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Engineering students give life to Cassell cutouts , articleThe 112 shifting cutout faces, installed in the Cassell Coliseum student section, are a result of about five months of work by seven Virginia Tech mechanical engineering students.
Date: Mar 04, 2021 -
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Policy Destination Area team develops COVID-19 database to spur policy and social science research , articleAs the coronavirus tightened its grip across the globe in late spring 2020, faculty members associated with the Policy Destination Area began brainstorming about how they could respond to the pandemic. What they created was a “database of databases” related to the policies around the pandemic, with direct links to data for researchers to use.
Date: Mar 03, 2021 -
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Tom Dingus to step down as director of VTTI , articleUnder his leadership, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute has grown to house the largest group of driving safety researchers in the world. It has evaluated many modern critical in-vehicle and modern roadside safety features, such as rear-view cameras, that protect drivers and passengers.
Date: Mar 01, 2021 -
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Faculty academies recognize new inductees for outstanding leadership, service , articleAcademies honor the exemplary contributions of faculty members of all classifications in formal service roles or in areas of leadership.
Date: Mar 01, 2021 -
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Learning from the brainy bats of Borneo , articleLed by mechanical engineering Professor Rolf Mueller, Virginia Tech researchers have teamed up with international partners to create a state-of-the-art image capture tunnel that will provide a new level of insight in the field of biomotion. Their project has yielded more than $800,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation.
Date: Mar 01, 2021 -
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Tumors and centrosomes: Researchers receive grant to investigate cancer evolution , articleUnlike many of us during the COVID-19 pandemic, biological cells are not isolated from the outside world. This relationship between cell and environment also applies to the development of cancer, which a team of Virginia Tech scientists is now researching with the help of a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Date: Feb 24, 2021 -
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Jumping frost crystals: Boreyko lab works toward electrostatic de-icing , article“If we can amplify this electrostatic de-icing effect, such that entire sheets of ice or frost are instantly ripped away from their surface, it could be a game-changer for the aircraft and HVAC industries,” said Jonathan Borekyo.
Date: Feb 24, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech researchers receive cybersecurity research collaboration grants from the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative , articleCCI has four regional nodes and one hub dedicated to specific geographic areas of Virginia along with different research disciplines.
Date: Feb 23, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech celebrates 50 years of computer science , articleIn 1970, the Department of Computer Science was established under its founding department head, the late George Gorsline. Fifty years later, the department graduated its largest computer science class to date with 311 undergraduate degrees, 49 master’s degrees, and 28 doctorates awarded.
Date: Feb 19, 2021 -
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Alumnus honors mentors with first Ph.D. fellowships in the Department of Computer Science , articleAlumnus Greg Lavender has endowed the first two Ph.D. fellowships in the Department of Computer Science, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the department.
Date: Feb 18, 2021 -
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COVID-19 simulation model creates scenarios , articleSuch factors as the continued adoption of face coverings, the frequency of public health messaging, and the availability of vaccines are used to predict the rate of infection and likelihood of completing the spring semester as planned.
Date: Feb 17, 2021 -
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The new cryptographers , articleThe Zodiac Killer's second cipher went unsolved for 51 years. Two programmers and an applied mathematician turned to computing tools born after the coded 1969 message to finally crack it.
Date: Feb 16, 2021 -
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Lance Collins named to the National Academy of Engineering , articleThe vice president and executive director of the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus earns one of the highest professional distinctions for an engineer.
Date: Feb 15, 2021 -
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Raffaella De Vita elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering , articleDe Vita joined Virginia Tech’s biomedical engineering and mechanics department as a visiting professor in 2006 and as a full-time faculty member one year later.
Date: Feb 15, 2021 -
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Plugged in , articleAfter graduating from Virginia Tech in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Edward H. “Ed” Baine joined Dominion Energy as an associate engineer. During his tenure at the energy company, he has held numerous engineering, operational, and management positions.
Date: Feb 10, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech Publishing partners with international association to publish engineering open textbook , articleUniversity Libraries’ Virginia Tech Publishing and the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers published “Introduction to Biosystems Engineering,” a freely downloadable textbook written by an international team of authors.
Date: Feb 08, 2021 -
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In memoriam: Broderick Fisher, senior , articleFisher was a senior at Virginia Tech who planned to graduate with a degree in aerospace engineering in May 2021.
Date: Feb 02, 2021 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute graduate student awarded NIH Fellowship to examine balance, walking in children with cerebral palsy , articleHassan Farah, a Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health graduate student, has been awarded a $98,000 National Institutes of Health grant that will fund his remaining predoctoral research. Farah is studying the limb biomechanics, joint movements, and loading in children with cerebral palsy.
Date: Feb 01, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech researchers garner two major awards in COVID-19 forecasting challenges , articleDeepOutbreak, a team of researchers from Virginia Tech's Sanghani Center, Georgia Tech, and the University of Iowa, took first place in the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge using Facebook symptom survey data and second place in the COVID-19 Grand Challenge.
Date: Jan 29, 2021 -
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Department of Defense awards Virginia Tech $1.5 million to prepare students for cybersecurity careers , articleVirginia Tech has been awarded approximately $1.5 million to fuel workforce development in cybersecurity and related professional roles as one of six Department of Defense’s senior military colleges participating in the U.S. Cyber Command Cyber Leadership Development Program.
Date: Jan 28, 2021
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