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Hailing from biological sciences, industrial and systems engineering, University Libraries, psychology, and architecture, the faculty members will join Virginia Tech's prestigious Academies of Faculty Service and Leadership in honor of their substantial contributions to the university.
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Virginia Tech Experts is a unique searchable online profile system that gives Virginia Tech researchers and educators a place to display their scholarly works, research interests, teaching, and more.
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The project, a collaboration between the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Virginia Cooperative Extension, and the University Libraries, aims to reach historically underrepresented populations in yoga.
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The program in University Libraries pairs students with data problems proposed by researchers from across Virginia Tech. Students collaborate with faculty members while earning course credit or monetary payment and building their data analysis skills along the way.
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University Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives will host hosting the April 23 celebration that features the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration collections. Visitors can dive into the rich history of American space exploration while building their own potentially prize-winning aircraft.
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The exhibit on the second floor of Newman Library examines themes in the memorialization and representations of slavery in the South Carolina city's public spaces including Southern charm and nostalgia, Southern charm and violence, and enslaved narratives.
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Virginia Tech's therapy dog Epcot celebrated his 3rd birthday on March 22, 2024 at a party hosted by University Libraries. Alongside handler Trent Davis, Epcot has provided comfort to students since joining Virginia Tech's Animal Assisted Therapy program in 2023. Students can visit Epcot during his "office hours" on Thursdays from 4-5pm on the 1st floor of Squires Student Center.
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Virginia Tech is home to one of the largest Swiss poster collections in the United States, with the age of the posters ranging from the 1960s to the 2010s. The posters were donated by designers Dennis Ichiyama and Oscar Fernandez in 2023 with the goal of them becoming a teaching tool for young designers. In March of 2024, some of those posters were on display at the Armory Gallary in the School of Visual Arts in an exhibit titled, "Collections and Connections: Excerpts from the Swiss Poster Collection at Virginia Tech".
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University Libraries' DataBridge program helps students bridge the gap between academic coursework and real-world career possibilities.
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3D scanners and printers are constructing strikingly realistic replicas of the extinct Teleocrater rhadinus using fossils from more than 240 million years ago. Funded through an Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology grant, a team of experts is showing how technology can illuminate the past and bring long-extinct organisms face-to-face with the present.
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The exhibit is on display in Newman Library through March. “The best part about creating this exhibit is thinking about the story I want to tell,” said graduate student and exhibit creator Kaitlynn Harless. “Each section tells a story about their lives with the thread of community connecting them.”
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LaDale Winling is calling on volunteers throughout Chicago to help study thousands of paper land records and racial covenants.
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University Libraries data experts are using the technology to extract text from scanned images of early 20th century real estate documents to make them more readable and electronically searchable.
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From walks with his father to days spent in Virginia Tech's Special Collections and University Archives, alumnus Bob Hill spotlights the history of the postal service in the New River Valley as an important step in U.S. expansion.
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A $251,052 grant from the Council on Library Information Resources will support the digitization of 870 photographs, 60 slides, 15 diplomas, 48,000 typed pages, and 3,300 handwritten pages from the Christiansburg Institute's principals, teachers, and students to spotlight the Black Appalachian experience throughout the ages.
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The Virginia Tech Authors Recognition Event honored 103 authors on February 26, 2024. The event was hosted by University Libraries and was held on the second floor of Newman Library. The Virginia Tech Authors Recognition Event was first held in 2006, and has since grown to include a wide range of materials including published books, musical works, films, and more.
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With national elections looming in the United States, concerns about misinformation are sharper than ever, and advances in artificial intelligence have made distinguishing genuine news sites from fake ones even more challenging. Virginia Tech experts explore three different facets of the AI-fueled spread of fake news sites and the efforts to combat them.
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Released in 2023 through the Open Education Initiative and Virginia Tech Publishing, housed in University Libraries, this pioneering work fills major gaps that existed in sustainability resources for undergraduate and graduate college property management programs.
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In collaboration with the Cook Counseling Center and Hokie Wellness, University Libraries hosted Valentine's with the VT Therapy Dogs, an event created to spread joy and love to the Virginia Tech community on Valentine's Day.