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- - Virginia Tech voted silver overall ‘Best Place to Work’ in annual readers' poll
    Virginia Tech was voted silver overall “Best Place to Work” by SWVA Living magazine for 2018.
- - National security expert Paul Avey wins prestigious fellowship
    The assistant professor of political science was one of only nine experts nationally to be awarded a 2018–2019 International Affairs Fellowship by the Council on Foreign Relations.
- - William Hopkins receives Mitchell A. Byrd Award for outstanding achievement in ornithology
    Hopkins is the fourth Virginia Tech faculty member to receive this award, named in honor of a three-time Virginia Tech alumnus.
- - Leon P. Harris receives Virginia Tech’s highest honor
    Harris is the recipient of the 2018 William H. Ruffner Medal in recognition of his distinguished service to the university. Harris earned his bachelor's in industrial engineering from Virginia Tech in 1964.
- - Virginia Tech industrial design students win Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge
    The student team’s computer-integrated bike handlebar design to make cycling safer and easier for the elderly won first place and $10,000 in the global competition. The win cements Virginia Tech’s recognition as a leader in designing solutions for aging populations.
- - Mauro Atalla to receive the Graduate Alumni Achievement Award on May 10
    Mauro Atalla '96 will receive the Graduate Alumni Achievement Award during the Graduate Commencement Ceremony at 2:30 p.m. on May 10 at Cassell Coliseum on the Blacksburg campus.
- - Maria Jernigan named 2018 Undergraduate Student of the Year
    The honors student, a triple major in philosophy, Spanish, and theatre arts, has also received the Outstanding Senior Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
- - Alexandra Hyler named 2018 Graduate Student of the Year
    Hyler has been heavily involved in Virginia Tech's Graduate Student Assembly and connecting graduates across Tech's different campuses in Blacksburg, Roanoke, and Washington, D.C.
- - Hannah Largen named 2018 Outstanding Senior for the College of Architecture and Urban Studies
    Armed with dual degrees from CAUS and the Pamplin College of Business, an impressive portfolio, and a winning attitude, this first-generation college student and “country girl” is headed to New York to work in advertising.
- - Virginia Tech recognizes employees for combined 14,400 years of service
    Virginia Tech honors 776 employees who have 10 or more years of service to the university.
- - Brandy Faulkner receives Diggs Teaching Scholars Award
    Faulkner has taught classes ranging from the required undergraduate research methods course to public administration, constitutional and administrative law, and the politics of race, ethnicity, and gender.
- - Billie Lepczyk receives the Alumni Award for Excellence in Research
    Lepczyk's research includes the movement styles of classical ballet as well as such notable artists as Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Twyla Tharp, and George Balanchine.
- - Amanda Morris receives Presidential Principles of Community Award
    Morris is dedicated to serving as a role model and increasing diversity in the research enterprise of the Department of Chemistry.
- - Austin L. Sumners receives President's Award for Excellence
    As an explosives detection K-9 officer, Sumners is required to perform all the daily functions of a patrol officer. He also serves in many other capacities within the university, as well as assisting outside law enforcement agencies frequently.
- - Ann Stevens receives William E. Wine Award for Teaching Excellence
    Since joining the Virginia Tech faculty in 1997, Stevens has contributed to essentially all facets of education.
- - Paul Heilker receives Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching
    Heilker has taught everything from first-year composition through technical writing and literary nonfiction to doctoral-level courses in rhetorical theory.
- - Saul Halfon receives Alumni Award for Excellence in Graduate Academic Advising
    Halfon has been instrumental in the overall success of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society since 2001.
- - Ashley Reed receives XCaliber Award
    Reed received the award for her English capstone course, “Scrapbooks and Nineteenth-Century American Poetry,” and the associated project, the Virginia Lucas Poetry Scrapbook.
- - Trudy Harrington Becker receives Alumni Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising
    Becker’s advising philosophy, she says, is best characterized as “do right by your students.”
- - Nancy Metz receives William E. Wine Award for Teaching Excellence
    In her 40 years of teaching, Metz has consistently led the way as the Department of English and the university have sought to expand the role of writing, collaboration, and individualized research projects in undergraduate studies.

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