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Latest News from BEAM

- - Apr 30, 2020 Shielding medical professionals in the face off with COVID-19
- - Apr 28, 2020 National study to explore automated driving systems in dynamic scenarios
- - Apr 17, 2020 Virginia Tech community converges to help meet need for COVID-19 medical supplies

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Learn more about Virginia Tech College of Engineering (including BEAM) in the media here. Our research and faculty have been highlighted in the Washington Post and National Geographic, among others.

Upcoming and Recent Seminars

- - COVID-19 Special Notice: Remaining seminars cancelled for spring 2020 semester
    COVID-19 Update: Based on an abundance of caution and deep concern for the possible risk that assembling in crowded spaces creates, we are compelled to cancel the seminar series for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester. All students currently registered for the seminar series will receive a "pass" grade.
- - Helical swimming and helical buckling - explorations in elastohydrodynamics at the microscale
    Lisa Fauci, Mathematics Department, Tulane University | Wednesday, March 4, 2020: 2:30pm - 3:45pm
- - Moving Beyond Muscles: The Tuning of Elastic Systems in Biology
    Suzanne Cox, Postdoctoral Researcher, Penn State | Tuesday, March 3, 2020: 11:00am - 12:00pm
- - Mechanics and Geometry: From Twisted Embryonic Brain to Biohybrid Soft Robots
    Zi Chen, Assistant Professor of Engineering in Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College | Tuesday, February 25, 2020: 11:00am - 12:00pm
- - Computational Physiology and Bioinformatics to Serve Personalized Digital Medicine: The Novel Perspective of Mechanical Biocompatibility
    Farhad Rikhtegar Nezami, Research Scientist, Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center | Thursday, February 20, 2020: 11:00am - 12:00pm
- - Dismantling Babel: Understanding Honey Bee Waggle Dances for Sustainable Agriculture
    Roger Schürch, Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech | Wednesday, February 19, 2020: 2:30pm - 3:45pm

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