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Virginia Tech nanoscientist seeks to develop thin films with a big payoff , articleSatoru Emori, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, wants to create new thin films made of specially engineered magnetic materials, a project funded by a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation CARRER Award.
Date: May 24, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech mother and son both earn Ph.D.s this spring , articleSharon Stidham and her son, James, shared an apartment and encouraged each other’s work as they pursued their degrees.
Date: May 19, 2022 -
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Three colleges launch new travel grant for faculty to pay for dependent care , articleThe pilot program, sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs, aims to ease the financial burdens of faculty members who have to arrange care for dependents while they travel for conferences or research.
Date: May 13, 2022 -
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Physicist S. James Gates to present virtual talk as part of J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series , articleThe College of Science’s J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series will host its third virtual event March 28 with Brown University theoretical physicist S. James Gates Jr.
Date: Mar 24, 2022 -
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For undergraduates, research can be a route to self-discovery , articleStudents in any major can find an undergraduate research project that ignites their curiosity. A new fellowship can help them spend more time with those projects.
Date: Mar 15, 2022 -
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Physics instructor Alma Robinson receives national teaching award for first-year experiences , articleAs a co-teacher of the physics First-Year Experience course, Robinson works to create an inclusive classroom in STEM and to encourage students to "think like a physicist."
Date: Mar 09, 2022 -
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Robert Weiss named director of Academy of Integrated Science in College of Science , articleThe academy was started in 2011 by the late Lay Nam Chang, then dean of the College of Science, with the mission of exploring powerful new approaches to current complex scientific problems.
Date: Mar 08, 2022 -
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Physics Teacher Education Coalition again honors Virginia Tech as part of ‘5+ Club’ , articleThe honor puts Virginia Tech in the top 1 percent of universities for training future physics teachers.
Date: Mar 01, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech’s Orbital Launch Vehicle Team celebrates successful launch in California , articleTwo years since its last launch, the undergraduate design team has been building toward its long-term goal of putting a launch vehicle into low Earth orbit.
Date: Feb 15, 2022 -
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Randy Heflin named Research and Innovation’s senior associate vice president , articlePreviously the associate dean for research and graduate studies for the College of Science, Heflin’s appointment further strengthens Virginia Tech’s position in growing its research enterprise.
Date: Feb 14, 2022 -
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J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series continues online with Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell , articleThe Virginia Tech College of Science’s J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series returns Feb. 8, 2022, as a virtual event with guest speaker Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a visiting academic at Oxford University’s Department of Physis and the Chancellor of the University of Dundee, Scotland.
Date: Feb 07, 2022 -
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Kevin Pitts named dean of the College of Science at Virginia Tech , articlePitts, chief research officer at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will officially step into his new role June 13, taking over from Ron Fricker, who has served as interim dean since January 2021.
Date: Feb 03, 2022 -
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Physics’ Leo Piilonen awarded Lifetime Fellowship by American Association for the Advancement of Science , articlePiilonen is a professor in the Department of Physics, part of the Virginia Tech College of Science. AAAS is honoring Piilonen for his “distinguished contributions to experimental elementary particle physics, particularly for leadership in the Belle and Belle II collaborations and in their muon and K-long meson detection and identification.”
Date: Jan 26, 2022 -
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Quantum center unites Virginia Tech’s broad expertise in a vital field , articleThe Virginia Tech Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering will bring together talented researchers already leading the way in this increasingly vital field, and provide the structure and resources to maximize the impact of their work.
Date: Jan 19, 2022 -
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A nuclear pioneer’s collection stars the Milky Way, nuclear explosions, and shock waves , articleAtomic bombs, white dwarf stars, shock waves, nuclear explosion, and Albert Einstein are frequent references that University Libraries Archivist Bess Pittman saw while processing the mesmerizing collection of Robert E. Marshak, a Virginia Tech professor and promoter of shared science. Thanks to a grant from the American Institute of Physics, this collection is now more accessible for researchers and science enthusiasts alike.
Date: Dec 02, 2021 -
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Research drives cybersecurity innovation, inspiration in Southwest Virginia , articleAs the urgency of cybersecurity reaches a higher pitch, the Southwest node of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative gathered on Virginia Tech’s campus in late October. The event allowed collaborators to meet in person for the first time and advance cybersecurity strategies throughout the region and the commonwealth.
Date: Nov 18, 2021 -
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October surprise? Scientists find no hint of sterile neutrino in international MicroBooNE experiment , articleNew results from the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory deal a blow to a theoretical particle known as the sterile neutrino. There is no such thing. Among the researchers involved is Camillo Mariani in the College of Science's Department of Physics.
Date: Oct 27, 2021 -
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Study examines diversifying STEM research for underrepresented students , articleWithout a concerted effort to recruit and support underserved students in STEM, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to erase progress that has made and to exacerbate long-standing inequities and racial disparities by further stratifying STEM fields.
Date: Oct 07, 2021 -
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New physics research reveals fresh complexities about electron behavior in materials , articleA new Virginia Tech study expands upon existing physics theories and can be applied to improving electronic devices and quantum computers.
Date: Sep 15, 2021 -
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Celebrated theoretical physicist, feminist theorist, author, and activist to speak at annual Aims of Education Address , article“Being part of the address is a chance to think deeply about what we all want to get out of the time we share together at Virginia Tech, and how it has the potential to change both our lives and the world around us,” said Danna Agmon, faculty principal for the Residential College West Ambler Johnston and an associate professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
Date: Aug 18, 2021 -
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Fifth year of College of Science Dean’s Discovery Fund supports faculty research , articleNow in its fifth year, the Virginia Tech College of Science Lay Nam Chang Dean’s Discovery Fund recently announced research awards that will support such diverse projects as water quality, discovery of drugs for pain and viruses, mental health treatment, and economics forecasting.
