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- - Brett Shadle named chair of history at Virginia Tech
    With an initiative to make the Department of History more diverse and inclusive, Shadle steps into a new administrative leadership role.
- - Medical student receives Alpha Omega Alpha fellowship for structural heart disease research
    Meyha Swaroop’s research focuses on a procedure known as transcatheter aortic valve implantation, or TAVI, which is a minimally invasive technique that utilizes catheters threaded through major arteries rather than open heart surgery.
- - Services for Students with Disabilities' annual awards ceremony highlights inclusive efforts
    An awards celebration hosted by Services for Students with Disabilities recognized outstanding inclusive efforts across campus and included Moose the therapy dog.
- - When invasive plants take root, native animals pay the price
    A Virginia Tech research team has discovered that native animals are diminishing as invasive plants gain a foothold in their habitats. Their study, which took place over a two-year period, is published in the journal Global Change Biology.
- - Virginia Cyber Range to host annual cybersecurity education conference
    The 2nd annual Virginia Cybersecurity Education Conference will take place Aug. 13-14 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
- - Timothy Luke returns as chair of Department of Political Science
    Thirty-eight years ago, Luke joined Virginia Tech as an assistant professor of political science. Since then, his legacy has included university accolades in service, leadership, and program creation. And now, for the fourth time, he has been chosen for a familiar role.
- - Virginia Tech discovery could help boost $40 billion soybean industry
    A new article published by Virginia Tech researchers and graduate students has revealed that soybean root nodules harbor high abundances of atypical non-nitrogen fixing bacteria, a discovery that has the potential to improve the crop resilience and yield of the crop.
- - Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine welcomes its 10th class
    The 43 class members come from 17 states, including nine from Virginia and four each from Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Washington. More than 4,400 applied to be part of the class of 2023.
- - Family visits home dedicated to once enslaved relatives
    A handful of descendants of the Fraction family recently visited land and structures on and around the Blacksburg campus their family helped cultivate while enslaved there in the 19th century.
- - Virginia Tech Hyperloop team appears at fourth pod competition
    After a year of designing and fabricating their pod, seven Hokies flew out to Los Angeles for the competition, including a recent graduate and two graduate students who served as advisors to the team.
- - Graduate student earns prestigious NIH award to map unexplored brain region, study optic nerve regeneration
    Ubadah Sabbagh, a Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health (TBMH) graduate student, has won a National Institutes of Health award that will fund his remaining TBMH predoctoral research and his future postdoctoral research. The award supports outstanding graduate students of underrepresented backgrounds in neuroscience research.
- - Virginia Tech launches U.S. Cyber Range to support cybersecurity education nationwide
    After three years of providing infrastructure and courseware for cybersecurity students and faculty in Virginia's high schools and colleges through the Virginia Cyber Range, Virginia Tech is launching the U.S. Cyber Range to provide this service nationwide.
- - Grant helps Virginia Tech scientists find new ways to use secondary logging materials
    The study, in collaboration with Auburn University, West Virginia University, and the University of Maine, will examine the collection of branches, tops, and other residue materials to determine how to make them an economically viable resource.
- - Medical aid brigade: Students team up to provide care to those who need it most
    The Bradley Free Clinic in Roanoke is partly staffed by Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine students who put aside their studies on Thursday evenings and go to work.
- - Brock Mutcheson named assistant dean at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
    Mutcheson joined the medical school in 2016 as director of assessment and program evaluation after earning his Ph.D. in educational research and evaluation with a dual focus on applied statistics and measurement from Virginia Tech.
- - Graduate student in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health program receives prestigious Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Ben Barres Fellowship
    Ubadah Sabbagh, a Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health graduate student working at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, won the award as the most distinguished graduate student.
- - Google Faculty Research Award supports work in detecting human-object interaction in images and videos
    With the award, Jia-Bin Huang will tackle challenges of modeling the relationship between a person and relevant objects/scene to gather contextual information and mining hard examples automatically from unlabeled but interaction-rich videos.
- - NSF fellowship allows graduate student to balance research, service, and support
    Cora Esparza is a first-year biomedical engineering doctoral student who studies the complex network of blood vessels found in glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer. Thanks to a recent Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation, she'll now have more flexibility to balance her research interests alongside community engagement.
- - Carla Finkielstein and team honored with award for research into circadian rhythms and cancer
    A team of Virginia Tech researchers led by Finkielstein, an associate professor in the College of Science, has been honored with the 2019 J. Shelton Horsley Research Award from the Virginia Academy of Science.
- - Study investigates lack of disclaimers on Facebook and Google’s advertising during the 2016 presidential election
    When a communication faculty member and a graduate student joined forces, they discovered the roles Facebook, Google, and the Federal Election Commission all played in digital advertising during the 2016 presidential election. The team recently published their results.

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