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              Engineering News

                  • Three Virginia Tech researchers pose in front of a research poster.
                  • Virginia Tech researchers create a bacteria-based drug delivery system that outperforms conventional methods
                  • Megan Bland hold a blue bike helmet in the helmet lab.
                  • More strong performers in new batch of bike helmet ratings
                  • Matt Sanford sit at a computer in a dark room.
                  • Students create rideshare app for designated driving
                  • Daphne (Danfeng) Yao
                  • Daphne Yao recognized for outstanding scientific contributions to computing
                  • Researchers stand in front of a digital display of polymer structures.
                  • Machine-learning enables a previously-unseen look at polymers helpful in biomedical field
                  • Two male students and a male faculty member look at a laptop in the VTTI Intern Hub.
                  • Students help fuel advanced-vehicle R&D for top companies in new VTTI internship program
                  • Shane and Traian look at fluid mechanics images on a laptop.
                  • Two researchers earn grant to streamline simulation of fluid contamination disasters
                  • Gloria Kang (left) and Huthaifa Ashqar (right)
                  • Two Ph.D.s first graduates of NSF-sponsored urban computing program
                  • Virginia Tech women playing lacrosse.
                  • Next phase of national concussion study relies on experts across the university
                  • Graduate students Carolyn Mottley and Zhou Ye assemble an experimental bioreactor.
                  • Researchers engineer nano-textured surfaces to reduce medical device infection
                  • Chase Cornelison is a post-doctoral researcher at Virginia Tech and lead author of an article published in Scientific Reports that details a solution to stopping the spread of glioblastoma in the brain.
                  • New drug application stops spread of brain cancer cells caused by clinical treatment approach
                  • Daniel Rau, a mechanical engineering Ph.D. student, works with a 3D printer in the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Lab.
                  • Researchers expand breakthroughs in 3D printing Kapton, the “ultimate” polymer
                  • Screen capture of a hand gesture moving a VR object.
                  • Researchers bring Jedi powers to life with Force Push
                  • Flower showing how small the material is
                  • Virginia Tech researchers develop novel process to 3D print one of the strongest materials on Earth
                  • sea urchins
                  • Sea urchins may be key to developing lightweight engineered cellular materials
                  • Students in the helmet lab
                  • New Virginia Tech biomedical engineering degree to focus on technology transfer, health care
                  • defroster
                  • World’s first passive anti-frosting surface fights ice with ice
                  • lifesaving device
                  • Through partnership with local rescue squad, Virginia Tech students develop lifesaving device
                  • cancer therapy girl
                  • Virginia Tech graduate student pursues innovative microbe-based cancer therapy
                  • new helmet
                  • Engineering students take lifesaving concept to market with help from university environment and donors
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                  • The brain speaks in calcium; Virginia Tech researcher to build computational translator
                  • Agbot
                  • Virginia Tech agBOT autonomous watermelon harvester takes top prize
                  • hybrid car
                  • Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team powers way to fourth place
                  • gang wang
                  • Gang Wang receives CAREER Award to thwart email phishing attacks
                  • deep x
                  • Mapping the ocean floor leads Virginia Tech team to earn a slot in $7 million international competition
                  • SEAD
                  • Center for Research in SEAD Education is cultivating tomorrow’s innovators
                  • wearable robotics
                  • Mechanical engineers collaborate in exploration of robotic options for farmers
                  • making buildings smarter
                  • Making buildings smarter, starting with Goodwin Hall
                  • pipeline database
                  • Virginia Tech leads efforts to develop national water pipeline database
                  • melt mat
                  • Student research team accelerates snow melt with ‘Melt Mat’
                  • crash test dummy
                  • A graduate student, a crash test dummy, and building safer cars
                  • tsunami damage
                  • Fulbright seeks to minimize tsunami damage in Israel
                  • slow zones
                  • Using artificial intelligence to hunt for slow zones in overcrowded networks
                  • graduate in haiti
                  • Computer science graduate lives motto of Ut Prosim every day in Haiti
                  • lowes exo-suit
                  • Lowe’s and Virginia Tech develop exosuit designed to help retail employees
                  • Marc Edwards
                  • Flint water continues to heal, meets EPA standards
                  • Clark Scholarship Recipients
                  • $15 million gift from A. James and Alice B. Clark
                  • astrocytes
                  • Have you thanked your brain’s astrocytes today?
                  • construction graduates
                  • Construction graduates are the job market’s hottest thing. Just ask a Hokie.
                  • Arianna Krinos
                  • Astronaut scholarship honors triple major Arianna Krinos for cross-discipline research
                  • Engineering Expo
                  • Record-breaking Engineering Expo fueled by alumni, spurs charitable giving to the college
                  • hyperloop team
                  • Virginia Tech Hyperloop team ventures to SpaceX for global competition
                  • motion capture suit
                  • Alumnus propels research with donation of 16 motion capture suits
                  • phd day
                  • Rolls-Royce inaugural Ph.D. Day opens doors for innovative, collaborative research
                  • girls from africa
                  • Photos and video: Girls from Africa, Middle East come to coding camp at Virginia Tech
                  • thinkabit kids
                  • More than 4,000 in National Capital Region inspired to invent at the Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab
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