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- - Virginia Tech moves ahead in annual U.S. News & World Report rankings
    Virginia Tech’s placement as one of the top institutions in the country comes as it positions itself to be a globally impactful land-grant university with a focus on transformative academics, research, and service.
- - Student raises money to improve isolated Ecuadorean community's access to education
    When undergraduate Matt Lacey visited Ecuador last summer as part of Virginia Tech’s Tropical Biology and Conservation in Ecuador course, he was struck by the beauty of the place: the lush cloud forests, brightly colored birds, and strange nocturnal mammals. But even more, he was struck by the people.
- - Brett Netto, Seyi Olusina begin term as Board of Visitors student representatives
    The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors is the governing body of the university.
- - Mechanical engineering team creates multimaterial 3-D printer
    By combining several additive manufacturing technologies into a single desktop unit, four recent Virginia Tech graduates have created a new way to manufacture complex, multimaterial products.
- - Neuroscience marks end of inaugural summer research experience for 18 undergraduate students
    The School of Neuroscience recently finished its inaugural Summer Research Program, providing 18 Virginia Tech undergraduate students with 10 weeks of "hands-on, minds-on" research experience with faculty.
- - Nominate a student or employee for a DSA Aspire! Award
    The Division of Student Affairs has created the Aspire! Awards, which recognize students who embody Virginia Tech’s five Aspirations for Student Learning.
- - David Guerin named associate vice provost for communications
    In this new role, Guerin will work with the academic vice provost and vice president units in the Office of the Provost to direct and implement a comprehensive, integrated communications program. He begins on Sept. 1
- - Virginia Tech receives NSF 'Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM' grant
    An interdisciplinary team of faculty members from Virginia Tech and Purdue have received a National Science Foundation grant to study the implementation and impact of a university-wide ethical reasoning curriculum.
- - Apex Systems Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship plans aggressive growth
    In 2016-17, the center served more than 900 Virginia Tech students through entrepreneurship courses and experiential-learning programs and had a hand in launching more than 80 student-led ventures.
- - Your guide to the first weeks of the semester
    Welcome, Hokies! Move-in days begin Aug. 23. Check out key dates for residence halls, dining centers, and events that start off the fall semester.
- - Interdisciplinary real estate program moves to Pamplin College
    Provost Thanassis Rikakis called the program a stellar example of transdisciplinary collaboration at Virginia Tech to create “a modern, innovative, and distinctive educational opportunity for students.”
- - iScholars learn entrepreneurship and innovation in the National Capital Region
    In addition to placement in a paid internship, iScholars learn how to present their innovative ideas and about the important roles that team building, leadership, collaboration, and creativity play in the entrepreneurial process.
- - Photos and video: Communicating Science course serves as cornerstone of German Fulbright Summer Institute
    Virginia Tech hosted 24 German undergraduates for a three-week summer institute. The students participated in a class called 'Communicating Science,' where they learned to communicate, collaborate, and connect across differences and disciplines.
- - Making the invisible visible: Biocomplexity Institute launches summer program in metagenomics
    Students will present the results of their original research projects at a public reception on Aug. 11.
- - Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program hosts interns for 25th summer
    Daniel Essandoh (left), chemical engineering major at Virginia Tech, briefly explains his research project at the MAOP Summer Research Symposium.
- - Virginia Tech named Diversity Champion by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine
    This is the second consecutive year that the university has received the champion recognition from INSIGHT Into Diversity, which is the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education.
- - Virginia Tech’s natural resources program ranked No. 1 in nation for third straight year
    USA Today College ranked the nation’s 49 universities that offer a comprehensive program in natural resources and conservation.
- - Virginia Tech leads $5 million effort to increase transfer student success through scholarships and support
    The program, known as the Virginia Tech Network for Engineering Transfer Students, will support scholarships through 2022 for low-income students in community colleges prior to and following transfer to Virginia Tech to pursue a career in the engineering field. The total number of scholarships awarded across all three institutions is 336 over five years.
- - Summer means New Student Orientation for thousands of new Hokies
    Incoming students will be welcomed to campus starting in mid-June and through the beginning of August for First-Year Orientation and Transfer Orientation. To accommodate Virginia Tech's increased enrollment, two additional sessions have been added.
- - Virginia Tech awarded grant to commit to diversity, inclusion for success in science education
    The idea behind the grant is to help such institutions as Virginia Tech work with first-generation students and students transferring in from community colleges to guide them into STEM-related careers.

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