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3/20/26 Nanoscience Preview Day
3/23/26 ISC Preview Day
3/27/26 Primeros Pasos Career Fair
09/12/25 Nanoscience Faculty Guoliang 'Greg' Liu awarded faculty fellowship
Fall 2025 2025 Fall Faculty Promotions
Fall 2025 ISC Students Organize Medical Clinic
Fall 2025 Virginia Tech Launches 3 + 3 Program with George Mason
Fall 2025 Fall 2025 Faculty Changes
 
08/31/25 ISC Students Participate in Summer Research
06/02/25 Nanomedicine student Lacey Ngo is awarded a 2025 Goldwater Scholarship
04/18/25 Finkielstein Lab: AI-backed saliva test shows promise for flagging chemotherapy risk, early results indicate
04/01/25 Giti Khodaparast named fellow of international society of optics and photonics
11/04/24 Curious Conversations' podcast: Guoliang 'Greg' Liu talks about turning old plastic into soap
09/26/24 Virginia Tech students named 2024 Astronaut Scholars
 
10/20/23 Anne M. Brown named Data Science Faculty Fellow A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2016, Brown has continued to focus her research and teaching in the applied data science domain with an emphasis on biomedical and life sciences.
08/09/23 Carla Finkielstein named Roger H. Moore and Mojdeh Khatam-Moore Dean’s Faculty Fellow A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2005, Finkielstein currently serves as the associate director of research of the Academy of Integrated Science in the College of Science and as interim co-director of the Virginia Tech Cancer Research Alliance.
09/28/23 Satoru Emori named Luther and Alice Hamlett Junior Faculty Fellow A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2017, Emori’s research is in the area of experimental condensed matter physics with a focus on magnetic materials, and his work has been recognized with funding from a variety of sources.
08/10/23 An unexpected way to upcycle: Plastic waste transforms into soap Guoliang “Greg” Liu of the Department of Chemistry has discovered a new method of recycling plastics — from milk cartons, food containers, and plastic bags — into soap. The method: Heat the long carbon chains in the plastics then quickly cool them.
 
 
04/13/23  What's Your Major? - Nanoscience! Nathan
04/13/23 What's Your Major? - Systems Biology! Ben
03/09/23 Lauren Childs honored with fellowship by Association for Women in Mathematics and Cornell University The award grants a mid-career mathematician a residential fellowship in the Cornell University Mathematics Department without teaching obligations.
10/18/22 In its sixth year, College of Science Dean’s Discovery Fund supports wide array of research. Project title: Understanding and controlling the ecological impacts of battery materials (Chixia Tian, Nanoscience & Feng Lin, Chemistry). Project title: Low-energy nuclear recoil detection via color center creation (Brenden Magill, Nanoscience & Patrick Huber, Physics)
10/18/22 Academy of Data Science Discovery Fund awards support interdisciplinary research
Project: Improved approach to the mathematical modeling of the temporal dynamics of complex cellular processes. (Anand Banerjee and Pavel Kraikivski, Systems Biology) 
09/22/22 Students selected for Roanoke’s first undergraduate biomedical research cohort. Emily McAlpin, a nanomedicine major, is one of 20 students studying in majors in the College of Science who are part of the inaugural Integrated Health Sciences and Research Program at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
9/02/22 Casting for data on microplastics in the ocean With the new Seale Coastal Zone Observatory, AIS Director Robert Weiss, a professor of geosciences, aims to model the present and future effects of microplastics on the marine environment and its life.
08/19/22 Celebrating a summer of science education The Academy of Integrated Science (AIS) hosted a Nanoscience Teacher Training Workshop for science teachers of students grades 8-12. More than 50 teachers from across the state attended the three-day workshop which was comprised of 11 different sessions.
 
