Trulove, Susan2013-05-062013-05-062005-06-03http://hdl.handle.net/10919/21814Rahul Kulkarni, assistant professor of physics at Virginia Tech, has been awarded a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities to continue his research on quorum sensing in bacteria. He is modeling the sequence of events that initiate activity, such as virulence, by a bacteria colony once it has reached a critical size.text/htmlIn CopyrightUnderstanding how bacteria communicate may help scientists prevent diseasePress releaseVirginia Tech. University Relations