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- - Town uses sordid event from past to help save elephants
    A century after Big Mary’s execution, Save Our Towns shows how leaders in Erwin, Tennessee, found a way to change the narrative.
- - Community Design Assistance Center helps build communities and connections
    Small local communities leverage help from Virginia Tech students and the Community Design Assistance Center to fund revitalization efforts and to draw new residents.
- - Blocksburg Summit sets the stage for thought-provoking discourse
    Virginia Tech's inaugural Blocksburg Summit: Blockchain and Beyond set the stage for an intimate gathering of thought-provoking discourse and a chance to fuel curiosity with more than 160 in attendance in Blacksburg.
- - Growth in partnerships and startups fueled by Link, License, Launch
    In 2019, Link, License, Launch has seen 20 new intellectual property licenses, six tech start-ups, and 148 invention disclosures from the Virginia Tech community.
- - State grants to help Virginia Tech stop brain drain, enhance blockchain
    Virginia Tech received $546,800 from the Growth and Opportunity for Virginia program to spearhead two programs aimed at helping students land internships, boost the Roanoke and New River valley economies, and establish Blacksburg as a blockchain hub.
- - Children’s National Hospital, Virginia Tech announce partnership for new Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus
    The campus is an expansion of Children’s National that is located on a nearly 12-acre portion of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and is set to open its first phase in December 2020.
- - Virginia Tech formalizes commitment to boost tech talent for commonwealth
    As expected, Virginia Tech’s agreements with the state – one outlining undergraduate growth and one for graduate growth – include $167.7 million in capital funding for the Innovation Campus’s first academic building in Alexandria and $69 million in capital funding for a data and decisions building in Blacksburg.
- - Industry advisers see promising ways to expand IT sector in rural Virginia
    President Tim Sands hears ideas for replicating Northern Virginia’s success in smaller towns.
- - Save Our Towns reveals Tazewell’s fire-breathing growth strategy
    The town capitalizes on a new idea for an old road.
- - Students grow through international agricultural research
    Agriculture students gain lessons of global citizenship through human-centered research and study abroad.
- - Save Our Towns: Fincastle finds its way
    A tiny Virginia town that had remained self-contained since colonial days experiences growing pains.
- - Save Our Towns launches new season as leaders weigh younger voices in Wytheville
    The season six premiere also explores absentee land ownership in Appalachia.
- - Virginia Tech, University of Richmond collaborate to offer Beer Brewer Professional Certificate
    The yearlong program will train participants to work in the craft beer industry, aiming to stimulate growth of the industry in the region.
- - New research on sustainable agriculture shows why farmers adopt or dismiss nontoxic farming methods
    Two Virginia Tech teams explore what draws farmers to ecological crop practices in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh – and turn up the important role of women in the process.
- - New College of Natural Resources and Environment position to strengthen relationships with forestry industry
    As the college’s new director of employer relations, Virginia Tech alumnus John Freeborn will help connect students with education and employment opportunities.
- - Rural Virginia Initiative seeks solutions to Virginia’s growing urban-rural divide
    The initiative combines representatives from education, government, and the private sector, in a project designed to analyze problems and propose recommendations by the end of the year.
- - Virginia Tech Board of Visitors sets tuition and fees, advances new Ph.D. program in neuroscience
    During its quarterly meeting March 31-April 1, the board also approved the demolition of Holden Hall's north wing, selected student representatives for the coming year, and adopted resolutions for multiple faculty appointments and emerita/emeritus status.
- - Save Our Towns: Marion’s murals, railroad history up for grabs, and Danville’s dapper downtown
    Danville, Virginia, was characterized in national discourse as a ghost town “left for dead.” But that rhetoric didn’t ring true at City Hall, where leaders saw a different reality unfolding.
- - Science Dean Sally C. Morton to moderate panel on artificial intelligence and data science at technology conference
    Morton will serve as a moderator at the March 21 inaugural Impact AI (artificial intelligence) summit hosted by the Northern Virginia Technology Council.
- - Save Our Towns shows devastating flood scenes and a city that took charge of its fate
    West Virginia’s floods in 2016 resulted in fatalities and hundreds of destroyed homes. One tiny city picked itself back up after the disaster.

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