06/27/22 Nanoscience training gives teachers big ideas about tiny science Kristen Cox graduated from Virginia Tech in 2016, and has recently returned to campus to participate in the College of Science and their Academy of Integrated Sciences Nanoscience Teacher Training. Activities included hands-on experiments, and demos of electron microscopes. Cox, now a teacher, hopes to bring back what she's learned from the workshops to ignite her students passion for science.
06/22/22 Neuroscience’s Michael A. Fox to hold I.D. Wilson Chair in the College of Science A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2012, Fox is a nationally recognized neuroscientist and an expert on understanding how neuronal circuits form in the developing brain.
05/24/22 Virginia Tech nanoscientist seeks to develop thin films with a big payoff Satoru Emori, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, wants to create new thin films made of specially engineered magnetic materials, a project funded by a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation CARRER Award.
04/18/22 Lauren Childs to create improved models for tracking spread of disease Childs, an assistant professor of mathematics, will use a five-year $550,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop mathematical frameworks that can decipher the dynamics of disease and suggest earlier, more effective interventions to mitigate the spread of disease.
05/25/22 Undergraduate lab integrates COVID vaccine development College of Sciences' Chixia Tian has developed a lab course that integrates cutting-edge research and COVID vaccine development into undergraduate teaching. Specifically, it involves undergraduate nanomedicine majors learning how to fabricate liposomes and load DNAs into the liposomes.
03/17/22 Microbiologist Frank Aylward to use $989,000 NSF CAREER Award to study ‘giant’ viruses found in ecosystems Aylward, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, will use the award funding to better understand how such viruses affect ecosystems.
03/08/22 Robert Weiss named director of Academy of Integrated Science in College of Science The academy was started in 2011 by the late Lay Nam Chang, then dean of the College of Science, with the mission of exploring powerful new approaches to current complex scientific problems.
08/24/21 New speakers developed partly at Virginia Tech promise big and energy-efficient sound Chemistry's Guoliang “Greg” Liu has designed a prototype “electrostatic” speaker that boasts the thinnest and lightest-weight speaker membrane with the highest aspect ratio ever and is 10 to 100 times more energy efficient.
10/07/21 Geosciences’ emeritus professor Michael F. Hochella honored with two society medals for research Hochella, a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geosciences, recently was honored with the Geochemical Society Clair C. Patterson Award and the American Chemical Society Geochemistry Division Medal.

 

