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- - Winter weather: Blacksburg campus opening at 1 p.m. today
    In anticipation of wintry weather beginning in the early morning hours of Sunday, Dec. 9, Virginia Tech has put snow emergency routes in effect starting 11 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 8.
- - Three graduate students take top prizes at the 2018 Nutshell Games
    Using a 5-gallon bucket, a water bottle, and a dinosaur bone, Virginia Tech graduate students Susan Chen, Madeline “Maddy” Grupper, and Brenen Wynd took top honors at the third Nutshell Games.
- - Jonathan Pitt appointed associate professor in the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
    Pitt is the first faculty member representing aerospace and ocean engineering at Virginia Tech’s Northern Virginia campus.
- - Nominations open for graduate student and outstanding faculty mentor awards
- - Alumnus helps kids explore freshwater streams and rivers by getting their feet wet
    Craig Roghair helped jump-start the USDA Forest Service’s freshwater snorkeling program for students from fourth grade through high school.
- - Aaron Noble named J.W. Woomer Young Engineer Award recipient
    Noble’s research focuses on developing cost-effective and environmentally benign approaches for recovering the elements from coal resources.
- - New initiative seeks to recruit more Native American students
    The Virginia Tribal Initiative is built on the energy that current and former Native students have brought to Virginia Tech.
- - Home of the future takes first place at international competition
    After years of research and development contributed by over 100 Virginia Tech students and faculty, the FutureHAUS Dubai team has officially built the world’s best solar home.
- - Tom Woteki to direct Northern Virginia data analysis and applied statistics master’s program
    Woteki earned three degrees from Virginia Tech: bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Mathematics, and a Ph.D. in statistics.
- - Biomedical, business, engineering students set for HS&T shark tank-style competition
    Teams will compete for $9,000 in prize money provided by the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Luna Innovations Inc., Carilion Clinic, the Apex Systems Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and the Woods Rogers law firm.
- - Two Ph.D.s first graduates of NSF-sponsored urban computing program
    Administered through the Discovery Analytics Center, the program trains students across disciplines in the latest methods in analyzing massive datasets to study key issues concerning urban populations.
- - Partnerships with Deloitte, Marriott build future leaders
    At the Pamplin College of Business, learning firsthand about practical business issues and challenges and gaining experience in problem solving under imperfect conditions are two of the benefits students receive as a result of the college’s collaborations with business.
- - Geosciences researchers will use data from new NASA lander to learn about Mars interior, core
    Scott King, a professor with the Department of Geosciences, is heading one of 24 research teams selected by NASA to receive data science collected by the new Mars lander InSight as it explores the Red Planet during the next four years.
- - JUMP campaign to support the first Virginia Tech Latinx Symposium
    As Virginia Tech continues efforts to recruit a more diverse student population, a symposium to showcase Latinx scholarship and teaching is in the planning stages for March 2019. Carmen Giménez Smith, a professor in the Department of English, is using the JUMP crowdfunding platform to help raise more than funds; she is raising awareness for the needs of Latinx students.
- - Virginia Tech to showcase interdisciplinary work as host of 2020 national polymer conference
    An organizing committee of 10 graduate students within the Macromolecules Innovation Institute (MII) initiated and led the effort to create the proposal for hosting the conference.
- - VTCRI scientists find that sensory neurons can be used to discover therapies for ALS
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute (VTCRI) scientists examined sensory neurons in cell cultures and in mice with ALS-causing mutant genes. They found that sensory neurons’ axons exhibit similar pathological changes found in motor neurons afflicted with ALS.
- - On two wheels, Virginia Tech professor tracks air pollution
    Steve Hankey, assistant professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Tech, has developed a unique way to track air pollution by biking around town.
- - Pamplin raises expectations, makes big strides
    The Pamplin College of Business, said Dean Robert Sumichrast, has an outsized educational impact at the university relative to its resources.
- - Water experts to study emerging threat of antibiotic resistance
    Through the awarding of two contracts, the Centers for Disease Control is tapping the expertise of Amy Pruden and Marc Edwards in a wider effort to address emerging public health priorities.
- - Roanoke-based Virginia Tech graduate student selected as a Society for Neuroscience fellow
    Ubadah Sabbagh is a doctoral student in Virginia Tech's Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health Graduate Program.

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