah Stamps to spearhead $1.4 million NSF grant to build key cyberinfrastructure project
    The scientific groups will be able to use the cyberinfrastructure to expedite their research in an effort known as reduced time-to-science.
- - John Simonetti part of worldwide effort in detection of two merging neutron stars and resulting explosion
    Last Monday, an international group of scientists announced they had detected a kilonova — the collision of two neutron stars that unleashed a set of gravitational waves into outer space. Among the astronomers is Virginia Tech’s John Simonetti.
- - Corps of Cadets alumnus Marine 1st Lt. Shane Wescott named North Carolina game Hokie Hero
    Wescott is an infantry platoon commander currently deployed with 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines to eastern Asia.
- - Send a Hokie to Capitol Hill to ensure sound science informs public policy
    The center’s goal is to send at least two students to Washington, D.C., next summer, which is why it recently launched a 30-day fundraising campaign that will be matched dollar per dollar by the center.
- - Declining baby songbirds need forests to survive drought, Virginia Tech and Smithsonian find
    A team of Smithsonian biologists led by Brandt Ryder worked closely with Ben Vernasco, a doctoral candidate in biology at Virginia Tech, on a study that aimed to identify characteristics that promote healthy wood thrush populations on U.S. Department of Defense land.
- - Virginia Tech Beyond Boundaries Scholars program helps more than 130 students who enrolled this fall
    Thanks to nearly 50 donors, who combined gave over $401,500, more than $803,000 in aid is being provided to the first group of Beyond Boundaries Scholars to enroll. Through the program, which is ongoing, Virginia Tech doubles the impact of certain qualifying scholarship gifts.
- - Astronaut scholarship honors triple major Arianna Krinos for cross-discipline research
    Krinos, a junior with a triple major in biological sciences, computer science, and computational modeling and data analytics, has won an Astronaut Scholarship Foundation award. She is the first and only student at Virginia Tech to receive the scholarship.
- - 3-D printed golf grips change the game
    A team of Virginia Tech graduate and undergraduate students took first place in the 2017 Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ Digital Manufacturing Challenge by developing a process to mold, scan, and 3-D print golf grips customized to individual users.
- - Center for Autism Research reaches out to New River Valley with community, campus events
    The Virginia Tech Center for Autism Research, in conjunction with businesses in Blacksburg and campus organizations and events, works to bring "SAFE" events to families and youth affected by autism.
- - Neurobiologist receives NSF funding for animal cognition research, education, and outreach
    Kendra Sewall, an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Science and an affiliated faculty member of the School of Neuroscience, recently received a National Science Foundation CAREER grant to expand her studies of the ‘sweet’ spot of optimum social interaction — the point at which brain function is improved.
- - Global Change Center researchers to forecast water quality with NSF support
    The team — which includes ecologists, social scientists, geologists, and engineers — was awarded a $1 million National Science Foundation Smart and Connected Communities grant to develop a system that can create a real-time water forecast.
- - Virginia Tech launches crowdfunding campaign to fight breast cancer’s overwhelming impact in Appalachia
    Volunteers for the breast cancer fundraising campaign include students and faculty from the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech College of Science, Virginia Tech-Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute, and the Center for Gerontology.
- - Economic scientists want to know how you make decisions
    Let's play a game: If you have a 90 percent chance of winning $300, or a 66 percent chance of winning $400, which do you choose?
- - Students crowdfund to build the world’s best solar home: FutureHAUS Dubai
    Virginia Tech’s interdisciplinary Solar Decathlon Middle East team – the only U.S. team in a 2018 global challenge – launches a crowdfunding effort today to build sustainable housing.
- - Board of Visitors honors Khidir Hilu of Biological Sciences with emeritus status
    Hilu, a professor in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, taught the university’s flagship undergraduate courses in plant taxonomy and plants and civilization.
- - Hires mark new growth for InclusiveVT
    Fifteen faculty hires from underrepresented communities will join Virginia Tech this school year, which is more than double the number from each of the five previous years.
- - Corps of Cadets alumnus U.S. Army 1st Lt. Timothy Teh named Old Dominion game Hokie Hero
    U.S. Army 1st Lt. Timothy Teh is deployed to Iraq in support of Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve.
- - Neuroscientist is fifth speaker in J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series for College of Science
    The College of Science brings its 2017 J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series to a close on Sept. 26 with neuroscientist J. David Sweatt of Vanderbilt University.
- - New center for health behaviors research to officially open on Roanoke campus
    Leonard Epstein, creator of the Traffic Light Diet, will deliver a guest lecture on Sept. 27 at 5:30 p.m. at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute. The lecture, which is open to the public, will mark the opening of the Center for Transformative Research in Health Behaviors at VTCRI.

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