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Article ItemNew fossil provides clarity to the history of Alligatoridae , article
A new fossil has been identified by Michelle Stocker, of the Department of Geosciences in the College of Science, which will provide some much needed clarity into the complex, and incomplete, history of caimans and their movements across time and space.
Date: Jan 15, 2021 -
Article ItemFatal attraction: Bats with white-nose syndrome prefer suboptimal habitats despite the consequences , article
Virginia Tech researchers have been studying little brown bat populations to see if bats alter their preferences across hibernacula, or hibernation sites, in response to the invasion of white-nose syndrome. But instead of avoiding these deadly sites, bats continue to use them year after year.
Date: Jan 08, 2021 -
Article ItemWilliam Hopkins receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor , article
Hopkins, professor of wildlife in the College of Natural Resources, has been selected to receive a 2021 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education and Dominion Power.
Date: Dec 11, 2020 -
Article ItemLow oxygen levels in lakes and reservoirs may accelerate global change , article
In a first of its kind study, researchers at Virginia Tech have experimentally tested, at the whole ecosystem-scale, how different oxygen levels in lakes and reservoirs affect the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and contribute to global change.
Date: Dec 09, 2020 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech paleontologists find pterosaur precursors that fill a gap in early evolutionary history , article
With the help of newly discovered skulls and skeletons that were unearthed in North America, Brazil, Argentina, and Madagascar, Virginia Tech researchers Sterling Nesbitt and Michelle Stocker from the Department of Geosciences have demonstrated that a group of "dinosaur precursors," called lagerpetids, are the closest relatives of pterosaurs.
Date: Dec 09, 2020 -
Article ItemManaging salt pollution to protect drinking water resources and freshwater ecosystems , article
Researchers recently received a $3.6 million grant to catalyze solutions for salt pollution by merging ideas, approaches, and technologies from widely diverse fields of knowledge to stimulate innovation and discovery.
Date: Dec 09, 2020 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech researchers receive a $2 million NIH grant to develop Zika virus vaccine , article
Zika virus outbreaks have now been recorded throughout Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, South America, and Central America.
Date: Dec 08, 2020 -
Article ItemFrom Costa Rica to the National Human Genome Research Institute: Biochemist Ariana Umaña uses her family as inspiration , article
After graduation this winter, Umaña is going to work at the National Human Research Genome Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Date: Dec 08, 2020 -
Article ItemIn memoriam: Lillian Haldeman 'Peg' Moore, University Distinguished Professor , article
Moore was instrumental in setting up the Anaerobe Lab and served as the associate director. She was an authority in the field of anaerobic bacteriology, food microbiology, and was a pioneer in the field of microbiome research.
Date: Dec 08, 2020 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech, Children’s National Hospital request proposals for new brain cancer research pilot grants , article
Children’s National Hospital and Virginia Tech launched a new pilot funding opportunity to advance brain cancer research. Two dual-institution teams will each be awarded a one-year, $50,000 grant.
Date: Dec 02, 2020 -
Article ItemConfronting ecological change takes a collaborative leap with the NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge , article
The NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge enters its first year seeking to mobilize researchers and forecast answers to a complex set of ecological questions.
Date: Dec 01, 2020 -
Article ItemWarmer mountaintops, wetter coasts , article
Lynn Resler and Anamaria Bukvic investigate how climate change affects two vastly different ecosystems.
Date: Nov 20, 2020 -
Article ItemThe human dimensions of water , article
Luke Juran’s research ranges from flooding and drought in India to residential water quality in Virginia.
Date: Nov 18, 2020 -
Article ItemLurking in genomic shadows: How giant viruses fuel the evolution of algae , article
Viruses are tiny invaders that cause a wide range of diseases, from rabies to tomato spotted wilt virus and, most recently, COVID-19 in humans. But viruses can do more than elicit sickness — and not all viruses are tiny.
Date: Nov 18, 2020 -
Article ItemBiotech-In-A-Box Program continues to foster scientific curiosity despite COVID-19 , article
For aspiring young scientists, getting hands-on experience in the laboratory is the best way to pique their scientific curiosity and expand their knowledge in a memorable way. But for many schools across Virginia, getting access to expensive scientific materials can be difficult with already stretched out budgets. Virginia Tech's Biotech-in-a-Box program helps to alleviate this strain.
Date: Nov 17, 2020 -
Article ItemThe Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-borne Pathogens announces team-building pilot grant awards , article
Funded by the Fralin Life Sciences Institute and Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 10 interdisciplinary research teams were awarded team-building pilot grant awards to tackle some of these complex zoonotic and vector-borne emerging infectious disease problems.
Date: Nov 16, 2020 -
Article ItemWhat does the fox say to a puma? Predators form an unusual coexistence in the central Chilean Andes , article
While pumas and foxes overlapped significantly where they lived and what time they were active, researchers found the predators had little overlap in what they were eating.
Date: Nov 12, 2020 -
Article ItemTick maps: Merging epidemiological data with technology , article
Professor Korine Kolivras applies geographical expertise and geospatial tools to study the spread of Lyme disease in the southeastern U.S.
Date: Nov 11, 2020 -
Article ItemIntroducing PromethION24: the newest machine to join the Genomics Sequencing Center , article
The new genomics sequencing machine, acquired through a first-of-its-kind USDA equipment grant, will be housed within Steger Hall's Genomics Sequencing Center and will provide genomic data for 18 diverse research groups at Virginia Tech.
Date: Nov 09, 2020 -
Article ItemThe show must go on: The Center for Communicating Science announces virtual format for annual Nutshell Games , article
Instead of presenting in front of a Moss Arts Center audience, this year’s Nutshell Games competition will be moving to a first-ever virtual format. You can watch 29 graduate student researchers present their research on Saturday, Nov. 7. Did we mention that they have only 90 seconds to present?
Date: Nov 03, 2020
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