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- - Kevin Heaslip named CACI Faculty Fellow
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2014, Heaslip is nationally recognized for his research on cyber-physical systems in civil infrastructure, especially critical infrastructure.
- - Danfeng ‘Daphne’ Yao reappointed CACI Faculty Fellow of Computer Science
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2010, Yao has made significant contributions to the field of cybersecurity.
- - Nina Stark named Anthony and Catherine Moraco Faculty Fellow
    Stark’s research examines the larger field of coastal sciences and engineering, including increasingly changing shorelines in response to extreme events, sea level rise, and climate change, as well as naval applications, such as beach trafficability and the detection of unexploded ordnances.
- - In memoriam: Walter F. O'Brien Jr., J. Bernard Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering
    O'Brien was a member of the Virginia Tech faculty for more than 52 years, and was the first faculty member from the mechanical engineering department to receive a named professorship.
- - Sarah Stein wins best paper award for developing a new learning resource on analytics
    The case study offers an important instructional resource, given the increasing drive to incorporate data and analytics into accounting curricula, a trend that also aligns with Pamplin’s focus on being a leader in business analytics.
- - Rajesh Bagchi appointed marketing department head in the Pamplin College of Business
    Bagchi was recently recognized by the American Marketing Association as being among the Top 30 scholars worldwide in terms of productivity in the premier marketing journals over the past 10 years (2009-2018).
- - Anthony Kwame Harrison named Edward S. Diggs Professor in Humanities
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2003, Harrison is a cultural anthropologist who conducts research on the impact of race in popular music, recreation, and higher education.
- - 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.

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