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General ItemGreg Ebel to speak about temperature and virus evolution
Greg Ebel, a professor from the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory at Colorado State University, will speak at the Virginia Tech Life Science Seminar (VTLSS) on Friday, April 16 at 12:00 p.m.
Date: Apr 12, 2021 -
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Students design safe-distancing circles for community , articleThanks to Virginia Tech students Kirat Pandher and Joonyoung Kang, Blacksburg residents and visitors have visual cues to help them remember to maintain safe distances in some of the community’s most heavily frequented areas.
Date: Apr 02, 2021 -
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Researchers receive grant to study misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine , articleResearchers at Virginia Tech are looking into how social media misinformation influences people’s intention to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, especially those within the Appalachian region, with help from a grant funded by the Fralin Life Sciences Institute and the Data and Decisions Destination Area.
Date: Apr 01, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech and UVA virologists develop broadly protective coronavirus vaccines , articleThe team's candidate vaccines take an unusual approach in that they target a part of the spike protein of the virus, the “viral fusion peptide,” that is highly universal among coronaviruses.
Date: Mar 24, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech launches Translational Plant Sciences Center , articleThere is a pressing need for research to promote safe, sustainable production of food, feed, and fiber. To meet this need, Virginia Tech has created the Translational Plant Sciences Center, which will focus on the development and translation of basic plant research discoveries into technologies and practices that improve agriculture.
Date: Mar 18, 2021 -
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Biodiversity, fishing, and the environment: thinking globally to protect our oceans , articleResearchers estimate that 90 percent of the ocean’s biodiversity could be preserved by strategically protecting just 21 percent of the ocean, and that protecting high-priority areas would have significant ramifications for critically endangered ocean species.
Date: Mar 17, 2021 -
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Not sold on the COVID-19 vaccine? Virginia Tech experts answer questions about vaccine concerns , articleTwo Virginia Tech faculty members who are experts on public health and vaccine efficacy discuss common questions about the safety, timing, and testing process of the coronavirus vaccine.
Date: Mar 10, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech freshwater scientist Cayelan Carey selected for 2021 cohort in Earth Leadership Program , articleCarey, an associate professor of biological sciences in the Virginia Tech College of Science and an affiliated faculty member at the Fralin Life Sciences Institute and the Global Change Center, is one of 21 academics who have been handpicked for the 2021-22 North American cohort.
Date: Mar 05, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech researcher highlights infectious diseases and social distancing in nature , articleIn a new review published in Science, Dana Hawley, a professor of biological sciences in the Virginia Tech College of Science, and a team of scientists have highlighted some non-human species that have intuitively practiced social distancing when one of their own became sick - long before humans learned about and started “social distancing due to COVID-19."
Date: Mar 04, 2021 -
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What can stream quality tell us about quality of life? , articleResearchers are using stream quality data to find new insights into the interactions between the health of our natural spaces and human well-being.
Date: Mar 04, 2021 -
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Coffee for the birds: connecting bird-watchers with shade-grown coffee , articleResearchers from Virginia Tech, Cornell University, and Columbia University examined ways to improve awareness of coffee grown in a way that protects bird habitat.
Date: Mar 02, 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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Mathematics’ Lauren Childs helps address the complex problems of malaria , articleChilds recently co-authored a report with a team from Harvard University on the role of natural mosquito behavior on transmission of a disease that threatens half the world’s population.
Date: Feb 23, 2021 -
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Songbirds exposed to lead-contaminated water show telltale signs about human impacts , articleKendra Sewall, an associate professor of biological sciences in the College of Science, and a diverse team of scientists and students have found that lead levels like those reported in Flint, Michigan, can interfere with the vocal development of songbirds and affect mate attraction.
Date: Feb 03, 2021 -
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Q&A: Vaccine basics, their history, importance, and role in COVID-19 , articleKate Langwig, a quantitative disease ecologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech, breaks down the basics about vaccines, how they work, and how they have protected humans from lethal diseases for decades.
Date: Feb 01, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech researchers discover 635 million-year-old fungi-like microfossil that bailed us out of an ice age , articleA team of scientists from Virginia Tech, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guizhou Education University, and University of Cincinnati has discovered the remains of a fungi-like microfossil that emerged at the end of an ice age some 635 million years ago.
Date: Jan 28, 2021 -
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Max-Planck Institute director to present at Virginia Tech Life Science Seminar , articleMelina Schuh, esteemed scientist and pioneer in chromosomal abnormalities in ovarian cells, will speak at the Virginia Tech Life Science Seminar, a universitywide seminar series funded by the Fralin Life Sciences Institute at Virginia Tech, on Jan. 29.
Date: Jan 25, 2021 -
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New fossil provides clarity to the history of Alligatoridae , articleA 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 -
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Fatal attraction: Bats with white-nose syndrome prefer suboptimal habitats despite the consequences , articleVirginia 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 -
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William Hopkins receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor , articleHopkins, 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
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