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- - Physics’ Ed Barnes to develop mathematical models for research into exotic topological materials
    Barnes will use a National Science Foundation CAREER grant to create mathematical models that will help scientists better understand how electrical currents flow in special compounds that possess a property known as topology.
- - Rayne Zheng receives Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
    Zheng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, has received the award to study rational design and additive manufacturing of 3D piezoelectrics with arbitrary anisotropy for maritime self-sensing structures.
- - Mechanical engineers develop process to 3D print piezoelectric materials
    New printing technique and materials could be used to develop intelligent materials and self-adaptive infrastructures and transducers.
- - Chemistry professor's research shocking the battery field
    Chemistry professor Feng Lin is working on developing better-performing and safer batteries. Lin’s work covers the gamut of chemistry and materials science battery research, looking at micro-scale and basic science aspects, as well as macro-scale and applied science.
- - Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team powers way to fourth place
    Virginia Tech's Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team placed fourth overall in the EcoCAR 3 competition's fourth and final year - after turning a stock Chevy Camaro into a fuel sipping hybrid.
- - Amanda Morris’ chemistry lab mimicking how plants energize in bid to create clean, sustainable energy
    Morris and her student researchers are trying to mimic the ways plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide to storable food.
- - Chemistry researcher plans to layer nanofibers over glass to ease energy consumption in buildings, vehicles
    Guoliang "Greg" Liu, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, will use a five-year, $585,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award to create super-thin nanofibers that can cover windows in buildings and cars in a multi-prong effort to cut energy consumption and reduce the often bright, blinding glare of the sun.
- - Virginia Tech’s director of the Center for Power Electronics Systems takes on grand challenge
    Over the next 30 years, present electrical grids are projected to quadruple. Virginia Tech’s new director of the Center for Power Electronics Systems Dushan Boroyevich is working toward solving this challenge.
- - Physics researchers eye experimental box as key to tracking nuclear activity by rogue nations
    Researchers at the Virginia Tech College of Science have built an experimental neutrino detector that they say could lead to a turning point in how the United Nations tracks rogue nations that seek nuclear power.
- - Virginia Tech earns spot to compete in 2017 AutoDrive Challenge
    The university has been chosen as one of eight teams to take part in the SAE International AutoDrive Challenge. The team will be provided a 2017 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle with the challenge to make the car autonomous within three years.
- - Virginia Tech's Marc Edwards honored as University Distinguished Professor
    Edwards, the Charles Lunsford Professor with the Virginia Tech Charles E. Via Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering, is an established expert on water treatment and corrosion who most recently gained international praise for his ongoing work in Flint, Michigan.
- - Virginia Tech’s Dushan Boroyevich honored as University Distinguished Professor
    For the past 30 years, Boroyevich’s research has focused on making electronic power systems smaller and more efficient, mostly for transportation applications and more recently for future sustainable electrification.
- - National Academy of Engineering member Dushan Boroyevich to lead Energy Innovation Initiative at Virginia Tech
    The initiative is part of a broader push to expand the scope and impact of the university's discoveries and to deepen research partnerships with leading companies. The university recently announced it is creating a Business Engagement Center in support of such efforts.
- - Climate scientist James Hansen to give keynote talk at Appalachian Studies Conference
    Hansen, who was among the first scientists to argue that the burning of fossil fuels is warming the planet, will visit Virginia Tech on March 10.
- - Lighting upgrades to Derring Hall will save the university $128,000 annually
    About 2,500 obsolete lighting fixtures in Derring Hall have been replaced with new LED fixtures and lamps, a change that is expected to reduce the university's annual energy and maintenance costs.
- - Virginia Tech flexible solar panel goes where silicon can't
    Researchers have made a flexible solar panel to go inside buildings, on clothing, and much more, harvesting energy from indoor light sources as well as sunlight.
- - New lab to help establish databases to improve nuclear reactor safety, design
    The lab, to be built in Randolph Hall, will help nuclear engineers develop and test databases to enable engineers to design safer, more-efficient reactors.
- - Mechanical engineering professor earns $1 million grant to produce nuclear radiation energy-harvesting device
    Associate Professor Lei Zuo will develop a monitor for spent nuclear fuel rod containers that will run on the radiation energy in the container with grant funds from the Department of Energy.
- - Energy-harvesting backpack to lighten load for U.S. soldiers
    Associate Professor Lei Zuo, John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow of Mechanical Engineering, is working with the U.S. Army to create an energy-harvesting backpack to use the walking motion of soldiers to replenish batteries that power everything from GPS to night vision goggles.
- - Ocean wave energy harvesting nets $2 million Department of Energy grant
    The U.S. Department of Energy confirmed a $2 million grant for Associate Professor Lei Zuo to produce a new prototype ocean wave generator.

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