Date: Jun 17, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech launches ‘next generation’ human brain imaging lab , articleResearchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have received a $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, part of the National Institutes of Health, to measure the brain’s subtle magnetic signals in two research volunteers simultaneously as they interact, capturing the rich complexity of the brain’s signaling during face-to-face social interactions in real-time.
Date: May 12, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech joins Mid-Atlantic Quantum Alliance to boost research efforts , articleThe alliance is a rapidly growing hub of quantum technology research, development, innovation, and education led by the University of Maryland. Vito Scarola, an associate professor in the Department of Physics, led the effort for Virginia Tech to join the MQA.
Date: Mar 18, 2021 -
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J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series continues online with Nobel Prize winning physicist, Donna Strickland , articleThe online event on March 10 will feature Strickland, who is a professor with the University of Waterloo’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. She co-won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for her work in developing chirped pulse laser amplification with Gérard Mourou, her Ph.D. supervisor at the time.
Date: Mar 07, 2021 -
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College of Science announces inaugural recipients of Inclusion and Diversity Fellowship Program , articleThe Virginia Tech College of Science has awarded two faculty members with its first-ever Inclusion and Diversity Fellowships, aimed at advancing inclusivity and diversity among students, faculty, and staff in the college.
Date: Feb 05, 2021 -
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American Physical Society names Uwe Täuber as lead editor for journal Physical Review E , articleThe American Physical Society has selected Uwe Täuber, a professor in the Department of Physics and director of the Virginia Tech Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, as the new lead editor of the journal Physical Review E.
Date: Feb 02, 2021 -
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Commencing to succeed , articleEach fall and spring, a new group of Hokies moves their tassels, stepping away from life as students into new roles as alumni of Virginia Tech. Although graduation may feel like the culmination of a year of lasts, the ceremony is really a beginning.
Date: Jan 07, 2021 -
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In memoriam: Lay Nam Chang, founding dean of the College of Science, professor of physics , articleChang was dean of the College of Science from 2003 to 2016. Prior to that, he was the last dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, serving from 2002 to 2003 when he guided the academic restructuring that resulted in two new colleges — the College of Science and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
Date: Dec 10, 2020 -
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The Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-borne Pathogens announces team-building pilot grant awards , articleFunded by the Fralin Life Sciences Institute and Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 10 interdisciplinary research teams were awarded team-building pilot grant awards to tackle some of these complex zoonotic and vector-borne emerging infectious disease problems.
Date: Nov 16, 2020 -
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Corps of Cadets alumna Capt. Kimberly Markovcy Veal named Boston College game Hokie Hero , articleVeal is on her second combat deployment and currently stationed in southwest Asia with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing.
Date: Oct 18, 2020 -
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Cadet Cesar Ibarra Jr. named honorary flag cadet for the Duke game , articleIbarra, a junior in Air Force ROTC, returned to campus two weeks before the start of classes as part of the upper-class training cadre for new cadets, where he stood out for his ability to teach and motivate the first-year cadets.
Date: Oct 02, 2020 -
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College of Science debuts annual magazine , articleWhen COVID-19 shook the world at the start of 2020, eventually killing more than 900,000 people worldwide and shuttering economies, the Virginia Tech College of Science took action. The 2020 Virginia Tech College of Science Magazine covers these actions from across every department and program.
Date: Sep 21, 2020 -
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Solutions to big problems: they’re in the (soft matter) solution , articleShengfeng Cheng, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Science, was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for research in “Nonequilibrium Physics in Drying Soft Matter Solutions.”
Date: Sep 09, 2020 -
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Findings by physicist Rana Ashkar upend understanding of cholesterol’s effects on cellular membranes , articleAshkar has published a new study with far-reaching implications in the general understanding of disease and the design of drug delivery methods in the effect of cholesterol in cell membranes.
Date: Sep 04, 2020 -
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Early career faculty earn 14 National Science Foundation CAREER awards , articleOver the past 25 years, Virginia Tech researchers have earned 171 National Science Foundation Early Career Development Awards (CAREER). For the 2020 fiscal year, 14 Virginia Tech early career scientists and engineers have been granted CAREER awards, totaling over $4 million in research funding.
Date: Aug 28, 2020 -
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Physics professor authors tutorial to introduce polymer researchers to neutron scattering spectroscopy , articleNeutron scattering spectroscopy is a unique technique that allows scientists the ability to selectively view different aspects of a polymer sample, on the nanoscale, to better understand structure-property-function relationships.
Date: Aug 06, 2020 -
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College of Science student selected as associate editor for prestigious undergraduate research publication , articleOlti Myrtaj says the decision to do undergraduate research was an easy one, in no small part because he enjoys asking questions and autonomously exploring problems. He has big plans to expand accessibility for those interested in physics and mathematics research.
Date: Jun 10, 2020 -
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Ice, ice, maybe: Neutrino anomalies in Antarctica explained by physics’ Ian Shoemaker , articleA new research paper co-authored by a Virginia Tech assistant professor of physics provides a new and likely far simpler explanation for two recent strange events that occurred in Antarctica – high-energy neutrinos appearing to come up out of the Earth on their own accord and head skyward.
Date: Jun 09, 2020 -
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Physics professor among researchers detailing how antineutrino detectors could aid nuclear nonproliferation , articlePatrick 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.
Date: Mar 19, 2020 -
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Nahum Arav part of team to discover quasar tsunamis capable of preventing stars from forming , articleUsing 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.
Date: Mar 19, 2020