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Kusumegi, Keigo, Yang Wang, and Yian Yin. Specialization of Interdisciplinary Innovators in Science and Technology. Manuscript under review. (2026).  

Otieno, Dickson, and Kevine Otieno. Institutional and Partnership Strategies for Community-Engaged Higher Education: Lessons from Virginia Tech and the Africa Centers of Excellence (ACE II). Manuscript under review, 2026. 

Brown, Hannah M., and Xiang-Jin Meng. The Evolution of In Vitro Culture Systems for the Study of Hepatitis E Virus Infection. Virology (June, 2026) 110886. 

Marr, Linsey C., and Richard L. Corsi. Indoor Air Quality: An Overdue Awakening. Environmental Science & Technology (April 24, 2026).   

López-Astacio, Robert A., Brian R. Wasik, Hyunwook Lee, Ian E. H. Voorhees, Wendy S. Weichert, Oluwafemi F. Adu, Laura B. Goodman, Susan L. Hafenstein, Uwe Truyen, and Colin R. Parrish. Distinct Evolutionary Patterns of Endemic and Emerging Parvoviruses and the Origin of a New Pandemic Virus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 123 no.16 (April 14, 2026) e2515274123.

Memon, Zeeshan, Yiqi Su, Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas, Walid Saad, Liang Zhao, and Naren Ramakrishnan. Toward World Models for Epidemiology. arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.09519 (April 10, 2026). 

Su, Yiqi, Ray Lee, Jiaming Cui, and Naren Ramakrishnan. How (Not) to Hybridize Neural and Mechanistic Models for Epidemiological Forecasting. arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.06323 (February 6, 2026). 

Gerdes, Julie. Infectious Urgency: The Making of an International Public Health Emergency. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press (2026). 

Kusumegi, Keigo, X. Yang, P. Ginsparg, M. de Vaan, T. Stuart, and Yian Yin. Scientific Production in the Era of Large Language Models. Science 390, no. 6779 (2025): 1240–1243 (December 18, 2025). 

Shanker, Anil. How My Institution Strengthened Research Despite Chronic Underfunding. Nature 648, no. 8094 (December 16, 2025): 500. 

Gandhi, Neeti N., and Padmavathy Rajagopalan. Multi-Cellular Human Liver Organoids Enable Complete Maturation of Induced Pluripotent Hepatocyte-like Cells Through Purely Endogenous Signals. bioRxiv (October 10, 2025).  

Shelim, Rashed, Shengzhe Xu, Walid Saad, and Naren Ramakrishnan. Is Isotropy a Good Proxy for Generalization in Time Series Forecasting with Transformers? Transactions on Machine Learning Research (October 10, 2025). 

Antony, Blessy, Maryam Haghani, Adam Lauring, Anuj Karpatne, and T. M. Murali. HAVEN: Hierarchical Attention for Viral protEin-based host iNference. bioRxiv (June 13, 2025).  

U.S. National Science Foundation COMPASS Center. Report on Ethics and Pandemic Science: A National Dialogue. Unpublished report (2025). 

NSF COMPASS Center. NSF COMPASS Software. GitHub. 

NSF COMPASS Center. HAVEN Prediction System. GitHub. 

Antony, Blessy, Maryam Haghani, Adam Lauring, Anuj Karpatne, and T. M. Murali. HAVEN Models. May 28, 2025. Zenodo. 

Antony, Blessy, Maryam Haghani, Adam Lauring, Anuj Karpatne, and T. M. Murali. HAVEN Datasets. May 28, 2025. Zenodo. 

Snodgrass, Rachael, Alexandra Longest, Aaron Prussin II, and Linsey C. Marr. Infectivity of Non-Enveloped Viruses Depends on Initial Droplet Size. Presented at the American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, Buffalo, NY, October 13–17, 2025. 

Catherwood-Ginn, Jon, Julie Gerdes, and Carolyn Kroehler. Wellness Begins with ‘We’: Trust in Pandemic Prediction and Prevention. Presented at the Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference, Roanoke, VA, October 8–9, 2025. 

Antony, Blessy, Maryam Haghani, Anuj Karpatne, and T. M. Murali. VirProBERT: A Sequence Language Model for Predicting Viral Hosts. Presented at the AI for Nucleic Acids Workshop, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), April 28, 2025. 

Thornton-O’Brien, Leslie, Sarah Gouger, and Hallie Harriman. My Circus, My Monkeys: Managing with Limited Resources. Presented at the UPCEA-MEMS Conference on Managing Programs with Limited Resources, Philadelphia, PA, December 4, 2024. 

Lee, Lisa M., Barbara DeCausey, and Iris Jenkins. COMPASS Center Pandemic Ethics Course. 2026.

Virginia Tech Center for Communicating Science. “The Book I Recommend”. Virginia Tech. 2026. A community-centered slideshow celebrating the stories behind scientific curiosity. Distributed to seven public libraries across Giles and Montgomery counties in southwest Virginia. Available Upon Request.