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- - 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.
- - ACCelerate festival to showcase innovation on national stage
    The first ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival, a three-day celebration of creative exploration and research, will be held at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., Oct. 13-15.
- - Virginia Tech researcher bridges digital divide between museums and learning through interactive games
    In the digital age, museum audiences are increasingly digital savvy and accustomed to learning through interactive games and other media.
- - Photos and video: Instrument Maker Camp
- - Cube Fest features the latest in immersive sound
    Unlike any music festival in the world, the event features live performances, audio and visual work, and a spatialized presentation of an entire Led Zeppelin album in Virginia Tech’s premiere research environment, the Cube.
- - Smartwatch app could inspire more frequent physical activity, Virginia Tech study finds
    The study found that the ability of participants to use a glanceable interface rather than having to log into a website or be interrupted by updates was also key to the success of participants' physical activity.
- - Crowdsourced Civil War-era digital archive helps interpret the past, present via Fourth of July
    In order to get a better idea of how the holiday was celebrated in the past, Virginia Tech researchers have created an interactive digital archive called Mapping the Fourth of July: Exploring Independence Day in the Civil War Era.
- - The future of sound begins in the Cube
    Recognized as one of the premiere spaces for the creation of all things audio, the Cube attracts researchers, composers, and artists from around the world.
- - smART Field project to be showcased for first time at May 1 ICAT Day
    Students, employees, and community members can learn more about how Virginia Tech researchers are re-imaging the future of the university’s iconic Drillfield at the center of campus.
- - ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day set for May 1
    Industry leaders from Google, Sony, and Microsoft will talk about technology, art, and user experience at the annual event at the Moss Arts Center. The event will showcase Virginia Tech research combining science, engineering, arts, and design.
- - Assistant Professor Kurt Luther receives National Science Foundation award
    Luther has been recognized with the CAREER Award, the most prestigious award given by the foundation in support of junior faculty who demonstrate the potential to effectively integrate research and education. He will use an expert-led crowdsourcing approach to collect data to focus on investigations of photo and video evidence.
- - Artists, designers, and engineers join forces to build protective body panels for robots
    The Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology funds Virginia Tech faculty members to support research fusing science, engineering, art, and design.
- - Researchers receive funding to crowdsource effects of environmental chemicals
    Crowdsourcing — soliciting large numbers of people primarily via the internet to offer data, services, or ideas — has come into vogue for scientists as a scalable way to collect and manage large amounts of data while engaging the public in scientific research.
- - Virginia Tech’s Aki Ishida recognized as one of the nation’s top architectural educators
    Ishida will receive the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s 2016-2017 New Faculty Teaching Award at the organization’s national conference in March.
- - Ann Kilkelly honored with emerita status
    The professor of theatre arts and women’s and gender studies has earned accolades on and off the stage.
- - Virginia Tech researcher receives grant to keep cloud connectivity robust
    Ali R. Butt, professor in the Department of Computer Science, was recently awarded a $516,000 grant to examine how to keep gadgets from depleting the cloud computing bandwidth that the internet currently depends on.
- - Parallel computing sculpture SeeMore named one of the top projects in the world
    Part kinetic sculpture and part giant parallel computer, the Virginia Tech project created to educate and inspire computational thinking was featured in the number two spot on the The MagPi’s list of the best Raspberry Pi projects of all time.
- - New university district will cultivate a community of creativity, innovation
    The Creativity and Innovation District will run along the eastern edge of campus where it intersects with downtown Blacksburg.
- - Laurence W. 'Bill' Carstensen Jr. receives Distinguished Mentor Award
    Carstensen, head of the Department of Geography, received the award from the National Council for Geographic Education.

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