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Destination Areas continue to advance Virginia Tech’s transdisciplinary strengths, impacts , articleDestination Areas are designed to support and accelerate Virginia Tech’s transformation of areas of interdisciplinary strength into dynamic, transdisciplinary collaborations.
Date: Apr 01, 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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Pathways minors tackle the challenges of the future , articleNew minors in the College of Natural Resources and Environment target students interested in global natural resources challenges.
Date: Feb 12, 2021 -
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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences launches Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture to prepare industry for future , articleThe Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture will focus on scientific discovery and the application of technology-driven innovative solutions for the agricultural challenges of tomorrow.
Date: Jan 22, 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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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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Virginia Tech researchers receive a $2 million NIH grant to develop Zika virus vaccine , articleZika virus outbreaks have now been recorded throughout Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, South America, and Central America.
Date: Dec 08, 2020 -
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Warmer mountaintops, wetter coasts , articleLynn Resler and Anamaria Bukvic investigate how climate change affects two vastly different ecosystems.
Date: Nov 20, 2020 -
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The Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-borne Pathogens announces team-building pilot grant awards , articleFunded 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 -
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New study: East African Rift System is slowly breaking away, with Madagascar splitting into pieces , articleThe African continent is slowly separating into several large and small tectonic blocks along the diverging East African Rift System, continuing to Madagascar – the long island just off the coast of Southeast Africa – that itself will also break apart into smaller islands.
Date: Nov 12, 2020 -
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Tick maps: Merging epidemiological data with technology , articleProfessor Korine Kolivras applies geographical expertise and geospatial tools to study the spread of Lyme disease in the southeastern U.S.
Date: Nov 11, 2020 -
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Geosciences doctoral student discovers new species of ancient rat-like cynodont, 220 million years old , articleFossilized jaw bone fragments of a rat-like creature found at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona last year are in fact a newly discovered 220-million-year-old species of cynodont or stem-mammal.
Date: Nov 04, 2020 -
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Geoscience’s Ben Gill seeks answer to how the planet changed during Triassic mass-extinction event 200 million years ago , articleGill, a geoscientist within the College of Science, will seek the answer or answers to what caused the Triassic mass-extinction event — one of the largest extinction events in the history of our planet — 200 million years ago.
Date: Oct 19, 2020 -
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Study: Land development and climate change threaten clear water lakes, but there is hope for protecting them , articleA recent study from the Virginia Tech Department of Biological Sciences shows that the negative effects from climate change on clear water lakes can be mitigated by limiting nutrient pollution from land development in clear-water lakes.
Date: Oct 14, 2020 -
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Veterinary college receives $3.5 million NIH grant to develop Lyme disease vaccine , articleRenowned tick immunobiologist Utpal Pal, professor in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine's Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, aims to adapt the rabies vaccination platform to produce antibodies that can protect against Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria responsible for Lyme disease.
Date: Sep 21, 2020 -
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Geosciences’ Steve Holbrook to lead multi-university effort to study the Earth’s hidden critical zone , articleAs part of a new, $5.3 million five-year National Science Foundation grant, Holbrook and collaborators at eight other universities in the U.S. and Canada will study the delicate and complex balance of processes — physical, hydrological, biological, and chemical — of the Earth's critical zone.
Date: Sep 14, 2020 -
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The sound of plants dancing , articleSmartfarms, like traditional farms, come in all shapes and sizes. Indoor urban gardening is a blossoming arena, and Virginia Tech researchers are studying how these plants can be remotely monitored through video and aural applications for plant health.
Date: Aug 31, 2020 -
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Biological Science’s Josef Uyeda using NSF CAREER Award to capture big picture connection of macro- and micro-evolution , articleJosef Uyeda, an assistant professor and evolutionary biologist in the Virginia Tech Department of Biological Sciences, seeks to study evolution across the tree of life from simply looking for patterns of how traits are related, to understanding what causes them to evolve.
Date: Aug 27, 2020 -
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Sterling Nesbitt receives NSF CAREER award to study the evolution of vertebrate communities during the Triassic Period , articleSterling Nesbitt, an associate professor of geobiology in the College of Science, and a team of researchers will use a NSF CAREER Award to learn more about how extinction events -- and time itself -- drive evolution in vertebrate communities.
Date: Aug 24, 2020 -
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D. Sarah Stamps receives $625,000 NSF CAREER grant to study role of volcanism in continental rifting , articleStamps, an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences, has received a five-year Faculty Early Career Development Program award to investigate early phase continental rifting at the Natron Rift in Tanzania.
Date: Aug 06, 2020
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