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Meet the new IGC Curriculum Committee
Welcome new GCC Advisory Committee Members!
Congratulations to IGC IGEP 2021-22 Global Change Interdisciplinary Graduate Assistantship Awardees!
Interfaces of Global Change Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Heather Govenor
GCC Undergraduate Research Grant Awardees Present at Dennis Dean Research Conference
Congratulations to two GCC affiliates promoted in 2021!
Congratulations to 2021-22 Rural Environmental Health Fellows, Amanda Darling and Charles Sterling
Three new faculty affiliates join the Global Change Center in spring 2021
IGC GSO establishes new Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee
Announcing the Interfaces of Global Change Fellow-to-Fellow Mentoring Program
IGC Community convenes virtually for the 6th Annual IGC Research Symposium
Congratulations to inaugural GCC Diversity Fellows, Gabriel Borba and Okeshola Idowu
New Global Change Scholars program expands opportunities for undergraduate research
IGC Fellow Lauren Maynard receives NSF Non-Academic Research Internship for Graduate Student (INTERN) Award
IGC Fellows, VT Stream Team, and New River Land Trust create educational outreach Stream Box
Coffee for the birds: connecting bird-watchers with shade-grown coffee
GCC Undergraduate Research Grant recipient Dexter Howard leads first-author publication from the Carey Lab
IGC Fellow Alaina Weinheimer selected as American Society of Microbiology Young Ambassador to Virginia
GCC Undergraduate Research Grants awarded to 7 students for 2021
The GCC welcomes four new faculty affiliates in January 2021
Disciplinary diversity shines bright among new cohort of IGC fellows in spring 2021
Human-Water Systems, a new monthly seminar in spring 2021
William Hopkins receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor
Virginia Tech paleontologists find pterosaur precursors that fill a gap in early evolutionary history
Low oxygen levels in lakes and reservoirs may accelerate global change
Linsey Marr selected as the speaker for Virginia Tech’s fall commencement exercises
Confronting ecological change takes a collaborative leap with the NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge
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IGCoffeeConvo with Susan Whitehead
New Diversity and Rural Environmental Health fellowship opportunities for PhD students
Warmer mountaintops, wetter coasts
Lurking in genomic shadows: How giant viruses fuel the evolution of algae
IGCoffeeConvo with Brian Romans
Five teams awarded GCC seed grants in fall 2020
IGC fellows win big in the 2020 Virtual Nutshell Games
Courses of Interest to IGC in Spring 2021
IGC fellows meet up for a fall hike & outdoor socializing
Geoscience’s Ben Gill seeks answer to how the planet changed during Triassic mass-extinction event 200 million years ago
Welcome new faculty affiliates joining the Global Change Center in Fall 2020
Fellows hold first IGC Diversity, Equality & Inclusion reading group discussion
Study: Land development and climate change threaten clear water lakes, but there is hope for protecting them
Long-distance transmission of Canadian hydropower is a cost-effective complement to U.S. renewable energy transitions
Grant awarded to study how plants affect microbiomes
Linsey Marr shares airborne virus knowledge, COVID-19 tips during virtual conversation
New working group: Restoration Ecology
My Virtual Summer Internship with the EPA, by GCC Science Policy Fellow Kerry Desmond
New Restoration Ecology Group welcomes participants
IGCoffeeConvo with Alasdair Cohen
Meet the new Interfaces of Global Change Curriculum Committee; thank you to outgoing members!
Postcard from a Fellow: Amanda Pennino in the White Mountains of New Hampshire
IGCoffeeConvo with Francesco Ferretti
GCC Advisory Committee sees transition with new members
Postcard from a Fellow: Daniel Smith’s summer obsession with flumes, fake roots, and Psych
Hopkins Named Associate Executive Director of FLSI
Researchers Co-locate to Tackle Infectious Diseases and Rapid Environmental Change
How Chemical Diversity in Plants Facilitates Plant-Animal Interactions
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