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- - Congratulations to the 2018 Outstanding Student Award recipients
    Coordinated by the Division of Student Affairs, the Outstanding Senior Awards recognize exceptional academic achievement, leadership, and service by a student from each of the university’s eight colleges, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, and awards for undergraduate and graduate student of the year.
- - Alexandra Hyler named 2018 Graduate Student of the Year
    Hyler has been heavily involved in Virginia Tech's Graduate Student Assembly and connecting graduates across Tech's different campuses in Blacksburg, Roanoke, and Washington, D.C.
- - Caroline Reist named Outstanding Graduating Student for the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
    Reist will receive her M.D. degree during the school’s graduation ceremony May 5 at the Jefferson Center in Roanoke.
- - A week in Havana transforms Virginia Tech students
    From its dazzling beaches, coveted tobacco, and inventive people, to its communist regime, Cuba is a study in contrasts.
- - Virginia Tech graduate students team up with D.C. transit to help enhance customer service
    The study, a project in the UrbComp certificate program administered by the Discovery Analytics Center, is one of the first steps in connecting WMATA’s Rush Hour Promise to underlying service disruptions.
- - Virginia Tech convenes first Blockchain Symposium, 'Promise and Peril of Disrupting the Trust Business'
    The Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience at Virginia Tech is guiding a discussion on how to manage problems and opportunities created by blockchain technology.
- - 2018 Graduate School Diversity Scholars share their work on Reading Day
    Students will give five-minute presentations about their work in lightning round format. The program is free and open to the public.
- - Virgil Wood will give the keynote address at Virginia Tech's Graduate School Commencement
    The Graduate School will hold its commencement at 2:30 p.m. on May 10 in Cassell Coliseum.
- - Saul Halfon receives Alumni Award for Excellence in Graduate Academic Advising
    Halfon has been instrumental in the overall success of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society since 2001.
- - Academic conference explores future of cybersecurity and opportunities for Virginia Tech students
    Close to 200 students attended the event, which is designed to increase the number of young men and women serving in national security and the intelligence community.
- - Architecture + Design students create web-based service to help isolated senior citizens
    With the award-winning “Bequest,” students from Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies created a simple solution to unite young and old in common interests.
- - The Center for Gerontology celebrates its 40th anniversary with theater and wisdom
    Research on aging makes for two entertaining and informative events as the center commemorates its first four decades. A collaboration with a local retirement community and a talk by a Cornell University professor will mark the milestone.
- - How cheetahs outsmart lions and hyenas
    A study in the Serengeti shows that cheetahs use situation-dependent methods of protecting themselves from larger predators while handling their prey.
- - Graduate School celebrates students and mentors at annual awards dinner
    The outstanding master's and doctoral degree students were honored at the Graduate School awards banquet during Graduate Education Week.
- - Graduate School providing thesis, dissertation verification support through iThenticate
- - Personal outreach to landowners is vital to conservation program success
    Researchers found that conservation programs benefit when landowners accompany conservation biologists who are monitoring habitat management outcomes on their land.
- - Research teams led by junior faculty win seed funding for new projects
    The Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science's flagship funding program, the Junior Faculty Awards are designed to provide seed funding for new projects that have the potential to grow into vibrant research programs attracting major federal grants.
- - How opioid-related messaging goes viral: Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech researchers share findings with public health experts
    Pulling data from more than 5,400 opioid-related Twitter posts made by users in Virginia and Georgia, the Virginia Tech team searched for common factors among the most-highly shared content.
- - Graduate School Citizen Scholars connect their research with their communities
    Each year, the Graduate School offers a challenge to graduate students: Create and implement a project that connects your research with a community.
- - Virginia Tech ‘fog harp’ increases collection capacity for clean water
    A passive, durable, and effective method of water collection, fog harvesting consists of catching the microscopic droplets of water suspended in the wind that make up fog. An interdisciplinary research team at Virginia Tech has improved the traditional design of fog nets to increase their collection capacity by threefold.

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