September 1, 2020
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Call for students interested in the Interfaces of Global Change IGEP: sign up by September 9th
Students who are interested in applying to the Interfaces of Global Change IGEP must express interest by emailing GCC Coordinator Jess Zielske (jcoker@vt.edu) before September 9th.

Details about the upcoming IGC Information Sessions will be sent out to the listserv so make sure your name is on it! More information about application requirements can be found on our website.
New GCC Restoration Ecology Group welcomes participants

Friends and affiliates of the GCC are invited to join a new Restoration Ecology Working Group forming this semester. The group will meet virtually every other week, starting the week of September 7, and is open to anyone interested in...

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Researchers co-located to Steger Hall at the FLSI to...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on the importance of bringing together innovative scientific minds to tackle infectious diseases and the need to forecast future threats at the human-environment interface. The Fralin Life Sciences...

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FACULTY & FELLOW SPOTLIGHT
Cully Hession - Biological Systems Engineering

Dr. Hession runs the StREAM Lab at Virginia Tech along 2.1-km of Stroubles Creek adjacent to campus. This is a full-scale stream lab equipped with high-resolution hydrologic monitoring capabilities for studying hydrologic, geomorphic...

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Macy Kailing - Biological Sciences

Macy joined the Langwig lab in the fall of 2019. As a PhD student, she aims to gain an understanding of the fitness-related costs associated with white-nose syndrome on bats and how species’ heterogeneous responses to infection are influencing...

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COMMUNITY
GCC Science Policy Fellow's Virtual Internship with the EPA

While Kerry's participation in the Washington Semester Program with the School of Public and International Affairs was cancelled due to COVID-19, her summer internship with the US Environmental Protection Agency continued remotely. Kudos to Kerry ...

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IGCoffeeConvo with Dr. Alasdair Cohen

August 21, 2020 As more and more meetings become virtual, we are all keenly aware of "Zoom fatigue". And yet, as I was gearing up for my final Zoom meeting of the week, this phenomenon didn't cross my mind.

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Recording: GCC faculty & students spoke at Science on Tap...

In case you missed it live! On July 30th, NRV Science on Tap hosted a panel celebrating Black scientists. The five Black scientists were from different fields, institutions, and career paths, including several GCC/IGC affiliates...

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NEWSWORTHY
4 GCC affiliates win Biological Sciences Department Awards
Many congratulations to Frank Alyward, Erin Hotchkiss, Meryl Mims, and Susan Whitehead on winning 2019-2020 Biological Sciences Department awards for teaching, advising, and research!
GCC affiliate Josef Uyeda using NSF CAREER Award...

“The goal of the grant is really to take how we study evolution across the tree of life from simply looking for patterns of how traits are related, to understanding what causes them to evolve,” Uyeda added. “How traits might evolve in response to...

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GCC affiliate Sterling Nesbitt receives NSF CAREER award...

Nesbitt and his team will focus their efforts on the Petrified Forest National Park. Located in northeastern Arizona, the park is renowned for its giant fossilized trees that date back to the Late Triassic period.

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Leadership for Sustainability: It's Wicked Important
Virginia Tech faculty, including GCC affiliate Bruce Hull, take on pervasive sustainability challenges in a new book Leadership for Sustainability: Strategies for Tackling Wicked Problems, slated to be released in the fall by Island Press.

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