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ICAT Projects

Funded to artists, designers, engineers, and scientists who come together in a living laboratory that fosters creativity and promotes critical reflection, ICAT projects showcase research across disciplines.

Explore below to discover how our faculty and students are solving the complex problems of the world.

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2023-2024

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Appalachian Horror Exhibition
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Building a Sustainable Future by Learning from the past
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COVID Comics, Cubed
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Carving out Creativity
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Darshan: Dance for Krishna
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Democratization of Metal 3D Printing
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Digital Games and Interactive Entertainment Curriculum
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ER Wait Time
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Epiphany Machine
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Evaporative Cooling Interior Partition Systems
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Food Security: Agriculture, Engineering, and the Art of Food in a Culturally-Relevant Context
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Hokie Bird Animatronic
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Mycelium Mimetics
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Securing Trustworthy XR Interactions through Human-Machine Networks in Healthcare
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Sustainable Art Painting
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The Beat Goes On
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The Memory Palace
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Utilizing Aerial Circus Arts as a Form of Inclusive Physical Exercise
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Virtual IAWA
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Weaving Weeds

2022-2023

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Acoustic Invasion
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Bridging Stream and City
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Digital Games and Interactive Entertainment Curriculum
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Domestic Violence Data Tracker
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Embodied Art
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ICAT NEA Research Lab
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Intersecting interior design with virtual reality
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Mass Timber Modification Through Technology
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Mecha Collaboration
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Playing COVID Proteins
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Towards a 3D Printing Loom
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Utilizing Virtual Reality Platforms for Diverse and Inclusive Recruitment
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Who Am I Working With?

2021-2022

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BioTech Couture
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Community Pulse
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Cooperative Sculpturing in a VR Game
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Enhancing User Experience in Art Galleries Using Augmented Reality
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Evaluating commercial screen-based devices for children’s connection and engagement with remote contacts
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Experience Black Love: Illuminated
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Future Monuments
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Imagine Lab
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Invasive Exegesis
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Lane Hall Projection Mapping
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Musical Drones
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PROS: Performances to Reduce Online Scams
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Robot Musical Theater
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The Similarity of Being
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The Tale of Two Brothers
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The VTDITC Sankofa Mixtape
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The modern skeleton
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Transforming Public Engagement with Underrepresented Stories through Humanities Sources and Immersive Experiences
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VAROS - Reimagining Patient Education

2020-2021

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Additive Manufacturing in Bicycle Helmet Design
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Aeolian Perception Chamber
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Augmented Animatronic Americana
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Breath-driven augmented audio interface
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Creativity, Arts & Technology to Build Civility
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Demystifying and adapting life-cycle assessment to facilitate meaningful early-stage sustainable product development
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Illuminating Flight and Refuge
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Imagine Lab
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Monument Public Address System
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Motion Capture Sensing for Measuring Progress of Therapeutic Intervention
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OCLIM 21
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Parametric Acoustic Sculpture in the Dome with a Sound Visualization System
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Penny P’s Backyard
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Plemory
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Posture Portraits
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SEE VT Curriculum Project
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Transforming Highway Construction Training through Multi-User Immersive Augmented Virtual Reality
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Using Mycological Design Technology to Augment Human and Environmental Health in the Circular Economy
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VRViewfinder - Engaging bystanders in VR-based Interactive Media Using Auxiliary Viewing Devices
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Virtual Watersheds: An Immersive Experience at the Confluence of Water and Society

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Bridging the Gap: Creating Community Connections to Develop and Deliver Effective Remote Learning Opportunities , article
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Connecting Virginia Learning Communities: New eXtended Reality based Library Tools , article
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Exploring Online Ensemble Rehearsal and Performance Infrastructure in the Age of Social Distancing , article
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Fluid Echoes , article
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Girls Launch! Kindergarten Science Outreach Continuation and Expansion , article
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Supporting Remote Design Critique of Physical Objects through Collaborative Augmented Reality , article
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The Virtual Sculpture Garden , article

2019-2020

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Designing an imaging platform for 3D image generation , article
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ACOUSCOUS , article
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Benthos 360 , article
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Body, Full of Time , article
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Building BERT: A Brief Emotion Regulation Training Program for College Students , article
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City Elections , article
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Dancing Plants , article
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Designing Cyberbiosecurity Case Studies for the Food and Agricultural System for Integrating Education, Workforce Development, and BioEconomy , article
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Designing a Capstone Course , article
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Field Dependence and Implications to Immersive Environments , article
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Innovation Pilot - Catawba Valley Renewable Energy Project Meaningful Public Engagement and Decision making Information Portal , article
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Mobile Learning , article
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Pelleas Project , article
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Penny P’s Backyard , article
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Seeing Flavors , article
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Smart Cross‐Bamboo , article
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The Recursions of Escher: Between Art and Science , article
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Translating a Smithsonian Exhibit for Digital Learning , article
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Using Robotic Platforms , article
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Zoologia Fantastica in the Mist , article

