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- - Graduate student provides inmates with technical training for agricultural work
    Artificial insemination expert Nicholas Wege Dias wanted to give back to many of the inmates and prison farm employees who have assisted him with his research on beef cattle. He did so by delivering a two-day course to prisoners to help prepare them for the workforce.
- - The Fralin Life Science Institute supports sustainability and green lab efforts
    Ph.D. student Ellen Garcia has created a grassroots green lab effort at Virginia Tech and is working to build a Green Lab Program.
- - High-performance computing boosts art and design students’ creative power
    Students taking the university’s advanced animation course will now be able to create complex projects more quickly and efficiently, thanks to a collaboration between the School of Visual Arts, Advanced Research Computing, and the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology.
- - HS&T fellows dive deep to learn how to commercialize ideas
    Harshawardhan Deshpande, Daniel Hoagland, and Ryan King will talk about their experiences at a presentation at noon on Feb. 19 at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
- - Engineering student Sammi Rocker named one of Aviation Week’s 20 Twenties
    The annual award, sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, recognizes students earning STEM degrees who are nominated by their universities on the basis of their academic performance, civic contribution, and research or design project.
- - American Indian and Indigenous Community Center director hits the ground running
    When Melissa Faircloth became director of Virginia Tech’s American Indian and Indigenous Community Center last fall, she brought a wealth of experience, relationships, and dedication to the position.
- - Vibrant Virginia project boosts graduate students’ work in distressed communities
    A team of Virginia Tech graduate students working in two Appalachian communities is underwritten by a new university-wide program.
- - Northern Virginia alumni welcome Innovation Campus announcement
    Hokies in the Washington, D.C., region applauded Amazon's decision to locate its headquarters in Arlington and the role Virginia Tech played in luring the company.
- - Bestselling author and TED Talks presenter Dan Ariely to speak at Virginia Tech
    What causes humans to act irrationally? The behavioral economist will explore decision-making in the annual Distinguished Public Lecture of the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
- - Trainings for faculty leading programs abroad
- - Marcelo Stamm joins Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies
    Stamm’s first major project is the development of a multidisciplinary, practice-based Ph.D. program.
- - Delivery team works to shape Innovation Campus
    The Innovation Campus will offer leading programs in computer science and software engineering. It is expected to be a global center of technology excellence and talent production, supporting graduate education, attracting top-tier faculty, sparking research and partnerships, and igniting the region’s innovation economy.
- - Two Virginia Tech online graduate education programs are among the top in the country
    The university’s online master’s degree in information technology is the nation’s third best and the online graduate engineering programs moved up four places to No. 16.
- - Two years after its resurrection, online graduate journal going strong
    The journal, which is set to publish again this spring, covers democratic issues, including public policy, collective action, and physical or social infrastructure.
- - Cyril Clarke named Virginia Tech executive vice president and provost
    Clarke has served in an interim role since November 2017. Prior to that, he was the dean for the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.
- - More than 2,700 students enrolled in largest winter session to date
    Now in its sixth year, winter session offers classes online, on-campus, and through an abroad experience at both the international and domestic levels.
- - In memoriam: Susan West Marmagas, director of Virginia Tech's Master of Public Health program
    Born and raised in Blacksburg, Marmagas joined the Virginia Tech faculty in 2008 and played a significant role in the establishment of the university’s public health program. She died Dec. 23 at the age of 51.
- - Virginia Tech researchers create a bacteria-based drug delivery system that outperforms conventional methods
    Researchers have developed a process to chemically attach nanoparticles of anti-cancer drugs onto attenuated bacteria cells, which they have shown to be more effective than the passive delivery of injections at reaching cancer sites.
- - Campus tree inventory of more than 10,000 trees to aid 2018 Campus Master Plan
    A key finding estimates that the replacement value of all inventoried trees is $30.6 million.
- - Photos and video: 2018 Fall Commencement
    More than 2,400 Hokies officially became alumni on Dec. 14 during Virginia Tech’s commencement ceremonies honoring summer and fall graduates.

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