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A Message From The Director
New Course- Biology 6064: Freshwaters in the Anthropocene
BIOL 6064: Spring Semester 2015 2 credits- M/W 9:05-9:55am Dr. Cayelan Carey is teaching a new special topics graduate course in the spring, ‘Freshwaters in the Anthropocene,’ which will...
Read MoreLaura Schoenle receives a 2014 EPA STAR Fellowship
Laura Schoenle, a fellow in the Interfaces of Global Change Program, was recently awarded a EPA STAR Fellowship for 2014. This very competitive graduate fellowship program from the Environmental P...
Read MoreAmy Pruden receives the 2014 Busch Award
Professor Amy Pruden Amy Pruden, professor of civil and environmental engineering and associate dean and director of interdisciplinary graduate education in the Graduate School at Virginia Tech, is th...
Read MoreVertebrate species populations have declined
Message from the World Wildlife Fund International Director General “The latest edition of the Living Planet Report is not for the faint-hearted. One key point that jumps out and captures the...
Read MoreA Special Supplement from PNAS: The Science of Science Communication
A special supplement to this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is dedicated to science communication. “Better communication to the public and policy makers can...
Read MoreLeandro Castello studies the impacts of extreme weather events on Amazonian floodplains
Dr. Leandro Castello and his colleagues at Woods Hole Research Center and University of California Santa Barbara recently received a grant from NASA to study the impacts of extreme weather events (flo...
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