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- - Association for Psychological Science names Roseanne Foti and Angela Scarpa as Fellows
    Fellow status is awarded to organization members who have made outstanding contributions to the field of psychology through research, teaching, service, or practice.
- - 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.
- - In memoriam: Lawrence Sewell, computer engineer who designed, built Math Emporium computer system
    Sewell, a retired Virginia Tech computer engineer, designed and built the Math Emporium’s massive core computer system that encompasses online textbooks, practice problems, asynchronous tests and quizzes, and assignments for more than 8,000 math students annually.
- - Twenty students awarded Fralin Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
    The SURF program is designed to give students hands-on research experiences during a 10-week curriculum that mimics graduate training.
- - Third year of College of Science Dean’s Discovery Fund supports faculty research
    The fund recently announced research awards that will support such diverse projects as nanotechnology, mass extinction events, and diseases in corn.
- - Global Entrepreneur Partnership to host students, faculty from around the globe
    During the weeklong program, students explore starting a business while faculty build partnerships.
- - Virginia Tech graduate students selected to join competitive Society for Neuroscience program
    Amnah Eltahir and Alyssa Brunal-Brown, Virginia Tech graduate students at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, were accepted into the Society for Neuroscience’s fellowship and associate programs, respectively.
- - Chance encounter becomes a career of innovation for alumnus Steven Bathiche
    Responding to a flyer on a bulletin board in Whittemore Hall led electrical engineering alumnus Bathiche ’97 to a decades-long career at Microsoft, where he’s helped pioneer some of the company’s most innovative interfaces.
- - Wind Turbine Team soars to a second-place finish at Collegiate Wind Competition
    Committed to a future that utilizes wind energy as a reliable and clean energy source, students intertwine coursework with hands-on learning.
- - Virginia Tech researchers discover connection between symbiotic worms and the magnetic orientation of crayfish
    Researchers have found that ectosymbionts – species that live on the outside of the host’s body and have mutually beneficial relationships with their hosts – affect a crayfish’s use of the earth’s magnetic field as a directional reference.
- - Virginia Smith celebrates 80 years as alumna
    Having just celebrated her 100th birthday, Smith returned to Blacksburg to celebrate her 80th reunion in May. Accompanied by her son, Henry B. Smith III ‘69, she was acknowledged as a Virginia Tech Centenarian and awarded a piece of Hokie Stone by the Old Guard Society of Golden Alumni.
- - 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.
- - Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approves 2019 promotions, tenure, continued appointments
    The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved these promotions, tenure, and continued appointments at its June 3 meeting.
- - Virginia Tech helps lead broadest study of battery electrode failure in new journal article
    Feng Lin, an assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Science and an affiliated faculty member of the Macromolecules Innovation Institute, led efforts along with researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Purdue University, and European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France.
- - Lost in translation: The medium is the message for a healthy heartbeat
    Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have revealed how a genetic message to produce healthy heart tissue is altered in the body during stress and aging to contribute to sudden cardiac death.
- - Biological Sciences’ Frank Aylward awarded Simons Foundation grant to study evolution of oceans
    The three-year, $540,000 grant will help Aylward to understand evolutionary trends in prokaryotes and the roles they play in carbon and nitrogen cycling, and other biogeochemical processes that are vital to the Earth’s climate.
- - Interdisciplinary ISCE Scholars address topics from healthy aging to occupational roles of engineers
    Six interdisciplinary research teams were recently awarded funding through the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment’s (ISCE) signature program, the ISCE Scholars Program, to address a broad range of pressing contemporary social issues.
- - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute addiction scientist to receive international honor for translational research
    Addiction researcher Warren Bickel, the Virginia Tech Carilion Behavioral Health Research Professor, will receive the Scientific Translation Award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis on Saturday in Chicago, Illinois.
- - Fellowship to help doctoral student advance research in socio-emotional development of children
    Erika Hernandez, a Ph.D. candidate in developmental psychology, is examining intergenerational reminiscing in underrepresented families and the impact it can have on the socio-emotional development of children.
- - Three faculty members named to lead planning for university shared research facilities
    These three accomplished researchers are part of the inaugural cohort of the Faculty Fellows Program of the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, which puts faculty leaders at the forefront of strategic research initiatives.

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