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Pamplin partners with Ballad Health and Appalachian School of Law in new legal and health services program , articleThe Pamplin College of Business will contribute descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to track and measure the program’s success, with the aim of turning raw medical and business data into actionable knowledge.
Date: Jan 14, 2021 -
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$10M gift will help fuel discoveries at Innovation Campus , articleVirginia Tech’s growing impact in the greater Washington, D.C., metro area will receive a significant boost thanks to a multimillion-dollar gift from Octo founder and CEO Mehul Sanghani ’98 and his wife, Hema Sanghani ’99.
Date: Jan 13, 2021 -
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Grant awarded to University Libraries to study curation of interdisciplinary data and collaborative research , articleThe project will generate deep knowledge of data practices in interdisciplinary research, engage the library and archives communities in collaborative development and evaluation, and enhance the long-term sustainability of these complex datasets and their necessary infrastructures for use in future research.
Date: Dec 09, 2020 -
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Business analytics student project demonstrates innovative features of public safety software , articleThe capstone project is one of the many benefits of the master’s in business analytics program, said Jay Winkeler, executive director of the Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics in the Pamplin College of Business. “It gives our students the opportunity to work with real clients to identify, analyze, and propose solutions to current business problems.”
Date: Nov 13, 2020 -
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World Wildlife Fund partners with Discovery Analytics Center on automated system to help save forests , articleFor the first time, researchers at the Discovery Analytics Center will use an automated data analytics system to help identify suspicious timber trade records that relate to possible illegal activity.
Date: Nov 10, 2020 -
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Tyler Walters elected to Association of Research Libraries Board of Directors , articleWhile on the eight-member Board of Directors, Walters joins research library deans from across the country in guiding, advising, and leading the organization with ARL's executive director and staff.
Date: Nov 02, 2020 -
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Andi Ogier appointed University Libraries’ assistant dean and director of data services , articleOgier will improve the University Libraries' embedded role in data-intensive research and affiliated research policies. She will also reset the strategy for library-wide metadata strategies.
Date: Oct 19, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech, Facebook team up to develop a new way for video editors to erase unwanted objects , articleThe method developed by Jia-Bin Huang, assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, Ph.D. student Chen Gao, and their Facebook collaborators uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to achieve flow-edge guided video completion.
Date: Sep 28, 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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Michael Hughes recognized for discoveries in the sociology field , articleThe sociology professor’s research on a range of topics — including culture, race, and mental health — has made him an ideal candidate for the Southern Sociological Society’s highest honor.
Date: Jul 30, 2020 -
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KPMG Foundation and Virginia Tech alumni commit $2.5 million toward Global Business and Analytics Complex , articleVirginia Tech will name the KPMG / Lynne and Ben Doughtie Undergraduate Programs Suite, within its planned Global Business and Analytics Complex, in recognition of a recent $2.5 million commitment toward the project.
Date: Jul 29, 2020 -
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Mathematics' Lauren Childs models the role of testing for COVID-19 outbreaks , articleChilds had followed reports released by government health agencies around the world, and realized that communities would need much more information about who was being tested, who was not, and how many of the untested could be carriers of the virus.
Date: Jul 27, 2020 -
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Julia Feerrar guides others to their best digital lives , articleDigital Literacy is a set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that people use to engage with their digital lives. “I think about engaging with digital life as being able to make informed decisions, including how we learn, create, and interact with each other online,” said Julia Feerrar.
Date: Jul 21, 2020 -
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College of Science launches Academy of Data Science to help meet demand for data scientists , articleTom Woteki has been named founding director of the Academy of Data Science, a new program within the College of Science.
Date: Jul 15, 2020 -
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Lara Khansa named Sonny Merryman Inc. Professor , articleKhansa ranks among the top 50 researchers worldwide for research productivity in the information systems field and top 10 in the world for publications in the Journal of Management Information Systems, one of Pamplin’s elite journals.
Date: Jul 02, 2020 -
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Virtual VE Day celebrates volunteers and more than 200,000 World War II document transcriptions , articleThe virtual event celebrated the completion of a crowdsourcing drive to transcribe handwritten survey responses from World War II soldiers as part of The American Soldier project.
Date: Jun 23, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech students find timely parallels between the coronavirus pandemic and the 1918 influenza pandemic , articleStudents in a Virginia Tech history course presented in-depth research on the 1918 flu pandemic in a National Library of Medicine videocast as part of the library’s ongoing partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Date: Jun 16, 2020 -
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Fluent in flavor: Using machine learning to build a flavor language for whiskey , articleA research project by Department of Food Science and Technology researchers Jacob Lahne and Leah Hamilton and University Libraries’ data consultants Chreston Miller, Michael Stamper, and Amr Hilal received a SEAD Major Grant from The Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology.
Date: Jun 09, 2020 -
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University Libraries’ student teams respond to White House call to action to analyze COVID-19 data , articleUniversity Libraries at Virginia Tech faculty members Anne M. Brown and Jonathan Briganti challenged their undergraduate data students in the library’s DataBridge program and the Bevan & Brown Lab to jump in and create tools and look for patterns and trends in COVID-19 research data using machine learning and molecular modeling.
Date: May 12, 2020 -
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Board of Visitors approves proposed formation of School of Communication and Digital Media , articlePending approval from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the school would expand the university’s already award-winning communication programs.
Date: May 10, 2020
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