 
07/23/21 Summer interns gain hands-on learning in Virginia Tech’s COVID-19 testing lab During two five-week, hands-on sessions, the interns worked in the Molecular Diagnostics Lab at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and took classes led by Carla Finkielstein, the lab’s scientific director and an associate professor at the research institute.
06/07/21 Discovery of circadian rhythm gene in mice could lead to breakthroughs in understanding those in humans In a new study, Virginia Tech scientists have identified a novel gene, Per2AS, that controls the natural sleep/wake cycle, or circadian rhythm, in mice.
05/26/21 Beyond Boundaries Scholars program fuels student success This month saw a major milestone for the Beyond Boundaries Scholars program, as dozens of members of the very first class of scholars to enroll were conferred their bachelor’s degrees at spring commencement.
04/01/21 Data privacy: Subterranean footstep blues with computational modeling and data analytics Students in the computational modeling and data analytics program in the College of Science’s Academy of Integrated Science help separate the data of footsteps from other tiny seismic activity in a complex capstone project.
03/22/21 Carla Finkielstein honored with Ut Prosim Scholar Award Finkielstein, an associate professor of biological sciences in the College of Science and an award-winning cancer researcher, anticipated the limitations of existing methods for testing the novel coronavirus and enlisted a team to develop an innovative method that would more accurately, reliably, and rapidly detect the virus and help mitigate its spread.
12/18/20 Erik Nilsen honored with emeritus status by Virginia Tech Board of Visitors A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1983, Nilsen’s research and scholarship has focused on the physiological ecology of higher plants
12/11/20 Class of 2020: Two decades and three degrees later, David Parks has no regretsDavid Parks graduated from Virginia Tech in 2003 with a degree in political science. After serving in the U.S. Navy, where he was deployed to Iraq and Italy, Parks returned to Blacksburg and will graduate on Dec. 18 with a double major in economics and computational modeling and data analytics, both from the College of Science.s
12/10/20 In memoriam: Lay Nam Chang, founding dean of the College of Science, professor of physicsChang was dean of the College of Science from 2003 to 2016. Prior to that, he was the last dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, serving from 2002 to 2003 when he guided the academic restructuring that resulted in two new colleges — the College of Science and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
10/14/20 The race against cancer’s clock: New study shows chronic jet lag impairs immune response, accelerates tumor growthA new study led by Carla Finkielstein, an associate professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, and Diego Golombek, a professor at the National University of Quilmes, reveals that chronic jet lag impedes the body’s immune system and also changes the tumor microenvironment, favoring tumor growth.
10/05/20 Carla Finkielstein named Luther and Alice Hamlett Junior Faculty Fellow by Board of VisitorsThe award provides support for outstanding faculty members who hold the rank of assistant or associate professor and whose work supports the missions of the college’s Academy of Integrated Science.
09/28/20 Biological sciences’ John Tyson honored with emeritus status by Board of VisitorsTyson, University Distinguished Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, brought international visibility to Virginia Tech’s Department of Biological Sciences through his work in systems biology.
09/24/20 Nanoscience group wins a second nod from the NSF A Virginia Tech center with unique expertise in Earth and environmental nanotechnology has again been selected for a prestigious national network funded by the National Science Foundation.
09/21/20 Students take action by volunteering, working in labs, providing protective masks The COVID-19 pandemic brought significant challenges to Virginia Tech, but it also highlighted the resilience, strength, and ingenuity of the Hokie community. In these unprecedented times, students continue to embody the spirit of Ut Prosim by serving and supporting their communities. Here, we highlight three such students. (Senior Student Cameron Buck, Systems Biology)
09/21/20 Crisis Response The College of Science responded to the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic with action, research, hard work, and data collection. Here’s the story. (Lauren Childs, CMDA and Carla Finkiestein, Nanomedicine)
09/17/20 Chemistry’s John Matson named Dr. A.C. Lilly Jr. Faculty Fellow in Nanoscience John Matson, an associate professor of chemistry in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, has been named the Dr. A.C. Lilly Jr. Faculty Fellow in Nanoscience by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
09/08/20 Hokie helps in a hot zone Systems Biology Senior Cameron Buck traveled to Hidalgo County, Texas, on July 1 to begin a month of volunteering in hospital ICUs swamped with COVID-19 patients.
 
