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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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Five new projects win seed funding , articleThe Junior Faculty Awards from the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science fund interdisciplinary collaborations led by early-career faculty.
Date: Mar 25, 2021 -
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To fly drones over roads safely, study what would happen if they crash , articleDrone researchers and injury biomechanics experts teamed up with State Farm to collect some of the first data describing the outcome of a potential collision between a drone and a moving car.
Date: Mar 24, 2021 -
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Tombo Jones named director of Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership , articleJones has served as associate director of the FAA-designated drone test site since 2019 and has been integral to the success of the nationally renowned research group. He assumes his new role April 5.
Date: Mar 22, 2021 -
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Doctoral student’s work reduces barriers to care for families living with autism spectrum disorder , articleAngela Dahiya-Singh was already researching ways technology could make assessment and treatment more accessible in rural communities when the pandemic made the need for remote options acute.
Date: Feb 25, 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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Aspiring drone pilots get a little help earning their wings , articleThe Virginia Tech Drone Park's latest initiative is offering small grants to help students get more serious about drones by bringing them closer to a key certification.
Date: Jan 25, 2021 -
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Southwest Center helps teachers meet unique demands of pandemic classrooms , articleThere has never been a more important time to plug into the expertise at Virginia Tech to address the needs of the commonwealth’s K-12 teachers, Director Penny McCallum says.
Date: Jan 08, 2021 -
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Diversity seed investments cement new partnerships , articleA program that helps Virginia Tech faculty jump-start new collaborations with colleagues at HBCUs is reaching more departments and continuing to attract external funding.
Date: Dec 17, 2020 -
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Low oxygen levels in lakes and reservoirs may accelerate global change , articleIn 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 -
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Bracing for busier skies with drone traffic management research , articleIn the second year of an FAA pilot program, the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership partnered with four companies to test a crucial suite of technologies for coordinating drone traffic safely.
Date: Nov 17, 2020 -
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New lab opens doors to materials science , articleTwo research institutes pooled their resources to create a facility with an extensive collection of equipment that will accelerate materials research all over campus.
Date: Nov 17, 2020 -
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Federal program marks a new phase in drone integration , articleThe Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership will manage Virginia's team in a drone-integration program that aims to move beyond initial trials to routine operations.
Date: Oct 30, 2020 -
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GO Virginia, Office of Economic Development work to address COVID-19 , articleVirginia Tech's Office of Economic Development is helping university researchers, local businesses, and organizations secure state funding for projects addressing the economic and public health challenges during the COVID-19 crisis.
Date: Oct 26, 2020 -
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Disaster resilience sociologist Liesel Ritchie joins Center for Coastal Studies , articleThroughout her career, Ritchie has studied the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Hurricane Katrina, and various earthquakes across the globe.
Date: Oct 08, 2020 -
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Nanoscience group wins a second nod from the NSF , articleA Virginia Tech center with unique expertise in Earth and environmental nanotechnology has again been selected for a prestigious national network funded by the National Science Foundation.
Date: Sep 24, 2020 -
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Drones deliver time savings to customers, new revenue to businesses , articleA new economic impact report takes a close look at what drone delivery could do for consumers, businesses, and the environment in three representative communities.
Date: Sep 16, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech research sees continued growth , articleResearch expenditures are up and sponsored awards have increased by 15 percent, building upon the prior year’s expenditure total of $542 million, despite the impact of COVID-19 felt nationally by higher education institutes, according to preliminary fiscal year-end reports.
Date: Sep 04, 2020 -
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Custom face shields aim to block droplets, tackle COVID-19 for football players , articleEngineers, athletic staff, and football players had two months to design a face shield that could reduce the risk of transmitting the coronavirus on the football field.
Date: Sep 02, 2020 -
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Chemistry’s Robert Moore appointed as new director of MII , articleMoore, a professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been named as director of the Virginia Tech Macromolecules Innovation Institute, an interdisciplinary science and engineering research center.
Date: Sep 01, 2020
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