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- - Heartbleed security vulnerability creates need for password changes by May 5
    Describes required password changes affecting the whole Virginia Tech community, necessitated by the Heartbleed encryption flaw. Users need to change their PID, Banner, and VT Google Apps passwords by May 5th.
- - Virginia Tech to increase data analytics capability through use of new business intelligence system
    Implementation of a new business intelligence system is underway. System will allow users to access, merge, and analyze data for improved decision-making.
- - Exemplary undergraduate ePortfolios to be shared at upcoming event
    Announcement for an open house showcasing exemplary undergraduate ePortfolios, which allow students from all university areas to create a customized body of work, enhanced with video and other media, to reflect growth and learning over time.
- - Anne H. Moore honored with emerita status
- - Virginia Tech launches new research and education network exchange in Atlanta
    Virginia Tech has added a second high-performance data network exchange facility in Atlanta, Ga. which complements a similar facility already operated by Virginia Tech in Northern Virginia. Having redundancy in these facilities not only increases network capacity, it also reduces the risks of network outages.
- - Dale D. Pike to lead Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies unit
    A new Executive Director for Virginia Tech's Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies department has been named. Dale Pike, of Boise, Idaho, begins his new role on March 3.
- - Researchers seek ways to bring high-speed Internet to more homes and businesses in rural Virginia
- - In memoriam: Robert M. Grant, applications analyst, Information Technology
    Robert M. Grant, 42, an applications analyst within Information Technology, died unexpectedly on December 30, 2013.
- - Broadband analysis and planning projects garner two Governor's Technology Awards
    Two Virginia Tech groups, the Center for Geospatial Information Technology and the Institute for Policy and Governance, received Governor's Technology Awards for their work to improve the quality and availability of broadband Internet service in the Commonwealth.
- - Virginia Tech and corporate partner expand fiber optic Internet connections in region
    Residents and businesses in Montgomery, Giles, Craig, Botetourt, Roanoke, and Bedford counties will benefit from the new fiber optic ring, a joint project between Virginia Tech, the Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities Corporation, and the VT Foundation.
- - Virginia Tech brings digital version of Marshall Plan online
    Painstaking work by VT digital imaging specialists has resulted in a fully-searchable, visually optimized, original online version of the Marshall Plan.
- - Faculty members preserve local history through art and technology
    Thomas Tucker, an associate professor in Virginia Tech's School of Visual Arts, is using technology to capture the architecture and stories of the historic St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall and its surrounding community in Blacksburg, Va.
- - Computer science team wins challenge to improve reading process of reviews
    Social media allows every one of its users to become a critic. So how can a reader discern the good from the bad or the key words found in a long diatribe or a perfume-laden endorsement?
- - James McClure honored by National Science Foundation program for supercomputing work
    James McClure, a computational scientist with Advanced Research Computing, a unit within Information Technology, has been selected as a Campus Champion by a National Science Foundation program dedicated to facilitating national-scale supercomputing.
- - Jennifer Sparrow wins EDUCAUSE Rising Star Award
    Jennifer Sparrow, senior director of networked knowledge ventures and emerging technologies within Information Technology (IT) at Virginia Tech has been named a 2013 recipient of the EDUCAUSE Rising Star award.
- - Technology initiatives enhance campus safety
    Twelve technology projects that assist Virginia Tech’s police department, emergency planners, and facility managers to make campus a safer and more secure place were showcased at a recent meeting.
- - Virginia Tech researchers and Blacksburg firm, FitNet, to develop advanced cyber fitness tool
    Virginia Tech networking researchers and local technology entrepreneurs are working on broadband-enabled health and fitness course delivery in a project called FitGENI that will explore the advantages of high capacity, low latency, and deeply programmable networks on the reliable delivery of quality virtual fitness training.
- - Grant to boost data transfer speed more than 10 times for Virginia public research universities
    A National Science Foundation award is making it possible for Virginia's research universities to raise their maximum data transfer speed at the National Capital Aggregation Facility from 10Gbps to 100Gbps.
- - New organization charts future course for technology-enhanced and online learning
    A new organization, Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies, is taking shape at Virginia Tech.
- - Interactive Virginia Tech map offers customization, rich data layers, ease of use
    new interactive campus map, located at maps.vt.edu

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