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- - Virginia Tech helps launch first African Drone and Data Academy
    Nearly 150 African youth will be trained in making, testing, and flying drones, helping fill the need for drone operators in Africa.
- - Student’s big data skills may lead to cleaner air
    An environmental engineer working on a commercial solution to smog in India boosts her skills with Virginia Tech’s new India-based certificate program in business analytics.
- - Tackling the challenges of wildlife field work and breaking trail for an expanded Virginia Tech footprint in Africa
    Professor Kathleen Alexander’s new immersive overseas study course in Botswana focuses on training undergraduate students on the many facets of wildlife work.
- - Global Education Scholarships awarded to 27 students
    Students from every Virginia Tech college were awarded scholarships to support their plans to study in countries around the world.
- - Virginia Tech’s global impact grows with expansion of Chile center
    Student internships, grants for faculty projects, and convenient access to Chilean Patagonia for research are among new opportunities.
- - Global Education Office names new assistant director for partnerships and affiliations
    Maureen Deisinger takes on a new role in the Global Education Office working with students interested in semester exchange programs.
- - Students grow through international agricultural research
    Agriculture students gain lessons of global citizenship through human-centered research and study abroad.
- - New report says accelerating global agricultural productivity growth is critical
    The 2019 Global Agricultural Productivity Report, released today by Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, examines the pivotal role of agricultural productivity in achieving global goals for environmental sustainability, economic development, and improved nutrition.
- - Engineering students win $25,000 in international product-pitching competition
    An exoskeleton concept put Maroon Assistive Technologies in first place in the Virginia Tech Global Entrepreneur Challenge, a pitch competition won last year by a student team from Chile.
- - Free classes let faculty and staff sign up for sign language
    The Language and Culture Institute is offering free conversation classes in American Sign Language as well as Chinese, French, German, and Spanish.
- - Virginia Tech Mandela Washington Fellows benefit from leadership training, give back to Northern Virginia communities
    The School of Public and International Affairs recently hosted 25 young leaders representing 13 African countries for leadership training, professional networking, and community engagement in Northern Virginia.
- - Scientist’s gift to bring top-flight international lecturers to campus
    The Muniappan endowment will provide the Blacksburg campus and community greater access to speakers who offer fresh thinking on complex worldwide problems.
- - Toni Calasanti receives National Institute on Aging grant to study how gender and sexual orientation affect caregiving
    The sociology professor will explore how heterosexual and same-sex spousal and partner caregivers draw upon existing gender identities, skills, and resources formed in relation to the gender division of labor over the life course.
- - Donald Hempson named associate vice president for international affairs
    Hempson will assume one of the key leadership roles in Outreach and International Affairs Sept. 10.
- - University’s global impact on display at international education expo
    Led by the Language and Culture Institute, representatives from across the university show off Virginia Tech’s internationalization efforts at the world’s largest gathering of international education professionals.
- - Virginia Tech creates partnership to build center for frontier materials in India
    The $2 million research center in Patiala, in northern India, will be named the Thapar-Virginia Tech Center of Excellence in Frontier Materials.
- - Center for International Research, Education, and Development names business development director
    Joshua Anderson comes to Virginia Tech with experience in leading teams that seek funding and in writing proposals at large international humanitarian and development organizations.
- - New research on sustainable agriculture shows why farmers adopt or dismiss nontoxic farming methods
    Two Virginia Tech teams explore what draws farmers to ecological crop practices in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh – and turn up the important role of women in the process.
- - Virginia Tech has record-breaking year with Fulbright student awards
    Since 1946, more than 380,000 individuals have participated in the U.S. Fulbright Program. This year, Virginia Tech adds seven more names to the list.
- - Students come face-to-face with change makers in India
    A group of eight Virginia Tech students spent three weeks in India meeting with change makers working to improve the living conditions of women and girls. While visiting Hyderabad, Kadapa, and New Delhi, they explored the roles empowerment and activism play in social issues in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people.

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