Fralin Life Science Institute

Exceptional incoming students working with Fralin Institute affiliated
faculty are eligible for a Fralin Graduate Fellowship. These

By Susan Trulove

Kevin P. Davy, professor in human nutrition, foods and exercise, has been invited to serve as a member of the Clinical and Integrative Diabetes and Obesity Study Section of the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) until June 30 2013. Members are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific discipline as evidenced by the quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals, and other significant scientific activities, achievements and honors.

(July 1, 2009) Prof. Timothy Long has been named Associate Director for Interdisciplinary Research and Education at Virginia Tech's Fralin Life Science Institute.

A five-year-old Virginia Tech outreach program, which has more than 12,000 high school students doing research and providing results that scientists can use, has received a $1.3 million Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health.

James O. Hill, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Colorado, Denver, and director of the National Institutes of Health-funded Center for Human Nutrition, will present a seminar Thursday, Nov. 19, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Fralin Life Science Institute auditorium.

• For more information, please see Susan Trulove's article at VT news

Virginia Tech has been awarded $506,373 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a five-year program - "Broadening Opportunities for Nontraditional Graduate Students in Biomolecular Science".