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- - 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.
- - Economist, UN advisor Jeffrey Sachs to discuss world’s 'most important agenda'
    Sachs will give his presentation "Achieving Sustainable Development in the United States and throughout the World" at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 21 at 2 Riverside Circle in Roanoke. The event will be free and open to the public.
- - HS&T fellows dive deep to learn how to commercialize ideas
    Harshawardhan Deshpande, Daniel Hoagland, and Ryan King will talk about their experiences at a presentation at noon on Feb. 19 at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
- - Vibrant Virginia project boosts graduate students’ work in distressed communities
    A team of Virginia Tech graduate students working in two Appalachian communities is underwritten by a new university-wide program.
- - Save Our Towns shows how Christiansburg’s aquatic center makes a splash
    Boosters like Terry Caldwell, director of aquatics, are heartened by evidence the investment was a good one.
- - Save Our Towns: A city shows it’s serious about keeping up appearances
    A new bookstore’s owner finds that complying with the sign ordinance is part of doing business in Lewisburg, West Virginia.
- - Meet the maverick mayor of Glen Lyn in new Save Our Towns season
    Hellbenders get help and a no-holds-barred mayor spices things up in season five premiere.
- - Conference explores what’s next for unmanned vehicles
    The Ridge and Valley chapter of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International met to reflect on a banner year for unmanned systems in Virginia.
- - 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.

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