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- - Making buildings smarter, starting with Goodwin Hall
    There’s still much work to be done before our buildings are smart enough to talk to us. But from a lab located in the most accelerometer-instrumented building in the world, Rodrigo Sarlo is doing his part to get us there.
- - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to deliver 2018 University Commencement address
    The University Commencement ceremony will be held on May 11 at Lane Stadium/Worsham Field.
- - Hokies connect with Monacan Nation, find common ground through Native at VT
    Several Virginia Tech students spoke during a culture class about college, fielding numerous questions from tribal young adults about everything from academics to financial aid.
- - Urban planning alumna transforms class material into radio program
    Valeria Gelman and her classmates collected stories from businesses located in the historically significant Nauck/Green Valley neighborhood in Arlington.
- - Virginia Tech selects Zoom and Kaltura as new video tools
    Zoom and Kaltura will replace existing instructional video tools at the end of the spring semester.
- - Virginia Tech architecture students design new chapter for African university library
    Nearly three years after a fire destroyed Mzuzu University's library, students in Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies are designing a new library for the Malawi institution, located in one of the world's most impoverished nations.
- - A graduate student, a crash test dummy, and building safer cars
    Devon Albert, who holds a Doctoral Scholars Fellowship from the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, has seen firsthand what it takes to evaluate a crash test dummy: a lot of data.
- - $2 million gift endows department head chair in mechanical engineering
    Alumnus Nick Des Champs' gift creates a generous fund under the direction of Azim Eskandarian, who now holds the designation of Nicholas and Rebecca Des Champs Chair in Mechanical Engineering.
- - With traveling clinic, Virginia Tech to take autism services to rural Virginia
    From spring through November, faculty and graduate students will drive an RV, converted into a mobile clinic, to far Southwest Virginia to offer therapy and other services for children with autism spectrum disorder.
- - Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History director to visit Virginia Tech and Lyric Theatre Feb. 16
    The event is part of the annual Distinguished Public Lecture Series hosted by the Global Change Center at Virginia Tech, with funding from the Fralin Life Science Institute and the Virginia Tech Graduate School.
- - UPS fellowship supports human factors and safety graduate research
    The United Parcel Service Foundation has provided a $40,000 grant to the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering for the UPS Doctoral Fellowship in Human Factors and Safety.
- - Community Voices hosts Washington Post reporter and author Amy Goldstein on Feb. 19
    Goldstein wove the stories of a small city and its people together in "Janesville: An American Story." All events on Feb. 19 are free and open to the university community and general public.
- - Hospitality and tourism management department to be named for Howard Feiertag
    The gifts will help fund a professorship, a research fellowship, departmental operations, and student learning activities. “Howard’s contribution will take the program to the next level and shape future generations of industry leaders,” said department head Nancy Gard McGehee.
- - Collaborative grant takes on brain cancer cell invasion
    A relatively unexplored area of cancer research, interstitial fluid flow, or the movement of fluid around and through the three-dimensional space surrounding cells, has been shown to lead to an increase in cancer cell invasion. However, the mechanisms of how and why that happens, particularly in cases of brain cancer, are still unknown.
- - Save Our Towns picks up on Pikeville’s party mood
    The small Kentucky city celebrates success in taking only 10 months to fill its industrial park.
- - VTCRI scientists identify new target for developing precision treatment in malignant brain tumors
    Currently, no standard of care exists to prevent or treat recurrent malignant primary brain tumors in patients.
- - With seed funding, faculty build new research partnerships
    Diversity and Inclusion Grants launch collaborations between Virginia Tech faculty and their counterparts at minority-serving institutions.
- - Computer science graduate lives motto of Ut Prosim every day in Haiti
    In his “off hours," Mario Calixte travels on weekends throughout the country setting up computer labs and teaching elementary and high school instructors basic computer and Linux operating system skills, and how to use and integrate various educational computer-based applications into their curriculum.
- - Virginia Tech students develop strategies to address flooding and sea-level rise in the city of Hampton
    Teams of graduate and undergraduate students in an interdisciplinary course titled Climate Change and Societal Impacts developed recommendations for three Hampton neighborhoods affected by flooding issues.
- - Researchers use data on same-sex marriage legislation to examine opinion formation, public policy
    Public policies, like same-sex marriage legislation, tend to aggregate interactions across a wide cross section of social frameworks. They are ideal examples of the intricate negotiations that make up opinions – with the added benefit of measurable data.

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