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- - Virginia Tech’s simple fix for Vietnam cuts pesticide use, sends bugs packing
    The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Integrated Pest Management implements bagging and sleeving in Vietnam to ward away pests and decrease the use of chemicals on fruit.
- - Virginia Tech launches Feed the Future Senegal Youth in Agriculture project
    The $4 million project — led by the Center for International Research, Education, and Development — promotes youth engagement in Senegal through 4-H and vocational training.
- - Hyderabad meets Hokies as young entrepreneurs square off in global competition
    Can a heat wave spark ideas? One did for a team of student entrepreneurs from India who competed recently at the Virginia Tech Research Center — Arlington.
- - Virginia Master Naturalist chapter publishes guide to the state’s poisonous plants
    “The Socrates Project: Poisonous Plants in Virginia” is a collaborative effort between the Virginia Master Naturalist Program and Virginia Cooperative Extension.
- - VTCRI professor to discuss artificial intelligence, psychology at international conference workshop
    The worlds of addiction research and artificial intelligence research are colliding for Warren Bickel, a professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.
- - Virginia Tech team exposing lead in Flint’s water wins Kellogg Foundation award
    The award, focused on community engagement scholarship, makes the team eligible to win the national C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award.
- - Fee restructure for Global Education programs
- - Virginia Tech alumna wins Fulbright English teaching assistant grant to Greece
    Starting in September, alumna and aspiring novelist Amelia Dirks will teach English to high school students in Greece.
- - Virginia Tech professor and 4-H youth team up to establish Community and 4-H Center in Senegal
    After years of fundraising and collaboration, the Samuel and Eleanor Morris Community and 4-H Center has been established in Santamba, Senegal. The center will become a place for youth and adults to develop leadership skills and move forward together.
- - Apex Center for Entrepreneurs announces preliminary winner of Global Challenge
    Team FeetBack won the preliminary for its training device for Parkinson's patients, which seeks to help them reintegrate correct walking patterns into their daily life and receive customized training suggestions.
- - 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.
- - Faculty nominations sought for Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award
- - Faculty needed for National Screening Committee panels
- - 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.
- - Language and Culture Institute’s English program earns reaccreditation
    After a two-year process, the Language and Culture Institute's Intensive English Program has earned a renewal of its accreditation for a duration of 10 years, the longest period awarded by the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation.
- - Elaine Densley recognized for outstanding leadership
    Densley, program coordinator and assistant at the Virginia Tech Richmond Center, has received the 2018 McComas Staff Leadership Award.
- - Maria Jernigan named 2018 Undergraduate Student of the Year
    The honors student, a triple major in philosophy, Spanish, and theatre arts, has also received the Outstanding Senior Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
- - New U.S. site for Mahindra’s mega-research arm bolsters Virginia Tech’s Corporate Research Center
    The new center seeks to create breakthrough products for North American markets, while the company’s Virginia Tech research project in mechanical engineering aims to advance emerging farm technologies like fruit-picking robots.
- - 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.
- - Collaboration brings international culture to Auburn High School
    International students from the Virginia Tech Language and Culture Institute are taking part in a new collaboration with Auburn High in Riner, Virginia, about 20 miles south of Blacksburg.

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