Siddhartha Roy, a Ph.D. student of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Water INTERface program at Virginia Tech, received the Alumni Association’s Graduate Student Service Excellence Award on March 24th, 2016 at the … Continue reading →
From VT News
Ten Virginia Tech undergraduate students better hold onto their hats this summer as they plunge down Amazonian river systems into the heart of Ecuador. At the helm of their canoes will be Global Change Center researchers Ignacio Moore and Bill Hopkins.
As part of a university-wide effort to promote study abroad, experiential learning, and undergraduate research, the students will witness the politics, history, culture, biology, and conservation issues in the South American country from May 16 to ...
From VT News
If you’re going to develop an interdisciplinary graduate research program at Virginia Tech, it’s good to have a champion of interdisciplinary education. In this case, Karen DePauw, the university’s vice president and dean of graduate education, serves as that champion.
On April 22, DePauw was honored with an award in her name at the first research symposium held by the Interfaces of Global Change interdisciplinary graduate education program.
During the symposium’s opening remarks, Bill Hopkins, the director of the Global ...
On Monday, May 9, 2016, Cathy Jachowski successfully defended her dissertaton in Fralin Auditorium. Her public seminar in Fralin Auditorium was titled, “Effects of Land Use and Parasitism on Hellbender Salamanders: A Multilevel Perspective”.
Cathy, a member of the Hopkins Lab, is the first Interfaces of Global Change graduate student to complete a doctoral program at Virginia Tech! Congratulations, Cathy!
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From VT News
Home decor has never been so useful.
An endangered woodpecker carries wood-eating fungi into its tree cavity home that ultimately help to expand the home’s size, according to a multi-institutional team led by a Virginia Tech researcher.
The finding, which comes after more than two years of experimental research in a protected area on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, was recently published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Researchers determined that the red-cockaded ...
Dr. Andrea Dietrich (member of Water INTERface Program) has been recently honored as the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Distinguished Alumna for 2015. The Distinguished Alumna … Continue reading →
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An international birder who has been trying to get some migratory bird legislation passed, Congressman Morgan Griffith on Wednesday visited Virginia Tech’s new aviary on the Blacksburg campus to learn about its research.
Regarding his interest in avian legislation, Griffith (R-VA) joined Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL) in introducing the Federal Bird-Safe Buildings Act (H.R. 2280) on May 12, 2015. Applying strictly to federal government buildings, the legislation requires new buildings to include bird-safe building materials and design ...
From VT News
May 5, 2016
When faculty members from different disciplines gather, they learn one another’s language.
So the process continued Wednesday as two groups of about 100 faculty members each joined at the Graduate Life Center to discuss the Adaptive Brain and Behavior Across the Lifespan destination area, and the Resilient Earth Systems destination area.
The sessions are part of a continuing process to identify difficult problems in society — areas that Virginia Tech can tackle with established, ...
Announcement:
The William R. Walker Graduate Research Fellow Award application for 2016 is now available (http://www.vwrrc.vt.edu/walker-award/). It is intended for individuals pursuing graduate work in water resources who have an undergraduate degree that did not have a water resources emphasis, or individuals with work experience returning to graduate school to study water resources. Applications are due May 20, 2016.
William R. Walker Graduate Research Fellow Award
Announcements and Application
Graduate students from Virginia Tech are invited each spring to submit ...
From The Atlantic
A decade after a judge ordered tobacco companies to acknowledge the dangers of low-tar cigarettes, they continue to dispute the scientific consensus.
In a landmark ruling nearly a decade ago, a federal judge ordered tobacco companies to stop lying.
After listening to 84 witnesses and perusing tens of thousands of exhibits, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler of the District of Columbia took a year to write a 1,652-page opinion detailing the companies’ elaborate strategy to deny the harmful effects ...
