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- - Joyce Rothschild honored with emerita status
    Rothschild recently retired after 26 years at Virginia Tech. She gained renown as an influential and pioneering scholar for her work identifying decentralized alternatives to hierarchy and bureaucracy and focusing on the treatment of whistle blowers.
- - Save Our Towns pays a call on the storytelling capital of the world
    Residents of Jonesborough, Tennessee, disagreed over what its most marketable claim to fame would be and, in the end, hired a consultant to point out the obvious.
- - Virginia Center for Housing Research leads study to tackle growing need for affordable housing
    A landmark intercollegiate study led by Virginia Tech shows that affordable housing in the commonwealth must grow significantly to meet rising workforce demand.
- - Class of 2017: Marc Fialkoff informs the future of critical infrastructure, disaster recovery, and nuclear security
    A 2017 Ph.D. graduate in planning, governance, and globalization, Fialkoff combines aptitudes as a lawyer and planner to guide critical infrastructure and nuclear security and thrive in the lab or the classroom.
- - Funding program creates more research opportunities for undergraduates
    Nine interdisciplinary teams of Virginia Tech faculty won the awards, which will help them build new undergraduate-research programs and compete for national grants.
- - A West Virginia town preps for life after coal
    Williamson, steeped in Hatfield-McCoy history and once rich in coal, may now be more well known outside Appalachia than in.
- - Fall commencement scheduled for Dec. 21
    The University Ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. The Graduate School ceremony will start at 2:30 p.m. Both events will be held in Cassell Coliseum.
- - Alumnus propels research with donation of 16 motion capture suits
    Virginia Tech researchers and students plan to use the donated motion capture suits to study body motion and injury prevention, thanks to Jamie Marraccini (electrical engineering '93), founder, CEO, and president of Inertial Labs.
- - Breaking bread during Thanksgiving in 2017
    With Thanksgiving approaching many Americans may be anxious about difficult conversations that could emerge. No one wants their Thanksgiving meal to turn into a food fight. Virginia Tech expert Todd Schenk has some recommendations on how to navigate conversation with friends and family, in 2017.
- - Students take roles as campus innovators through global design program
    Virginia Tech's first University Innovation Fellows are a four-student team who want to create a campus hub to offer information for all students about learning outside of the classroom, from internships to studying abroad.
- - Cadet chosen to highlight the colors during the Miami game
    Cadets are selected based on their performance during training. During pregame events, they render honor to the flags carried by football players and then take them off the field.
- - White roofing isn’t always green, Virginia Tech study confirms
    How a roof reflects light on its surroundings can make a big difference, the faculty-student research reveals, offering new evidence to challenge commonly accepted LEED and international standards.
- - Save Our Towns vrooms into Vinton
    A small town near a much bigger city, Vinton lacked dynamism until a key project started revving things up again.
- - HBCU alumni at Virginia Tech share perspectives with current HBCU students at research summit
    Students from 17 historically black colleges and universities and minority serving institutions across the mid-Atlantic and South converged on Virginia Tech on a recent weekend to explore research and advanced degree opportunities.
- - Beo String Quartet performs a mix of classic works with multimedia-infused compositions
    The ensemble brings their contagious enthusiasm for music to the Moss Arts Center on Nov. 16 for a performance that features an electroacoustic piece composed by a Virginia Tech music professor.
- - Destination Areas spark creative discussion among science and policy topics
    Approximately 70 members of Virginia Tech’s Global Systems Science Destination Area and the Policy Strategic Growth Area met recently to identify opportunities for collaboration.
- - Designing “happiness and empowerment”: Akshay Sharma takes over as industrial design chair
    After a stint in the corporate design world, Sharma returns to his passion: teaching at Virginia Tech.
- - McAuliffe announces commonwealth leader cultivation program developed with Virginia Tech
    The program, aimed at preparing the next generation of government leaders, was developed in conjunction with the School of Public and International Affairs in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.
- - Construction graduates are the job market’s hottest thing. Just ask a Hokie.
    Myers-Lawson School of Construction’s Fall Career Fair reflects explosive demand for the nation’s fastest-growing major and the world’s future construction needs.
- - 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.

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