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2026

Curious Conversations Podcast with Linsey Marr
March 16, 2026

‘Curious Conversations’ podcast: Linsey Marr airborne pathogen detection and mitigation

Amy Pruden
March 4, 2026

Amy Pruden named Virginia Outstanding Faculty

2025

NTEC Alum Ben Siedlarz Wins Hokie Pitch Competition

Group photo of team OncoLac with mentors Trista Ni and Erik McNair
December 19, 2025

NTEC Alum Ben Siedlarz Wins Hokie Pitch Competition

Linsey Marr
November 12, 2025

Linsey Marr among world's most highly cited

A woman in a white lab coat smiles at the camera in a lab full of equipment.
October 16, 2025

Up to $40 million in federal funding fuels research to revolutionize clean indoor air

2025 Plenty of Beauty at the Bottom Image Contest

2025 Plenty of Beauty at the Bottom Image Contest
September 22, 2025

2025 Plenty of Beauty at the Bottom Image Contest

Meet the User: Joseph Allen

Joseph Allen in Greenland
August 25, 2025

Meet the User:
Joseph Allen

Meet the User: Mohammed Baalousha

Mohammed Baalousha
August 15, 2025

Meet the User:
Mohammed Baalousha

Meet the Team: F. Marc Michel

Marc Michel puts samples in an XRD
July 25, 2025

Meet the Team:
F. Marc Michel

Afternoon group photo of campers
July 24, 2025

NanoEarth Hosts Explore Physical Sciences Camp

First slide of presentation
July 18, 2025

Lade Presents at Virtual NanoSIMST

Mitsuhiro Murayama gives a presentation at a conference
July 15, 2025

Meet the Team:
Mitsuhiro Murayama

Jim Metzner records a Dolphin
July 1, 2025

NanoEarth's Partnership with Jim Metzner

NTEC group photo at TechConnect
June 10, 2025

NanoTechnology Entrepreneurship Challenge 2025 Winners

Students on a field trip to the edge of the Greenland inland ice sheet.
June 9, 2025

Arctic REU Greenland Partnership

Sylvianne Velasquez
April 28, 2025

Meet the Team:
Sylvianne Velasquez

NanoEarth hosts at booth
April 9, 2025

Hokie for a Day: Falling Branch and Belview Elementaries

Matthew Hull
March 19, 2025

Meet the Team:
Matthew Hull

Tonya Pruitt using a flashlight to demonstrate structural color on a butterfly
March 3, 2025

Meet the Team:
Tonya Pruitt

Rodney Tigaa
February 17, 2025

Meet the User:
Rodney Tigaa

Watercolor sketch of two people at a scanning electron microscope at the NCFL
February 7, 2025

Daily Doodle: Scanning Electron Microscope

2024

(From left) Doctoral students Amanda Darling and Thomas Byrne collect watershed samples. Photo courtesy of Gabriel Maldonado Rivera.
December 2, 2024

Robust EPA grant funds collaborative study to halt the spread of diseases through wastewater

Charis Horn
November 25, 2024

Meet the Team:
Charis Horn

Linsey Marr
November 19, 2024

Highly Cited Researchers: Linsey Marr

Amy Pruden (kneeling) and Peter Vikesland examine a wastewater sample. Photo by Dawn Jefferies for Virginia Tech.
November 5, 2024

Sewage Surveillance Proves Powerful in Combating Antimicrobial Resistance

A child experiments with nano-sand
November 2, 2024

NanoEarth at the Virginia Tech Science Festival

NanoEarth team at the NNCI Annual Conference
October 28-30, 2024

NanoEarth at the 2024 NNCI Annual Conference

Bipin Lade at Pepper's Ferry Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility (PFRWTF), Pulaski County, Virginia, United States
October 9, 2024

Lade Presents at Contaminants of Concern

Turtles on an SEM
October 9, 2024

2024 Plenty of Beauty at the Bottom Local Winners

EDS of B-Sn solder
September 24, 2024

NanoEarth Hosts Roanoke Valley Governor's School

Amy Pruden
September 20, 2024

Pruden Elected to the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

elementary students experiment with hydrophobic sand
September 18, 2024

Hokie for a Day: Belle Heth Elementary

Bipin Lade
August 26, 2024

Meet the Team:
Bipin Lade

Anita Broach
August 22, 2024

Meet the User:
Anita Broach

Peter Vikesland. Photo by Peter Means for Virginia Tech.
July 30, 2024

Vikesland Named Inaugural Pryor Professor of Engineering

students use magnet on ferrofluid
July 18, 2024

NanoEarth Hosts Explore Physical Sciences Camp 2024

REU student uses the SEM
June 24, 2024

Initial Visit: Concord Arctic REU

Weinan Leng explains microscope to a student
May 13, 2024

Meet the Team:
Weinan Leng

REU group
May 6, 2024

Concord's Arctic REU 2023

Freddy Garcia, Yves Theriault, Beeta Zamani, and Laura Charria, NTEC 2024 UCSD
April 30, 2024

NanoTechnology Entrepreneurship Challenge 2024 Winners

Bipin Lade, Dave Mogk, David Dickensheets, Weinan Leng
April 29, 2024

NanoEarth Staff Visit MONT and NCI-SW

Bassett High School visitors
April 19, 2024

NanoEarth Hosts Bassett High School

students learn about the XPS
April 5, 2024

NanoEarth Hosts Cornerstone Christian School

NANO 2814 NanoCareers Class
March 26, 2024

Exploring Nano Careers

students test nano pants
March 13, 2024

Hokie for a Day: Patrick Henry Elementary

Sampling Falling Creek Reservoir
February 26, 2024

Researchers receive National Science Foundation grant for long-term data research

Researchers around a table wearing gloves
February 23, 2024

Detecting COVID-19 in the air

Deborah Michiko Aruguete
January 22, 2024

Meet the User: Deborah Michiko Aruguete

Ivonne Gonzales-Gamboa in Lab
January 8, 2024

Stories of Impact: Ivonne González-Gamboa

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