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Results for Outreach and International Affairs

- - Industry turns to Newport News program to build data science workforce
    The first cohort of 12 graduates will complete the business analytics certificate program on June 22.
- - Remote sensing with ArcGIS Pro workshops offered in Blacksburg and Williamsburg
    This comprehensive workshop is targeted to natural resource professionals, planners, public safety professionals, agricultural operators, educators, and others.
- - Global Entrepreneur Partnership to host students, faculty from around the globe
    During the weeklong program, students explore starting a business while faculty build partnerships.
- - Three students win 2019 Goldwater Scholarships
    The Goldwater Scholarship is the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering in the United States.
- - Undergraduate research and study abroad experiences enlighten student’s career direction
    The combination of a study abroad trip and undergraduate research last summer sparked Rose Huenemann's career exploration into the global food industry.
- - David Schmale receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to New Zealand for harmful algal blooms research
    Schmale, a professor in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to improve the security of water systems by developing new remote-sensing capabilities to sense and respond to harmful algal blooms.
- - Virginia Tech creates partnership to build center for frontier materials in India
    The $2 million research center in Patiala, in northern India, will be named the Thapar-Virginia Tech Center of Excellence in Frontier Materials.
- - Virginia Tech, University of Richmond collaborate to offer Beer Brewer Professional Certificate
    The yearlong program will train participants to work in the craft beer industry, aiming to stimulate growth of the industry in the region.
- - Center for International Research, Education, and Development names business development director
    Joshua Anderson comes to Virginia Tech with experience in leading teams that seek funding and in writing proposals at large international humanitarian and development organizations.
- - Jim Westwood receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to France for parasitic plant research
    Westwood, a professor in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will study the interaction of sunflower broomrape, a parasitic plant species, with sunflower.
- - New research on sustainable agriculture shows why farmers adopt or dismiss nontoxic farming methods
    Two Virginia Tech teams explore what draws farmers to ecological crop practices in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh – and turn up the important role of women in the process.
- - Virginia Tech has record-breaking year with Fulbright student awards
    Since 1946, more than 380,000 individuals have participated in the U.S. Fulbright Program. This year, Virginia Tech adds seven more names to the list.
- - Students come face-to-face with change makers in India
    A group of eight Virginia Tech students spent three weeks in India meeting with change makers working to improve the living conditions of women and girls. While visiting Hyderabad, Kadapa, and New Delhi, they explored the roles empowerment and activism play in social issues in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people.
- - Virginia Tech receives national recognition for meeting study abroad goal
    The Global Education Office saw more than 1,400 students study internationally last year.
- - Class of 2019: Katherine Louis explores connection between languages and culture
    The senior from Norfolk, Virginia, says she has always been fascinated by the way words manifest themselves into ideas differently across cultures. That fascination spurred her to study abroad not once but twice.
- - Timothy Miles named 2019 Outstanding Senior for College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
    An unexpected change in plans helped the religion and culture major forge a new path that will take him to Morocco with the Peace Corps.
- - Class of 2019: Senior takes experiential learning to new heights, racing horses across three continents
    Virginia Tech student and endurance rider Hanna Bartnick contended with sharks, bears, and sandstorms during a capstone project that took her across three continents.
- - Class of 2019: Student finishes medical school learning Traditional Chinese Medicine with a rotation back to his Taiwanese roots
    There was one more thing Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine student Ray Chang wanted to do before he graduated in May — take an international medical rotation in Taiwan, the country where his family is from originally.
- - POSTPONED: Renowned educator and activist from India to speak at Virginia Tech
    Achyuta Samanta’s talk will be rescheduled for a later time.
- - Video: Concert series keeps bluegrass alive and pickin’
    The American Music Series at the Reynolds Homestead works to save bluegrass by attracting a new generation of fans.

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