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- - U.S. Department of State issues travel warning for Cuba
- - Global travel requirements for Virginia Tech employees
- - All students must register travel abroad
- - Autonomous systems innovators converge on Blacksburg
    Unmanned systems, such as driverless cars and drones, become more visible every day. But does the public trust the technology? That question and others will challenge leaders in the field of autonomous systems as they gather in Blacksburg for a conference Oct. 15 to 17.
- - Researchers take a TEAM approach to Haiti’s development challenges
    Virginia Tech faculty and students traveled to Haiti to research approaches for sustainable change in rural communities.
- - Save Our Towns goes green, gathers steam, gets noisy in Appalachia
    Boone, North Carolina, leads the pack among towns that seek to convert to renewable energy, while Pennington Gap revs up motorsports.
- - Student targets hunger and malnutrition in Mozambique
    Jessica Agnew is one of 50 students in the nation selected for a prestigious crowdfunding effort and speaking engagement to solve a global problem in the Clinton Global Initiative University Commitments Challenge.
- - Annual VT Engage trip to Dominican Republic builds long-lasting relationships
    Applications for the January 2018 trip are due on Oct. 1.
- - Student raises money to improve isolated Ecuadorean community's access to education
    When undergraduate Matt Lacey visited Ecuador last summer as part of Virginia Tech’s Tropical Biology and Conservation in Ecuador course, he was struck by the beauty of the place: the lush cloud forests, brightly colored birds, and strange nocturnal mammals. But even more, he was struck by the people.
- - U.S. Department of State updates travel alert in Europe
    The U.S. Department of State updates Travel Alert for Europe.
- - Save Our Towns launches fourth season
    The Example of Awesome story shows how Damascus – about 15 miles southeast of Abingdon, Virginia – seeks to nurture a year-round tourism-based economy. Pennington Gap, the Lee County town that will be followed for a year, inspires the question: Can the town survive given setbacks that include a scandal in the police department, the closure of the county hospital, and a fire that destroyed town hall?
- - Construction begins at Newport News research park modeled after Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center
    The research park will provide the platform and synergy to attract tenants that desire a connected, collaborative, and smart community focused on growing business.
- - Iraqi, Saudi governments honor Language and Culture Institute faculty
    Donald Back and Adil Bentahar were recognized for their efforts to help students from Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
- - Tom Shaver to retire as inn’s general manager
    After a 43-year career in hotel and conference-center operations, Shaver is returning to his home at Callaway Gardens Resort in Georgia, where he was director of lodging operations before joining The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center.
- - Photos and video: Communicating Science course serves as cornerstone of German Fulbright Summer Institute
    Virginia Tech hosted 24 German undergraduates for a three-week summer institute. The students participated in a class called 'Communicating Science,' where they learned to communicate, collaborate, and connect across differences and disciplines.
- - Continuing and Professional Education names new director
    Longtime Virginia Tech employee Shelly Jobst will oversee a $9 million portfolio of program services for conferences, short courses, workshops, and certificate programs.
- - Student visits China on NSF fellowship to explore neural processes of bat echolocation
    Joseph Sutlive, a Virginia Tech doctoral student in the translational biology, medicine, and health program, recently flew to Jinan to discover more about how bats interpret echoes to navigate through dark, cluttered environments — with capabilities that far surpass human-made sonar systems.
- - Language and Culture Institute hires new student services director
    Among Jana Moore's responsibilities will be developing programs to better immerse the institute's international students in the campus and community.
- - inside Architecture + Design summer program creates Hokies for life
    The popular summer program for high schoolers, now entering its 20th year, immerses them in college-level architecture and design work and a week of Virginia Tech student life.
- - Virginia Tech’s Upward Bound increases reach in region with new federal grants
    Three grants will help the university continue to encourage high school students in Southwest Virginia to prepare for college.

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