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- - Carmen Giménez Smith awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
    Popular television makes for an unexpected muse for this poet’s latest award-winning project.
- - Virginia Tech Publishing launches first peer-reviewed book under its own imprint
    “Viral Networks” is a collaborative work of the University Libraries’ Virginia Tech Publishing, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Library of Medicine.
- - Multicultural heritage of Solitude to be commemorated
    A Mountains of Music Homecoming event on June 8 will both explore Solitude as contested space and celebrate the people who lived there across the centuries.
- - Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approves 2019 promotions, tenure, continued appointments
    The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved these promotions, tenure, and continued appointments at its June 3 meeting.
- - Summer Arts Festival 2019 brings family fun
    The Summer Arts Festival in Blacksburg begins the week of June 3 with live music, theatre, art exhibits, movies, and festivals. All events are free and open to the public.
- - Student club works to enrich lives through assistive devices and technology
    The Virginia Tech chapter of Quality of Life Plus, a national organization, began as a senior design project but has blossomed into a student organization that regularly takes on “challengers.” The group recently created a device to help an alumna paddle in a canoe.
- - Interdisciplinary ISCE Scholars address topics from healthy aging to occupational roles of engineers
    Six interdisciplinary research teams were recently awarded funding through the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment’s (ISCE) signature program, the ISCE Scholars Program, to address a broad range of pressing contemporary social issues.
- - 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.
- - Did I say your name [neym] right? Faculty aim to properly pronounce graduates' names
    Virginia Tech faculty name readers are the unsung heroes of commencement. As they prepare to read thousands of names in front of commencement crowds, they pore over lists of graduates, scribbling meticulous phonetic notes and praying that they won’t get sick or worse — lose their voices — before the big event.
- - 2019 Steger Poetry Prize winners carry on tradition
    The finalists for the 14th annual competition represent majors ranging from creative writing to biology, philosophy, and political science.
- - Alumni, students, and community celebrate 50th anniversary of graduate education in the National Capital Region
    Guests mingled with President Tim Sands, Executive Vice President and Provost Cyril Clarke, college deans, members of the Board of Visitors, university faculty, and the HokieBird in a tent at the university’s Northern Virginia Center in Falls Church.
- - Photos and video: Army ROTC Cadets take to the skies above the New River Valley
    Cadets were flown from the Virginia Tech campus to the site of their training exercise at Radford Army Ammunition Plant's New River Unit in nearby Dublin, Virginia.
- - 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.
- - Andrew Pregnall named 2019 Undergraduate Student of the Year
    Pursuing a dual degree in microbiology and history at Virginia Tech, Pregnall has made it his goal to improve health care for the LGBTQ community.
- - Timothy Miles named 2019 Outstanding Senior for College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
    An unexpected change in plans helped the religion and culture major forge a new path that will take him to Morocco with the Peace Corps.
- - Digital humanities hub Athenaeum offers space for Tyechia Thompson to push boundaries
    Thompson used technology to transform a traditional publishing project into a choose-your-own-adventure exploration into history and literature.
- - Class of 2019: A passion for preservation combines technology and university history
    Graduating senior Elizabeth Berg combines her love for history, technology, and preservation with an independent study in the University Libraries to create virtual 3D visualizations of Monteith and Thomas halls.
- - Class of 2019: A dog makes all the difference for Cadet Eleanor Franc
    Franc became Corps of Cadets' ambassador Growley II’s lead handler her junior year, and this year she is the commander of his 12-cadet team and has worked tirelessly to grow the program.
- - Laura Belmonte named dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech
    Belmonte joined the faculty at Oklahoma State University in 1996, and during her tenure has served as the director of American Studies and head of the Department of History before taking on her current role as associate dean for instruction and personnel in 2018. She will begin at Virginia Tech on Aug. 1.

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