Warner secures $15M for unmanned systems research
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The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute will receive $15 million in federal funding to support research on safe automated driving integration.
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NSF grant to fund student research in Australia on horticultural pests
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A three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will allow 18 students from Eastern Mennonite University and nearby colleges to gain cross-cultural and research experience – in Australia. The grant will fund the “Tephritid fruit fly Multidisciplinary Australian Research Collaboration for Biosecurity” (T-MARC-BIO) initiative, which is led by EMU chemistry Professor Matthew Siderhurst. Tephritid fruit…
Research fellow studies methane-producing microorganisms
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Virginia Tech sophomore and biochemistry major Taylan Tunckanat is characterizing enzymes to understand how methane-producing microorganisms are able to survive in environments with high concentrations of salt.
Senators question reduced payments for USDA research employees
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A group of senators has asked the USDA to explain its decision to reduce payments to employees who have declined to relocate to Kansas City following the Trump Administration’s slapdash decision to move the two key research agencies out of Washington D.C.
Research on social networks in South African minority communities
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Davon Woodard will spend the 2019 fall academic semester as a visiting scholar at the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Research experience focuses on forest ecological assessment
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Two students in the College of Natural Resources and Environment have spent the summer surveying of a section of forest located on the southwestern corner of Virginia Tech’s campus, on the west side of Route 460.
Virginia Tech researchers receive $2.9M to study infectious diseases
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Researchers from Virginia Tech received a $2.9 million award from the National Science Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation of China to understand the long-term host and pathogen dynamics of white-nose syndrome in bats.
Shielding heart tissue bystanders after attack, researchers discover compound
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Imagine there were a drug that you could take soon after a heart attack that could reduce damage by protecting healthy heart muscle tissue.
New research could help green Virginia with blue carbon
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For more than 30 years, conservationists have used a variety of tools and resources to address water quality issues in the Chesapeake Bay. Now, they are throwing the carbon sink into the mix to help citizens make more informed land management decisions.
Roanoke scientists give behind-the-scenes look at biomedical research
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“I learned that the heart is a muscle and there are a lot of cells there.” That was one camper’s big takeaway after visiting the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute.
