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- - 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.
- - In Senegal, Extension meets 4-H’ers mastering the science, safety, and business of food
    Applying the land-grant higher education model of knowledge-sharing, as practiced by Virginia Tech, the Youth in Agriculture program works closely with agents and specialists from Virginia Cooperative Extension and 4-H.
- - Forest landowners 'retreat' to the woods
    The retreat, designed for beginning woodland owners, will take place Sept. 20-21 near Providence Forge, Virginia.
- - Scientist’s gift to bring top-flight international lecturers to campus
    The Muniappan endowment will provide the Blacksburg campus and community greater access to speakers who offer fresh thinking on complex worldwide problems.
- - Brett Shadle named chair of history at Virginia Tech
    With an initiative to make the Department of History more diverse and inclusive, Shadle steps into a new administrative leadership role.
- - Timothy Luke returns as chair of Department of Political Science
    Thirty-eight years ago, Luke joined Virginia Tech as an assistant professor of political science. Since then, his legacy has included university accolades in service, leadership, and program creation. And now, for the fourth time, he has been chosen for a familiar role.
- - Toni Calasanti receives National Institute on Aging grant to study how gender and sexual orientation affect caregiving
    The sociology professor will explore how heterosexual and same-sex spousal and partner caregivers draw upon existing gender identities, skills, and resources formed in relation to the gender division of labor over the life course.
- - Donald Hempson named associate vice president for international affairs
    Hempson will assume one of the key leadership roles in Outreach and International Affairs Sept. 10.
- - University’s global impact on display at international education expo
    Led by the Language and Culture Institute, representatives from across the university show off Virginia Tech’s internationalization efforts at the world’s largest gathering of international education professionals.
- - Wildlife conservation students take on real-world projects in capstone course
    Students in Professor Sarah Karpanty’s senior capstone course synthesize what they’ve learned and apply it to field projects with local agencies and organizations.
- - Marc Stern facilitates local solutions to global climate challenges
    Stern will use a National Science Foundation grant to study and develop workshops that will empower local communities to take action against climate challenges.
- - Inn at Virginia Tech steps up to provide additional support to accommodate student housing needs
    The Inn at Virginia Tech will provide three floors of guest rooms to the university in order to create a learning-centered living environment for approximately 325 students for the 2019-20 academic year.
- - 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.

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