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- - Mar 19, 2020 Physics professor among researchers detailing how antineutrino detectors could aid nuclear nonproliferation
    Patrick Huber, a professor in the Virginia Tech Department of Physics, has co-authored an article that describes the potential uses and limitations of antineutrino detectors for nuclear security applications related to reactor, spent fuel, and explosion monitoring.
- - Mar 19, 2020 Nahum Arav part of team to discover quasar tsunamis capable of preventing stars from forming
    Using the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Virginia Tech’s Nahum Arav has discovered the most energetic outflows ever witnessed in the universe. “These outflows are crucial for the understanding of galaxies' formation,” Arav said.
- - Jan 08, 2020 Virginia Tech awarded Nuclear Regulatory Commission Integrated University Program grants
    The nuclear engineering program in Virginia Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering has been awarded two grants totaling $850,000 for faculty development and graduate student fellowships.
- - Nov 21, 2019 Cadets chosen to highlight the colors at the Pittsburgh game
    First-year cadets Allisen Haynes, Alex Jennings, and Christine Jung were chosen for this special duty for their performance in the Corps of Cadets.
- - Nov 14, 2019 Cadet chosen to highlight the colors at the Georgia Tech game
    Eric Cook is a junior in Naval ROTC majoring in physics. He is a member of the Pipe and Drum Band for the Corps of Cadets and performs at every home football game.
- - Oct 30, 2019 Two Department of Physics faculty receive fellowships from alumnus William Hassinger
    Virginia Tech College of Science faculty members Giti Khodaparast and Sophia Economou have each been awarded a fellowship to support their efforts in teaching and research.
- - Oct 09, 2019 American Physical Society names Physics’ Patrick Huber as Fellow
    The fellowship program recognizes members who have made exceptional contributions to physics research, the applications of physics, leadership in or service to the field, or significant contributions to physics education.
- - Sep 19, 2019 Six College of Science faculty receive fellowships from Board of Visitors to support research
    Each of the three-year fellowships is dedicated to recognizing faculty for extraordinary research and teaching as well as recruiting scholars with exceptional records of achievement.
- - Sep 09, 2019 College of Science presenting two 2019 Sowers Lecture Series events on game theory and black holes
    Colin Camerer will speak about game theory and its use in the sciences, and Gerard ‘t Hooft will discuss gravity and black holes in the subatomic world.
- - Jul 24, 2019 Virginia Tech researchers lead breakthrough in quantum computing
    Virginia Tech researchers have advanced quantum simulation by devising an algorithm that can more efficiently calculate the properties of molecules on a noisy quantum computer.
- - Jul 03, 2019 College of Science brings high school teachers to campus for nanoscience lessons, experiments
    The Virginia Tech College of Science recently hosted 16 high school science teachers for three days of in-depth lab experiments and demonstrations centered on bringing nanoscience into the classroom.
- - May 17, 2019 Virginia Drug Discovery Consortium meeting to focus on opioids, addiction, data science
    The Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery will host a May 21-22 meeting of the Virginia Drug Discovery Consortium to be held at the Hotel Roanoke, with such topics as opioid abuse, addiction, and data science in medicine as topics.
- - Apr 29, 2019 Virginia Tech scientists win cosmology prize for research about dark matter and dark energy
    Two Virginia Tech Department of Physics researchers recently won an American Astronomical Society prize for a new paper that tackles the puzzles of dark matter and dark energy, the two mysterious components of our universe.
- - Apr 25, 2019 Virginia Tech joining IBM Q Network to accelerate research, educational opportunities in quantum computing
    Virginia Tech researchers and students will have direct access to IBM Q’s most-advanced quantum computing systems for research projects that advance quantum science, exploring early uses of quantum computing, and for teaching.
- - Apr 19, 2019 Physics’ Ed Barnes to develop mathematical models for research into exotic topological materials
    Barnes will use a National Science Foundation CAREER grant to create mathematical models that will help scientists better understand how electrical currents flow in special compounds that possess a property known as topology.
- - Apr 11, 2019 Satellite built by Virginia Tech undergraduates ready for launch into space
    An interdisciplinary team of 50 undergraduate students developed Virginia Tech’s CubeSat at the Center for Space Science and Engineering Research over the past several years.
- - Mar 01, 2019 Two College of Science faculty members receive 2019 SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award
    Sterling Nesbitt, an assistant professor with the Department of Geosciences, and Leo Piilonen, a professor with the Department of Physics, are recipients of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia’s 2019 Outstanding Faculty Awards.
- - Jan 15, 2019 The super wolf blood moon, 'a full 62 luxurious minutes of totality'
    This coming Sunday night and Monday morning (January 20 and 21), a rare ‘super wolf blood moon’ should be on full display in the eastern United States, a trifecta of lunar viewing.
- - Dec 19, 2018 Cadet Brett Smith named a national ROTC Student of the Year
    This spring, Smith will be the cadet wing commander for the Air Force ROTC. It’s the top position a student can hold, responsible for 275 ROTC students.
- - Nov 08, 2018 Students meld creativity and innovation in the University Libraries Fusion Studio
    Undergraduate students combine their interests and talents to create a program to promote bicycle transportation and safety. The University Libraries Fusion Studio gives students the environment to innovate.
