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- - Graduate School Citizen Scholars connect their research with their communities
    Each year, the Graduate School offers a challenge to graduate students: Create and implement a project that connects your research with a community.
- - VTCRI scientist awarded $2 million National Cancer Institute grant to study breast cancer
    The National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Deborah Kelly, an associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, $2 million to study the mutated form of the breast cancer susceptibility protein that is implicated in hereditary breast cancer.
- - Nicole Abaid earns NSF CAREER award to study bio-inspired active sensing in multi-agent systems
    During the five-year grant, Abaid will collect data from wild gray bat swarms to study their collective behavior and interaction patterns, especially in regards to how these animals use echolocation.
- - Leading the green charge: Ph.D. student Ellen Garcia introduces lab sustainability program to campus
    Starting with Daniela Cimini's lab at the Biocomplexity Institute, Garcia has helped establish recycling programs for plastic foam and packaging, as well as major changes in energy consumption.
- - Virginia Tech researchers examine role of fluid flow in ovarian cancer progression
    Known as the silent killer, ovarian cancer is notorious for avoiding detection until it has progressed to an advanced stage. New research from Virginia Tech on fluid shear stress in the abdominal cavity is moving physicians closer to earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment.
- - Scientists gain insight into the earliest changes that impair motor function during aging
    A team of biomedical scientists has found that motor neurons responsible for controlling muscle movement do not age. Rather, it's the synaptic inputs connected to the motor neurons that age and cause bodily decay.
- - VTCRI researchers join forces to improve life for children with genetic disorder
    The accomplishments of three girls who received intensive therapy based on innovative pediatric neurorehabilitation research at the VTCRI have been documented in a report published in BMC Research Notes.
- - Virginia Tech alumnus David Calhoun gives historic $20 million to transform honors education
    Calhoun’s $20 million donation supports the launch of a pilot model of collaborative learning within the Honors College. A special event for the media and guests will be held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. in the Moss Arts Center.
- - Ardent Hokie issues Giving Day challenges for two colleges
    Jerry Hulick will encourage giving to the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and the College of Science through a series of challenge grants.
- - Students step up to promote Virginia Tech's first Giving Day
    On March 20 starting at noon, Eastern time, Virginia Tech will host Giving Day, beginning an annual tradition. Giving Day, with the theme “Spring Forward,” lasts until noon on March 21.
- - Virginia Tech expects thousands of Hokies to participate in first Giving Day
    On March 20 starting at noon, Virginia Tech will host its first Giving Day, beginning what will become an annual tradition. Giving Day, with the theme “Spring Forward,” lasts until noon on March 21.
- - Virginia Tech Center for Autism Research to host one-day conference on empowering rural communities
    The Virginia Tech Center for Autism Research and Autism Clinic will co-host a one-day conference March 23 in Blacksburg, focusing on services and care for families with autism in rural communities.
- - Free event to help inspire students to dream big
    Virginia Tech's Division of Information Technology is teaming up with InclusiveVT, the College of Science, and the College of Engineering to organize a unique event called "Hidden Figures: Into the Future," which will bring middle and high school students from the region to campus on March 19 and 20.
- - Clare Boothe Luce Program supports research by female undergraduates
    The funding will be used over the next three years to provide 24 Clare Booth Luce Undergraduate Research Awards that will help make it possible for students to participate in research over the summer.
- - Mount Sinai's Eric Nestler headlining first of new lecture series hosted by School of Neuroscience
    The School of Neuroscience at Virginia Tech hosts its inaugural James and Lillian Gay Distinguished Lecture Series on March 19 with speaker Eric J. Nestler, director of the Friedman Brain Institute at Mount Sinai.
- - In memoriam: Herman Doswald, dean emeritus, College of Arts and Sciences
    During his career at Virginia Tech, Doswald served as a professor, department head, and dean.
- - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists seek unfiltered truth about 'light' cigarettes
    VTCRI scientists will focus on how ventilated filters on cigarettes, product packaging, and messaging have affected cigarette use, and also how alternative nicotine delivery systems — such as electronic cigarettes — can be used to modify smoking behavior.
- - VTCRI to host sixth annual Brain School, other Brain Awareness Week activities
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute’s sixth annual Brain School, Hijacking and Augmenting the Brain: Drugs, Bugs, and Devices, will focus on how outside factors can influence the brain’s chemistry and decision-making capacity and how the brain can interface with the outside world through digital devices.
- - VTCRI addiction expert to inform White House panel on Tuesday
    Warren Bickel, an addiction neuroscientist with the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, will brief a group of White House officials on the latest behavioral decision science underlying drug addiction and intervention, particularly in terms of opioids.
- - Rana Ashkar is named assistant professor of physics in College of Science
    With her research area focusing on experimental soft condensed matter physics and biophysics, Ashkar is the first faculty hire for the department in the area of Economic and Sustainable Materials.

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