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Results for Virginia Tech's international presence

- - 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.
- - Virginia Tech receives national recognition for meeting study abroad goal
    The Global Education Office saw more than 1,400 students study internationally last year.
- - Class of 2019: Katherine Louis explores connection between languages and culture
    The senior from Norfolk, Virginia, says she has always been fascinated by the way words manifest themselves into ideas differently across cultures. That fascination spurred her to study abroad not once but twice.
- - POSTPONED: Renowned educator and activist from India to speak at Virginia Tech
    Achyuta Samanta’s talk will be rescheduled for a later time.
- - Virginia Tech has strong showing in Gilman International Scholarship competition
    The federally funded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship supports undergraduates who might not otherwise study abroad because of financial constraints.
- - Virginia Tech taps text message services to assist farmers in developing countries
    Cellphone technology has made it easier and faster for farmers to address pest and disease problems on crops.
- - Women and gender in development conference draws researchers from around the world
    Nearly 200 participants representing 11 countries and 17 academic institutions exchanged ideas on the impacts, experiences, and results of gender research in international development.
- - Program prepares farming communities in Nepal for impacts of a changing climate
    The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Integrated Pest Management is working to ensure that smallholder farmers in Nepal are prepared for agricultural threats affecting food security.
- - Students explore South Africa through agriculture
    Virginia Tech students spent a portion of winter break learning firsthand about South Africa as part of a College of Agriculture and Life Sciences study abroad course on food security, wildlife, and conservation.

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