Dr. Marion Repetti - Post-doctoral Research Associate | Virginia Tech Spring 2018 Seminar Series - Tuesday, February 27th| 3:30 PM - Reception to follow From the first half of the 20th century, economists have considered the role of the State in the regulation of money and the...
OVERVIEW: Global Forum research professor Sean Bemis and PhD student Michael Vadman spent a week in central Oregon collecting new observations as the beginning of a research project examining regional earthquake and volcanic hazards. No recent studies have applied modern geologic techniques to the active faults and...
OVERVIEW: Rebecca Hester, with VT’s Science and Technology in Society department and four summer undergraduate students present their findings at an international refugee conference The Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience (GFURR) and the VT School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) sponsored the International Refugee...
OVERVIEW: Dr. Susan Wharton Gates to be advising the Global Forum on high level policy and financial issues Susan Wharton Gates to provide her expertise as a senior advisor to the Global Forum. Her current research focuses on structural dynamics of the housing finance system, particularly with...
Dr. Shannon E. Bell - Associate Professor of Sociology, Virginia Tech Fall 2017 Seminar Series - Thursday, December 7th | 3:30 PM - Reception to follow In Central Appalachia, where more than 1 million acres of land and over 500 mountains have been destroyed by mountaintop removal...
Dr. Dan Simundza - Research Scientist at the Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience - Virginia Tech Simone Franzi, PhD Student in the School of Public and International Affairs - Virginia Tech Fall 2017 Seminar Series - Wednesday, November 29th| 3:30 PM - Reception to follow The...
Michael Valdman - Department of Geosciences and Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience | Virginia Tech Fall 2017 Seminar Series - Thursday, November 16th| 3:30 PM - Reception to follow Even at high tectonic rates, detection of possible off-fault plastic/aseismic deformation and variability in far-field strain...
Taking Sustainability Seriously in the Piedmont Sprawl Belt? Dr. Andy Scerri - Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech Fall 2017 Seminar Series - Monday, November 13th| 3:30 PM - Reception to follow Recent USGS ‘scenarios analysis’ suggest that, left unchecked, suburban sprawl in the Piedmont bioregion will grow by 192%...
Dr. Jonathan Pugh - School of Geography, Politics & Sociology - Visiting professor from Newcastle University, UK - Will present a public lecture on Participation as Assemblage in the Caribbean Tuesday, October 24 - BI Auditorium - Steger Hall - 1015 Life Science Circle - 3:00...
Dr. Susan Wharton Gates will be on campus to discuss her book "Days Of Slaughter" Wednesday, October 11th at the BI Auditorium - Steger Hall - 1015 Life Science Circle from 5-6 PM. Reception following. Telecast by CSPAN - In September 2008, beset by mounting losses...