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- - Students continue work begun in the Genomics Sequencing Center summer program
    This year, 40 students participated in the hands-on research program, which deepened the computational aspects of the program to give students more high-performance computing opportunities.
- - Class of 2018: Student’s work destigmatized mental health issues
    Emily Wills used her college experience to raise awareness about mental health issues that affect college students and create safe spaces.
- - Three graduate students take top prizes at the 2018 Nutshell Games
    Using a 5-gallon bucket, a water bottle, and a dinosaur bone, Virginia Tech graduate students Susan Chen, Madeline “Maddy” Grupper, and Brenen Wynd took top honors at the third Nutshell Games.
- - Academic Advising Institute fall cohort finds new ways to serve, guide undergraduate students
    Through collaboration and engagement, AAI is helping academic advisors serve students through identifying and cultivating informational, conceptual, relational and technological components of their practice.
- - Students reflect on lessons learned during study abroad in Ecuador
    Tropical Conservation and Biology, a six-credit course offered at Virginia Tech, is taught in the classroom, followed by a three-week study abroad trip to Ecuador.
- - Cadets chosen to highlight the colors at the Marshall game
    Cadets Hanna Kobayashi, Melonie Mallette, and Thaddeus Moskal were selected based on their performance in the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets.
- - Seed grants helping to grow Virginia Tech’s transdisciplinary capacities, contributions
    Grant awards are designed to enhance research and collaboration in areas that address global issues including rural health, infectious disease, coastal mitigation and security.
- - Home of the future takes first place at international competition
    After years of research and development contributed by over 100 Virginia Tech students and faculty, the FutureHAUS Dubai team has officially built the world’s best solar home.
- - Two researchers earn grant to streamline simulation of fluid contamination disasters
    The National Science Foundation grant is to study how computational fluid mechanics — the use of computers to study movement of fluid — can improve forecasts of contaminant spread in the ocean, floodwaters, and atmosphere.
- - Tom Woteki to direct Northern Virginia data analysis and applied statistics master’s program
    Woteki earned three degrees from Virginia Tech: bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Mathematics, and a Ph.D. in statistics.
- - Researchers engineer nano-textured surfaces to reduce medical device infection
    Virginia Tech mechanical engineers and chemists are researching methods to apply a nano-textured biofilm on such items as urinary catheters. The research could lead to products that lower the instance of device-associated infections.
- - 2018 Summit of the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine: Securing Prosperity in the Coastal Zone
    At the request of the Virginia Academy of Science Engineering, and Medicine, Virginia Tech researchers Robert Weiss and Jennifer Irish of the Coastal@VT initiative led the organizing committee for the 2018 VASEM Summit.
- - New biomedical gel could ease pain in cervical cancer treatment
    Tim Long, a professor of chemistry at Virginia Tech, and Tim Showalter, a radiation oncologist at UVA’s Cancer Center, are testing a gel that could be used during radiation treatment for cervical cancer.
- - Mathematics’ Yuriko Renardy honored with emerita status by Board of Visitors
    Yuriko Renardy, a professor of mathematics in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of Class of 1950 Professor Emerita of Mathematics by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
- - Corps of Cadets alumna Capt. Elizabeth Gentine named Virginia game Hokie Hero
    Gentine is on a six-month deployment to Afghanistan in support of NATO Special Operations Component Command Afghanistan and Special Operations Joint Task Force Afghanistan.
- - Geosciences researchers will use data from new NASA lander to learn about Mars interior, core
    Scott King, a professor with the Department of Geosciences, is heading one of 24 research teams selected by NASA to receive data science collected by the new Mars lander InSight as it explores the Red Planet during the next four years.
- - VTCRI researchers find positive effects of early education intervention four decades later
    New research published in Nature Communications, led by Read Montague, of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, suggests that participants who received educational interventions in early childhood show positive effects on social decision-making more than four decades later.
- - Researchers discover how 'cryptic' connections in disease transmission influence epidemics
    A new study by Virginia Tech researchers of disease transmission in bats has broad implications for understanding hidden or "cryptic" connections that can spread diseases between species and lead to large-scale outbreaks.
- - Economical and sustainable materials team furthers partnership, collaboration with Oak Ridge
    Virginia Tech faculty and graduate students recently visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to further collaboration and provide faculty and students with a better understanding of ORNL capabilities and research interests.
- - Undergraduate academic advisors earn development travel grants
    Grant awards recognize faculty and staff advisors and provide professional development opportunities and support for those who serve undergraduate students in this important capacity.

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