07/15/20 College of Science launches Academy of Data Science to help meet demand for data scientistsTom Woteki has been named founding director of the Academy of Data Science, a new program within the College of Science.
07/14/20 Geosciences’ Marc Michel switches from nanoparticles to 3D printing nasal swabsMichel, an associate professor of geosciences, diverged from his normal path to lead a project involving numerous Virginia Tech faculty, alumni, and specialists from Carilion Clinic to use 3D printing to create nasopharyngeal swabs during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
06/15/20 Department of Statistics’ Robert Gramacy named Fellow by American Statistical Association Gramacy focuses his research on real-data analysis where current solutions are inefficient and thus skimp on fidelity.
04/28/20 DataFest canceled? No problem: CMDA program and corporate sponsor pull together their own event When the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the American Statistical Association to cancel this year’s annual DataFest, it seemed like another hands-on opportunity that some Virginia Tech students would miss out on this spring. Then, Socially Determined, a data company founded by Virginia Tech alumni, stepped in to help.
04/22/20 Virginia Tech researchers develop new COVID-19 tests to combat backlogs, shortages Virginia Tech scientists have developed a new COVID-19 test and secured federal and state approvals to immediately begin processing samples at on-campus labs in Blacksburg and Roanoke.
03/31/20 Women in Data Science shifts to online format Adapting the original conference — which included big-name presentations, small-group breakout sessions, and a student-led poster display of data science projects — required nimbleness, a willingness to adapt to rapidly changing conditions, and no small amount of teamwork.
03/03/20 Virginia Tech team leading the charge for student-driven innovationThe university’s newest cohort of University Innovation Fellows is working to help their peers connect, collaborate, create, and prepare for the future.
01/21/20 What's your science? - Hannah Looney Hannah Looney talks about how she was driven to major in Computational Modeling and Data Analytics (CMDA). #whatsyourscience
01/21/20 What's your science? - Patrick Gibson Patrick Gibson talks about how he became interested in Computational Modeling and Data Analytics (CMDA). #whatsyourscience
12/13/19 Class of 2019: International student Kehong Lu brings visual communication to lifeDuring his time at Virginia Tech, graduating senior Kehong Lu has built up an impressive graphic design portfolio through internships with major companies as well as local organizations. Through his art, he hopes to share himself with the world.
11/11/19 Meet the Hokie using data to revolutionize college hoops statistics Ken Pomeroy has gone from running a bracket challenge in his dorm room to becoming a pioneer of charting all of basketball’s 353 Division I men’s teams with advanced statistics. Just prior to the new season tipping off, he visited Blacksburg to share insights from his work and journey.
11/07/19 Miss Virginia 2019 Camille Schrier headlines this year’s Virginia Tech Science Festival and Nutshell Games The Virginia Tech Science Festival returns to campus for its sixth year on Nov. 16, with more than 100 free hands-on, minds-on learning interactive booths and activities that showcase dozens of science education and research programs throughout the university.
10/30/19 Two Department of Physics faculty receive fellowships from alumnus William Hassinger Virginia Tech College of Science faculty members Giti Khodaparast and Sophia Economou have each been awarded a fellowship to support their efforts in teaching and research.
10/22/19 Two College of Science faculty receive honors from Board of Visitors to support researchVirginia Tech College of Science faculty members Serkan Gugercin and Gerelt Tserenjigmid recently were honored by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
10/08/19 Three College of Science faculty receive Luther and Alice Hamlett honors to support research Three faculty members in the Virginia Tech College of Science were recently honored with faculty fellowships named for Luther and Alice Hamlet by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
10/02/19 Chemistry’s Guoliang Liu honored with Blackwood Junior Faculty Fellowship Liu's efforts to use extremely thin layers of fibers known as nanofibers to cover windows in buildings and cars in a multiprong effort to cut energy consumption and reduce the often bright, blinding glare of the sun earned Liu a five-year, $585,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
09/17/19 SGA president Adil Sageer aims to strengthen student and administration connections Sageer, a junior majoring in computational modeling and data analytics in the College of Science, wants to put student and university relations at the forefront.
09/10/19 Science students invite celebrated nanoscientist to campus for guest lecture When an opportunity arose for undergraduate students in the Virginia Tech College of Science’s Academy of Integrated Science to invite a speaker to campus, they didn’t hesitate in their first choice: renowned nanomedicine scientist Joy Wolfram.
08/16/19 College of Science’s NanoCamp brings dozens of high school students to campus The Virginia Tech College of Science hosted its eighth annual NanoCamp recently, bringing 46 high school students to campus to learn about nanoscience and nanomedicine.
 
