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- - Spot the invasive spotted lanternfly at your farm or home? Report it.
    An invasive insect that has damaged agricultural crops in the Northeast United States and creates a black sticky mess on homeowners’ trees that stinks of sour vinegar has been found in Virginia.
- - Mike Evans uses his life’s experience to lead new School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
    Evans is the director of the newly formed School for Plant and Environmental Sciences, which combines three former departments — horticulture; crop and soil environmental sciences; and plant pathology, physiology, and weed sciences — under one administrative roof.
- - Virginia Tech biomedical facility will allow translational and interdisciplinary study of Alzheimer's, diabetes, and other diseases
    A first-of-its kind biomedical facility in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will allow researchers from across the university to study cures and treatments for diseases.
- - Virginia Tech, international trade reps to discuss NAFTA, other export issues at 10th Governor’s Conference on Agricultural Trade
    The event will continue the tradition of focusing on the most salient topics in international agricultural trade with representatives from key trade nations.
- - Virginia Tech entomologist discovers invertebrate that comes in more color combinations than any other millipede. But only one flavor – cyanide.
    This is the 10th species that Paul Marek, an assistant professor in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Department of Entomology, has discovered and named in recent years.
- - Virginia Tech helps independent grape growers in the commonwealth assess and manage vineyards
    Landowners can use Geovine, a vineyard site assessment and management tool developed by Virginia Tech’s Center for Geospatial Information Technology, to help them find appropriate properties for vineyards.
- - Virginia Cooperative Extension and Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station have profound economic impact on the commonwealth, new report finds
    Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station are enlarging and diversifying the state’s economy and are making a profound economic impact in communities across the commonwealth, according to a new analysis of the agencies.
- - Gobble, gobble! National Thanksgiving Turkey returns to Virginia Tech
    This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Presentation of the National Thanksgiving Turkey at the White House and the two pardoned birds are once again coming to Virginia Tech to live out their days in the folds of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
- - Federal snack program does not yield expected impacts, Virginia Tech researchers find
    A well-intentioned government regulation designed to offer healthier options in school vending machines has failed to instill better snacking habits in a sample of schools in Appalachian Virginia, according to a study by Virginia Tech researchers.
- - Virginia Tech researchers find a new bacterium that helps turn water into ice
    A team of researchers from Virginia Tech has now discovered a new bacterium that can act as one of these ice nuclei and allows water to freeze at temperatures as high as 19 degrees Fahrenheit. The new ice nucleating bacterium belongs to the genus Lysinibacillus, which was not previously known to cause nucleation.
- - Research Extension/Education and Experiential program grows next generation of plant scientists
    The many mysteries of plants and how they can be used to examine everything from studying DNA to feeding an ever-growing global population are at the center of a project this summer aimed at encouraging the next generation of scientists.
- - Virginia Tech researchers find new way to thwart pathogen that causes sudden oak death
    Researchers in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are trying to “hack the communication network” of Phytophthora pathogens to stall destructive diseases that have caused significant damage to economies and the environment.
- - Virginia Tech fermentation program receives prestigious recognition
    The Department of Food Science and Technology Fermentation Program is one of the first programs in North America to earn recognition from the Master Brewers Association of the Americas.
- - Dini Miller named Healthy Homes Hero for work with household bugs
    Miller, urban pest management specialist for Virginia Cooperative Extension and professor of entomology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is the first recipient of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Healthy Homes Hero award.
- - Virginia Tech to host Beef & Forage Field Day at Kentland Farm on July 27
    Special guest Megan Seibel, Virginia's assistant secretary of agriculture and natural resources, will provide an update on agriculture in the commonwealth.
- - Michael L. Jahncke honored with emeritus status
    A member of the university community since 1997, Jahncke was the principal or co-principal investigator on more than 60 competitive and noncompetitive grants and contracts. In the classroom, he was the major or co-major advisor for 11 master’s degree and three Ph.D. students, as well as a committee member for an additional three master’s degree and six Ph.D. students.
- - Robert McDuffie honored with emeritus status
    A member of the university community since 1978, McDuffie was a landscape architect and dedicated teacher. He taught hundreds of students in the area of landscape design.
- - Conrad Heatwole honored with emeritus status
    A member of the university community since 1986, Heatwole made a significant impact on the improvement of water quality in the Chesapeake Bay through his work to develop and apply geospatial analysis tools for mapping, analysis, and modeling of watershed hydrology and pollutant fate and transport from field to watershed scales.
- - Virginia Tech Beef Cattle Center earns 2017 AICA Outstanding Seedstock Producer Award
    Dan Eversole, associate professor of animal and poultry sciences and director of beef cattle programs, received the award on behalf of the university.
- - BP oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to natural resources, scientists find in first-ever financial evaluation of spill’s impact
    The scientists developed a survey to put a dollar value on the natural resources damaged by the spill by determining household willingness to pay for measures that would prevent similar damages should a spill of the same magnitude happen in the future.

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