Tweet This past weekend we had the wonderful opportunity to host a booth at the 2016 USA Science and Engineering Festival. This was our second time participating in this huge biannual event — with over 1,000 … Continue reading
Tweet About the author: Rui Filipe Serra Maia is a PhD student in Geosciences at Virginia Tech. Check out his profile on the VTSuN student page. Do you think nanotechnology is so complicated that only scientists can use it? If so, you … Continue reading
Tweet About the author: James Dale is a PhD candidate in Geosciences at Virginia Tech. Check out his profile on the VTSuN student page. “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” This … Continue reading
Tweet Prologue: It’s #WomensMonth and I was asked to write a little bit about my perspective in interdisciplinary research. This is probably the hardest blog post I have had to write because I do not have … Continue reading
Tweet Writing about women in interdisciplinary research (IDR) at Virginia Tech and specifically VTSuN is a joy. As a young program, the origin history is intact and many of the individuals are still here at … Continue reading
Tweet Our booth at the #TEDxLab @TEDxVT @TEDx with @VTSuN @thewchan @gargisinghiitr pic.twitter.com/Oe5oZ92KFg — VTSuN (@VTSuN) November 20, 2014 TED conferences focus on Technology, Education, and Design. TED is a global nonprofit centered on Ideas Worth Spreading … Continue reading
Tweet That (paraphrased) conversation above was one of the many we had at the first Virginia Science Festival. It was a week-long celebration of science (October 4-11), spread across Virginia. Virginia Tech hosted the first … Continue reading
Tweet “Does the fact that most of us know the names of mass murderers, but have never heard of Jan Oort, say anything about us?” That was Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (Cosmos, Episode 3), making … Continue reading
About the author: Sarah Ulrich is a Ph.D. student in Geosciences at Virginia Tech. Find her on Twitter @sarainscience Tweet Remember going to the science museum as a kid? There were dinosaur fossils, giant magnets, lasers, and … Continue reading
Tweet For many Ph.D. students there is nothing more fun than going to a hands-on science museum. Especially when the technology and science presented is AWESOME. Recently I got the chance to visit the National Museum … Continue reading