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- - Students gain first-hand insight into the importance of global agricultural trade
    For many graduate and undergraduate students who attend, the Governor’s Conference on Agricultural Trade presents an opportunity to connect textbook knowledge to real-world issues.
- - Three finalists selected for campus interviews for dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies
    University and community members are invited to attend each candidate’s open forum presentation on “Future Trends: Visionary Opportunities for the Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies.”
- - Virginia Tech researcher leads team that examines molecular-level problems of heart disease
    Associate Professor David Brown teamed with scientists from across the U.S. and Europe on a research project that could lead to new approaches for treating the No. 1 killer among men and women worldwide.
- - Molecular alarm system ensures body’s first response to an attack will be a healthy one
    Until recently, scientists were stumped as to what could be going on inside our cells to keep the body's alarm system in check. But a research team based at Virginia Tech may have just uncovered a key piece of the molecular puzzle.
- - Laura Lindenfeld will give the keynote address at Virginia Tech's Graduate School Commencement
    Lindenfeld serves as director for the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University in New York. The Graduate Commencement ceremony will be held on May 11 at 2:30 p.m.
- - Virginia Tech team to travel to Abu Dhabi for $5 million international robotics competition
    The team of undergraduate and graduate students is one of 15 to be sponsored by Khalifa University, the competition organizer. Only two other U.S.-based teams, Georgia Tech and Carnegie Mellon University, were awarded sponsorships from a $3 million fund.
- - Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to deliver 2017 Virginia Tech University Commencement address
    Sandberg, author of the national bestseller "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead," will be introduced by Regina E. Dugan, a Virginia Tech alumna and vice president of engineering and leader of Facebook's Building 8 hardware product development team, at the May 12 University Commencement ceremony.
- - Powered by magnets, energy harvester converts wasted heat into electricity
    Wasted heat is a major source of energy loss for mechanical systems. Virginia Tech researchers have found a new system for recycling some of that heat into electricity.
- - Researchers discover how breast cancer mutation in BRCA1 causes protein to self-destruct
    Of the more than 3 million people with breast cancer in the United Stated, about 10 percent carry an inherited mutation in their BRCA1 gene. In health, the gene is responsible for suppressing tumors. In disease, the gene goes terribly awry.
- - Virginia Tech professor speaks on Capitol Hill about impact and value of funding science
    John McDowell, a professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will highlight a USDA-NIFA funded project where he turned a $9.2 million research project on soybeans into findings that may save farmers as much as $5 billion in the coming years.
- - New center focuses on the art of communicating science effectively
    The Center for Communicating Science will host a launch celebration Thursday beginning with the first annual Nutshell Games, in which graduate students aim to condense years of their research into a 90-second, compelling description.
- - Save Our Towns: Artists lead downtown renaissance in Princeton, West Virginia
    City leaders embraced local artists and their impact. A mural-painting project spiffed up downtown, businesses filled in vacant storefronts, and the renovation of the town’s historic theater drew near completion.
- - Virginia Cyber Range names Amazon Web Services as preferred partner
    AWS will join the Commonwealth of Virginia and Virginia Tech to support scalable cloud infrastructure and collaborate on cybersecurity educational efforts, enabling the Cyber Range with both content and a closed network for hands-on exercises, competitions, and other simulations.
- - Virginia Tech graduate reinvents the concept of musical instruments
    Mike Butera founded Artiphon, a music technology company in Nashville whose first creation allows players to strum a guitar, bow a violin, tap a piano, and loop a beat — all on a two-pound, molded-plastic device resembling a wide guitar neck.
- - Virginia Tech team explores deep ocean in $7 million XPRIZE competition
    The competition asks researchers worldwide to expedite the mapping of the ocean floor with unmanned autonomous underwater vehicles that can quickly capture high-resolution maps.
- - Certificate in urban computing trains grad students to become data scientists
    Virginia Tech is addressing the growing need for data scientists to help answer complex questions of urban populations. Administered through the Discovery Analytics Center, the 12-credit program weaves interdisciplinary applications through new courses and a novel “tapestry” curriculum.
- - Historic log dating project at Greenfield Plantation opens a window into the past
    Tree-ring dating by graduate students in the College of Natural Resources and Environment helped pinpoint when two historic structures were constructed.
- - Community Voices hosts food systems and social justice activist Jeanette Abi-Nader on Feb. 22
    Abi-Nader, the executive director of the City Schoolyard Garden project, will discuss community building, food security, and inclusivity with Kim Niewolny.
- - Grad student Billy Thomas finds unlikely links in coal mining, intramurals, and a future teaching career
    After receiving his bachelor's and his first of two master's degrees, Billy Thomas took a year to work underground in a coal mine. Now, he's back studying integrated STEM education and serving as the intramural sports graduate assistant.
- - Graduate student preaches message of hope on Appalachian prosperity
    Born in West Virginia and descended from coal miners, Crystal Cook Marshall knows the stereotype of Appalachians as clannish and feuding, poor, and uneducated — the image of a region filled with moonshining hillbillies. She said she believes Appalachia has untapped assets that can propel its “towns, people, and landscapes left for dead” into a new prosperity.

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