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- - Hyderabad meets Hokies as young entrepreneurs square off in global competition
    Can a heat wave spark ideas? One did for a team of student entrepreneurs from India who competed recently at the Virginia Tech Research Center — Arlington.
- - Virginia Tech professor aids Zimbabwe in poverty analysis amid decades of political strife
    Professor Jeff Alwang has a 20-year history with Zimbabwe doing poverty analysis through periods of hyperinflation and political unrest, but he's hopeful for the upcoming election.
- - VTCRI wins award to develop test for mild traumatic brain injury, working with industry partners, University of Virginia
    The project has won the support of the Virginia Catalyst, which has awarded a $500,000 grant to the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute to further develop and commercialize a multi-modality system approach to aid in the diagnosis and management of mild traumatic brain injury, known as mTBI.
- - New U.S. site for Mahindra’s mega-research arm bolsters Virginia Tech’s Corporate Research Center
    The new center seeks to create breakthrough products for North American markets, while the company’s Virginia Tech research project in mechanical engineering aims to advance emerging farm technologies like fruit-picking robots.
- - Netflix’s ‘Heroin(e)’ becomes the star of Save Our Towns Episode 8
    Mayor Steve Williams and Fire Chief Jan Rader command national attention as Huntington, West Virginia, chooses to confront the opioid epidemic rather than downplay it.
- - St. Paul’s persistence pays off as town snags boutique hotel
    In 2014 Mayor Kyle Fletcher told Save Our Towns the town sought to establish a boutique hotel in town, but it didn’t happen overnight.
- - Save Our Towns picks up on Pikeville’s party mood
    The small Kentucky city celebrates success in taking only 10 months to fill its industrial park.
- - Save Our Towns pays a call on the storytelling capital of the world
    Residents of Jonesborough, Tennessee, disagreed over what its most marketable claim to fame would be and, in the end, hired a consultant to point out the obvious.
- - Virginia Center for Housing Research leads study to tackle growing need for affordable housing
    A landmark intercollegiate study led by Virginia Tech shows that affordable housing in the commonwealth must grow significantly to meet rising workforce demand.
- - A West Virginia town preps for life after coal
    Williamson, steeped in Hatfield-McCoy history and once rich in coal, may now be more well known outside Appalachia than in.
- - Virginia Tech students plunge into biomedical ‘shark tank’-style competition at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute
    The teams consisted of undergraduate and graduate students who pitched their ideas to entrepreneurs and business leaders.
- - Virginia Tech biomedical spinoff cited for innovation by national university associations
    Acomhal Research Inc., formed to fight a deadly type of brain cancer, is being recognized this week by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the Association of American Universities.
- - Save Our Towns vrooms into Vinton
    A small town near a much bigger city, Vinton lacked dynamism until a key project started revving things up again.
- - Autonomous systems innovators converge on Blacksburg
    Unmanned systems, such as driverless cars and drones, become more visible every day. But does the public trust the technology? That question and others will challenge leaders in the field of autonomous systems as they gather in Blacksburg for a conference Oct. 15 to 17.
- - Save Our Towns goes green, gathers steam, gets noisy in Appalachia
    Boone, North Carolina, leads the pack among towns that seek to convert to renewable energy, while Pennington Gap revs up motorsports.
- - Landos Biopharma raises $10 million to develop therapeutics for autoimmune diseases
    Virginia Tech Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Lab Director Josep Bassaganya-Riera announced a successful round of Series A funding for his private biotherapeutics venture to treat inflammatory bowel disease.
- - Project Wing’s James Ryan Burgess to keynote autonomy conference
    Burgess co-leads the group whose drones delivered burritos on campus last fall. His keynote speech will explore how autonomous systems can earn the public's trust.
- - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute names advisory board
    Fifteen leaders of business, industry, and education — including a former Virginia Tech president — have been named to serve on the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute’s advisory board.
- - Regenerative medicine researcher’s startup companies give hope to patients
    Sometimes it takes a researcher with a flair for entrepreneurship to translate a laboratory breakthrough into a medical treatment. Rob Gourdie, the director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute’s Center for Heart and Regenerative Medicine Research, uses "intrapreneurship" to translate laboratory breakthroughs into medical treatments.
- - Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors rises on Health Sciences and Technology campus
    Scientists and clinicians throughout Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic will join forces at the new VTCRI Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors in an effort to protect the health of people in Virginia and the United States

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