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- - 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.
- - Artists, designers, and engineers join forces to build protective body panels for robots
    The Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology funds Virginia Tech faculty members to support research fusing science, engineering, art, and design.
- - Dana Cruikshank named communications director for the Office of International Research, Education, and Development
    Cruikshank came to Virginia Tech from the National Science Foundation in 2010, first handling communications for the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and then joining Outreach and International Affairs in 2012. Cruikshank starts Feb. 27.
- - Virginia Tech hosts 'Extreme Appalachia' conference March 9–12
    More than 1,000 people from around the region, the nation, and even the world will travel to Virginia Tech for the 40th annual Appalachian Studies Conference to celebrate the richness of Appalachia and combat the exploitation of its resources.
- - Community Voices hosts food systems and social justice activist Jeanette Abi-Nader on Feb. 22
    Abi-Nader, the executive director of the City Schoolyard Garden project, will discuss community building, food security, and inclusivity with Kim Niewolny.
- - Virginia Tech update on Prices Fork Research Station fire
    The building burned was the construction and fabrication shop for Virginia Tech’s FutureHAUS, a multidisciplinary research project involving students, faculty, and industry partners that produced an innovative prototype that defined the future of smart, sustainable housing.
- - Virginia Tech’s Aki Ishida recognized as one of the nation’s top architectural educators
    Ishida will receive the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s 2016-2017 New Faculty Teaching Award at the organization’s national conference in March.
- - Institute Scholars' research crosses the globe and disciplines
    The Scholars Program from the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment is designed to support faculty in strengthening the proposals for external funding, the collection of preliminary data, and other proposal development activities.
- - Save Our Towns looks at Lexington's downtown redevelopment
    The latest episode of the monthly video series looks at how city leaders took a chance on a developer who sought tax incentives to transform the aging Robert E. Lee Hotel. The result of the project ultimately brought visitors back downtown.
- - Virginia Tech architecture professor, students reduce structural vibrations with simple, groundbreaking device
    A revolutionary portable device invented by Virginia Tech Professor of Architecture Mehdi Setareh with help from students promises to make structural vibration-reducing technology universally accessible.
- - Undergraduates can work on food, water, energy problems in Switzerland
    In a two-minute video, Bob Bodnar of the College of Science describes a new study-abroad program.
- - Leigh Lally to head effort to develop comprehensive space management program
    As Virginia Tech’s student body continues to grow, university officials are working to make sure the physical campuses continue to provide the necessary living and learning space for students and employees.
- - Virginia Tech FutureHAUS wows crowds at KBIS
    FutureHAUS merges advanced technologies, modular “cartridge” construction, transformable rooms, and sleek design into practical, user-friendly living spaces.
- - Community Voices hosts farm labor movement activist Ramon Zepeda
    Zepeda never expected to finish high school, much less graduate from college and become director for a program that uses theater to engage migrant farm workers in North Carolina and then share their stories with a broader audience.
- - Regional spring break trips immerse students in service, learning
    The student-led groups will spend the week in the communities of Sparta, North Carolina, and Hurley, Virginia. These trips will give students an opportunity to connect and serve neighboring areas.
- - Save Our Towns: Bramwell embraces ATVs
    The tiny West Virginia town of Bramwell pounced on the opportunity to locate a prominent trailhead less than a mile from downtown. Now, ATV riders are filling restaurants and spurring construction of lodging.
- - Virginia Tech debuts the bedroom and home office of FutureHAUS
    The FutureHAUS student-faculty team is headed to Orlando to show the world how smart technology and design will make our bedrooms and home offices more responsive to our future needs and way of living.

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