- - Jun 13, 2018 Physics researchers bring in federal funding to boost quantum science and technology research
    Faculty researchers in the Virginia Tech Department of Physics are building a major program in quantum information sciences thanks in part to multiple federal grants that have brought $3.7 million directly to the university.
- - May 30, 2018 VTCRI researcher to deliver internationally renowned Dorcas Cummings Memorial Lecture
    Read Montague will become the 41st person to present the annual Dorcas Cummings Memorial Lecture on June 2 at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium on Quantitative Biology, Brains, and Behavior: Order and Disorder in the Nervous System.
- - May 01, 2018 Keep calm and carry on: VTCRI scientists make first serotonin measurements in humans
    Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have begun to unravel how serotonin acts, based on data collected in a first-of-its-kind experiment that utilized electrochemical probes implanted into the brain of awake human beings.
- - Apr 25, 2018 Alma Robinson receives Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching
    Robinson came to Virginia Tech to help recruit and train the next generation of high school physics teachers.
- - Apr 18, 2018 Launch of NASA’s All-Sky Satellite Mission takes space exploration to the next level, says expert
    With the expected launch of NASA’s new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) this week, Virginia Tech astronomical science expert Nahum Arav says the all-sky survey mission is an important step forward that will enable space explorers to discover thousands of exoplanets around nearby bright stars.
- - Mar 09, 2018 Clare Boothe Luce Program supports research by female undergraduates
    The funding will be used over the next three years to provide 24 Clare Booth Luce Undergraduate Research Awards that will help make it possible for students to participate in research over the summer.
- - Mar 05, 2018 Rana Ashkar is named assistant professor of physics in College of Science
    With her research area focusing on experimental soft condensed matter physics and biophysics, Ashkar is the first faculty hire for the department in the area of Economic and Sustainable Materials.
- - Jan 03, 2018 Lara Anderson, Marc Michel named Luther and Alice Hamlett Junior Faculty Fellows
    The Luther and Alice Hamlett Junior Faculty Fellowships were established in the College of Science by the estate of Luther J. and Alice Hamlett.
- - Dec 07, 2017 College of Science inducts six new members during fifth annual Hall of Distinction ceremony
    The College of Science Hall of Distinction ceremony honors alumni and friends who have excelled in their professional careers, as well as in their service and philanthropy to civic groups and the university itself.
- - Dec 04, 2017 Chemistry’s John Morris named Dr. A.C. Lilly Jr. Faculty Fellow in Nanoscience by Board of Visitors
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 1999, Morris develops nanoscience approaches that can be used to build new catalysts and to provide insight into how the unique properties of small-scale materials affect the environment.
- - Nov 30, 2017 Satoru Emori named assistant professor of physics in College of Science
    His research focuses on “spintronics” and magnetic thin films, or more specifically, nanometer-thick materials with robust spin-driven physics. Many of these phenomena are considered essential for next-generation computing and communications technologies.
- - Nov 28, 2017 Physics researchers hosting NSF-funded workshop on quantum information, future of communications security
    Virginia Tech Department of Physics faculty will lead a three-day workshop in Arlington, Virginia, focused on quantum information, which could provide communications a revolutionary boost in security and privacy.
- - Nov 15, 2017 Cadets chosen to highlight the colors at the Pittsburgh game
    The cadets, selected based on their performance during training, render honor to the flags and then carry them off the field.
- - Oct 23, 2017 John Simonetti part of worldwide effort in detection of two merging neutron stars and resulting explosion
    Last Monday, an international group of scientists announced they had detected a kilonova — the collision of two neutron stars that unleashed a set of gravitational waves into outer space. Among the astronomers is Virginia Tech’s John Simonetti.
- - Sep 19, 2017 Army research grant could employ physics theory to control epidemics, understand brain
    Two Virginia Tech College of Science researchers are spearheading a $1.6 million U.S. Army Research grant with the ultimate goal of finding order and control in the most chaotic and noisy patterns.
- - Sep 05, 2017 Theoretical physicist Nigel Goldenfeld is fourth speaker in J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series
    The Virginia Tech College of Science opens its J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series for the fall 2017 semester on Sept. 14 with Professor Nigel D. Goldenfeld, a theoretical physicist.
- - Aug 02, 2017 Physics researchers eye experimental box as key to tracking nuclear activity by rogue nations
    Researchers at the Virginia Tech College of Science have built an experimental neutrino detector that they say could lead to a turning point in how the United Nations tracks rogue nations that seek nuclear power.
- - Jun 23, 2017 Inaugural College of Science Dean’s Discovery Fund provides support for faculty research
    The first alumni-endowed Virginia Tech College of Science Dean’s Discovery Fund, started by Sally C. Morton, supports vital research advances ranging from cancer treatment to a neutrino detector.
- - Apr 11, 2017 Nobel laureate Arthur B. McDonald is third speaker in the J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series
    The Virginia Tech College of Science concludes the lecture series April 27 with McDonald, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
- - Mar 24, 2017 Michel Pleimling named director of inclusion and diversity for College of Science
    Michel Pleimling has been named director of inclusion and diversity in the College of Science.

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