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Virginia Tech researchers tackle the biological invasions crisis
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IGC Fellows Engage the Community Change Collaborative on How Interdisciplinary Invasion Science Can Shape Policy and Action
Water & Health in Rural China & Appalachia Conference at VT – October 4th, 2019
Congrats! Sydney Hope receives Burd Sheldon McGinnes Fellowship & RVBC Ornithology Scholarship
Virginia Tech team working to preserve the treasure of Hawaii’s forests
IGC Fellows impress at the 4th Annual IGC Research Symposium
IGC Seminar Reflection Series: Scientists Need to Move More than Boxes, by Lauren Wind
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IGC Professional Development Series: Alternative Careers | Susan Cook-Patton, The Nature Conservancy
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RFP: Climate Change Impacts on Chesapeake Bay Restoration
Building community at the 2019 GCC Faculty Retreat
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IGC Professional Development Series: Alternative Careers | John Andrews, Lincoln Park Zoo
2019 Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Andrew Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan
Julia Simpson awarded the 2019 GCC Science Policy Fellowship
The Fralin Life Science Institute supports sustainability and green lab efforts
IGC Seminar Reflection Series: What are the Facts? Moving Beyond Adversarial Science, by Devin Hoffman
Multi-institutional team evaluates several factors for the success of a species reintroduction
Biology professor, Ignacio Moore, aims to better educate students on sex and gender (from the Collegiate Times)
Interfaces of Global Change IGEP welcomes 6 new fellows in Spring 2019!
Winter Storms To Heat Waves, How Better Climate Data Can Make Us More Prepared (from NPR)
13 undergraduate students awarded GCC research grants for 2019
New environmental sensing and monitoring system tested and evaluated at Virginia Tech
Dr. Paul Turner, Yale Biologist, to give MLK Seminar on January 25th
Radford Arsenal Transparency and Virginia Tech Data Forge Positive Community Relations (from WVTF.org)
The Mass Extinction Detectives: Sterling Nesbitt contributes to NPR’s Science Friday
ComSciCon-local at Virginia Tech this March
Funding available to support recruitment of IGC Fellows
Virginia Tech researcher, Todd Schenk, offers tips for breaking bread over the holidays
Interactions between thermoregulatory behavior and physiological acclimatization in a wild lizard population
Invasive Asian Longhorned Tick Spreading Widely in U.S. (from the CDC.gov)
IGC Seminar Reflection Series: Interdisciplinary Organizations and Research, by Ben Kligman and Jennie Wagner
Global Change Center seed grants awarded for 2018-19
Seed grants helping to grow Virginia Tech’s transdisciplinary capacities, contributions
Mary Lofton, New GSA Co-Chair Elect (from GLEON.org)
The Search For Giant, Rare Salamanders That Live In Georgia (from WABE.org)
Fourth National Climate Assessment assimilates the immediate effects of climate change across the U.S.
GCC Director, Dr. William Hopkins, to deliver keynote speech at Graduate School Commencement ceremony on Dec. 14
Researchers discover how 'cryptic' connections in disease transmission influence epidemics
Candidates for Fish Ecology Faculty position to present seminars on campus
See how a warmer world primed California for large fires- from National Geographic
IGC Seminar Reflection Series: A New Look on Leadership, by Bennett Grooms
New Course for Spring 2019 – Advocacy, Science, and Policy of Invasive Species
Surface water and flood dynamics increase vulnerability to waterborne disease and climate change
Mammal diversity will take millions of years to recover from the current biodiversity crisis (from PNAS.org)
Water experts to study emerging threat of antibiotic resistance
IGC Fellows, Brenen Wynd and Bennett Grooms, participate in the 2018 Nutshell Games!
Meet the maverick mayor of Glen Lyn in new Save Our Towns season
IGC Seminar Reflection Series: The Science of Scientific Consensus, by Becca O’Brien
Conservationists get a billion dollars. Here’s how it may help. (from National Geographic)
“Science is bigger than you think!” IGC at the 2018 Virginia Tech Science Festival
Hokie Spirit at the IGC IGEP Fall Picnic!
New Course: Intro. to Microbial Community Analysis
IGC Seminar Reflection Series: Fellows in Doubt, by Kristen Bretz and Camilo Alfonso
Changing climate forces desperate Guatemalans to migrate
People Need Lakes and Lakes Need People; Friends of Claytor Lake (from wvtf.org)
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Virginia Tech Science Festival returns Oct. 27
Interfaces of Global Change IGEP manifests in haiku form
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Interdisciplinary REEU program studies real world issues at the “Confluence of Water and Society”
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Touring the Center Woods research facilities with House and Senate Committee members
Sydney Hope recaps her avian research abroad in Villiers-en-Bois, France
Science event brings the laboratory out into the public (from the Roanoke Times)
Federal Agency Panel session sponsored by Career and Professional Development, October 8, 2018
New Undergraduate Study Abroad Course Announcement: Darwin’s Galapagos
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IGC Fellows float the New River!
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Now accepting applications for the 2019 Undergraduate Science Policy Fellowship
Congratulations, Dr. Gifty Anane-Taabeah!
John Little reappointed Charles E. Via Jr. Professor
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Former Brazilian minister of the environment to speak at Virginia Tech
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Virginia Tech researchers studying how fungus among us can control invasive tree of heaven
Congratulations to Drs. Tamara Fetters and Carl Wepking!
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Eleven new fellows are welcomed to the Interfaces of Global Change IGEP in Fall 2018
Postcards from the field: Cristina Marcillo in Guatemala
VT-FAST: A new resource for Virginia Tech faculty
Virginia Tech researchers host international meeting on mange in wildlife
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