Browsing by Author "Trulove, Susan"

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  • 500 million years of errors: Shells of brachiopods record shadow of arms race in ancient oceans
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-06-16)
    A study of fossils from the Paleozoic Era, collected across the world, reveals that ancient brachiopods were little bothered by predators. However, the rare predation traces left on brachiopod shells by unknown assailants coupled with a subtle increase in their frequency through time may be the shadows on the wall that show killers were in the room and their numbers increased with time.
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    Air Force funded researcher engineers enzymes to advance the hydrogen economy
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2007-11-02)
    Y. H. Percival Zhang, assistant professor of biological systems engineering at Virginia Tech, has received an Air Force Young Investigator award to advance development of an onboard process to convert a cellulosic material into hydrogen to power fuel cell vehicles.
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    America's energy future topic of speaker series
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2008-01-29)
    Michael G. Morris, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of American Electric Power, will be the first speaker in the Spring 2008 Energy and Environment Speaker Series at Virginia Tech.
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    America's energy future topic of Virginia Tech speaker series--location of the first presentation changes
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2008-02-13)
    Michael G. Morris, chief executive officer of American Electric Power Co., will be the first speaker in the Spring 2008 Energy and Environment Speaker Series at Virginia Tech.
  • Ancestor of modern trees preserves record of ancient climate change
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2006-11-02)
    About 350 million years ago, at the boundary of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, the climate changed. There was no one around to record it, but there are records nonetheless in the rocks deposited by glaciers and in tissues preserved in fossils of ancient life.
  • Are museum collections of ancient life representative?
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2004-11-03)
    Members of the general public look to museums for the best examples of ancient life í¢•À_•À_åäóù the biggest dinosaur, the nicest fossils of plants and bugs. Increasingly, researchers are looking to museum collections to answer questions about what lived on earth millions of years ago and how life evolved.
  • Art show reception Friday, March 24 in Burruss Hall
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2006-03-14)
    This spring, eight artists are showing their works in the Office of the Vice President for Research at Virginia Tech. The public is invited to the opening reception on Friday, March 24, from noon until 2 p.m., to meet the artists as well as view the works.
  • Artists invited to exhibit art for consideration in new building
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2007-02-07)
    An art exhibition will be held Saturday, Feb. 24, to purchase art for Virginia Tech's new Life Sciences I building, which is currently under construction on Washington Street. The show will be from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Torgersen Hall Bridge at Virginia Tech.
  • As Virginia Tech sponsored research grew, total expenditures slowed
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2004-05-21)
    Based on research expenditures of $232.6 million in 2002, Virginia Tech ranked 52nd out of 625 universities nationwide, according to the recently released National Science Foundation (NSF) survey.
  • ASPIRES supports 17 projects to enhance university research, scholarship
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-04-12)
    The Office of the Vice President for Research announces that 13 research proposals and four capital renovation projects have received ASPIRES awards to help launch faculty members' research enterprises.
  • Assumptions About What Holds Molecular Complexes Together Have Been Based On Faulty Measures
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2003-05-15)
    As scientists create molecular complexes to perform increasingly minute operations -- such as molecular level switches or memory devices -- it is critical that the association forces that hold the molecular components together be accurately understood.
  • AstraZeneca licenses novel antidepressant compounds discovered by Mayo Clinic, Virginia Tech collaboration
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2009-02-09)
    AstraZeneca, Mayo Clinic, and Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. today announced that AstraZeneca has licensed a portfolio of preclinical Triple Reuptake Inhibitor (TRI) compounds for depression. Researchers at Virginia Tech and Mayo Clinic collaborated to discover the compounds.
  • Bacterial response to oxidation studied as toxin barometer
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2007-03-27)
    Common bacteria with an overt reaction to toxins that cause oxidative stress show promise as a biosensor to predict public health threats.
  • Bare bones of crystal growth: Biomolecules enhance metal contents in calcite
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2008-11-10)
    From shells to bones, the skeletons of organisms contain small amounts of impurity elements such as magnesium. Because the levels of these elements provide important clues to past environments, a considerable effort has focused on understanding how to relate impurity contents to the ancient environments in which an organism lived.
  • Battle of the bugs featured in Virginia Tech Research magazine
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2007-09-24)
    An invader is destroying America's hemlocks. Virginia Tech forest entomology researchers are using the predators provided by nature in the villain's homeland to do battle in the United States.
  • Benign separation process being advanced for pharmaceutical industry
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-03-16)
    Pharmaceutical companies perform many separations of molecules before they begin to synthesize the most ideal safe, pure, effective compound or sub-compound into a drug.
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    Between water and rock: A new science calls into question water analysis results, bioremediation impacts
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2007-12-10)
    Water chemistry and mineralogy are scientific fields that have been around long enough to develop extensive knowledge and technologies. The boundary of water and rock, however, is not a thin wet line but the huge new field of nanoparticle science.
  • Biochemistry graduate student selected to meet with Nobel Laureates
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2006-05-05)
    January Haile of Athens, Tenn., a Ph.D. student in biochemistry at Virginia Tech has been selected by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) to attend a meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, in June.
  • Biochemistry of how plants resist insect attack determined
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-11-23)

    Many plants, including crops, release volatiles in response to insect attack. The chemical compounds can be a defense or can be an aromatic call for help to attract enemies of the attacking insect. Researchers from Virginia Tech, Michigan State University, and Georg-August-University Göttingen have discovered how plants produce the defensive compounds.

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    Biofuel processes to be developed by French biotechnology company, Biomethodes
    Trulove, Susan (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2008-06-24)
    Bioméhodes, a French biotechnology company in Evry, has signed an exclusive and worldwide option-to-license agreement with Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (VTIP) for multiple technologies for converting biomass to bioethanol and biohydrogen.