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- - Television anchor Robin Reed to join Virginia Tech’s communication department
    Beginning in the fall 2018 semester, Reed will teach several courses in broadcasting while remaining WDBJ’s 6 p.m. anchor.
- - Virginia Tech’s 35th Annual Mudbass Classic Tournament takes place on April 28
    The tournament, hosted by the Virginia Tech Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, is free to the public and open to all ages.
- - Two recipients honored with Hokie Wellness Supervisor Spotlight Award
    Servant leadership was the recurring theme in the nominations for 2018 award winners Stephanie Hart, director of The Advising Center of the College of Natural Resources and Environment, and Linzy Martinelli, assistant director for residence life, Ambler Johnston (West).
- - How cheetahs outsmart lions and hyenas
    A study in the Serengeti shows that cheetahs use situation-dependent methods of protecting themselves from larger predators while handling their prey.
- - Video: Graduating student Chanz Hopkins helps others while pursuing his dream
    Hopkins, a fish conservation major at Virginia Tech, has reinvented himself and will graduate this year, 17 years after graduating from high school.
- - Graduate School celebrates students and mentors at annual awards dinner
    The outstanding master's and doctoral degree students were honored at the Graduate School awards banquet during Graduate Education Week.
- - Personal outreach to landowners is vital to conservation program success
    Researchers found that conservation programs benefit when landowners accompany conservation biologists who are monitoring habitat management outcomes on their land.
- - Research teams led by junior faculty win seed funding for new projects
    The Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science's flagship funding program, the Junior Faculty Awards are designed to provide seed funding for new projects that have the potential to grow into vibrant research programs attracting major federal grants.
- - Undergraduate student innovators are finding creative solutions to complex problems
    Virginia Tech is fueling the work of interdisciplinary student project teams with funding awards through its Creativity and Innovation Strategic Growth Area.
- - Researchers investigate riverbank erosion, human adaptation, and resilience in coastal Bangladesh
    Researchers want to better understand how riverbank erosion affects residents and develop early-warning measures to help mitigate the effects of the changing shoreline.
- - Nicole Abaid earns NSF CAREER award to study bio-inspired active sensing in multi-agent systems
    During the five-year grant, Abaid will collect data from wild gray bat swarms to study their collective behavior and interaction patterns, especially in regards to how these animals use echolocation.
- - Increasing enrollment and hands-on, minds-on opportunities drive sustainable biomaterials faculty hires
    The addition of new faculty members will help the department continue serving students in new and innovative ways that will set them up for future success.
- - Human-centered design is key to forming partnerships for large-scale conservation success
    A study modeled preferences of fishers in Chile in creating and monitoring marine protected areas inside their fishing management zones.
- - ‘Shakespeare’s Garden,’ an immersive theatrical installation, begins March 22
    The installation, which uses the spatial audio capabilities of the Cube, will enable visitors to explore an immersive sound and visual experience as they follow a meandering path through the space and listen to Shakespearean texts performed by Virginia Tech students.
- - Three departments honored with 2017 University Exemplary Department Awards
    The Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management; Department of Geosciences; and Department of Sustainable Biomaterials each earned distinction for their efforts and achievement in maintaining exemplary teaching and learning environments for students and faculty.
- - Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History director to visit Virginia Tech and Lyric Theatre Feb. 16
    The event is part of the annual Distinguished Public Lecture Series hosted by the Global Change Center at Virginia Tech, with funding from the Fralin Life Science Institute and the Virginia Tech Graduate School.
- - College of Science to host symposium on Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
    Virginia Tech will host a panel discussion "Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)" on Feb. 7 in Arlington, with College of Science Dean Sally C. Morton moderating.
- - With seed funding, faculty build new research partnerships
    Diversity and Inclusion Grants launch collaborations between Virginia Tech faculty and their counterparts at minority-serving institutions.
- - Virginia Tech students develop strategies to address flooding and sea-level rise in the city of Hampton
    Teams of graduate and undergraduate students in an interdisciplinary course titled Climate Change and Societal Impacts developed recommendations for three Hampton neighborhoods affected by flooding issues.
- - Photos and video: Virginia Tech, City of Radford, and Glencoe Mansion partner to build New River Train Observatory
    Students from Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies are participating in a design-build partnership with the City of Radford, Virginia, and Glencoe Mansion to build a train-viewing platform that highlights the city's history as a railroad town.

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