Privacy preferences, family tensions can deter use of contact tracing apps
(Virginia Tech) With a grant from the National Science Foundation, they launched their new investigation: to understand how individual and family privacy preferences can lead to household tensions and how they can affect adoption of contact tracing apps. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 16, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
What does the fox say to a puma?
(Virginia Tech) The two predator species can successfully share a landscape and hunt for food over the same nighttime hours because they are, in essence, ordering from different menus. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - November 13, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Ivy League Cancels Winter Sports Because Of COVID-19
BOSTON (AP) – The Ivy League became the first Division I conference this year to cancel all winter sports, including men’s and women’s basketball.
The decision Thursday came 13 days before the scheduled start of the college basketball season. The league had decided this past summer, when it canceled fall sports, not to allow any of its sports to start play before early December.
“Regrettably, the current trends regarding transmission of the COVID-19 virus and subsequent protocols that must be put in place are impeding our strong desire to return to intercollegiate athletics competition in a safe man...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - November 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: CBS Boston Tags: College Sports NCAA Coronavirus Ivy League Source Type: news
Researcher expands caregiving study during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Virginia Tech) The National Institute on Aging allows current grantees the opportunity to extend their project research, but they have to apply for each extension as a separate, competitive grant. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - November 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Virginia Tech loses to Liberty in wild fashion as timeout backfires (Video)
Virginia Tech nearly beat Liberty in improbable fashion. Instead, the Hokies lost in improbable fashion. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Liberty Wins on Field Goal After Virginia Tech's Decision to Ice Kicker Backfires Spectacularly
With a 38-35 victory that ended in wild fashion, Hugh Freeze and the Flames are off to their best start in program history. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
WATCH: No. 25 Liberty defeats Virginia Tech after Hokies' plan to ice Flames kicker backfires
The Hokies are going to be sick after their walk-off touchdown was called back because of a timeout (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Doctoral student receives NSERC award to study innovative brain cancer treatment
(Virginia Tech) Zerin Mahzabin Khan, a doctoral studen, was awarded for her work developing a minimally invasive treatment for glioblastoma. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - November 6, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Radio IQ's Mallory Noe-Payne receives Fulbright journalist grant
(Virginia Tech) The grant allows for Noe-Payne to travel to Germany for a 10-month residency to research and examine the history of that nation and the United States of America. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - November 6, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
NIH award to fuse immunology and neuroscience research
(Virginia Tech) Carrillo studies the molecules that brain cells use to shape connections and share chemical signals through synapses and how brain circuits are altered by infection. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 22, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Researchers examine impact of digital information on COVID-19 decisions and behavior
(Virginia Tech) Misra and Wernstedt have received a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the NSF to conduct a survey among 400 respondents in five metropolitan areas in the United States -- Washington, DC; New York; Chicago; Houston; and Atlanta -- that will track differences in risk perceptions, preferences, and self-reported behaviors within each area and compare them across locations. The study commenced in April, and data will be collected at multiple time points during the remainder of 2020 and through the middle of 2021. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - October 22, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
$1 million grant to study the survival of SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces in the food supply chain
(Virginia Tech) " The fate of the virus and how it can be transferred through the food supply chain has not been addressed yet, " said Reza Ovissipour, primary investigator. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - October 20, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Virginia Tech researchers still have much to learn from flying snakes
(Virginia Tech) Ross, Socha and their multi-institutional collaborators, including Purdue University, have been awarded a new $639,919 grant from the National Science Foundation to study flying snakes and the fluid mechanics of deforming articulated bodies, extensible to movement of flexible bodies in other contexts. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - October 16, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Scientists show jet lag conditions impair immune response in mice
(Virginia Tech) International researchers publishing in Science Advances reveal in a mouse study that chronic jet lag alters the microenvironment surrounding tumor cells, making it more favorable for tumor growth, and also hinders the body's natural immune defenses. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - October 14, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Scientists find neurochemicals have unexpectedly profound roles in the human brain
(Virginia Tech) In first-of-their-kind observations in the human brain, an international team of researchers has revealed two well-known neurochemicals -- dopamine and serotonin -- are at work at sub-second speeds to shape how people perceive the world and take action based on their perception. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - October 12, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
