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- - Annual symposium aims to diversify STEM workforce
    During its first 10 years, the Virginia-North Carolina Alliance for Minority Participation Symposium has helped produce a 90 percent increase in underrepresented minority students studying in STEM fields and a 174 percent increase in STEM degrees earned.
- - Electromagnetics open textbook reduces college costs for undergraduate engineering students
    Electromagnetics Vol. 1, authored by Associate Professor of Engineering Steven Ellingson, has been downloaded over 2,000 times and viewed by readers in more than 40 countries.
- - Sang Won Lee appointed assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science
    Lee's research exists at the intersection of human computer interaction and media arts and seeks to facilitate empathy through communication and collaboration.
- - Researchers study Iron Man-like exoskeletons to improve worker productivity, safety, and well-being
    With a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation, Virginia Tech researchers will perform fundamental research to develop whole-body powered exoskeletons for augmenting human performance in industrial use and to understand the dramatic impacts they may have on the socio-technological landscape of jobs.
- - Gary Whiting reappointed Joseph H. Collie Professor
    Whiting has more than 30 years of experience in the chemical industry and 30 years of experience as a small business owner and entrepreneur. He retired from DuPont in 2015, with significant experience in marketing, new business development, process and product development, and project engineering.
- - New machine learning framework could lead to breakthroughs in material design
    Chemical engineering professor Sanket Deshmukh and his team published research that may save hours of computer processing time for materials scientists.
- - Huiyuan Zhu appointed assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering
    Zhu’s research focuses on electrochemical reactions, which holds the promise for next-generation sustainable energy conversion processes.
- - Corps of Cadets alumnus Maj. Christopher Callaway named North Carolina game Hokie Hero
    Callaway is serving a year overseas at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, as a civil engineer squadron commander.
- - Virginia Tech Science Festival returns Oct. 27
    Now in its fifth year, the festival returns to campus Saturday, Oct. 27, with 93 interactive booths and activities that showcase dozens of science education and research programs throughout the university.
- - U.S. Department of Energy awards Virginia Tech an electric vehicle cybersecurity grant
    Electric vehicle systems interact with the physical world and present unique security challenges.
- - Cadets chosen to highlight the colors at the North Carolina game
    Cadets Deanna Marie Meyer and Alicja Karaszewska will receive the flags at this week’s football game.
- - Virginia Tech College of Engineering moves upward in national ranking
    U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Virginia Tech College of Engineering No. 13 among national institutions in the annual Best College Rankings. The college moved up one spot from last year, behind Princeton University, according to the report.
- - 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.
- - Cadets chosen to highlight the colors at the Notre Dame game
    Katelynn Loos, Justin Perez, and Allison Roush are all first-year cadets majoring in general engineering.
- - Computer science alumna problem-solves policy for children’s mental health
    In 1999 it became clear that Chris Bryan's son was struggling with issues related to mental health, and that set Bryan’s career on a different trajectory. She quit her job to take care of her son full-time. Eventually she found out about Clarity Child Guidance Center and began to volunteer with the organization.
- - Fifteen students awarded Fralin Undergraduate Research Fellowships
    The Fralin Undergraduate Research Fellowship program is a competitive award program that is open to all Virginia Tech undergraduates. The goal of the program is to increase diversity in research.
- - Undergrad students named outstanding winners at international MathFest
    Two College of Science students recently were honored as Outstanding Winners in the 2018 Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
- - George Washington Carver program supports underrepresented graduate students
    Each year, George Washington Carver Assistantships are awarded to students in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences who have demonstrated excellence in academic achievement, scholarship, and community service.
- - Virginia Tech partners in developing a nationally recognized high school engineering course
    Virginia Tech is partnering with other universities on a National Science Foundation $4 million grant to pilot a new program to create a new advanced high school course in engineering principles and design and to develop an innovative training program to prepare teachers.
- - Gilliam Fellowship will support graduate student’s investigation of racial disparities in medical research
    As a 2018 Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study recipient, Cherice Hughes-Oliver will focus on the lack of racial representation in biomechanical research and hopes to discover how common research practices are limiting the generalizability of results.

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