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- - School of Performing Arts presents ‘Mr. Marmalade’ Feb. 21-28
    The dark comedy is about what it takes to grow up in difficult times. It is presented as a part of the School of Performing Arts' Mainstage series.
- - Virginia Tech explores big data analytics to plan for smart communities of the future
    Smartphones, smart clothing, and smart appliances already exist, but emerging "smart cities" are still a concept of our imagined future. A Virginia Tech team wants those smart cities to feature zero energy, zero outage, and zero congestion.
- - Bias reporting process for students
    Student bias reporting process now available.
- - Information session scheduled to discuss the immigration executive order
    The event will run from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Feb. 8 in Haymarket Theatre. A live-stream video link will be available for campuses in the National Capital Region, Richmond, and Roanoke.
- - Rosemary Blieszner named interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences; Elizabeth Spiller to take new post at University of California, Davis
    Blieszner will become interim dean on March 6. She has been a member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 1981. A search for a new dean will be launched in fall 2017.
- - Executive MBA alumnus launches organic Vietnamese yogurt company
    Fred Chen credits the Executive MBA program at Virginia Tech for helping to give him the knowledge, skills, and confidence to start a business.
- - Bryan Hanson joins Graduate School as ombudsperson
    Hanson served for almost 10 years as the assistant director of the Werner Institute for Negotiation & Conflict Resolution at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
- - Documentary, panel discussion about women and minorities in STEM and computing set for Feb. 7
    Virginia Tech is hosting a public screening of “CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap,” on Feb. 7. CODE is a documentary that explores the history of women and minorities in the field of computer science and discusses the benefits, challenges, and struggles of underrepresented groups in the STEM fields.
- - Biological Sciences to host Research Day with speaker alumnus Shawn Semones
    The department will hold its 14th annual Research Day on Saturday, featuring a keynote talk delivered by Semones.
- - Virginia Tech alumnus has the National Mall covered
    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alum John Royse’s "turf tiles" were some of those used to cover the ground on the National Mall during the presidential inauguration and at the Women's March. The tiles minimize damage to grass during large events.
- - Wooden structures prefabricated in the U.S. could help reduce housing deficit in Latin America
    The wooden houses could be manufactured in the U.S. to specific international standards, packed in containers, and exported around the world. Virginia Tech researchers are investigating the market for the homes as a way to decrease the housing deficit.
- - 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.
- - An open letter to the Virginia Tech community from President Tim Sands
    Friday’s U.S. Presidential Executive Order on interior immigration enforcement will have an impact on members of the Virginia Tech community.
- - Julia Ross named dean of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech
    Ross currently serves as dean of engineering and information technology at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She will begin at Virginia Tech on July 31.
- - 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.
- - Graduate school's Global Perspectives Program expands to Ecuador
    The group visited two universities in Quito, Ecuador; a proposed research center in that country’s cloud forest region; and spent time exploring a university extension program in the Galapagos Islands.
- - 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.
- - Virginia Tech earns high rankings in U.S. News’ 2017 Best Online Programs
    For the fourth consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Virginia Tech’s online master of information technology degree program as No. 2 among the nation’s distance-learning courses in its Best Online Program rankings.
- - Virginia Tech team works in Louisiana testing water
    Virginia Tech researchers are working to develop low-cost, practical remediation and communication strategies that will set protocols in place to ensure clean drinking water is available after natural disasters, such as “The Great 2016 Louisiana Flood.”
- - Welcome back: All you need to know about the start of the semester
    Information on when things open and start for the spring semester.

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