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Important Dates Spring 2019:
March 1 -
IGC Application Deadline
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Seminars and Events of Interest:
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MathBio
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Joe Hoyt
, VT BIOL - Illuminating transmission: the role of cryptic connections in driving disease epidemics
Wednesday, 2/20 at 1:15 pm
455 McBryde Hall
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ENT
: Greg Pond
, US EPA Region III - Macroinvertebrates at the source: indicators of flow in extreme headwaters
Thursday, 2/21 at 3:00 pm
220 Price Hall
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EEB:
Rebekah Rogers
, UNC Charlotte - When bad things happen to good genomes: genetic tragedies in Mammoths and Poison Dart frogs
Thursday, 2/21 at 3:30 pm
4069 Derring Hall
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GEOS
: Geoscience Student Research Symposium
Thursday & Friday, February 21-22
Kelly Hall
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FREC
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Yusuke Kuwayama
, Fellow and VALUABLES Consortium Director, Resources for the Future - Water resources, ecosystems, and environmental policy
Friday, 2/22 at 10:00 am
, refreshments at 9:30 am
Fralin Auditorium
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Wednesday, 2/27 at 12:00 pm
Hahn Horticulture Garden Pavilion
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FACULTY & FELLOW SPOTLIGHT
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Emmanuel Frimpong - Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Dr. Frimpong’s research focuses on the ecology and conservation of freshwater fishes, with emphasis on how anthropogenic alterations to habitats and landscapes differentially affect species as a result of differences in their life history traits...
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www.globalchange.vt.edu
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Leah Novak - Biological Sciences
Leah is a PhD candidate in Dr. Jeffrey Walter's avian ecology lab. Her primary research interests include avian behavior and ecology, fire ecology and habitat restoration. At VT, she is studying red-cockaded woodpeckers, a federally listed endange...
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www.globalchange.vt.edu
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Team evaluates success factors for a reintroduced species
Meryl Mims, GCC Faculty affiliate and Assistant Professor of Biology, is lead author on a new paper published this week in Ecosphere. She and her colleagues evaluated the potential roles of environmental, demographic, and genetic factors in the...
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What are the Facts? Moving Beyond Adversarial Science
IGC SEMINAR REFLECTION SERIES | BY DEVIN HOFFMAN Complex problems require complex solutions and have far reaching impacts on different groups of people and stakeholders. Whether it be land use management, new/expanding energy sources, or climat...
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www.globalchange.vt.edu
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Course Spotlight: The Biology of Sex, for non-biology majors
COLLEGIATE TIMES | GCC Faculty affiliate and Professor of Biology, Dr. Ignacio Moore, enlightens students on the concepts of sex and gender through a biological lens. The distinction is that sex is purely based on an individual's reproductive...
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Monday, February 25
5:30 - 7:00 pm
The River Mill, Blacksburg, VA
Fun, trivia, and a fossil show-and-tell with local award-winning science communicator Brenen Wynd. Wynd is a paleontology graduate student and IGC Fellow at VT, who was one of three winners of the university's Center for Communicating Science's 2018 Nutshell Games.
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