With a technique called TALENS, Virginia Tech scientists used a pair of engineered proteins to disrupt a targeted gene in the mosquito genome, changing the eye color of ensuing generations of the insect. The method might help scientists find ways control disease transmission.
Intuition says two or more jets of fluid should coalesce into a single stream of fluid, but that is not always the case. Velocity matters.
Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering is one of several U.S.-based research teams tasked with finding a solution as part of a three-year project funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research’s Hot Jet Noise Reduction program, related to a broader Navy initiative known as the Noise Induced Hearing Loss program.
Cyber attacks and cyber espionage represent a top threat against the U.S., according to the intelligence community. Danfeng "Daphne" Yao of the computer science department at Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering is working with the Office of Naval Research to detect anomalies in Department of Defense computers, mobile devices, command and control servers, and embedded systems.
Silicon Valley-Tested Initiative to train 300 of the top entrepreneurial research teams from U.S. universities and federal laboratories.
The National Science Foundation has a Physics of Living program that funds research projects at the interface of biology, mathematical modeling, physics, and engineering. NSF has awarded Sunghwan Jung, principal investigator, along with Jake Socha, both assistant professors of engineering science and mechanics, and Pavlos Vlachos, professor of mechanical engineering, a little over a half a million dollars to investigate the water entry and exit problems that are apparent in engineering mechanics based on a better understanding of biology. The darting ability of lizards and frogs in water as well as dogs lapping the liquid will be among the animals studied.
As the world awaits white smoke from the Sistine Chapel roof -- the signal that a new pope has been elected -- Virginia Tech historian Frederic Baumgartner speculates about what will happen next.
The founder of a decades-long scientific study that has recently published results proving the benefits of early education today said policymakers will be challenged by President Barack Obama’s call for universal access to high-quality preschool.
A national park offers more than beautiful scenery. Live interpretive programs bring park sites alive for thousands of visitors. The research team attended 376 live programs to identify the practices most commonly associated with more positive visitor outcomes.
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded Wu Feng, associate professor of computer science at Virginia Tech, and his colleagues a project to improve the simulation speed of micro air vehicles (MAVs), a class of unmanned aerial vehicles, using accelerator based supercomputers.
In this study, Brian Kleiner, director of the Myers–Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech, and his colleagues have found that in Australia, the concept of eliminating hazards or reducing risks at the design stage of construction projects has gained momentum and provides a safer environment for the industry.
The book “City Cycling,” coedited by Ralph Buehler, an assistant professor at Virginia Tech's National Capital Region, and John Pucher, a professor at Rutgers University, was prominent in a promotion for"Get Britain Cycling."
In a study using mathematical axioms, a group of researchers led by Ge Wang, adjunct professor of biomedical engineering at Virginia Tech, has refuted a study that reports on possible racial bias in NIH review process of funding proposals.
Funding agencies may be paying out duplicate grants, according to an analysis completed at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and led by Harold R. Garner, a professor in the departments of biological science, computer science, and basic science. The study points to the possibility millions of dollars in funding may have been used inappropriately.
Virginia Tech is expanding its research into helmeted sports beyond football, due to new research that allows for better prediction of sports-related concussions resulting from linear and rotational head accelerations. These accelerations result from head impacts that cause the head to translate and twist about the neck. The new research is published this month in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering (http://www.editorialmanager.com/abme/).
Jeff Reed, director of Wireless@Virginia Tech, a research center that is part of the University’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, was cited for his leading role, along with his colleagues, in the further development of software designed radio and cognitive radio, winning the 2012 Forum International Achievement Award.
Computer scientists at Virginia Tech developed a new approach to address the shortcomings in the computational analysis of the multiple ways interactions can occur within cells. Their award winning work may lead to further understanding of the interactions between molecules.
Both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) are funding Virginia Tech engineers in their work on efficient spectrum sharing that should improve the use of cognitive radios.
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute investigators have invented a way to directly image biological structures at their most fundamental level and in their natural habitats.
Community support has remarkable benefits for people coping with traumatic mass shootings, according to an American-Finnish research study.
The Advanced Research Project Agency – Energy, an agency within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is funding a $3.7 million project proposed by GE that has partnered with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), along with members of Virginia Tech’s Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Department. The goal is to develop wind turbine blades that produce power with higher efficiency and lower costs.
A progressive approach to resolve the complex issues surrounding mountaintop mining needs to incorporate good civic science and meaningful routes for public involvement, Virginia Tech researchers say.
Rising three places to No. 41 in National Science Foundation rankings for research spending, Virginia Tech remains the top university in Virginia for funds expended in pursuit of science, engineering, and other scholarly activity, and the only Virginia institution in the top 50.
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have proven with fMRI and EEG that ultrasound applied to the periphery, such as fingertips, can stimulate sensory pathways to the brain. The discovery has bearing on diagnosing and treating neuropathy, which affects millions.
A Virginia Tech team of environmental engineers have shown for the first time the relationship between the influenza A virus viability in human mucus and humidity over a large range of relative humidities, from 17 percent to 100 percent.
