Updates
News, Articles, and Campus Notices
| Title | Description | Info |
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| As COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues, health district may move to new phase by April |
The New River Health District is administering three vaccine versions — Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. All three are effective in preventing serious illness, hospitalization, and death, according to the district. |
Date:
03/10/2021
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| COVID-19 vaccine update for employees: Week of March 8 |
Date:
03/10/2021
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| Pod network offers perks for groups |
Hundreds of students are taking part in the enhanced pod network on the Blacksburg campus this semester. The network offers specifically tailored activities and resources for groups committed to each other's well-being. |
Date:
03/09/2021
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| J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series continues online with Nobel Prize winning physicist, Donna Strickland |
The online event on March 10 will feature Strickland, who is a professor with the University of Waterloo’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. She co-won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for her work in developing chirped pulse laser amplification with Gérard Mourou, her Ph.D. supervisor at the time. |
Date:
03/07/2021
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| Virginia Tech researcher highlights infectious diseases and social distancing in nature |
In a new review published in Science, Dana Hawley, a professor of biological sciences in the Virginia Tech College of Science, and a team of scientists have highlighted some non-human species that have intuitively practiced social distancing when one of their own became sick - long before humans learned about and started “social distancing due to COVID-19." |
Date:
03/04/2021
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