Transdisciplinary Collaboration to Visually Map Government Policies to Restrict the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Beverage Products to Children
The globalization of the food supply has fostered the widespread transnational marketing of highly processed food and beverage products high in fat, added sugars, and salt (HFSS) to young people worldwide. We conducted a scoping review 7 of published scientific peer-reviewed evidence and gray literature for voluntary and mandatory government policies related to food and beverage marketing to children in 13 countries from the Americas region.
“Be the Data” at Women in Computing Day
Eighty 7th grade girls from southwestern Virginia learned about data analytics and visualization at the Women in Computing workshop today at Virginia Tech. In particular, they learned how to explore high-dimensional data by manipulating 2D projections of the data.
Tooling Bamboo Growth
The customization of growing processes for bamboo will have a positive ecological and financial impact on communities that have abundant bamboo resources, as well as encourage new bamboo markets in the western context. The imagined system operation will be low cost and low skill, meaning access to the technology can be widespread.
Connected Vehicle Derby
The project "Connected Vehicle Derby" is a collaboration between ICAT and Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. Related to this project is an event being organized on Thursday, May 1st, from 5:30 to 8:30pm in the Cube (Moss Arts Center).
smART Field
The research efforts associated with smART field focus on developing a solution that integrates luminous materials into an all weather and ADA compliant solution to paths on the Drillfield in order to enhance the integrity of the Drillfield as a “green room” at the center of the Virginia Tech campus.
Fundraiser seeks to make planetarium out of this world
The Science Museum of Western Virginia has high-tech ambitions for its 36-year-old Hopkins Planetarium.
“We’re excited to finally have a chance to tell everybody about it,” said museum marketing manager Koren Smith. “I think that we’re going to surprise a lot of people who are not going to realize that this is possible because it’s so futuristic.”
Should the museum’s plans see realization, it will be possible for visitors to wear goggles that allow them to explore images projected on the planetarium’s dome in three dimensions. Next month, the museum will launch a campaign to raise $250,000 to help make this happen.
Does America Need More Innovators?
Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. But critics have begun to question the unceasing promotion of innovation, pointing out its gadget-centric shallowness, the lack of diversity among innovators, and the unequal distribution of innovation's burdens and rewards.
Researchers develop method to improve 3D-printed prosthetics by integrating electronic sensors
With the growth of 3D printing, it’s entirely possible to 3D print your own prosthetic from models found in open-source databases.
But those models lack personalized electronic user interfaces like those found in costly, state-of-the-art prosthetics.
Now, a Virginia Tech professor and his interdisciplinary team of undergraduate student researchers have made inroads in integrating electronic sensors with personalized 3D-printed prosthetics — a development that could one day lead to more affordable electric-powered prosthetics.
ACCelerate Festival to showcase exploration, innovation across ACC
Virginia Tech and the Smithsonian Institution are leading the second ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival on April 5-7, 2019, at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
The three-day festival is a unique opportunity for schools across the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) to convene and celebrate creative exploration and research happening at the nexus of science, engineering, arts, and design (SEAD).
2019 ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day Proposals
ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day will be held on Monday, May 6, 2018, from 10 AM to 4 PM. This event is a celebration of innovation and process at the nexus of science, engineering, arts, and design (SEAD). The event features projects funded by ICAT, projects from transdisciplinary courses, projects with ICAT-affiliated faculty, and community projects that work at the nexus of SEAD.
We are a collection of artists, designers, engineers, and scientists coming together in a living laboratory that fosters creativity and promotes critical reflection.
The Cube is highly-adaptable and has been used to create immersive environments, intimate performances, audio and visual installations, research, and experimental investigations of all kinds.
Proposals must be transdisciplinary in nature and explore some aspect of technology and at least two of the following areas represented by the Institute and its studios...
