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- - 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.
- - Save Our Towns goes green, gathers steam, gets noisy in Appalachia
    Boone, North Carolina, leads the pack among towns that seek to convert to renewable energy, while Pennington Gap revs up motorsports.
- - ACCelerate festival to showcase innovation on national stage
    The first ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival, a three-day celebration of creative exploration and research, will be held at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., Oct. 13-15.
- - Social justice retreat inspires diverse student groups to work together
    Student leaders representing six University Chartered Student Organizations affiliated with Cultural and Community Centers attended a two-day retreat at historic Highlander Research and Education Center.
- - Students crowdfund to build the world’s best solar home: FutureHAUS Dubai
    Virginia Tech’s interdisciplinary Solar Decathlon Middle East team – the only U.S. team in a 2018 global challenge – launches a crowdfunding effort today to build sustainable housing.
- - How Hokies helped after Hurricane Harvey
    After Hurricane Harvey struck Houston, Virginia Tech alumnus Alec Luong sought a classmate's help to assist his neighborhood and, in the process, gave a true example of Ut Prosim (That I May Serve).
- - Alumni shaping Virginia Tech's campus
    At least a dozen Virginia Tech alumni, from architects to project engineers, are working on construction and renovations at English Field at Union Park, Rector Field House, and the James Weaver Baseball Center.
- - In memoriam: John Browder, professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Tech and former associate dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1988, Browder will be remembered as a premier researcher and international authority on land use change, urbanization, and regional development in the Brazilian Amazon. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, Oct. 1, at 3 p.m., at Blacksburg Presbyterian Church.
- - Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets dedicates the Peter Caldwell Snyder Flagpole Plaza
    Snyder was a member of the Corps of Cadets Class of 1958. He played for the basketball team, was a member of the corps’ G Company, and earned a bachelor’s degree in building construction.
- - Virginia Tech ranked one of America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools
    Architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture programs and faculty in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies earned top ratings in a national survey by DesignIntelligence.
- - Ed Dorsa honored with emeritus status
    The honor recognizes Dorsa's 19 years of service to Virginia Tech as one of the nation's most admired educators in industrial design.
- - Junior Faculty Awards fund research partnerships across campus
    The seed-funding program from the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science helps faculty pursue innovative, collaborative research.
- - Virginia Tech and University of Virginia students team up for sustainability
    In four modules, the students study the fundamentals of sustainability and environmental policymaking in modern Europe
- - $15 million gift from A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation to benefit engineering and construction students
    The largest scholarship gift ever made to Virginia Tech endows the foundation’s signature A. James Clark Scholars Program, which provides students with a full-tuition scholarship and a holistic approach to engineering education. This fall’s inaugural class of 10 students from the College of Engineering and the Myers-Lawson School of Construction will grow to 40 in-state students by 2020.
- - Christian Matheis appointed Graduate School director of recruitment and diversity initiatives
    Matheis, a visiting assistant professor in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies’ School of Public and International Affairs, will oversee Graduate School recruitment efforts in coordination with the university’s graduate programs.
- - Save Our Towns launches fourth season
    The Example of Awesome story shows how Damascus – about 15 miles southeast of Abingdon, Virginia – seeks to nurture a year-round tourism-based economy. Pennington Gap, the Lee County town that will be followed for a year, inspires the question: Can the town survive given setbacks that include a scandal in the police department, the closure of the county hospital, and a fire that destroyed town hall?
- - Virginia Tech receives NSF 'Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM' grant
    An interdisciplinary team of faculty members from Virginia Tech and Purdue have received a National Science Foundation grant to study the implementation and impact of a university-wide ethical reasoning curriculum.

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