2018-2019

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Afrofuturism to Vibranium and Beyond , article
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Body, Full of Time , article
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Can training methods from the Performing Arts be used to prevent falls and fall-related injuries , article
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Developing SmartSense: A Robotic Platform for High Throughput Phenotyping and Genome Wide Association Analysis , article
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Development of the PrepLab, an Open Educational Resources Repository , article
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Digital Fabrication , article
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Family Song , article
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Future Cave , article
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FutureHAUS , article
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Live Action VR - Integrating Live Actors into Virtual Reality Experiences in Real Time , article
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Mad Cool Show , article
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Memory Bank , article
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Pulling at the Heartstrings , article
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Robotic Felting , article
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SAFE - Strategies to Avoid Fall among Elderly , article
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Scanning Driven Designs , article
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Sea Ice Saga , article
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The Haptic Cow , article
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Tooling Bamboo Growth , article
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Visual Language of Chromatin Architecture , article
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Visualizing Acid-Base Chemistry for Environmental Scientists and Engineers , article
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Voided Space , article
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Willie Cole Bottle Project , article
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Wireless Psychophysiological Recording in the Augmented Reality Environment , article

2017-2018

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3D Visualization and Simulation of Infectious Disease Spread , article
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Bad Star , article
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Dancing Bubbles , article
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Deciphering the Secrets of Musical Intelligence , article
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Digging in the Crates: Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech , article
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Embodied Virtual Reality for Training and Performance , article
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Evaluating the feasibility of using sound to track automatically honey bee recruitment dances , article
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Eye in the Sky , article
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Source Form , article
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The Aesthetics of Contemporary Science Research , article
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Traffic SONATA , article
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Transdisciplinary Collaboration to Visually Map Government Policies to Restrict the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Beverage Products to Children , article

2016-2017

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An Educational Tool to Explore the Dynamics of Subatomic Physics Interactions , article
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Audience interaction during collaborative game play using virtual environments in informal learning contexts , article
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AuralSurface , article
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Boosting University Infrastructure for Learning + Discovery (BUILD) , article
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Bridging Real and Virtual Libraries , article
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Bringing Fossils Back to Life , article
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Building Communities of Fitness: Sensing and Sharing Toward Better Health , article
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CriticalConnecXtions , article
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Cube Fest: Massively Multichannel Music , article
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Designing Software and Community Participation for Crowdsourced History Research , article
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Fog Harp , article
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Húnaflói: Arctic Issues & Media Installation Art , article
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Measuring the Engineers’ Brain , article
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Resonance on the Walls II , article
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SEAD Guitar Build , article
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Stepping into the Past - Exploring America’s Forgotten War , article
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Susannah by Opera Roanoke , article
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smART Field , article

2015-2016

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ESCHER Humanoid Robot , article
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Extending Creativity Through a Multidisciplinary Choreographic Digital Project , article
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Fusality for Stream and Field , article
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Identifying Collaboration & Creativity in Instrumented Buildings , article
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Moss Arts Center Projection Mapping Project , article
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REAL Pedagogy , article
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SeeMore , article
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The Emotional Response and Impact of Visual Stimuli in Virtual and Built Environments , article
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The Talking Band’s Marcellus Shale Residency , article
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Virtual IAWA , article

2014-2015

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3D Meteorological Immersion Experience: Tornado in the Cube , article
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Advancing Transportation Infrastructure 3D Image-Based Reconstruction with Application to Bridge Deck Crack Mapping and Inspection , article
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Be the Data: Embodied Interaction in Bayesian Visual Analytics , article
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Blacksburg 16 Squares , article
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CLOUD
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Matrix Redux , article
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Medical Avatar: The Time Health Machine by Artist Virgil Wong , article
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Numerical Modeling of Human Crowd Dynamics , article
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Parametric Sign Shack , article
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Reusable Form for Producing Custom-Fit Grips , article
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Snakes in the Cube , article
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Virginia Tech Percussion Ensemble: "Resonance on the Walls" , article

2013-2014

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Audio Storytelling Workshop Series: Sounds of Community , article
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Kinesthetic Field: The Art & Technology of Electromagnetic Fields , article
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Lantern Field
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Make-to-Learn Workshop , article

2012-2013

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Creative Community Engagement , article
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Gendered Arrangements , article
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Luminous Kite Lanterns
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Origins of Innovation , article

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3D Printing Flexible Textile Structures , article
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Analysis and Assessment of a Pilot Study: iPad and iMovie Integrated into Creative Dance Curriculum , article
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Bat Biodiversity and Biosonar , article
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Bio-Inspired Visualization , article
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Cardboard Challenge 2013 , article
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Connected Vehicle Derby , article
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Design Thinking in Middle School , article
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Development and Demonstration of the AURA Building Enclosure System , article
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Emergency Evacuation Planning for Lane Stadium , article
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FORM: Line-Plane-Solid , article
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Impromptu Glorious Chorus Project , article
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Lace , article
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Mirror Worlds , article
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NETS 1.0 , article
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New Town Project , article
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Partnerships in Decolonizing Arctic Media , article
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Puppy Project , article
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StockBubbler: A Tool for Stock Market Bubble Visualization , article
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The Orb , article
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VT Electrical and Computer Engineering NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) grant