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Results for Outreach and International Affairs

- - Center for International Research, Education, and Development names communications director
    April Raphiou has been a consultant for the center since 2017 including work on a USAID-funded project in Senegal.
- - Crowdfunding project aims to give underrepresented students a chance to study abroad
    Global Education Office leads October fundraising effort.
- - Trainings required for faculty leading study abroad
- - Center for Geospatial Information Technology builds database to help Virginia’s veterans
    The center’s work will help 15,000 veterans access educational, employment, and support resources across Virginia.
- - Students study sustainability abroad
    Virginia Tech students explored a variety of cities in Europe as part of a trip with the College of Architecture and Urban Studies to examine sustainability policymaking and planning.
- - Virginia Tech researchers make small discovery that could keep millions from going hungry
    Two natural insect predators will be unleashed to curb a pest devastating to crops in Africa.
- - Virginia Tech economics departments build rare partnership with Austrian university
    Graduate students in economics and applied economics will now be able to study and do research at the University of Innsbruck as part of a student exchange program.
- - Mapping With Drones workshops offered in Blacksburg and Richmond
    This introductory-level workshop is targeted to natural resource professionals, planners, public safety professionals, agricultural operators, educators, and others.
- - Philadelphia Zoo CREW’s high school students get ‘hands-on’ with wildlife
    The Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation welcomed a group of students from the Philadelphia Zoo’s Champions for Restoring Endangered Wildlife program to learn about education opportunities in wildlife research.
- - Nicholas Copeland uses Fulbright to advance food sovereignty in Guatemala
    The anthropologist, who studies rural communities in the Central American country, hopes his research will help farmers create sustainable food resources and land practices.
- - 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.
- - 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.

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