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- - Graduate School honors Citizen Scholars for their outreach and engagement
    Eleven Virginia Tech graduate students were named Citizen Scholars for their efforts to combine scholarship with community engagement.
- - Graduate School recognizes award winners for scholarship, teaching, and service
    The award recipients were recognized at a special dinner during Graduate Education Week.
- - Nine graduate students will be inducted into the Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
    Established in 2005 by Yale and Howard universities, the society is named for the first African American to earn a doctoral degree in the United States. Edward Bouchet graduated from Yale College in 1874 and earned his doctoral degree in physics from Yale University in 1876.
- - Undergraduate researchers represent Virginia Tech at the ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference
    Funded by ACC athletics, the conference demonstrates both the collaborative relationship that exists between athletics and academics and the conference’s commitment to excellence in education. The annual meeting was held March 21 to April 2.
- - School of Visual Arts student and faculty designs win seven ADDY awards
    Their designs, ranging from beer labels to mobile apps created for regional and national clients, now advance to the next round in the world’s largest advertising competition, which draws more than 40,000 entries annually.
- - Virginia Tech's libraries will highlight women's contributions to architecture through digitization project
    With a $232,356 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources, the University Libraries at Virginia Tech will digitize and document a significant part of the work of 30 women architects.
- - In Save Our Towns season finale, Harrisonburg embraces immigrants
    Blowback against anti-immigrant sentiment and a boost for manufacturing in Southwest Virginia are among the subjects closing out the season on the award-winning web-episode series.
- - Experts at Virginia Tech Capitol Hill panel agree that cybersecurity solutions are top priority as threats increase
    Russian hacking in the 2016 election, recent leaks of U.S. intelligence cyber tools, vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure and the Internet of Things, and cybersecurity workforce development were all part of the conversation.
- - Conference examines eroding public trust in government
    The conference, called "Faith in the System: Restoring Trust in Government in a Time of Complex Governing Challenges," will occur on March 24 at the Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center. A live audio broadcast will be available through WebEx.
- - Community Voices events March 23 focus on democracy and autocracy
    Turkish journalist Mahir Zeynalov will discuss his experiences with dwindling press and media freedoms.
- - Virginia Tech convenes Capitol Hill roundtable to discuss America’s cyber threat and what Congress can do about it
    Former Congressman Jim Moran, professor of practice at the Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs, will lead the roundtable March 22 to discuss a range of topics, including Russian hacking in the 2016 election, recent leaks of U.S. intelligence cyber tools, vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure and the Internet of Things, and cyber security workforce development.
- - Virginia Tech musicians and singers to perform at Carnegie Hall
    Members of the Virginia Tech Wind Ensemble and the Virginia Tech Combined Choirs — the Chamber Singers, Tech Men, and Women’s Chorus — will be performing a special concert at Carnegie Hall on April 11.
- - Virginia Tech graduate programs garner top spots in U.S. News & World Report's latest rankings
    Virginia Tech’s Evening master of business administration (MBA) program and three College of Engineering graduate programs were among the best in the nation in U.S. News & World Report's 2018 survey of graduate programs released today.
- - Visionary educator Elizabeth Coleman will speak at Virginia Tech on March 21
    The former president of Bennington College, widely recognized as an outspoken champion of a broadened disciplinary perspective in higher education, will present a talk at the Moss Arts Center.
- - Three finalists selected for campus interviews for dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies
    University and community members are invited to attend each candidate’s open forum presentation on “Future Trends: Visionary Opportunities for the Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies.”
- - Principles of Community Week furthers the #VTUnfinished conversation
    The events March 13-17 are opportunities to revisit conversations started with last semester’s #VTUnfinished initiative. Participants are encouraged to learn about each other and to communicate respectfully across differences, while also discovering some unexpected similarities in the process.
- - Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to deliver 2017 Virginia Tech University Commencement address
    Sandberg, author of the national bestseller "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead," will be introduced by Regina E. Dugan, a Virginia Tech alumna and vice president of engineering and leader of Facebook's Building 8 hardware product development team, at the May 12 University Commencement ceremony.
- - Green Building Systems students design sustainable refugee housing
    The students were challenged to help solve a real-world crisis by designing sustainable housing units for use in Middle Eastern countries taking in Syrian refugees.
- - Certificate in urban computing trains grad students to become data scientists
    Virginia Tech is addressing the growing need for data scientists to help answer complex questions of urban populations. Administered through the Discovery Analytics Center, the 12-credit program weaves interdisciplinary applications through new courses and a novel “tapestry” curriculum.
- - Registration opens for Inside Architecture + Design summer high school program
    Led by internationally renowned faculty, the one-week program provides hands-on experience modeled on the curriculums of the School of Architecture + Design’s top-ranked programs and the award-winning first-year experience course taken by all architecture, industrial design, landscape architecture, and interior design students at Virginia Tech.

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