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- - Government Shutdown: Virginia Tech professor available to explain economic impacts
    The current government shutdown is creating economic stress that has both short- and long-term consequences, says Virginia Tech's Mike Ellerbrock
- - Virginia Tech brings together partners in Senegal to tackle youth education, employment
    The Feed the Future Senegal Youth in Agriculture project, managed by Virginia Tech, draws more than 100 people to West Africa meeting.
- - Susan Campbell named assistant professor of animal and poultry sciences
    Campbell is one of a number of new faculty members recently hired in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She is a neuroscientist who studies epilepsy.
- - Daniel Austin receives conservation award for stewardship and innovation
    Austin, a Franklin County farmer, recently received the fifth annual Carl G. Luebben Soil Health and Water Quality Award for his contributions to conservation in the commonwealth.
- - Siobhan Craige named assistant professor of human nutrition, foods, and exercise
    The overall goal of Craige’s research program is to elucidate the mechanisms by which diet and exercise influence vascular health, ultimately contributing to the prevention of cardio-metabolic disease.
- - New year, new goals: Virginia Tech faculty offer tips for starting, sticking to resolutions
    How are your New Year's resolutions going? Here are some tips for sticking with them.
- - New environmental sensing and monitoring system tested and evaluated at Virginia Tech
    The system, which will make it easier for scientists to monitor and collect data across landscapes, is being field tested at a site along Stroubles Creek.
- - Angela Anderson named assistant professor of human nutrition, foods, and exercise
    Anderson is one of a number of new faculty members recently hired in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences this academic year.
- - Virginia 4-H judging team earns second consecutive Eastern National 4-H Roundup Championship
    For the second year in a row, the Virginia 4-H horse judging team won the 2018 Eastern National 4-H Roundup Championship. The hippology team earned the reserve championship.
- - Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors selects projects to tackle lifestyle-related diseases
    Collaborative teams of Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic investigators are exploring the consequences of destructive health behavior in people struggling with poor adherence to breast cancer treatment regimes, opioid dependence, and cardiovascular disease.
- - Policy Strategic Growth Area funds first +Policy fellows to enhance interdisciplinary research
    The Virginia Tech Policy Strategic Growth Area (SGA) is taking aim at helping research teams place policy considerations front and center in interdisciplinary projects focused on pressing contemporary issues.
- - Janet Rankin honored with emerita status
    Rankin joined the university community in 1982 as an assistant professor of health, physical education, and recreation. Over the next 36 years, she held various positions at Virginia Tech, including acting department head and interim director of the university’s Institute for Biomedical and Public Health Sciences.
- - Students spark innovation through global design program
    Connor Mulligan, Timothy Cosby, Sydney Grace Miller, and Shafe Ahmed are the 2018-2019 University Innovation Fellows. The program, run by Stanford University's d.school, involves students globally who strive to make changes on their campuses and in their communities.
- - Brian Plum named associate director of development in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
    Brian Plum combines the lessons he learned in studying history, his experience with the Peace Corps, and the skills he honed as a community organizer to build relationships on behalf of Virginia Tech.
- - Leon Geyer honored with emeritus status
    Geyer, professor of agricultural and applied economics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, made significant scholarly contributions to agricultural law and policy.
- - R. Michael Akers honored with emeritus status
    Akers, professor and former head of the Department of Dairy Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of Horace E. and Elizabeth F. Alphin Professor Emeritus of Dairy Science by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
- - Virginia Tech researchers conduct first formal sensory study on aging characteristics of American whiskeys
    Despite the growing popularity of American whiskey, formal sensory research on its aging characteristics has never been published. Two Virginia Tech researchers are going to change that.
- - Ann Dunnington honored with emerita status
    Dunnington, professor of animal science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, conducted poultry genetic and behavioral research with colleagues around the world.
- - Virginia Tech names Chevon Thorpe director of inclusion, diversity, and equity in CALS
    Thorpe '12 will provide leadership and serve as the focal point for college diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- - Class of 2018: Agribusiness management major discovers a passion for Habitat for Humanity projects
    Graduating senior Chandler Vaughan has found a sense of purpose as a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity at Virginia Tech. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences student has focused on the service initiatives that most fulfill him.

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