Friday, August 28th, 2009
When and how did life on earth become so big?

Monday, August 24th, 2009
Earliest Complex Organisms Fed By Absorbing Ocean Buffet, Geobiologists Propose

Monday, July 20th, 2009
VT-STEM helps inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers

Monday, July 13th, 2009
Data collected by Virginia Tech researchers confirms impact of glacial erosion

Monday, May 18th, 2009
Morning earthquake in Roanoke rattles the valley

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Va. Tech geologist to study Coles Hill uranium deposit

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
College of Science recognizes Barbara Bekken for Excellence in Teaching

Monday, April 6th, 2009
Rebecca French appointed as graduate student representative to the Board of Visitors

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Theresa Detrie chosen as College of Science Outstanding Masters Student

Monday, March 30th, 2009
Dongbo Wang receives 2009 MSA Research Grant Award

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Research team reports how, when life on earth became so big

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Nicole West Receives 2008 Preston Award

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Glacial erosion changes internal mountain structure, responses to plate tectonics

Friday, October 31st, 2008
Biomolecules change Mg/Ca signatures in calcite to suggest new origin of "vital effects"

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Virginia Tech part of $14 million National Science Foundation nanotechnology grant

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Fred Read to receive AAPG Grover E. Murray Memorial Distinguished Educator Award

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Scientists demonstrate amorphous silica demineralize by pathway similar to crystals

Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Geoscientist named international fellow

Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Mercury's shifting, rolling past

Monday, March 24th, 2008
Nanoscience will change the way we think about the world

Monday, March 10th, 2008
Geoscientist in College of Science awarded international medal

Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Geoscientist solves living mystery, works to help environment

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Two oxygenation events in ancient oceans sparked spread of complex life

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Unique Martian formation reproduced, reveals brief bursts of water

Friday, January 4th, 2008
Paleontologists say two explosive evolutionary events shaped early history of multicellular life

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
National Science Foundation Fellow aims to decipher how animals form complex skeletal structures

Monday, December 10th, 2007
Between water and rock: A new science calls into question water analysis results, bioremediation impacts

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Michael Hochella to deliver keynote address at Fall 2007 Graduate School commencement

Monday, November 26th, 2007
Hochella receives top honor in American Association for the Advancement of Science

Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Geophysics researchers increase computing resources

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Virginia Tech study reveals predation-evolution link

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Radio diary follows geochemist as he tracks the movement of heavy metals

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Michael Hochella appointed University Distinguished Professor

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Laura Hamm Receives NSF Graduate Fellowship Award

Monday, March 5th, 2007
Michael Hochella Featured in AAAS Article on Careers: Making the Leap to Independence

Friday, January 26th, 2007
Richard Krause Awarded Humboldt Fellowship

Saturday, January 6th, 2007
Robert Bodnar named Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
Scientists uncover speedometer for crystal growth controlled by biomolecule properties

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
Geosciences Welcomes Six New Faculty

Friday, November 3rd, 2006
Rachel Lauer Recipient of William R. Walker Graduate Fellow Award

Monday, October 30th, 2006
Virginia Tech Geosciences Presentations at the 2006 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA

Sunday, October 29th, 2006
Virginia Tech Crystallography Lab to become demonstration site for world-class scientific equipment

Friday, October 27th, 2006
Tiny fossils reveal inner secrets

Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Was there water on Mars long enough for the origination of life?

Monday, October 9th, 2006
Elizabeth Diesel wins Penelope Hanshaw Scholarship; Lisa Tranel receives honorable mention

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Martin Chapman's research featured in College of Science Magazine

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Virginia Tech Geosciences Presentations at the 2006 GSA National Meeting in Philadelphia

Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Michael Hochella and Robert Bodnar honored by American Geophysical Union

Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Fred Read recipient of several professional awards

Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Ph.D. student Nicholas Wigginton selected to meet Nobel Laureates

Sunday, November 27th, 2005
Michal Kowalewski wins prestigious Schuchert Award

Thursday, November 10th, 2005
Geoscientists unify crystal growth and dissolution processes into single framework

Monday, October 10th, 2005
Virginia Tech Geoscientists follow arsenic from chicken feed to streambeds

Sunday, October 9th, 2005
Virginia Tech researchers find tiny bubbles a storehouse of knowledge

Sunday, October 9th, 2005
Geologists use biotools to understand geosystems

Friday, September 30th, 2005
Michael Hochella receives Virginia Tech's Alumni Award for Research Excellence

Friday, September 30th, 2005
Virginia Tech team receives highly competitive IGERT grant

Monday, August 15th, 2005
Robert J. Bodnar wins AGU Bowen Award

Monday, August 1st, 2005
Patricia Dove and research group win DOE Best University Research Award