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Swallowing difficulties in children with developmental disorders may be due to misfiring brain cells , articleProblems ingesting, chewing, or swallowing food occur in up to 80 percent of children with developmental disorders and can lead to food aspiration, choking, or life-threatening respiratory infections.
Date: Sep 01, 2020 -
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Chemistry’s Robert Moore appointed as new director of MII , articleMoore, a professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been named as director of the Virginia Tech Macromolecules Innovation Institute, an interdisciplinary science and engineering research center.
Date: Sep 01, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech team building infectious disease models, research to help guide decisions , articleA multidisciplinary team is helping the university better understand and plan for impacts of COVID-19 through institution-specific models, outbreak simulations, and impact on regional hospital resources predictions.
Date: Aug 31, 2020 -
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Early career faculty earn 14 National Science Foundation CAREER awards , articleOver the past 25 years, Virginia Tech researchers have earned 171 National Science Foundation Early Career Development Awards (CAREER). For the 2020 fiscal year, 14 Virginia Tech early career scientists and engineers have been granted CAREER awards, totaling over $4 million in research funding.
Date: Aug 28, 2020 -
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Pods useful in fighting the spread of COVID-19 , articlePods are small groups of people who make a commitment to rigorously following safety measures, including face coverings and physical distancing, outside of the pod, so they can interact with one another more closely and in a more relaxed environment within the pod.
Date: Aug 28, 2020 -
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Biological Science’s Josef Uyeda using NSF CAREER Award to capture big picture connection of macro- and micro-evolution , articleJosef Uyeda, an assistant professor and evolutionary biologist in the Virginia Tech Department of Biological Sciences, seeks to study evolution across the tree of life from simply looking for patterns of how traits are related, to understanding what causes them to evolve.
Date: Aug 27, 2020 -
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Researchers co-locate to Steger Hall at the Fralin Life Sciences Institute to tackle infectious diseases and rapid environmental change , articleThe Fralin Life Sciences Institute is co-locating researchers from across three colleges at Virginia Tech to Steger Hall to make an impact at the interface of infectious disease and the environment.
Date: Aug 27, 2020 -
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Gulf Coast braces for hurricane and tropical storm warnings, coastal experts available to discuss emergency preparation, disaster response and recovery , articleVirginia Tech has a team of coastal experts available to talk with reporters as the Gulf Coast prepares for back-to-back hurricane and tropical storm warnings.
Date: Aug 24, 2020 -
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Sterling Nesbitt receives NSF CAREER award to study the evolution of vertebrate communities during the Triassic Period , articleSterling Nesbitt, an associate professor of geobiology in the College of Science, and a team of researchers will use a NSF CAREER Award to learn more about how extinction events -- and time itself -- drive evolution in vertebrate communities.
Date: Aug 24, 2020 -
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Universities join forces to develop materials for the fight against COVID-19 , articleResearchers at Virginia Tech and the University of Georgia are collaborating to explore whether the tendency of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to bind to carbohydrate-based polymers, such as heparin, can be used to develop virus-trapping gels and surfaces.
Date: Aug 24, 2020 -
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Proof-of-concept program from LAUNCH and VTIP fuels development of new technologies , articleEligible projects involve technologies captured in the VTIP invention disclosure process and identified as candidates for licensing to established companies or to new technology startups.
Date: Aug 21, 2020 -
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TECH Together Campaign announces winners and finalists , articleAfter the TECH Together Campaign launched in July, a whopping 76 applications from 20 different colleges and departments were submitted. Of those, 10 finalists and 5 winners have been chosen to implement their creative, innovative, and integrated solutions for the reopening of Virginia Tech campuses this fall.
Date: Aug 20, 2020 -
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Students showcase summer research at the 2020 OUR Virtual Symposium , articleStudent researchers, representing Virginia Tech and other Virginia universities, embraced the virtual environment and helped pioneer a new format for delivering research for future conference participants.
Date: Aug 17, 2020 -
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Librarian investigates university and industry links to grow Virginia Tech’s societal impact , articleConnie Stovall’s position in the University Libraries started out as a few side projects after a conversation between University Libraries Dean Tyler Walters and Brandy Salmon, associate vice president for innovation and partnerships and managing director for the new Innovation Campus.
Date: Aug 14, 2020 -
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Animal Model Research for Veterinarians Ph.D. training program awarded NIH grant , articleThe Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine is among a relatively small group of veterinary colleges awarded a T32 grant to train post-D.V.M. veterinarians in biomedical research.
Date: Aug 11, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech COVID-19 lab ready to test thousands of student samples , articleStarting this week, as students begin to return to campus for the fall semester, the lab’s capacity of 1,000 tests per day will also be dedicated to Virginia Tech students and employees in high-contact roles.
Date: Aug 09, 2020 -
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D. Sarah Stamps receives $625,000 NSF CAREER grant to study role of volcanism in continental rifting , articleStamps, an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences, has received a five-year Faculty Early Career Development Program award to investigate early phase continental rifting at the Natron Rift in Tanzania.
Date: Aug 06, 2020 -
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Physics professor authors tutorial to introduce polymer researchers to neutron scattering spectroscopy , articleNeutron scattering spectroscopy is a unique technique that allows scientists the ability to selectively view different aspects of a polymer sample, on the nanoscale, to better understand structure-property-function relationships.
Date: Aug 06, 2020 -
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Researchers: What’s in oilfield wastewater matters for injection-induced earthquakes , articleAccording to this new theory, the density difference between wastewater and deep basement fluids is much more important for induced earthquake occurrence than was previously known.
Date: Aug 05, 2020 -
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Biology student boosts sustainability efforts through green lab certification , articleHome to more than 1,200 laboratories, Virginia Tech strives to solve the world’s most complex problems by connecting brilliant minds with powerful technology. But at the end of the day, every researcher is facing the same challenge: copious amounts of laboratory waste.
Date: Aug 04, 2020
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