[Music] I am Gonzalo Ferreira.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dairy Science.
I'm originally from Argentina.
And I work in the area of Dairy Management.
My name is Daniel Homa.
I am a Senior Research Associate at the Material Science and
Engineering Department.
I currently work under Dr. Garry Pickrell.
I found out about this Subvension Fund when I was starting here at Virginia Tech
with many orientations.
I found it on the website and
I'm very thankful that I did it because it helped us out a lot.
It allowed us not only to publish it but
to publish in a form that everybody can view.
I thought it was a pretty neat idea to to have the open access and
be able to be open to the whole world.
Without that funding we would struggle to be able to do an open access
because it's a, you know, unfunded project, there's no direct funding for
that and we believe it's important to publish that work.
I would absolutely recommend this.
It's an opportunity for us, for new assistant professors.
So yes, why not?
I recommend it to everybody.
I already have.
I've already told people that I know that they can use this and
I hope that they take the opportunity.
It's a wonderful opportunity.
Thanks for the opportunity.
Hopefully there would be more of this in the future.
Thank you.
I really do appreciate it.
I mean, I don't know how much I can say thank you for
this Subvension Fund and the Libraries, too.
I know it's a whole other topic, but
the VT Libraries are fantastic and they make my job possible.