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- - Rick Rudd reappointed Virginia Cooperative Extension Chair of Excellence in Community Viability
    Rudd, professor and head of the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, has gained national and international recognition in rural leadership development and viable rural communities.
- - Dini Miller to be inducted into Pest Management Professional Hall of Fame
    During her two decades at Virginia Tech, Miller has focused on tackling new and difficult problems facing urban pest management. Her research has centered on a wide variety of urban pests, including German cockroaches, subterranean termites, fire ants, and bed bugs.
- - Local weather forecasting technology heralds the advent of a SmartFarm network
    Thanks to a new collaboration between the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station and weather-intelligence provider WeatherSTEM, local forecasting technologies around the state are helping farmers prepare for and weather the storm.
- - Virginia Cooperative Extension to hold Generation NEXT workshops to help families plan land transfers
    Beginning in August, Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Department of Forestry will co-host multiple workshops providing information and tools for families looking into forest and/or farmland transfers. Running through December, the workshops will span Farmville, Harrisonburg, Roanoke, Lebanon, and Providence Forge.
- - Remote sensing with ArcGIS Pro workshops offered in Blacksburg and Williamsburg
    This comprehensive workshop is targeted to natural resource professionals, planners, public safety professionals, agricultural operators, educators, and others.
- - Tom Brown reflects on long career at Virginia Tech
    Brown has been a student, an Extension agent, an administrator, an Alumni Association leader, a proud parent of two Virginia Tech alumni, an enthusiastic Hokie fan, dean of students, and assistant to the vice president for Student Affairs.
- - Ed Jones named chair of national Cooperative Extension leadership committee within APLU
    Jones wants to direct much of his focus on the nearly 6 million kids that make up 4-H, the largest youth development organization in the U.S., as well as young people the organization has yet to reach.
- - Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approves 2019 promotions, tenure, continued appointments
    The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved these promotions, tenure, and continued appointments at its June 3 meeting.
- - What Virginians need to know about spotted lanternfly and the effort to stop its spread
    The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services recently established a quarantine for the City of Winchester and Frederick County in an effort to prevent the spread of spotted lanternfly, an invasive pest first detected in Winchester in 2018.
- - Virginia Tech’s SmartFarm Innovation Network will build the farm of the future
    The network will help create thriving communities and spark a new agricultural and natural resources economy.
- - Katherine Carter named Extension assistant youth livestock programming specialist
    Carter provides leadership to Virginia Cooperative Extension’s youth livestock programs and the state 4-H livestock judging team. She works cooperatively with faculty and staff, Extension agents, and programming partners to provide a comprehensive youth livestock program.
- - Researchers aim to shed light on water quality impacts of a growing Fredericksburg region
    Teams of researchers from the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will begin investigating water quality issues tied to rapid growth and development in the Fredericksburg region, as well as ways to improve water quality protection practices.
- - Meet the GameChangineers of Mecklenburg County
    A team of teen Virginia 4-H’ers opens up a learning pathway to coding for students in Southern Virginia.
- - Students develop open-source hops dryer design to share with growers everywhere
    A team of mechanical engineering students partnered with researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to develop a low-cost solution to drying hops.
- - David Bevan honored with emeritus status
    Bevan, professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of professor emeritus by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
- - Mapping With Drones workshops offered across Virginia
    This introductory-level workshop is targeted to natural resource professionals, planners, public safety professionals, agricultural operators, educators, and others.
- - Peter Schultz honored with emeritus status
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1985, Schultz served as entomologist and director of the Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Virginia Beach from 1992 to 2017.
- - James Pease honored with emeritus status
    Pease, professor of agricultural and applied economics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been a member of the Virginia Tech community since 1988.
- - Virginia Cooperative Extension to host the 2019 Low-stress Cattle Handling Clinic in May
- - 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.

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