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- - Researchers earn Presidential Early Career Awards
    Two Virginia Tech faculty are among the 314 recipients of the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which was last awarded in 2016.
- - Toni Calasanti receives National Institute on Aging grant to study how gender and sexual orientation affect caregiving
    The sociology professor will explore how heterosexual and same-sex spousal and partner caregivers draw upon existing gender identities, skills, and resources formed in relation to the gender division of labor over the life course.
- - Virginia Tech health sciences leader appointed to Virginia Early Childhood Foundation advisory council
    The Virginia Early Childhood Foundation was founded in 2006 with the vision that every child in Virginia should begin kindergarten healthy, equipped with the resources they need, and ready to succeed.
- - Employee professional development recognized at recent ceremony
    During the 2018-19 academic year, more than 130 employees completed professional development and research administration certificate programs.
- - Virginia Tech expert available to explain Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling that federal courts don’t have a role in deciding partisan gerrymandering claims
    The high court decided Thursday that federal courts should play no role in deciding whether partisan redistricting goes too far, giving a dominant political party in a state leeway to draw electoral maps that preserve or even increase its power.
- - Richard Crowder and Tommy Thompson recognized with Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets Distinguished Alumni Awards
    This year's Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets’ Distinguished Alumni Awards go to two alumni of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
- - Virginia Tech awards Heywood Fralin the 2019 William H. Ruffner Medal
    Fralin broke family tradition by attending the University of Virginia instead of following his two older brothers to Virginia Tech, but he’s since become a Hokie in all ways except for his college degree.
- - Virginia Tech to honor Steve Mollenkopf with 2019 University Distinguished Achievement Award
    For Mollenkopf, insatiable curiosity has been a catalyst for success. As the CEO of Qualcomm Inc., he is at the helm of a multibillion dollar worldwide corporation that is transforming the digital telecommunications industry. Mollenkopf graduated from Virginia Tech in 1992.
- - Alumni recognized for contributions to Virginia Tech
    Virginia Tech has named five members of its Class of 1969 who have been crucial to the success and transformation of the university during the past five decades as Alumni Distinguished Service Award recipients for 2019.
- - Kiran Bagalkotkar named 2019 Outstanding Senior for the College of Engineering
    The industrial and systems engineering major has spent her collegiate career as a consistent academic achiever, an avid researcher, and dedicated leader.
- - 2019 Bouchet Honor Society scholars inducted at Yale University
    Mayra S. Artiles, Erika L. Bass, Racheida S. Lewis, Ashley R. Taylor, and Ayesha L. Yousafzai are the fifth group of students to join the Virginia Tech chapter of the honor society.
- - Virginia Tech’s Romesh Batra honored as University Distinguished Professor
    Since arriving at Virginia Tech in 1994, Batra has built a teaching and research program that is nationally and internationally recognized at the highest levels. His expertise in computational modeling and solid mechanics, particularly in the area of material failure under extreme loadings, has influenced nearly every subdiscipline in mechanics.
- - Rayne Zheng receives Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
    Zheng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, has received the award to study rational design and additive manufacturing of 3D piezoelectrics with arbitrary anisotropy for maritime self-sensing structures.
- - Three graduate students take top prizes at the 2018 Nutshell Games
    Using a 5-gallon bucket, a water bottle, and a dinosaur bone, Virginia Tech graduate students Susan Chen, Madeline “Maddy” Grupper, and Brenen Wynd took top honors at the third Nutshell Games.
- - Carolyn Copenheaver receives Society of American Foresters award for outstanding forestry education
    Copenheaver is the first woman to receive the Carl Alwin Schenck Award in its 30-year history.
- - Veterinary college names distinguished alumni award winners
    Sharon L. Deem B.S. '85, D.V.M. '88, and Bom Spina Harris D.V.M. '08 have been honored with the veterinary college's 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2018 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award, respectively.
- - Teresa Martinez receives Gerald H. Cross Alumni Leadership Award
    Martinez, co-founder and executive director of the Continental Divide Trail Coalition, earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Virginia Tech.
- - Marshall "Mark" S. White receives R. David LeButt Award in package design and testing
    White, professor emeritus of wood science and forest products in the College of Natural Resources and Environment, laid the groundwork for the establishment of the packaging program in the Department of Sustainable Biomaterials.
- - Megan Dolbin-MacNab receives national distinction for her dedication to gerontology
    The human development specialist was recognized for her advocacy and research on aging, such as issues facing grandparents during the opioid crisis.
- - Office of Environmental Health and Safety receives national award recognition
    EHS was recently honored by the Campus Environmental Management Association and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities with the 2018 Innovation Award of Merit for Process Improvement.

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