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- - Virginia Tech Carilion offers four-part series on what it's like to be a medical student
    What goes on behind the Hokie stone walls and sleek glass exterior of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine? Now’s your chance to find out. The school’s second Mini Medical School series, Drawing Back the Curtain: How Medical Students Learn to be Doctors, will give the public a behind-the-scenes look at what medical school is like.
- - Exhibit to showcase the healing power of art based on human scars
    The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine will present the newest exhibit in its art show series on October 1. Scarred for Life, featuring the work of Los Angeles–based artist Ted Meyer, is an exhibition of photographs, narratives, and scarred-tissue monoprints that together tell the stories of events – often traumatic ones – that have transformed lives.
- - Test of VT Alerts scheduled for Sept. 23 at all locations
    The system will be tested on the Blacksburg campus and at university facilities located in six regions across Virginia.
- - International conference to explore innovative team approaches to health care delivery
    More than 800 people from a half dozen countries are expected to descend upon the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center later this month for an event that will be the first of its kind to be held in the city.
- - Scientist receives grant to study underpinnings of hard-to-treat, hereditary breast cancer
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientist awarded $1.8 million grant to study structure of BRCA1 proteins and mutations.
- - Thursday lecture to explore vaccine questions
    The great vaccine debate involves questions of clinical practice, policy, and ethics. Is there a limit to the number of acceptable vaccines for children? What risks are acceptable to demand of members of the public to protect others? Who should assess the level of risk in vaccinations?
- - 'Brainbow' tagging research reveals surprising data about visual connections in brain
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists examine evidence – gathered from visual circuits – that disputes a widely accepted belief about brain development.
- - WVTF’s Charlie Perkinson and Steve Brown signing off public radio this month
    Virginia Tech's WVTF Public Radio announces the retirement of two long-time music hosts Charlie Perkinson and Steve Brown. Charlie Perkinson hosted Jazz prgrams for over 40 years. Steve Brown is WVTF's music director and host of Classical music programs and specials.
- - Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine's new class sets bar for research experience
    The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine welcomed its most research-oriented class to date on July 27. One hundred percent of the Class of 2019 arrived at the school with at least some research experience, and 81 percent of the class had substantial research experience prior to entering medical school.
- - First students enter new diversity program at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
    Hampton University students Kenya Swilling and Kaia Amoah are taking part in a new partnership between the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Hampton University that was created to increase the presence of those underrepresented in medical schools and in the health care professions.
- - WVTF/RADIO IQ wins national journalism awards
- - Harald Sontheimer to hold I. D. Wilson Chair in the College of Science
    Harald Sontheimer, who joined Virginia Tech earlier this month to direct a university-wide neuroscience initiative, will hold the I. D. Wilson Chair in the College of Science. That appointment was recently approved by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
- - Scientist’s dogma-challenging work recognized with prestigious grant
    Michael Fox, an associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, was recently named a 2015 NARSAD Independent Investigator.
- - Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine joins in celebrating anatomy lab opening
    The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine recently joined with Jefferson College of Health Sciences and Radford University in hosting a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Virginia Intercollegiate Anatomy Lab. The new laboratory, known as VIAL, is located on the eighth floor of Carilion Roanoke Community Hospital.
- - Personalized saline may provide solution to heart death
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists found that saline solution composition can affect cardiac response differently.
- - Scientists receive grant to study the leading cause of childhood blindness
    Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists receive a grant to study the leading cause of childhood blindness: optic nerve hypoplasia.
- - Where are they now? Medical school charter class members talk about life as resident physicians
    A year ago, 40 anxious graduates of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine were about to head off into the next phase of their training – residency. They had proudly and confidently broken new ground as the school’s charter class. But would they approach residency with the same chutzpah? We caught up with several of them to find out and to see how their first year after medical school was going.
- - WVTF Public Radio, RADIO IQ budget to be reviewed by Virginia Tech Foundation
- - Brain scanning reveals that birds of a feather really do flock together
    In a study using functional magnetic resonance imaging, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists found that our inherent risk-taking preferences affect how we view and act on information from other people.
- - Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine awards first scholarships
    The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine has awarded the first named scholarships in its short history.

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