Nadia Ahmadi, a master’s student in technical communication, has been accepted into the PhD program in rhetoric and writing at Virginia Tech. She will be supported by a full graduate research assistantship, working with Dr. Julie Gerdes on an NSF-funded project through the COMPASS Center (Community Empowering Pandemic Prediction and Prevention from Atoms to Societies), part of the Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention (PiPP) program. This interdisciplinary initiative brings together researchers from Virginia Tech, Cornell University, the University of Michigan, and Wake Forest University to study virus-host interactions through community-based and ethically grounded research. She will be contributing to the “Empower” research team within the project.
Nadia recently visited Blacksburg. Virginia Tech kindly funded her trip, making the experience smooth and enjoyable. During her visit, she met with the program director, the program coordinator, and a graduate student working with her future advisor. She also toured the campus.
