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- - FutureHAUS Dubai takes shape at Virginia Tech’s Research + Demonstration Facility
    Led by the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, students from five Virginia Tech colleges will compete as the only U.S. collegiate team in the Solar Decathlon Middle East in Dubai, November 2018. The team now has three months to complete the world’s smartest modular solar home – a prototype they hope will become a global model for housing sustainability.
- - Eric Lyon receives Guggenheim Fellowship to explore the edges of spatial orchestration
    The Moss Art Center’s Cube is an inspirational muse for the associate professor of music technology, who is using the space’s 150 speakers to compose new music during his year as a Guggenheim Fellow, a prestigious honor for which only 4 percent of the competition’s applicants receive funding.
- - Steelcase funds work to create an active learning space where students and faculty collaborate
    Furniture manufacturer and workspace design company Steelcase Inc. is working with a Virginia Tech team to transform a 20-year-old classroom into a living laboratory to examine the impacts of active-learning strategies.
- - Help Virginia Tech lead a revolution in sound
    A recently launched crowdfunding campaign is gathering support for Cube Fest, a spatial music festival that celebrates the work of international artists, musicians, and researchers to advance the future of spatial music, immersive aural experiences, and 3D audio technology.
- - Virginia Tech collaboration brings virtual reality to Montgomery County Public Schools
    The University Libraries at Virginia Tech is teaming up with Blacksburg Middle School to create a virtual reality laboratory and integrate virtual reality technology into the middle school learning experience.
- - New creative technologies in music degree option reimagines instruments and soundmaking
    The music program is pushing the boundaries of traditional music through electronics to create unique musicscapes, unimagined instruments, new sets of digital tools, and electroacoustic research that reconsiders the very nature of sound.
- - Photos and video: 2018 ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day
    Over 1,000 people attended the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology's sixth annual ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day, where faculty, students, and community members cross traditional boundaries to develop new possibilities for exploration, expression, and creativity.
- - Maria Jernigan named 2018 Undergraduate Student of the Year
    The honors student, a triple major in philosophy, Spanish, and theatre arts, has also received the Outstanding Senior Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
- - Team from Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology receives Alumni Award for Outreach Excellence
    Ben Knapp, Holly Williams, Melissa Wyers and Donna Raines worked to deliver the first ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival, held Oct. 13-15, 2017.
- - Interactive exhibits and immersive technologies in the Cube highlight ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day
    Experience the latest transdisciplinary innovations from the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology at the Moss Arts Center on Monday, April 30. All events are free and open to the public.
- - Undergraduate student innovators are finding creative solutions to complex problems
    Virginia Tech is fueling the work of interdisciplinary student project teams with funding awards through its Creativity and Innovation Strategic Growth Area.
- - Virginia Tech ‘fog harp’ increases collection capacity for clean water
    A passive, durable, and effective method of water collection, fog harvesting consists of catching the microscopic droplets of water suspended in the wind that make up fog. An interdisciplinary research team at Virginia Tech has improved the traditional design of fog nets to increase their collection capacity by threefold.
- - ‘Shakespeare’s Garden,’ an immersive theatrical installation, begins March 22
    The installation, which uses the spatial audio capabilities of the Cube, will enable visitors to explore an immersive sound and visual experience as they follow a meandering path through the space and listen to Shakespearean texts performed by Virginia Tech students.
- - Center for Research in SEAD Education is cultivating tomorrow’s innovators
    Led by Lisa McNair, professor of engineering education, the center helps create experiences, innovations, and opportunities for educators and students that integrate science, engineering, arts, and design.
- - Photos and video: Winter session students tap into the virtual world in the Cube
    Virginia Tech winter session students have some incredible experiences to share about their two-week course adventures, tapping into the virtual world at the Cube in the Moss Arts Center.
- - Virginia climate communication expert will speak at Fralin Life Science Institute on Jan. 25
    Hoffman's talk, titled “Birds, Bees, Flowers, Trees: The Phenological Impact of Climate Change,” will focus on the local effects of climate change on our health, recreation, and daily lives.
- - Researchers from music and engineering team up to turn big data into sound
    Instead of showing information visually, this pioneering approach uses immersive spatial sound to represent data with the goal of developing a better understanding of complex systems.
- - Fourth Virginia Tech Science Festival returns Nov. 4 with educational offerings into evening
    The Virginia Tech Science Festival returns to campus with free events and activities to showcase unique ways science is the center of dozens of topics, from history and economics to geology and stars, medicine and chemistry.
- - Photos and video: ACCelerate Creativity and Innovation Festival 2017
    See what happened at the first-ever ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
- - Author, professor, and science advocate discusses how creativity can transform STEM education
    Free and open to the public, “An Evening with Christopher Emdin: STEM Education and Empowerment for the Rest of Y'all,” will be held in conjunction with the Virginia Tech Science Festival at the Moss Arts Center on Nov. 4 at 7 p.m.

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