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Article ItemResearch grant aimed at improving wastewater monitoring for diseases in rural Appalachian communities , article
Amid the ongoing efforts to combat and monitor the spread of diseases, a new project aims to bridge the gap in wastewater surveillance between urban and rural areas.
Date: Feb 15, 2024 -
Article ItemArchitecture students collaborate with Appalachian communities through new program , article
Many architecture students spend a semester studying design and gaining real-world experience. A new program is offering a cost-efficient experiential learning option without going far from Blacksburg. The Appalachian Futures Lab will expand student learning and leave a lasting impact on the communities where they serve.
Date: Feb 15, 2024 -
Video ItemArchitecture students focus on impact-oriented designs for "Appalachian Futures Lab" , video
Throughout the semester, students will visit the town of Pocahontas, Virginia. The goal is to interact with community groups, document all aspects of structures around the town with photos and drawings, conduct research, and create designs for the community to use for grant proposals.
Date: Feb 05, 2024 -
Article ItemMonuments Across Appalachian Virginia awards first-round funding , article
Four projects demonstrating the diversity of Appalachia have received more than $300,000 in funding from Virginia Tech's Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia initiative.
Date: Jan 12, 2024 -
Article ItemClass of 2023: Sarah Downer uses art to share her Appalachian heritage , article
Virginia Tech initially seemed like an unattainable dream to Downer, who will graduate summa cum laude on Friday. Virginia Tech's tuition waiver program made her college dream come true.
Date: Dec 13, 2023 -
Article ItemJake Grohs named interim director of Center for Educational Networks and Impacts , article
In the position, Grohs will bring his experience facilitating collaboration between Virginia Tech researchers, schools, and industries in Southwest Virginia communities to help the center, part of the Institute of Creativity, Arts, and Technology, evolve to its next level.
Date: Sep 25, 2023 -
Video ItemPark(ing) Day exhibition displays stories of Appalachia , video
International Park(ing) Day is a global event that encourages the public to take ordinary parking spaces and turn them into safer, greener, social spaces. In this case, Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia (MAAV) is using it to announce the creation of six to ten new monuments in the Applachian region.
Date: Sep 21, 2023 -
Article ItemCollaborative seed grants nurture high-impact social and environmental research , article
Each year, the Fralin Life Sciences Institute’s Global Change Center and the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment allocate seed funding program to support researchers who are interested in tackling major global change issues from both biophysical and sociological perspectives.
Date: Jun 23, 2023 -
Article ItemAppalachian drinking water quality and health data lacking, Virginia Tech-led study finds , article
Alasdair Cohen, assistant professor of environmental epidemiology in public health, has studied drinking water and health challenges in rural areas internationally and in California. Since arriving at Virginia Tech in 2019, he has been studying similar issues in rural Appalachia.
Date: Jun 21, 2023 -
Article Item'Get a good pair of boots' , article
Five graduates who came to Virginia Tech as transfer students talk about the highlights and challenges of studying fish and wildlife conservation and how growing up in rural Appalachia motivates them as Hokies.
Date: May 18, 2023 -
Article ItemClass of 2023: Austin Holloway named Outstanding Senior for the College of Natural Resources and Environment , article
Holloway, a first-generation college student, had numerous field and research experiences, including building stream habitats and doing tagging for eastern hellbenders
Date: Apr 18, 2023 -
Article ItemGrant fuels project to highlight untold history across Appalachia , article
Emily Satterwhite and Katrina Powell have received a $3 million grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation for a three-year project to work with communities across the state’s Appalachia region to commemorate neglected histories.
Date: Mar 02, 2023 -
Video ItemTesting water quality in the springs of rural Appalachia , video
Leigh-Anne Krometis, Associate Professor of Biological Systems Engineering, and her team are testing the water of local springs in Welch, WV. Welch is located in McDowell County, one of the 8th poorest counties in the United States.
Date: Jan 30, 2023 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment partners with The Nature Conservancy on $60 million grant to advance agroforestry , article
The USDA-funded agroforestry project will help farmers reduce carbon emissions, improve water quality, enhance biodiversity, and increase profitability.
Date: Nov 01, 2022 -
Article ItemSending flood victims an old-fashioned symbol of love and support: a homemade quilt , article
For students in Danille Christensen's Folk Cultures in Appalachia class, tying quilts at Solitude and Fraction House offered a glimpse of a longstanding cultural practice — and a way to help those in need.
Date: Sep 23, 2022 -
Video ItemEnrichment Experience for Students from Rural Communities , video
Video by Mark Blane for Virginia Tech. SEE VT, the Summer Enrichment Experience at Virginia Tech, hosted its inaugural session this summer. SEE VT is an opportunity for middle school students living in rural communities throughout Southwest Virginia. During the free, one-week residential summer camp on Virginia Tech’s campus, students had the opportunity to learn and reflect on what it means to live and thrive in rural communities.
Date: Sep 07, 2022 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech students to help Kentucky county hit hard by destructive flooding , article
As part of a Societal Health course, students will travel to Letcher County, Kentucky Sept. 2-4 to muck out houses, prepare food, organize supplies, and assist with a benefit concert for flood relief. They are raising money to buy supplies to help the community.
Date: Aug 29, 2022 -
Article ItemListening to marginalized communities , article
Graduate students in the Virginia Tech Department of Psychology seek to gain more knowledge about the unique and challenging experiences of stress, trauma, and resilience with Black and African American communities in Southwest Virginia.
Date: Aug 01, 2022 -
Article ItemUprooted in Appalachia , article
Aaron Purcell, director of University Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives, recently published a book that describes seven case studies of public land acquisition and removal of families and communities in Virginia, Kentucky, the Carolinas, and Tennessee from the 1930s through the 1960s.
Date: Jul 15, 2022 -
Article ItemStudents score a victory in the battle against substance use disorder in Appalachia , article
After an Appalachian Community Research class sparked a passion for change, four students from the College of Science and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences campaigned the state government for a feasibility study to turn a local hospital into a substance use disorder treatment facility. Now it's happening.
Date: Jun 24, 2022
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