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- - Lisa Lee receives distinguished career award from American Public Health Association
    Lee was recognized for outstanding support and inspiration to the practice and integration of ethics in the area of public health, and work that has promoted or significantly contributed to ethics in the public health field.
- - Search committee for vice president for research and innovation announced
    The vice president will lead Virginia Tech’s academic research enterprise and further advance the university’s entrepreneurial and innovative culture.
- - M. Daniel Givens named dean of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
    Givens joined the faculty at Auburn University in 2000, and during his tenure has served in various positions before taking on his current role as associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Veterinary Medicine in 2013. He will begin at Virginia Tech on June 1, 2020.
- - Virginia Tech faculty chosen to deliver commencement keynote speeches
    John Seiler and Patricia Raun will be the featured speakers at Virginia Tech's 2019 fall University and Graduate School Commencement ceremonies on Dec. 20.
- - Virginia Tech faculty receive top honors from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
    Elected by their peers and representing a broad range of AAAS “sections,” including statistics, neuroscience, engineering, psychology, and geology/geography, the Virginia Tech professors are among 443 newly elected scholars.
- - Virginia Tech announces search committee for vice president for student affairs
    The position provides leadership and oversight to a variety of service and support units at Virginia Tech, including the Cook Counseling Center, Dining Services, Fraternity and Sorority Life, Housing and Residence Life, and Schiffert Health Center.
- - Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and students now receive complimentary membership at the Taubman Museum of Art
    Building on the university’s expanding presence in Roanoke, the new year-long pilot program provides free unlimited admission to exhibitions and special museum events, as well as discounts on classes and at the museum café and gift shop.
- - Children’s National Hospital, Virginia Tech announce partnership for new Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus
    The campus is an expansion of Children’s National that is located on a nearly 12-acre portion of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and is set to open its first phase in December 2020.
- - Listening sessions scheduled to address, discuss issues of sexual violence
- - Faculty programs, partnerships continue to emerge from participation in COACHE survey
    Participation and outcomes in the survey provide university leaders with actionable information to improve partnerships with faculty and recruitment and retention efforts.
- - Luiz DaSilva named inaugural executive director for Commonwealth Cyber Initiative
    DaSilva, professor of telecommunications at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and director of CONNECT, the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Future Communications and Networks, will join CCI in March 2020 as its inaugural executive director.
- - Study on food security and access seeks to build awareness, support students in need
    According to the study, 29 percent of undergraduates and 35 percent of graduate students at Virginia Tech are classified as having low or very low food security.
- - Virginia Tech leveraging strengths of personnel in Northern Virginia to advance strategic goals
    Stronger alignment in program, research, and personnel expertise will enable Virginia Tech to connect thematic focus areas of its locations in Northern Virginia.
- - Experts convene to explore new philosophy of statistics field
    When Deborah Mayo, an emerita professor of philosophy, and Aris Spanos, a professor of economics, joined forces to provide researchers with a better understanding of statistical errors in research, they set in motion a new field of philosophy.
- - University Libraries joins Virginia research libraries in endorsing MIT framework for publisher contracts
    In 2021, representatives from University Libraries, along with its Virginia research library colleagues, will negotiate with Elsevier, the largest STEM scholarly publisher. During negotiations, the universities will be discussing the unsustainable cost of accessing academic journals and options to make Virginia universities’ research more accessible to the public that paid for it.
- - Workshop to guide adaptive lifelong learning for inclusive knowledge economy
    Virginia Tech is hosting the Adaptive Lifelong Learning for an Inclusive Knowledge Economy workshop from Oct. 25-27 in the greater Washington, D.C., metro area.
- - Disabilities Support Task Force presents report on services, opportunities to support Virginia Tech students
    The Disabilities Support Task Force was formed in fall 2018 to conduct a year-long study on the experiences of Virginia Tech students who receive support from Services for Students with Disabilities.
- - Open Access Week keynote Brandon Butler discusses the Big Deal and why open access matters
    For the past two decades, research institutions have been buying research the same way consumers have been buying television programming: in big bundles. Like big cable packages, these bundles have become bloated with unnecessary content, and their prices have exploded.
- - Partners explore real-world problems with Calhoun Discovery Scholars
    A handful of organizations have partnered with the Calhoun Discovery Program and recently came to campus for their first joint meeting with the program’s inaugural cohort.
- - Virginia Tech launches its most ambitious fundraising campaign ever
    Boundless Impact: The Campaign for Virginia Tech has a goal to raise $1.5 billion to fuel excellence across all university programs and drive forward major strategic priorities. A second goal is to engage 100,000 alumni in meaningful ways over the course of the campaign.

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