The GCC WEEKLY | October 18 2022 | |
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Robin L. McCarley Appointed FLSI's Executive Director
After a national search, Robin L. McCarley will join the Virginia Tech community as the Fralin Life Sciences Institute’s executive director, effective December 1st. McCarley, currently the Barbara Womack Alumni Association Endowed Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University, will shape the vision of the Fralin Life Sciences Institute (FLSI) by leveraging existing institute and university strengths to enhance resources for Virginia Tech’s environmental and life sciences community. McCarley will report to Dan Sui, the senior vice president for research and innovation.
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Global Change Center Diversity Fellowship Opportunities for 2023-24
Because environmental injustices must be solved in collaboration with the underserved communities most affected by global changes, we seek to attract the next generation of leaders from under-represented groups to Virginia Tech. With support from the Fralin Life Sciences Institute and the Virginia Tech Graduate School, the Global Change Center will award two Diversity Fellowships to outstanding applicants in the upcoming academic year. Incoming first year PhD students (Fall '23) are eligible to apply.
Application deadline is March 1, 2023
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Dept Head Search Launched for VT Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
The College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech invites applications and nominations of exceptional leaders for the position of Professor and Department Head, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation. The department is one of four academic units in the College of Natural Resources and Environment (Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Geography, and Sustainable Biomaterials). The Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation is considered one of the premier teaching, research, and engagement programs of its kind in the country, and the College has repeatedly been distinguished as one of the leading Natural Resource Colleges in the nation.
Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2022
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Research Development Series: Resources and Training for VT Researchers
As part of its Research Development Series, the Office of Research and Innovation is hosting a seminar designed for junior and mid-career faculty that will provide an overview of Virginia Tech’s research and development support services and how to leverage them for success and career advancement. Featured guest speaker Vince Baranauskas, VT’s Senior Research Development Coordinator, will provide an overview of the support services such as proposal writing support, graphic support through the VT Faculty Activity Support Team, Limited Submission workflow, budget and contract with the Office of Sponsored Programs, larger scale proposal support with Red Teaming, coordination of cost-sharing and institutional commitments, and more.
Friday October 21, 1:30 - 2:30 PM ET
310 Kelly Hall, or via Zoom
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Chloe Moore
Biological Sciences
| Chloe Moore is a PhD candidate in Dr. Meryl Mims’s lab in the Department of Biological Sciences. Her research interests broadly include investigating the patterns and drivers of biodiversity across spatial and temporal scales and how biodiversity quantification methods can be maximized for conservation and management of understudied or threatened taxa. Following her B.S. in Wildlife Science from the University of Georgia, Chloe worked for several organizations while exploring the many paths available to biologists, including Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service, working on everything from reintroducing endangered salamanders to their native habitat to monitoring small mammal populations following a solar array installation. | |
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Celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month
The Office for Equity and Accessibility invites all members of the VT community to celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month and the 32nd anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in October. This year’s event will explore the benefits of animal-assisted therapy. Light refreshments will be served. The event is free, and those who wish to attend in person must register online.
Friday October 21, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM ET
Livestock Arena on VT Campus, or Join Virtually via Zoom
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Families Can "Reduce & Reuse" at the Annual Little Hokie Hand-Me-Down Event
Every year, the Graduate School, Graduate and Professional Student Senate, and the Women’s Center join forces to hold the Little Hokie Hand-Me-Down, an event that offers graduate students and staff with children an opportunity to “shop” for gently used clothing and other items. From Oct. 17 through November 14, donations of gently used clothes, books, toys, strollers, unexpired car seats, and other items will be accepted. On Nov. 15 and 16, graduate students, staff, and others can shop for free items at the event, which will be held in the Graduate Life Center multipurpose room.
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On NPR, the Tenacity of Invasive Autumn Olive with GCC Affiliate Jacob Barney
Autumn Olive, an Asian plant originally prized for its ability to control erosion and thrive in harsh environments, is quickly choking out native East Coast species. While it’s likely too late to eradicate it, there are ways to help manage it— one small bite at a time. Planted in the U.S. to control erosion since at least the early 1900s, especially in areas that had been mined, Autumn Olive was initially prized for its hardiness and adaptability. Those are the same that reasons it may soon be declared a tier 3 noxious weed in Virginia. Jacob Barney studies invasive plants at Virginia Tech's School of Plant and Environmental Sciences. He’s seen the Asiatic shrub explode across the Commonwealth over the last decade, choking out native species as it crops up in rarely mowed or little grazed fields, along roadsides, and at the forests’ edge.
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GCC Affiliate Quinn Thomas Awarded NSF Grant to Improve Environmental Data Access & Forecasting
Quinn Thomas is a researcher with a bold objective: predicting the natural environment just like we predict the weather through the use of shared data tools and a computational infrastructure. Thomas, who holds dual appointments in the College of Natural Resources and Environment and the College of Science, is the principal investigator for Virginia Tech’s part of a $3.2 million research project funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure. The Democratized Cyberinfrastructure for Open Discovery to Enable Research (DeCODER) aims to standardize and facilitate how environmental data and model predictions are described and shared so that, ultimately, more individual researchers and scientific communities can utilize these resources.
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