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- - Virginia Tech launches Beyond Boundaries Scholars program to match scholarship gifts
    The university will match up to 165 qualifying gifts over the next four years. Only current-use gifts will be matched.
- - Virginia Tech awarded grant to help fortify coastal cities against natural disasters
    Virginia Tech engineers, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Miami, received a two-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to design new computational, mathematical, and simulation frameworks to protect the critical infrastructure of coastal cities against natural disasters.
- - Destination Areas milestone reached; faculty to lead next phase of development
    The second design phase, which will take place over the next 18 months, will be driven by deep faculty engagement and stakeholder leadership to develop curriculum, build research proposals, and engage partners.
- - President Sands delivers the State of the University
    In his first State of the University address, Virginia Tech President Tim Sands challenged the university community to advance as a national and global leader.
- - Biocomplexity Institute gives students a start in research science
    Students learn by doing through a variety of programs hosted by the institute. Last year, students contributed to projects that helped predict the spread of the Zika virus and established an information network capable of simulating worldwide disaster scenarios in a matter of seconds.
- - University Presidents Tim Sands and Kent Fuchs discuss challenges of higher education
    The two presidents, who are longtime friends and former colleagues, spoke on the need for public research universities to communicate their impact.
- - Virginia Tech hosts Beyond Boundaries Presidential Conversation
    Kent Fuchs, the president of the University of Florida, will join Virginia Tech President Tim Sands on Sunday, Sept. 18 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss opportunities and challenges each has faced at their institutions.
- - Alumna and Facebook executive Regina Dugan stresses importance of rapid innovation
    The leader of Facebook’s new advanced research group, known as “Building 8,” returned to Blacksburg as part of the university’s Beyond Boundaries Presidential Lecture series.
- - Facebook's Regina Dugan to deliver first Beyond Boundaries Presidential Lecture
    Dugan, a Virginia Tech alumna, is the leader of Facebook’s new advanced research group, known as “Building 8.” The event will be held on Aug. 31 at 5:30 p.m. in the Moss Arts Center.
- - Global Perspectives Program scholars cap study abroad with presentations at Swiss Embassy
    Scholars visited and studied programs at universities in Switzerland, Italy, and France for 13 days earlier this summer.
- - Graduate School hosts training institute for Ecuador university faculty
    The weeklong 21st Century Faculty Initiative is a joint venture between the Graduate School and Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
- - Virginia Tech President Tim Sands reflects on the 2015-16 academic year
    A year of discovery, charting the future, and building partnerships ended with a memorable commencement ceremony.
- - Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics seeks to connect research across Virginia Tech
    The Virginia Tech Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, launched this past winter in the Department of Physics, will host a symposium May 19.
- - President Sands accepts Beyond Boundaries visioning work
- - National Capital Region workshop explores Destination Area and Beyond Boundaries initiatives
    More than 140 people gathered in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss the university’s plan for continuous innovation.
- - Board of Visitors hears 'Beyond Boundaries' concepts for the Virginia Tech of the future
    President Tim Sands and the faculty-led leadership team for the long-range “visioning” project presented concepts at the quarterly board meeting earlier this month.
- - Board of Visitors approves new endowed professors, new name for baseball stadium
    In addition, the board also approved funding to renovate O'Shaughnessy Hall and heard presentations on Destination Areas and InclusiveVT.
- - Open letter to the university community from Beyond Boundaries co-chairs Thanassis Rikakis, Alan Grant, and Rosemary Blieszner
    Last year President Tim Sands challenged the university community to envision the future Virginia Tech. Since then, four representative committees with dozens of people have been collaborating by pointing their lenses on the future.
- - Najla Mouchrek pursues Virginia Tech's first individualized Ph.D.
    Najla Mouchrek, a graduate student from Brazil, is Virginia Tech's first individualized doctoral degree student, with research spanning at least five disciplines. Her proposal aims to improve teenagers' empowerment as they transition to adulthood, with a focus on sustainability issues.
- - A message to the Virginia Tech community from President Timothy Sands

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