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- - Donations to Virginia Tech top $150 million for a second straight year
    The year’s strong fundraising results continue an important trend. Virginia Tech has raised $100 million or more per year since fiscal 2016.
- - Second year of College of Science Dean’s Discovery Fund provides support for innovative faculty research
    Virginia Tech College of Science Dean’s Discovery Fund awards for 2018 support faculty research projects in the departments of Psychology, Geosciences , and Biological Sciences.
- - VTCRI researcher, VTCSOM student team up to teach innovative treatment to Vietnamese therapists
    The therapy is based on studies of the effects of prolonged disuse by parts of the brain that may occur as a result of cerebral palsy or after stroke.
- - Luisa Havens Gerardo uses life, service experiences to lead enrollment management
    Havens Gerardo’s journey through education brought her to Virginia Tech in August 2017 as vice provost for enrollment management. She is leading the development, articulation, and implementation of a multidimensional enrollment management strategy that aligns with Virginia Tech’s long-range strategic goals.
- - Adaptive Brain and Behavior DA workshops engage campus for updates, information
    Informational workshops hosted recently by Adaptive Brain and Behavior Destination Area brought together faculty and researchers to learn about work in brain plasticity as it pertains to decision-making, physical and psychological trauma, and development across the lifespan.
- - Destination Area courses, student experiences continue to move Virginia Tech forward
    Destination Area and Strategic Growth Area faculty are developing innovative courses and student experiences through the lens of transdisciplinary engagement.
- - Policy Strategic Growth Area faculty discuss solutions to complex problems at spring forum
    Faculty from across the campus are working together to advance Virginia Tech's Policy Strategic Growth Area through interdisciplinary research discussions and presentations.
- - Dwayne Pinkney named senior vice president for operations and administration
    Pinkney will bring 23 years of financial and administrative management in higher education and state legislative experience to Virginia Tech, spending the last 14 years in progressively higher-level management positions at UNC-Chapel Hill.
- - Strategic planning committees encourage campus to continue feedback
- - Virginia Tech cybersecurity team wins first place in Deloitte cyber threat competition
    The interdisciplinary team of Virginia Tech students won the competition for their analysis and incident response approach to a simulated cyberattack.
- - Virginia Tech announces Calhoun Center for Higher Education Innovation
    The gift from David Calhoun will also support the development and implementation of curricula for the Calhoun Honors Discovery Program, a pilot model for collaborative learning within the Honors College that will train graduates for the 21st century’s innovation economy.
- - Virginia Tech alumnus David Calhoun gives historic $20 million to transform honors education
    Calhoun’s $20 million donation supports the launch of a pilot model of collaborative learning within the Honors College. A special event for the media and guests will be held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. in the Moss Arts Center.
- - Virginia Tech pilot program to reimagine higher education moves forward
    Starting in fall 2019, the Virginia Tech Honors College will pilot a program for a new way to equip students with skills to solve complex problems as part of diverse teams.
- - Faculty recruitment, retention programs highlighted in national resource guide
    Virginia Tech's Future Faculty Development Program and work-life liaisons were recognized recently as an example of national best practices for faculty recruitment and retention strategy by EAB.
- - Erin McCann named director of strategic planning at Virginia Tech
    When McCann begins her new role on March 26, she will lead a strategic planning process that began last fall. The new plan will support Virginia Tech's Beyond Boundaries vision.
- - Virginia Tech architecture students design new chapter for African university library
    Nearly three years after a fire destroyed Mzuzu University's library, students in Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies are designing a new library for the Malawi institution, located in one of the world's most impoverished nations.
- - Virginia Tech Foundation to purchase University Club building
    First announced in 2016, Virginia Tech remains committed to establishing the Creativity and Innovation District, and the maker-to-market opportunities this community will produce.
- - Cyril Clarke focused on opportunities, impacts as interim provost
    Eight thousand miles separate Clarke’s hometown of Johannesburg, South Africa, and Blacksburg, Virginia. But it’s the one-mile path from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine to Burruss Hall that could represent one of Clarke’s biggest and most impactful moves for Virginia Tech.
- - Symposium fuels scholars' roles in combating inequity
    Escalating inequity is humanity's greatest challenge, said Sylvester Johnson, Virginia Tech’s assistant vice provost for the humanities. He was keynote speaker for the university’s first Advancing the Human Condition Symposium.
- - HEAL Food Alliance director to speak during Advancing the Human Condition Symposium on Nov. 29
    Navina Khanna, director of the HEAL Food Alliance, a national food and farm justice coalition, will present two talks on Nov. 29, as part of the Advancing the Human Condition Symposium. This engaging and dynamic speaker will discuss food and agriculture policy, science as a public good, and leadership for social justice. The events are free and open to the public.

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