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- - Faculty-led study abroad programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences take students around the world
    Dozens of faculty-led study abroad programs will be available to Virginia Tech students in the summer of 2020. In the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences alone, faculty members will be leading trips on three continents.
- - Virginia Tech community crowns first Latinx Homecoming Queen
    Desiree Velez is the first Latinx Homecoming Queen in the history of Virginia Tech.
- - Tackling the challenges of wildlife field work and breaking trail for an expanded Virginia Tech footprint in Africa
    Professor Kathleen Alexander’s new immersive overseas study course in Botswana focuses on training undergraduate students on the many facets of wildlife work.
- - Town uses sordid event from past to help save elephants
    A century after Big Mary’s execution, Save Our Towns shows how leaders in Erwin, Tennessee, found a way to change the narrative.
- - Global Education Scholarships awarded to 27 students
    Students from every Virginia Tech college were awarded scholarships to support their plans to study in countries around the world.
- - Virginia Tech College of Engineering launches Academy for Global Engineering
    The academy is a community of research and practice to improve experiential learning on a global scale.
- - Virginia Tech’s global impact grows with expansion of Chile center
    Student internships, grants for faculty projects, and convenient access to Chilean Patagonia for research are among new opportunities.
- - Call for applications for Alumni Awards for Outreach Excellence (Individual and Team)
- - Industry advisers see promising ways to expand IT sector in rural Virginia
    President Tim Sands hears ideas for replicating Northern Virginia’s success in smaller towns.
- - 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.
- - Save Our Towns reveals Tazewell’s fire-breathing growth strategy
    The town capitalizes on a new idea for an old road.
- - Global Education Office names new assistant director for partnerships and affiliations
    Maureen Deisinger takes on a new role in the Global Education Office working with students interested in semester exchange programs.
- - Students grow through international agricultural research
    Agriculture students gain lessons of global citizenship through human-centered research and study abroad.
- - New report says accelerating global agricultural productivity growth is critical
    The 2019 Global Agricultural Productivity Report, released today by Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, examines the pivotal role of agricultural productivity in achieving global goals for environmental sustainability, economic development, and improved nutrition.
- - Save Our Towns: Fincastle finds its way
    A tiny Virginia town that had remained self-contained since colonial days experiences growing pains.
- - College of Engineering invites rising sophomores to study abroad with award-winning Rising Sophomore Abroad Program
    The College of Engineering’s Rising Sophomore Abroad Program, recipient of the 2019 Senator Paul Simon Spotlight Award for outstanding innovation and accomplishment in campus internationalization, is now accepting applications for study abroad tracks traveling in summer 2020.
- - Extension and cooperatives hold 43rd annual Forestry and Wildlife Field Tours
    The field tour series, the longest running program of its kind in Virginia, will start on Oct. 11.
- - Save Our Towns launches new season as leaders weigh younger voices in Wytheville
    The season six premiere also explores absentee land ownership in Appalachia.
- - Engineering students win $25,000 in international product-pitching competition
    An exoskeleton concept put Maroon Assistive Technologies in first place in the Virginia Tech Global Entrepreneur Challenge, a pitch competition won last year by a student team from Chile.
- - Free classes let faculty and staff sign up for sign language
    The Language and Culture Institute is offering free conversation classes in American Sign Language as well as Chinese, French, German, and Spanish.

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