Around the Drillfield
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Boeing commits $50 million to innovation campus to become first foundational partner , articleTransformative investment will help diversify the technology industry and bolster the Washington, D.C., region as a global innovation hub.
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COVID Companions collaboration benefits students and the community , articleIsolation is still on the rise from the COVID-19 pandemic, and Virginia Tech and organizations within the New River Valley community are offering a way to minimize feelings of loneliness among older adults.
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Catawba Sustainability Center sips a sweet mountain staple , articleIn turning a small plot of sorghum into a molasses-like syrup, the center is testing whether an Appalachian tradition could help diversify small farms in Southwest Virginia.
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Class of 2021: Dedication defines Cadet Jillian Skahill as she prepares to commission into the U.S. Army , article"Besides her love of learning, she maintains a positive mental attitude that is omnipresent," says Lt. Col. Curtis Armstrong, executive officer of Virginia Tech and Radford Army ROTC. "She is also a fearless worker. As she continues to hone her knowledge and combine it with her work ethic, she will continue to be the type of officer that makes Virginia Tech proud.”
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Finding a forest in the trees: students design management plans for forest landowners , articleIn their capstone course, forestry students take what they’ve learned in the classroom and the lab throughout their college career and apply it to a real-world field project.
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Medical student Dakota Buhrman receives national public health award , articleThe U.S. Public Health Service Physician Professional Advisory Committee awarded Dakota Buhrman, a fourth-year medical student at VTCSOM, with a 2021 Excellence in Public Health Award.
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Newman Library group study tables now available thanks to architecture students’ work , articleA group of College of Architecture and Urban Studies students put their expertise to work in a project that allows their fellow Hokies to work together again in Newman Library.
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Poetry like a marriage between a comet and a meteor , articleThe Academy of American Poets chose Carmen Giménez Smith, a Virginia Tech professor of English, for one of its most prestigious honors.
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Soil Judging Team collaborates with NASA in "Plant the Moon" challenge , articleIn this second installment of looking at how Virginia Tech researchers and students address complex problems, the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences Soil Judging Team is working with NASA to grow vegetables as part of a global science experiment to learn how to grow crops in a hostile environment.
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Students help to clear up pandemic communication , articleTransparenSee, a group of Master of Public Health students and a graduate engineering student, produced clear, fog-resistant face masks to allow for better communication with the deaf and hard of hearing community.
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Transdisciplinary collaborations essential to tackling cancer , articleA dynamic collaboration between researchers in the veterinary college’s new Animal Cancer Care and Research Center and Virginia Tech’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics has attracted substantial funding for a unique approach to treating osteosarcoma, a notoriously painful and aggressive bone cancer that primarily afflicts large-breed dogs, children, and adolescents.
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Virginia Tech helps launch English language center at Iraqi university battered by Islamic State , articleThe Language and Culture Institute is training faculty members and administrators at the University of Mosul as they work to rebuild after the four-year occupation.
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Virginia Tech launches ‘next generation’ human brain imaging lab , articleResearchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have received a $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, part of the National Institutes of Health, to measure the brain’s subtle magnetic signals in two research volunteers simultaneously as they interact, capturing the rich complexity of the brain’s signaling during face-to-face social interactions in real-time.
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Virginia Tech research unleashing robotic technology on campus construction sites , articleFaculty and students from Myers-Lawson School of Construction are partnering with the Division of Campus Planning, Infrastructure, and Facilities and Procon Consulting to deploy Spot, a mobile robot dog, to conduct innovative research around autonomous construction progress monitoring.
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Virginia Tech researchers identify a missing piece of the Lyme disease puzzle , articleVirginia Tech Assistant Professor Brandon Jutras and his lab have continued to tackle the Lyme disease epidemic over the past year, and they have recently identified another missing piece of the Lyme disease puzzle.
