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Thought leader, alumna visits
Regina Dugan, the leader of Facebook's advanced research group, Building 8, visited Virginia Tech and took time to visit Goodwin
Hall. While there she met with several students in the lab of Assistant Professor Pablo Tarazaga. Dugan received her bachelor's and
master's degrees in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech. Before taking her current position with Facebook, Dugan ran Google's Advanced Technology and Products Team, and she was the former head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Energy

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investment for accelerating global
clean energy innovation; and
an investment of $1.3 billion in
private capital to develop plans
for advanced nuclear plants in the
U.S. and Canada.
Haghighat also participated in
two panel discussions: Nuclear’s
Value to Virginia, regarding research and manufacturing, and
Research and Workforce Development: Developing Skills and Talent
to Propel Our State.
Haghighat also represented
Virginia Tech by presenting MRT
Methodologies for Medical Image

Alireza Haghighat, professor and director of the Nuclear Science and Engineering
Lab at the Virginia Tech Research Center, Arlington, seated second from left, recently
opened the Virginia Nuclear Energy Summit in Richmond.

Reconstruction at the 2016 Annual
meeting of the Baltimore-Washington Chapter of the Health
Physics Society; and on a panel on

Virginia’s Diverse Energy Strategy
at the 2016 Energy, Sustainability and Resiliency Conference in
Richmond.