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- - Dimitrios Nikolopoulos named John W. Hancock Professor of Engineering
    Nikolopoulos will rejoin the Department of Computer Science later this summer. He brings to Virginia Tech a world-class record of scholarship, teaching, service, and outreach, most recently serving as a professor of high performance and distributed computing at Queen's University Belfast.
- - Katharine Knowlton reappointed Colonel Horace E. Alphin Professor in Dairy Science
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2000, Knowlton has become a leader within her department in the development of online courses and faculty-led study abroad opportunities.
- - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute addiction scientist to receive international honor for translational research
    Addiction researcher Warren Bickel, the Virginia Tech Carilion Behavioral Health Research Professor, will receive the Scientific Translation Award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis on Saturday in Chicago, Illinois.
- - Friedlander named Fellow of Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
    After more than a century of achievement, the society has named its inaugural class of fellows — notably including Michael Friedlander, founding executive director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and vice president of health sciences and technology at Virginia Tech.
- - Robert Davidson named William S. Gay Senior Faculty Fellow
    The topics that Davidson has addressed in his teaching and research include income statement and balance sheet fraud, executives’ legal records and insider trading activities, and CEO materialism and corporate social responsibility.
- - W. Michael Aust named Honorable Garland Gray Professor of Forestry
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 1989, Aust has focused his teaching, research, and outreach activities on maintaining and improving the long-term sustainability of managed forests.
- - Dwight Viehland reappointed Jack E. Cowling Professor of Engineering
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2001, Viehland has been a pioneer in the development of magneto-electric composites and has conducted research on phase transitions in ceramics and physical phenomena like ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, magnetostriction, and magnetoelectricity.
- - Wing Ng appointed Alumni Distinguished Professor
    Ng, the Christopher C. Kraft Endowed Professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, has been named an Alumni Distinguished Professor by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
- - Kevin Boyle named Willis Blackwood Real Estate Director
    The Willis Blackwood Real Estate Directorship was established in 2018 by Willis Blackwood ’72 and Mary Nolen Blackwood ’73 to attract and retain the highest caliber academic leader for the university’s Program in Real Estate.
- - Wayne Scales named J. Byron Maupin Professor of Engineering
    Scales joined the Virginia Tech faculty in 1992 as an assistant professor and became an associate professor in 1998, a professor in 2006, and the founding director of the Center for Space Science and Engineering Research in 2007.
- - Residential Property Management Advisory Board Professor named
    In 2018, the professorship was renamed in honor of Rosemary Goss, a faculty member who taught more than 500 students during her 41-year career at Virginia Tech.
- - Anthony ‘Kwame’ Harrison reappointed Gloria D. Smith Professor of Black Studies
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2003, he has been deeply engaged in the university’s Africana Studies Program.
- - Changmin Son named Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Professor
    Son has excelled at scholarship, teaching, service, and outreach throughout his career, which began as a research assistant at Oxford University.
- - R. Scott Pleasant named C.R. Roberts Professor of Clinical Veterinary Medicine
    Pleasant joined the veterinary college in 1991 after completing a residency in large animal surgery.
- - Naren Ramakrishnan reappointed Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1998, Ramakrishnan, who is also director of the Discovery Analytics Center, is one of the top researchers in the theory and practice of data analytics, the science of finding interesting and actionable patterns hidden in massive data sets.
- - House of the future and team that built it head to international competition
    FutureHAUS Dubai, an innovative, interdisciplinary, and ambitious project to design and build a futuristic, modular smart home, is the lone American team competing against 14 other university teams at the Solar Decathlon Middle East in Dubai.
- - Water experts to study emerging threat of antibiotic resistance
    Through the awarding of two contracts, the Centers for Disease Control is tapping the expertise of Amy Pruden and Marc Edwards in a wider effort to address emerging public health priorities.
- - Eric Wong reappointed John W. Hancock Professor of Animal and Poultry Sciences
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1990, Wong has an international reputation as a leader in molecular nutrition in poultry.
- - Kimberly Morgan reappointed David M. Kohl Junior Faculty Fellow
    Morgan will serve another three-year term as the David M. Kohl Junior Faculty Fellow in support of student experiential learning and real-world business integration.
- - Matthew Eatherton named Raymond G. and Madelyn Ann Curry Structural Engineering Faculty Fellow
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2010, Eatherton is acknowledged as one of the leading researchers in the field of structural steel structures and earthquake engineering.

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