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Shawn Julian Frank (EDS, ELPS)
Shawn Julian Frank (EDS, ELPS)
8/15/25, 10:00 AM
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@ GENERAL CRC, Blacksburg -
Elayna Rose Seago (PHD, HD)
Elayna Rose Seago (PHD, HD)
8/15/25, 10:00 AM
Age and Family History of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias as Predictors of Locus Coeruleus and Salience Network Connectivity
@ 300 Wallace Hall, Blacksburg -
Jasmine Brenne Cornileus (MARCH, ARCG)
Jasmine Brenne Cornileus (MARCH, ARCG)
8/15/25, 11:00 AM
Architecture and Memory at the Intersection of Transit, the Built Environment, and Placemaking in Tysons, VA
@ 110 Architecture Center 1021, Alexandria -
Tong Zhou (MS, CSA)
Tong Zhou (MS, CSA)
8/15/25, 11:00 AM
GlitchAgent: Detecting Video Game Glitches from Gameplay Videos
@ 415 Data and Decision Science, Blacksburg -
Benjamin Foster Hopkins (MARCH, ARCG)
Benjamin Foster Hopkins (MARCH, ARCG)
8/15/25, 2:00 PM
Manhattan and the Hybrid Monastery
@ 400 Cowgill Hall, Blacksburg -
Naomi Cruz (MARCH, ARCG)
Naomi Cruz (MARCH, ARCG)
8/15/25, 2:00 PM
Commons: The Role of Public Space in Reinvention
@ 110 Architecture Center 1021, Alexandria -
Pratiksha Dhakal (PHD, CE)
Pratiksha Dhakal (PHD, CE)
8/15/25, 3:00 PM
Analysis and Design of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Diaphragms
@ 200K Patton Hall, Blacksburg -
Ananta Srikar Puranam (MS, CPE)
Ananta Srikar Puranam (MS, CPE)
8/15/25, 3:00 PM
EKFuzz: Fuzzing the BPF Subsystem
@ 2005 ICTAS A, Blacksburg -
Parkpoom Pengsuwan (PHD, EDCI)
Parkpoom Pengsuwan (PHD, EDCI)
8/18/25, 10:00 AM
Teaching Strategies Promoting Student Informed Decision-Making During Technological and Engineering Design
@ 4347 Corporate Research Ctr, Blacksburg -
Mika Karli Pagani (PHD, ENT)
Mika Karli Pagani (PHD, ENT)
8/19/25, 1:00 PM
Evaluating management of the common wireworm, Melanotus communis (Coleoptera: Elateridae), in Virginia
@ 220 Price Hall, Blacksburg -
Kaylee Diana Petraccione (PHD, BMVS)
Kaylee Diana Petraccione (PHD, BMVS)
8/22/25, 3:30 PM
Discovering LC3-interacting region (LIR) motifs in hemorrhagic fever viruses: Implications for host autophagy and viral replication.
@ GENERAL The Inn at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg -
Yuanzhi Bian (PHD, BSE)
Yuanzhi Bian (PHD, BSE)
8/27/25, 11:00 AM
Precision Adjuvant Design Enabling Tailored Nanoparticle Immunization Platforms for Oxycodone and Other Substance Abuse Vaccines
@ 108 Human & Ag Bio Science 1, Blacksburg -
Jean-Luc Aristide DeRieux (MS, EE)
Jean-Luc Aristide DeRieux (MS, EE)
9/10/25, 11:00 AM
SCE-FOAM: Semantic Context-aware Framework for Adaptive Multimodal Reasoning
@ 1100 Innovation Campus Academic Bdg, Alexandria
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