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- - Physical rehabilitation at veterinary college enhances pets' quality of life
    An 11-year-old retired Saint Francis service dog, Saint was referred to the college’s physical rehabilitation service when he developed hind limb weakness and decreased mobility. The service works with geriatric, neurologic, post-surgical, and orthopedic patients.
- - Virginia Tech receives top placements in U.S. News & World Report’s online rankings
    Virginia Tech’s online master’s degree in information technology is the nation’s fourth best and ranked No. 3 for veterans. The online graduate engineering program moved up six places to No. 10.
- - X-ray images help reveal insects’ physiological responses to gravity
    A new study by Jake Socha, professor in biomedical engineering and mechanics in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science journal shows that insects experience physiological effects of gravity similar to that of humans.
- - Hume Center awarded $3.8 million for advanced manufacturing education by the Department of Defense
    The goal is to establish programs to better position the current and next-generation manufacturing workforce to produce military systems and components that assure technological superiority of the department, according to the Department of Defense’s website.
- - Lindsay Lally named Pulte Homes Professor of Practice
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2018, Lally has more than 12 years of experience in the design and construction industry and holds a professional engineering license in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- - Virginia Tech awarded Nuclear Regulatory Commission Integrated University Program grants
    The nuclear engineering program in Virginia Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering has been awarded two grants totaling $850,000 for faculty development and graduate student fellowships.
- - Living, learning, and loving it
    Two years ago, Associate Professor and John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow Pablo Tarazaga and his family of six left their house in Blacksburg's Woodbine neighborhood to join 325 honors students in a residential hall on Virginia Tech's main campus.
- - College of Engineering appoints new faculty
    New positions were identified to enhance the engineering community by bringing additional talent to the classroom and bolster research focus areas.
- - Professor combines classical design with advanced technologies to teach building construction students
    Tanyel Bulbul’s teaching and research in smart design combines the tangible world of buildings with computational and human factors.
- - Tweet led student to a project untangling the genomes of large viruses
    Alaina Weinheimer, an ICTAS Doctoral Scholar, loved coding and working with marine microbes. She found a way to combine them.
- - Researcher receives NIH grant to study biomolecular interactions in hopes of informing drug design
    Justin Lemkul, an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, received a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how biomolecules fold and interact in an effort to inform better drug design for life-threatening diseases, especially neurodegenerative diseases.
- - TBMH students awarded Research!America microgrant, launch science outreach podcast
    Produced by Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health graduate students training at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, the new "Big Lick of Science" podcast explores biomedical research and its relevance to your life and health.
- - Using data to solve complex patient care issues
    At the Center for Simulation, Research, and Patient Safety (SIM Center) in Roanoke, students from the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine are using data-driven research to help find ways of delivering safe, efficient, quality medical care.
- - Graduate Commencement student speaker Najla Mouchrek focuses on empowering others
    Mouchrek is the first Virginia Tech graduate student to earn an Individualized Interdisciplinary Ph.D., called an IPhD. She also will be the student speaker at the Fall Graduate School Commencement Ceremony at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 20 at Cassell Coliseum.
- - Student’s research seeks to educate consumers on driver assistance technologies
    What should drivers know about emerging vehicle technologies? Graduate student and VTTI researcher Alexandria Noble is studying driver training methods and received an award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society for her research.
- - Class of 2019: Graduate student Samantha Fenn combines laboratory background with public policy studies in cyberbiosecurity
    Fenn, who graduates this December from the master's of public administration program in Arlington, says her studies have helped her see how biological data becomes vulnerable currency in the struggle for public safety.
- - Class of 2019: Engineering graduate student Whitney Tatem uses car crash data to improve safety
    The first time she entered a university lab, Tatem knew biomedical engineering was the field for her.
- - More than 2,500 Hokies to graduate at 2019 fall commencement ceremonies on Dec. 20
    The University Commencement Ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m., and the Graduate School Commencement starts at 2:30 p.m. Both ceremonies will be held in Cassell Coliseum.
- - Winter weather: Check for updates on campus operations
    University officials are monitoring a winter weather event that could affect campuses within the Blacksburg and Roanoke regions.
- - Wellness initiatives at veterinary college care for students, clients, and practitioners
    Responding to a growing body of research and a culturally evolving willingness to acknowledge the need to care for one’s physical and mental health, the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine has launched a veterinary social work program to support students, pet owners, clinicians, and caregivers.

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