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Virginia Tech institute partners on national security initiatives. Virginia Museum of History and Culture offers workshops for teachers. Faculty at Tech, VMI win awards. Botetourt offers scholarship. Entrepreneur director named at W&L.
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Virginia Tech associate professor receives Fulbright scholarship to study pollution in the Amazon rainforest
Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz, an associate professor in civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, is headed to the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador on a Fulbright scholarship to study emissions from vegetation that can contribute to air pollution.
“The Amazon rainforest is a major global hotspot for emissions of reactive organic gases, which go on to react to…