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- - New human development and family science chair seeks to elevate students, faculty, and staff
    Nineteen-year veteran of the Virginia Tech faculty April Few-Demo brings to her new role a collegial attitude for the advancement of students and colleagues.
- - Virginia Tech on path to connect research, education across many disciplines
    The university has designed courses connected to these areas and hired more than 100 faculty specifically to teach and conduct research within these themes since Thanassis Rikakis, former Virginia Tech provost, launched the Destination Areas in 2016. On Sept. 20, there will be a Fall Kick-Off event at the Inn at Virginia Tech to learn more about the goals of Destination Areas and grant opportunities.
- - Virginia Tech leads efforts to prepare Virginia’s students for high-demand STEM jobs
    The work brings together a team of Virginia universities to lay the groundwork for a statewide education network that will provide STEM programming access to learners of all ages.
- - President Tim Sands spotlights Virginia Tech's goals and growth
    In his fourth State of the University address, President Tim Sands explained to the campus and community crowd that Virginia Tech’s growth is happening in many ways and in many places.
- - Virginia Tech launches ‘Tech for Humanity’ to ensure technologies are in service to humanity
    Led by Sylvester Johnson, the initiative reflects Virginia Tech’s commitment to advancing human-centered approaches to technology innovation.
- - Virginia Tech researchers receive $2.9 million grant with China to study infectious diseases
    Researchers from the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science received the award from the National Science Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation of China to understand the long-term host and pathogen dynamics of white-nose syndrome in bats.
- - Kevin Heaslip named CACI Faculty Fellow
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2014, Heaslip is nationally recognized for his research on cyber-physical systems in civil infrastructure, especially critical infrastructure.
- - Danfeng ‘Daphne’ Yao reappointed CACI Faculty Fellow of Computer Science
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2010, Yao has made significant contributions to the field of cybersecurity.
- - When invasive plants take root, native animals pay the price
    A Virginia Tech research team has discovered that native animals are diminishing as invasive plants gain a foothold in their habitats. Their study, which took place over a two-year period, is published in the journal Global Change Biology.
- - New collaborations set to boost real-world learning opportunities for College of Architecture and Urban Studies students
    The Research + Demonstration Facility is a dedicated space where students can gain practical, hands-on architecture, design, and construction experience alongside expert faculty and industry professionals. It's also representative of a larger initiative to involve Virginia Tech students in construction and renovation projects on the Blacksburg campus.
- - Timothy Luke returns as chair of Department of Political Science
    Thirty-eight years ago, Luke joined Virginia Tech as an assistant professor of political science. Since then, his legacy has included university accolades in service, leadership, and program creation. And now, for the fourth time, he has been chosen for a familiar role.
- - Researcher discovers how mosquitoes integrate vision and smell to track victims
    Clément Vinauger has discovered new neurobiology associated with mosquito vision and sense of smell that explains how Aedes aegypti mosquitoes track their victims. These findings were recently published in the journal Current Biology.
- - Xiaoting Jia wins CAREER award to develop bio-friendly brain implants
    Jia, an assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the National Science Foundation award to develop a multifunctional neural interface device that is highly flexible, scalable, clinically translatable, and bio-friendly.
- - Tanushree Mitra among first to receive research grant providing access to Facebook data
    The assistant professor of computer science and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center is also one of only two women to receive the Social Media and Democracy Research Grant. Mitra and her team will study how misinformation and other problematic content spread on the platform.
- - Google Faculty Research Award supports work in detecting human-object interaction in images and videos
    With the award, Jia-Bin Huang will tackle challenges of modeling the relationship between a person and relevant objects/scene to gather contextual information and mining hard examples automatically from unlabeled but interaction-rich videos.
- - Researchers find that probiotic bacteria reduces the impact of white-nose syndrome in bats
    It is widely accepted that probiotic bacteria are beneficial to human health, but what if they could also be used to reduce wildlife disease and conserve biodiversity? Researchers from Virginia Tech and UC Santa Cruz did just that. The findings were published recently in Scientific Reports.
- - 'Sneezing' plants contribute to disease proliferation
    Virginia Tech researchers have found that jumping droplets have an impact in the spread of wheat leaf rust spores.
- - Students win international vehicle safety design competition
    A group of engineering graduate students won the international championship for the 2019 Collegiate Student Safety Technology Design Competition, hosted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the Netherlands last week.
- - Industry turns to Newport News program to build data science workforce
    The first cohort of 12 graduates will complete the business analytics certificate program on June 22.
- - Virginia Tech researcher discovers cellular contributor of Lyme arthritis that could open door to treatment
    Virginia Tech biochemist Brandon Jutras has discovered the cellular component that contributes to Lyme arthritis, a debilitating and extremely painful condition that is the most common late stage symptom of Lyme disease.

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