07/12/19 Virginia Tech alumna takes science to pageant stage Wearing a lab coat, goggles, and high heels, Camille Schrier performed an exploding chemistry demonstration as her talent in the Miss Virginia competition — and she won.
07/03/19 Carla Finkielstein and team honored with award for research into circadian rhythms and cancer A team of Virginia Tech researchers led by Finkielstein, an associate professor in the College of Science, has been honored with the 2019 J. Shelton Horsley Research Award from the Virginia Academy of Science.
06/19/19 Students selected to present undergraduate research at ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference The group of Virginia Tech students was selected from a variety of disciplines to represent the university and share diverse research topics with their peers.
05/16/19 Economical and Sustainable Materials SGA sponsors four Virginia Tech internships at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Four Virginia Tech students will take part in enrichment activities at ORNL, including professional development workshops, laboratory tours, lectures, seminars, and poster presentations.
02/25/19 Women in Data Science Blacksburg event brings together students, faculty The Virginia Tech College of Science and its Computational Modeling and Data Analytics Program recently hosted the inaugural Women in Data Science Blacksburg Conference to discuss the role of women in the growing field of data science and analytics.
12/04/18 Integrated science lab coordinator gives insight into program Craig Tollin, lab coordinator of the Academy of Integrated Science, gives a preview of what he does while students used lab equipment.
10/24/18 Cornell mathematician kicks off J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series for College of Science The Virginia Tech College of Science begins its 2018-19 J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series Oct. 30 with mathematician Steven H. Strogatz. His visit is co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematics.
09/19/18 College of Science launches first of its kind nanomedicine major for undergraduates The College of Science is launching the new major nanomedicine under its Academy of Integrated Science, and already student interest is strong.
08/10/18 High school students visit VT for nanoscience camp The Academy of Integrated Science Nanocamp features exciting activities, presentations, and laboratory exercises led by prominent faculty in the field and their students.
 
 
06/26/18 Eric de Sturler takes helm of Department of Mathematics in College of Science De Sturler begins his tenure as department leader on Aug. 10.
06/08/18 College of Science’s Gary Long receives Sally Bohland Excellence in Access and Inclusion Award The Sally Bohland award was established in 2011 to recognize a faculty member who is a model for others and whose leadership fosters a culture of access and inclusion.
05/17/18 Virginia Tech graduate becomes first African-American woman to earn degree in nanoscience Ginai Seabron credited the support she received from the Black Cultural Center throughout her time at the university.
05/03/18 Class of 2018: Kyle Kirkpatrick helps to crack long-sought key to make quantum computing a reality Graduating senior Kirkpatrick of chemistry may have found a new key to make the path toward quantum computing a reality.
04/10/18 Class of 2018: Kyle Kirkpatrick helps to crack long-sought key to make quantum computing a reality Graduating senior Kirkpatrick of chemistry may have found a new key to make the path toward quantum computing a reality.
02/15/18 Biological sciences' Frank Aylward awarded 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Ocean Sciences Recipients of 2018 Sloan Research Fellows will receive an award of $65,000, which Aylward will use to fund personnel in his lab and to purchase a server for computational genomic research.
02/08/18 Chemistry researcher plans to layer nanofibers over glass to ease energy consumption in buildings, vehicles Guoliang "Greg" Liu, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, will use a five-year, $585,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award to create super-thin nanofibers that can cover windows in buildings and cars in a multi-prong effort to cut energy consumption and reduce the often bright, blinding glare of the sun.
05/17/18 Lara Anderson, Marc Michel named Luther and Alice Hamlett Junior Faculty Fellows The Luther and Alice Hamlett Junior Faculty Fellowships were established in the College of Science by the estate of Luther J. and Alice Hamlett.
12/11/17 College of Science lab instructor Craig Tollin fulfills lifelong dream with appearance on 'Jeopardy!' Tollin will appear as a contestant on the game show, airing Thursday, Dec. 14.
12/08/17 Frank Aylward named assistant professor of biological sciences in College of Science Aylward is also an affiliate faculty member of the systems biology program, part of the Academy of Integrated Science within the College of Science. He focuses his research on microbial ecology and diversity, and genomics and metagenomics.
11/29/17 Nanoscience students find opportunities for internships, jobs on visit to Oak Ridge National Laboratory Recently, 24 students majoring in Virginia Tech’s nanoscience degree program visited the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to meet scientists at the federal lab and explore opportunities for future internships and careers.
10/25/17 Geosciences faculty member seeks to advance crystallization research to boost multiple fields With a five-year, $560,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant, F. Marc Michel seeks to conduct innovative research on how the smallest minerals, known as nanoparticles, crystallize.