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Nutshell Games offer a fun speaking competition for graduate research students , articleAre cows afraid of the dark? Are bees OK with weedkiller? Do mothers really know best? These are only a few of the research topics that will be explained as 30 Virginia Tech graduate students compete for $500 in professional development funding in this year’s event.
Date: Feb 02, 2023 -
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Students enrich the lives of incarcerated people with the gift of books , articleThe Virginia Tech Prison Book Project, which provides books to incarcerated people throughout Virginia, has seen “overwhelming” interest from students since hosting its first event in November 2021.
Date: Feb 02, 2023 -
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A passion for fashion with a multimedia twist , articleVetement de Rue incorporates performance and multimedia aspects — the most notable being a short feature film— in addition to clothing designed by Virginia Tech students.
Date: Feb 02, 2023 -
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Alumnus mentors engineering Hokies through takeoff , articleSix Virginia Tech engineering students designed, built, and flew a solar battery-powered aircraft during their three-month internship with Electra.aero. Virginia Tech alumnus JP Stewart helped guide their ambitious project.
Date: Feb 01, 2023 -
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Public health expert says annual COVID-19 vaccine will be an important disease prevention tool , articleLisa M. Lee, a professor of public health at Virginia Tech, provides perspective on the FDA plan to have individuals receive a single bivalent COVID-19 shot each year, just like flu shots). An epidemiologist, bioethicist, and ethics educator, Lee worked for more than 25 years in public health and ethics, including 14 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Date: Jan 31, 2023 -
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Capital construction efforts to improve Blacksburg campus accessibility to begin in February , articleConstruction on the first of a series of high-priority mobility and accessibility improvements will begin at Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus in January 2023. The first priority will include two interconnected twenty-four-seven-access elevator towers that draw on universal design principles to create an accessible pathway in the North Academic District.
Date: Jan 31, 2023 -
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Communications and Marketing division prepares for stronger alignment, collaboration , articleThe division appointed a senior director for colleges.
Date: Jan 30, 2023 -
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Virginia Tech-Germanna Community College partnership to increase access to cybersecurity education , articleThe agreement will play a key role in engaging a broader and more diverse student population in the cybersecurity talent pipeline in the greater Washington, D.C., metro area through a guided transfer partnership program.
Date: Jan 30, 2023 -
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Kevin Lahmers, leader in exotic tick disease study, receives Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence , articleLahmers has been a central figure in the discovery, tracking, and control of Theileria, a parasite transmitted to cattle by the Asian longhorned tick. The tick was not known to be in the United States until 2017, and Lahmers helped identify its arrival in Virginia the following year.
Date: Jan 27, 2023 -
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Electrical and computer engineering department soars to No. 4 in latest U.S. News rankings , articleVirginia Tech’s Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has generated an electrifying climb in U.S. News and World Report’s rankings for best global universities for electrical and electronic engineering in the United States.
Date: Jan 26, 2023 -
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Another record high: Virginia Tech receives more than 47,000 applications for first-year admissions , articleThe number of first-year applications for fall 2023 admission surpassed the previous year by 4.4 percent.
Date: Jan 26, 2023 -
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New geosciences study shows Triassic fossils that reveal origins of living amphibians , articleA team of scientists from Virginia Tech and the U.S. Petrified Forest National Park, among others, have discovered the first “unmistakable” Triassic-era caecilian fossil — the oldest-known caecilian fossils — extending the record of this small, burrowing mammal by roughly 35 million years. The find fills a gap of at least 87 million years in the known historical fossil record of the amphibian-like creature.
Date: Jan 25, 2023 -
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Virginia Tech’s Center for Future Work Places and Practices launches , articleThe newly formed center uses transdisciplinary research related to the design, development, and deployment of future work spaces, processes, and domains, with an emphasis on human-centered approaches to focus on the individual and the broader workplace.
Date: Jan 25, 2023 -
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Virginia Tech women’s basketball player out for blood , articleVirginia Tech women's basketball player Ashley Owusu needed blood transfusions to overcome a serious illness last spring, and now the Woodbridge, Virginia, native is using her platform as a college athlete to encourage others to donate blood to the American Red Cross.
Date: Jan 25, 2023 -
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Why some of Virginia Tech’s most popular courses are online , articleAs undergrads craving flexibility gravitate toward online learning options, a few Virginia Tech classes have expanded to enroll thousands of students.
Date: Jan 24, 2023
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