Lily Farabaugh 
NSF COMPASS hosted the first Jingle and Mingle, a space to step away from daily work, strengthen relationships, and celebrate the collaborative nature that defines the COMPASS and PPP DA communities.
Jump and Empower Thrust members participated in the Virginia Tech Science Festival. The team contributed a multi‑table research exhibit designed to introduce learners of all ages to concepts at the intersection of machine learning, infectious disease, and pandemic science.
Graduate students Blessy Antony and Kateland Sipe attended the NIAID Bioinformatics Research Center AI Codeathon 2025, held November 12–14, 2025, at Argonne National Laboratory.
At the Virginia Tech Science Festival, Flip the Fair is a “reverse science fair” that sought to engage and excite school students through an informal high-level STEM learning experience. In this event, graduate students presented their research on tri-fold poster boards while elementary school children and other festival attendees took on the role as evaluators.
The NSF COMPASS Center brought together researchers nationwide to celebrate year‑one progress and shape the future of pandemic science.
NSF COMPASS officially announces the selection of five undergraduate students for the COMPASS Summer Undergraduate Internship Program from Virginia Tech, University of Michigan, and Yale University.
The following story was written in April 2024 by Dhruv Shah in ENGL 4824: Science Writing as part of a collaboration between the English department and the Center for Communicating Science.