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- - Study explores connections between land management, water quality, and human response in lake catchments
    The study, which examines the ecological effects of humans on lakes and vice versa, offers a new model for those invested in protecting and maintaining lakes.
- - Eric Lyon receives Guggenheim Fellowship to explore the edges of spatial orchestration
    The Moss Art Center’s Cube is an inspirational muse for the associate professor of music technology, who is using the space’s 150 speakers to compose new music during his year as a Guggenheim Fellow, a prestigious honor for which only 4 percent of the competition’s applicants receive funding.
- - Funding awarded to diverse group of social and behavioral science researchers
    ISCE has awarded six interdisciplinary teams seed funding for 2018-19 to prepare them to successfully compete for external funding through such agencies as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and other sources of public and private funding.
- - 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.
- - Clancy offers Capitol Hill testimony on telecommunications supply chain operations
    Charles Clancy, director of Virginia Tech’s Hume Center for National Security and Technology, gave expert testimony in Washington, D.C., before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
- - 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.
- - Despite bumps in the road, engineering team places third in North American autonomous vehicle competition
    Virginia Tech’s AutoDrive team faced challenges at home before ever stepping foot in Yuma, Arizona, to compete against seven other universities from the U.S. and Canada.
- - Steven Sheetz named PricewaterhouseCoopers Senior Faculty Fellow of Accounting and Information Systems
    Sheetz joined Virginia Tech in 1996 as an assistant professor. He received tenure in 2002 and was promoted to full professor in 2015.
- - 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.
- - Paul Benjamin Lowry is named the Suzanne Parker Thornhill Professor in Business Information Technology
    The Suzanne Parker Thornhill Professorship in Business Information Technology was established in 1998 to provide support for the Pamplin College of Business and to recognize teaching and research excellence.
- - Academic conference explores future of cybersecurity and opportunities for Virginia Tech students
    Close to 200 students attended the event, which is designed to increase the number of young men and women serving in national security and the intelligence community.
- - Land managers, scientists, educators, and policymakers invited to tackle invasive species April 23
    Land managers, educators, policymakers, and researchers from various fields—including ecology, biology, entomology, plant pathology, policy, and the social sciences—are invited to collaborate later this month to address issues surrounding invasive species in the Mid-Atlantic region.
- - Undergraduate student innovators are finding creative solutions to complex problems
    Virginia Tech is fueling the work of interdisciplinary student project teams with funding awards through its Creativity and Innovation Strategic Growth Area.
- - Strategic planning committees encourage campus to continue feedback
- - 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.
- - G'Days ahead for Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies
    New Dean Richard Blythe brings Australian charm, visionary leadership, and dogged determination to his role as the college's seventh dean.
- - Rana Ashkar is named assistant professor of physics in College of Science
    With her research area focusing on experimental soft condensed matter physics and biophysics, Ashkar is the first faculty hire for the department in the area of Economic and Sustainable Materials.
- - 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.

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