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Open Access Week features keynote 'Counting what counts in recruitment, promotion, and tenure' , articleAs part of virtual Open Access Week, on Tuesday, Oct. 20, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., Elizabeth Gadd (submitted photo), research policy manager at Loughborough University, United Kingdom, will deliver the keynote presentation.
Date: Oct 14, 2020 -
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Professor rebels against material and class gains through poetry , articleWhat started out as a creative challenge became an epic poem, which in turn became an award-winning book. The Mu of Virginia chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honors English Professor Carmen Giménez Smith's creative excellence.
Date: Sep 16, 2020 -
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Danna Agmon receives 2020 Albert Lee Sturm Award for Faculty Excellence , articleAs the historian of French colonialism began researching a new book, her first book was recognized by Virginia Tech’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter.
Date: Sep 15, 2020 -
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New Arabic major offers more than language skills , articleVirginia Tech now offers a major in this critical and in-demand language and prepares students for their roles in global affairs, service, and education.
Date: Aug 31, 2020 -
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When politics, religion, and sexuality are the conversation , articleWhile getting her master’s degree, the assistant professor of religion and culture discovered an interest in political theology. Now she is co-hosting a podcast dedicated to the broad swath of topics the discipline encompasses.
Date: Aug 28, 2020 -
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Celebrated poet to kick off school year in virtual address Aug. 31 , article“The bright exchange of ideas and information that we human beings engage and participate in, also known as higher education, is one of the most precious human relationships we can build together,” says renowned poet Nikky Finney.
Date: Aug 27, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech historians uncover the facts about masks , articleHow did Americans’ use of masks during the 1918 flu pandemic compare to today? A team of Virginia Tech researchers dove into the archives and found remarkable parallels.
Date: Aug 24, 2020 -
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‘Future Humans, Human Futures’ to explore humanity in the age of intelligent machines , articleThe Henry Luce Foundation has awarded the Center for Humanities a $500,000 grant in support of the project, which will combine religion, ethics, and technology to tackle fundamental questions of what it means to be human in a technological age.
Date: Aug 24, 2020 -
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New English chair emphasizes power of reading, writing to promote positive growth , articleRebecca Weaver-Hightower said her passion for higher education has only grown since her childhood spent as a “professor’s kid.”
Date: Aug 21, 2020 -
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Jacqueline Bixler named director of the School of Performing Arts , articleThe Alumni Distinguished Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech is an internationally recognized scholar of contemporary Latin American theatre, with a focus on Mexican performance art.
Date: Aug 20, 2020 -
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Fight for women’s right to vote represents perseverance, commitment , articleOne hundred years ago, women gained the right to vote after a struggle lasting more than 70 years. Marian Mollin, associate professor of history, dives deeper into the meaning of the 19th Amendment.
Date: Aug 17, 2020 -
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Confederate symbols to be explored in college’s latest virtual teach-in on social justice , articleThe Virginia Tech Department of History will host a virtual teach-in, “Confederate Commemoration in Academic Settings: A Webinar on Memory and Race,” on August 12 at noon.
Date: Aug 10, 2020 -
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Mellon Foundation grant supports development of a plan for using artificial intelligence to plumb the National Archives , articleThe exponential growth in digital records requires a comprehensive effort to leverage artificial intelligence to support enhanced searches of the nation’s official documents. Virginia Tech will lead a planning workshop with that aim.
Date: Jul 31, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech School of Communication becomes official on Aug. 1 , articleThe school supersedes the university’s already award-winning Department of Communication, which has graduated more than 6,000 specialists in public relations, communication studies, and multimedia journalism.
Date: Jul 30, 2020 -
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Hokie journalist finds news niche - and Pulitzer Prize team - in Alaska , articleJames Brooks is a member of a team of reporters and editors at the Anchorage Daily News that received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its yearlong investigation into the criminal justice system’s failures across Alaska.
Date: Jul 16, 2020 -
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Collaboration between two universities sparks a new approach to performing history , articleWhen the collaborative effort of two theatre professors from two universities couldn't be presented live, the professors enlisted colleagues to help their students create a whole new paradigm of social justice theatre.
Date: Jul 08, 2020 -
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Mellon Foundation supports creation of a new Pathways minor in Tech for Humanity , articleThe new minor, open to all undergraduates, will emphasize humanistic approaches to technology.
Date: Jul 07, 2020 -
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‘The Land Speaks’ exhibit transformed into virtual experience , articleThe main goal of the exhibit is to spread the story of the Monacan Indian Nation. This federally recognized tribe includes more than 2,300 members and has a continuous, thousand-year-old history and presence in the area that is now Amherst County in central Virginia.
Date: Jul 06, 2020 -
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Voices of Virginia tells Virginia's story for all to hear , articleVoices of Virginia is a freely available collection of first-person stories of Virginians who witnessed and changed U.S. history, as told by Virginians and recorded over the past 70 years. The project was funded by the University Libraries' Open Education Faculty Initiative Grant program and recently released in VTechWorks.
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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