Most people wouldn’t generally consider April 1 to be an auspicious day. But April 1, 2021, happens to be the 20th anniversary of Art Pannonia in Blacksburg.
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MC: Our executive board positions help me to incorporate the concerns and issues of all SGU students. I check in weekly with the presidents of each school’s affairs to make sure all concerns are being addressed. I also check in with our graduate school SGA representatives to help where I am needed.
SGU: What are the qualities you believe a student needs to have in order to be in this type of leadership position?
MC: Passion, courage, and embracing teamwork. An SGA president must be passionate about student concerns and needs in order to succeed in this role. You must have the courage to speak with administration and professors to advocate for the student body in an effective and professional manner. Also, you need to be able to delegate tasks, and to work and communicate with SGA, your colleagues, and administration to make a positive change at SGU.
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IMAGE: Alyssa Brunal, a recent graduate of Virginia Tech s translational biology, medicine, and health doctoral program, and Yuchin Albert Pan, an associate professor at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, discovered a link. view more
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For the brain to learn, retain memories, process sensory information, and coordinate body movements, its groups of nerve cells must generate coordinated electrical signals. Disorder in synchronous firing can impair these processes and, in extreme cases, lead to seizures and epilepsy.
Synchrony between neighboring neurons depends on the protein connexin 36, an essential element of certain types of synaptic connections that, unlike classical chemical synapses, pass signals between neurons through direct electrical connections. For more than 15 years, scientists have debated the tie between connexin 36 and epilepsy.
USDA ARS researchers partner with Virginia Tech and University of Massachusetts to find treatment for parasite infection.
Dec 28, 2020
ARS researchers discovered a groundbreaking treatment that prevents anemia, weight loss, poor wool and meat production, and even death in sheep.
ARS researchers partnered with Virginia Tech and the University of Massachusetts Medical School to solve H. contortus parasite infection, which is the number one health problem in the U.S. sheep industry. The parasite infects the stomach of ruminant mammals, feeding and interfering with digestion.
The H. contortus parasite has developed resistance to virtually all known classes of anti-parasitic drugs, said ARS Researcher Dr. Joseph Urban, who lead the research team in testing and implementation of a para-probiotic treatment to kill the parasite that causes H.contortus.