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- - Conference explores what’s next for unmanned vehicles
    The Ridge and Valley chapter of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International met to reflect on a banner year for unmanned systems in Virginia.
- - DARPA director will explore the art of technological surprise in upcoming lecture
    Steven H. Walker will deliver the 2018 Hugh and Ethel Kelly Lecture, pulling back the curtain on DARPA's wide-ranging research portfolio and its role in national security.
- - Collaboration with State Farm helps secure FAA waiver for drone operations related to Hurricane Florence
    The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) waiver combines permissions for two types of operations that are typically tightly restricted: operations over people and flights beyond the operator’s visual line of sight. These provisions are approved over four states impacted by Hurricane Florence.
- - Investment institutes create interdisciplinary research opportunities
    The four institutes invest in high-risk, high-reward ideas, expanding Virginia Tech's research portfolio and opening up new opportunities for its faculty and students.
- - Kevin Edgar has been named Graduate School associate dean
    Edgar will assist with the academic enterprises at the Graduate School, including the graduate teaching assistant workshop and professional development.
- - Town hall meeting is an opportunity to discuss university policy on drone use
    The Sept. 5 meeting provides a forum for Virginia Tech's thriving community of drone users to learn more about the policy, which balances the technology's incredible potential for research and education with the unique considerations of operating in a campus environment.
- - The future of delivery
    A popsicle arrived in a Blacksburg backyard as part of the most advanced drone-delivery testing ever performed in the United States, conducted by Wing and the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership.
- - VT-FAST: A new resource for Virginia Tech faculty
    VT-FAST is a virtual team of faculty and staff across campus who support faculty at Virginia Tech in all aspects of grant and proposal development. Their goal is to facilitate proposal preparation, formatting, and editing, thereby allowing faculty to focus more directly on their research plan.
- - Virginia Tech drone users: Be familiar with the university drone policy
    Anyone flying an unmanned aircraft on or with Virginia Tech property is required to abide by the university's drone policy, which enables flights on campus when certain conditions are met.
- - Virginia Tech releases ratings for bicycle helmets
    The ratings show that some helmets are better than others at reducing head injury risk. The ratings have been developed by the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab, the research team that has helped drive innovation in the sports equipment industry with evidence-based, consumer-oriented safety testing.
- - Stefan Duma reappointed as Harry Wyatt Professor in Engineering
    Duma is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics in the College of Engineering and director of the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science at Virginia Tech.
- - 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.
- - Marc Edwards' seminar to explore the pursuit of scientific truth amid a culture of tribalism
    The Flint and D.C. water crises will be presented as case studies in government and scientific misconduct in the June 22 seminar.
- - Vinod Lohani named W.S. "Pete" White Chair for Innovation in Engineering Education
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 1998, Lohani has impacted hundreds of students across the College of Engineering through innovative teaching methods based on interactive classroom instruction technologies combined with hands-on learning experiences.
- - Diverse perspectives on display at upcoming exposome symposium
    It’s not often that students studying public affairs, English, and civil and environmental engineering present their research at the same meeting.
- - Behind the scenes of drone integration: Managing traffic in the sky
    As drone flights from the entertaining to the lifesaving, and all the more quotidian ones in between, become more common, the systems coordinating those missions behind the scenes will become increasingly critical.
- - B. Aditya Prakash on IEEE magazine's list of 10 young stars to watch in artificial intelligence
    The assistant professor of computer science and faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center made the list for his contributions to understanding, reasoning, and mining the phenomenon of propagation over networks in diverse real-world systems.
- - Virginia wins bid to participate in national drone program
    The winning teams will have the opportunity to conduct some of the most complex flight testing of unmanned aircraft ever undertaken in U.S. skies. The day-to-day operations of the program in Virginia will be managed by the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership.
- - Could soccer headgear reduce concussion risk? First-ever ratings say yes.
    Soccer players have one of the highest head injury rates in sports: One study indicated that more than 60 percent of soccer players reported concussion symptoms annually. Concussion rates for girls' soccer rival those in boys’ football.
- - At 85 feet, the net's the limit: Virginia Tech Drone Park officially open
    Once Virginia Tech President Tim Sands cut the ceremonial ribbon held aloft by a drone, the Virginia Tech Drone Park was officially open for business.

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