John E. Taylor, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, directs the Network Dynamics Lab that investigates the impact of globalization dynamics on design and construction project performance.
Virginia Tech researchers have discovered how a common diarrhea-causing bacterium sends the body’s natural defenses into overdrive, actually intensifying illness while fighting infection.
Food science researchers at Virginia Tech may have reeled milk into the fish oil delivery system, showing it is possible to incorporate omega-3 fatty acids into milk and dairy-based beverages in amounts sufficient to promote heart health, without destroying the milk's taste. The innovation may be a way to help people who do not eat fish get some of the heart-healthy benefits of fish oil.
Virginia Tech physics researchers have discovered a quasar with the most energetic outflow ever seen, a finding that may answer questions about how the mass of a galaxy is linked to its central black hole mass and why there are so few large galaxies in the universe.
Ge Wang, director of Virginia Tech’s Center for Biomedical Imaging, has a history of “firsts” in the imaging world, including the first paper on spiral multi-slice/cone-beam CT in 1991, on bioluminescence tomography in 2004, and on interior tomography in 2007. In a recent paper that appeared in the refereed journal PLoS One, Wang speaks about new combinations of medical imaging technologies that hold promise for improved early disease screening, cancer staging, therapeutic assessment, and other aspects of personalized medicine. The integration of multiple major tomographic scanners into a single framework is a new way of thinking in the biomedical imaging world and is evolving into a grand fusion of many imaging modalities known as omni-tomography.
In Northern Virginia, as you speed along Interstate 66 in Fairfax County, or move more sedately along Routes 29 and 50, you may notice large metal boxes with eggbeater-like antennae along the sides of the roads. They are allowing roads and vehicles to interact.
Virginia Tech researchers evaluate a new process and decision support system to identify and prioritize automotive defects using social media.
Amy Pruden, an associate professor in Virginia Tech’s Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded $250,000 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to lead a project to determine the effects of pipe material, water flow, and chemistry on the building plumbing microbiome. The research will determine if the “right” microbes are being selected in the built environment.
NSF and NIH is announcing eight awards in new big data fundamental research project, one of which is a $2 million grant to Iowa State, Virginia Tech, and Stanford University to develop high-performance computing techniques on massively parallel heterogeneous computing resources for large-scale data analytics.
Virginia Tech researchers extracted 1,396 incidents of rear-end collisions from a national database and looked at them on a case-by-case basis to determine whether the intelligent vehicle systems being studied would have been called into play and, if so, how they would have helped. The research showed that 7.7 percent of crashes would be prevented by use of all three systems – warning, assisted braking, and autonomous braking.
Virginia Tech human development research studies how incarcedation affects the inmate's family.
A new Virginia Tech research center, set to open later this fall in the state of Tamil Nadu in southeast India, will mobilize an engineering team to refine and adapt windmills and solar panels for use in households in rural India.
A Virginia Tech Transportation Institute researcher studies the causes of intersection vehicle collisions.
With the continual evolution of the learning community environment at Virginia Tech, the next step was the decision to house the engineering and science participants in one University Residence Hall starting with the 2012-13 class. The close living quarters will allow the engineering and science students to live in the inVenTs Learning Community.
An economically feasible way to store solar energy in existing residential power networks is the subject of an award winning paper written by two Virginia Tech electrical engineers and presented at an international conference.
Summary of 14 years of wildlife studies in and around Madagascar’s Ranomafana National Park.
Mobile computing devices will probably overtake the personal computer as the most common means for accessing the Internet worldwide sometime in 2013 and it may not be a seamless transition, according to Eli Tilevich, http://www.cs.vt.edu/user/tilevich associate professor in the Department of Computer Science http://www.cs.vt.edu/ at Virginia Tech.
Mani Golparvar-Fard, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, has developed an augmented reality modeling system that automatically analyzes physical progress on large-scale construction projects. The system allows a contractor to determine whether a project is on, ahead, or behind schedule, leading to cost savings and reduction in project delivery time.
Jianhua Xing, a Virginia Tech assistant professor of biology, and his colleagues recommend further study of how rope-like polymers called microtubules function. They computational comparations of two models of microtubules, a component of cell cytoskeletons.
International polymer meeting at Virginia Tech will have more than 1,500 scientists from institutions worldwide who will present everything from drug delivery to energy storage. In addition, the conference will give about a $2.5 million economic boost to the Blacksburg area.
Alan S. Abrahams and Cliff T. Ragsdale of the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business have devised a system for travelers to receive all the vaccinations they need in a way that ensures the optimum protection efficiently and as inexpensiviely as possible.
Virginia Tech released today the results of its 2012 rating for adult football helmets that is designed to assess a helmet’s ability to reduce the risk of concussion. A total of three helmets achieved a “5 star” mark, which is the highest rating awarded by the Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings™. In addition to the Riddell Revolution Speed, which was the only helmet to receive 5 stars last year, the Rawlings Quantum Plus and Riddell 360 also earned 5 stars as the best available helmets.
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