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- - Associate Professor Sarah Karpanty receives Graduate School's outstanding mentor award
    Karpanty's approach to mentorship is “engaging, enlightened, and rigorous,” said students who nominated her. She helps students secure grants needed for their work and fosters strong relationships with them.
- - Brittany Nichols will research drug-delivery systems in Germany
    Nichols, the first African-American student from Virginia Tech to win a Fulbright award, will take her graduate research to the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland.
- - Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approves 2018 promotions, tenure, continued appointments
    The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved these promotions, tenure, and continued appointments at its June 4 meeting.
- - Computational modeling may soon help researchers predict, and prevent, food insecurity
    Assistant Professor Kelly Cobourn’s work will contribute to an understanding of food security via the integration of socioeconomic and biophysical models, as well as the streamlining of data tools used in assessing food security issues.
- - Funding awarded to diverse group of social and behavioral science researchers
    ISCE has awarded six interdisciplinary teams seed funding for 2018-19 to prepare them to successfully compete for external funding through such agencies as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and other sources of public and private funding.
- - Wildlife conservation student receives 2018 Udall Scholarship
    Deirdre Conroy is one of 50 students from 42 colleges and universities, and the only one from Virginia Tech, to receive this honor.
- - Steelcase funds work to create an active learning space where students and faculty collaborate
    Furniture manufacturer and workspace design company Steelcase Inc. is working with a Virginia Tech team to transform a 20-year-old classroom into a living laboratory to examine the impacts of active-learning strategies.
- - A student’s passion for skateboarding sparks a passion for research
    Sophomore Dylan Willard conducted research — and co-authored a published paper — on the potential for recycling wooden skateboard decks.
- - William Hopkins receives Mitchell A. Byrd Award for outstanding achievement in ornithology
    Hopkins is the fourth Virginia Tech faculty member to receive this award, named in honor of a three-time Virginia Tech alumnus.
- - Owner’s connection to the land plays a major role in conservation efforts
    Researchers found that a landowner’s involvement and interest in working the land matter more than residing on the property.
- - Community college faculty get training in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to bring back to the classroom
    Attendees in the GeoTEd-UAS Faculty Institute May 20 through 25 will gain hands-on experience in flying and operating small UAS to conduct a variety of missions.
- - New research explains larger-than-life perceptions of American chestnut
    The American chestnut is often remembered as a giant, but research suggests that those memories may not be entirely accurate.
- - Policy Strategic Growth Area faculty discuss solutions to complex problems at spring forum
    Faculty from across the campus are working together to advance Virginia Tech's Policy Strategic Growth Area through interdisciplinary research discussions and presentations.
- - Class of 2018: Graduating senior Genevieve Gural spent undergrad career learning beyond her major
    Gural began her undergraduate career as a member of Hypatia, the College of Engineering's living-learning community for women.
- - Kylie Campbell named 2018 Outstanding Senior for the College of Natural Resources and Environment
    Campbell plans to use her interdisciplinary education to help protect water resources for future generations.
- - Class of 2018: Kirsten White’s trek from Poquoson to the Peace Corps
    White, a geography major, has developed a passion for sustainability. She has been accepted to the Peace Corps and plans to begin service within the next year.
- - A week in Havana transforms Virginia Tech students
    From its dazzling beaches, coveted tobacco, and inventive people, to its communist regime, Cuba is a study in contrasts.
- - 2018 Graduate School Diversity Scholars share their work on Reading Day
    Students will give five-minute presentations about their work in lightning round format. The program is free and open to the public.
- - In memoriam: Richard B. “Dick” Vasey, former assistant dean and professor emeritus
    Vasey began his faculty career at Virginia Tech in 1970 as a forestry professor in the Division of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences within the College of Agriculture.
- - Experience hands-on learning in the Great Smoky Mountains
    The course, held at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont in Tennessee Aug. 4-11, is open to anyone interested in learning about the natural environment.

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