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UPCOMING OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION EVENTS

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RECENT GRANTS AND AWARDS

Continuation Proposal for the Training and Technical Assistance Center (611 Funds)

Awarded $1,739,203 from the Virginia Department of Education.

Lora L. Beeken
Co-Director, Training and Technical Assistance Center
Office of Educational Research and Outreach
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

Organometallic Chemistry of Catalytically Relevant Copper(III) Complexes

Awarded $770,000 from the National Science Foundation.

Wei Liu
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of Science

Career: Foundations of Machine Learning-Enhanced Branch-and-Bound Algorithms for Scalable Global Optimization

Awarded $639,433 from the National Science Foundation.

Rohit Kannan
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
College of Engineering

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SOLVING CHALLENGES EMERGING IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD

The university has invested in major research initiatives, bringing together diverse expertise that transcends traditional discipline boundaries. In partnership with industry, government, and foundations, these focus areas address emerging challenges and opportunities that seek to improve the human condition and create a better world for all. 

These strategically focused areas are Virginia Tech Research Frontiers.

The Artificial Intelligence Frontier

The Health Frontier

The Security Frontier

The Quantum Frontier

MEASURES OF EXCELLENCE

$493.9M

extramural research expenditures in Fy25

9.5%

Year-Over-Year Increase in Federal Expenditures

4,000+

Faculty Researchers

181

New Invention Disclosures

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EMPOWERING DISCOVERY AND DRIVING INNOVATION

VIRGINIA TECH RESEARCH EXPERTS IN THE MEDIA

Live Science: 18 of Earth's biggest river deltas — including the Nile and Amazon — are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising

"To our knowledge, this is the most comprehensive, high-resolution, delta-wide assessment of contemporary land subsidence ever conducted at the global scale," co-author Manoochehr Shirzaei, an associate professor of geophysics and remote sensing at Virginia Tech, told Live Science in an email. "Across the deltas we analyzed, groundwater storage change emerged as the single most influential anthropogenic factor explaining subsidence patterns in many systems."

National Geographic: What is black ice? The science behind the winter threat hidden in plain sight

“Even basic maneuvers—like turning a corner or slowing down for a light—can trigger an uncontrollable slide because the vehicle's tires are essentially gliding over a thin, frictionless sheet of ice,” says Ernesto Urbaez, pavement engineering expert at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. “This slipperiness is especially deceptive because it often occurs in patches, meaning a driver can suddenly transition from a high-traction dry road to a zero-traction icy one in a split second.”

Gizmodo: Satellite Data Exposes a Hidden Flood Threat Endangering 236 Million People 

The findings point to heightening near-term flood risk for more than 236 million people, but river delta flooding is an issue of global food security as well. “Billions of people rely on the food that is produced from these deltas,” co-author and Virginia Tech geoscience professor Manoochehr Shirzaei told Gizmodo.

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