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- - 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.”
- - Science student uses data analytics on the court for the Virginia Tech men’s basketball team
    A College of Science CMDA student is using data analytics to help the Virginia Tech men's basketball team score more on the court
- - 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.
- - Green Building Systems students design sustainable refugee housing
    The students were challenged to help solve a real-world crisis by designing sustainable housing units for use in Middle Eastern countries taking in Syrian refugees.
- - Lori Blanc honored for Excellence in Teaching for work with living-learning communities
    The National Resource Center for First-Year Experiences and Students in Transition recently honored Lori Blanc of the Virginia Tech College of Science with its 2017-2018 Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars award.
- - 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.
- - Herbert Bruce named outstanding first-year student advocate
    Bruce's work spans the University Studies First-Year Experience course, undergraduate academic advising, peer mentor programs, and the Virginia Tech Common Book Project.
- - 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.
- - G. Don Taylor to become vice provost for learning systems innovation and effectiveness
    Taylor, Charles O. Gordon Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and interim dean of the College of Engineering, will become the university’s first vice provost for learning systems innovation and effectiveness upon the completion of his role as interim dean July 31.
- - 'The Other Wes Moore' selected as 2017-18 Common Book
    The book explores the lives of two individuals with the same name who grew up in similar neighborhoods in Baltimore. The two Wes Moores’ lives diverge dramatically, one taking a path that ends in incarceration and the other a path that leads to a Rhodes Scholarship.
- - Bias reporting process for students
    Student bias reporting process now available.
- - Fall 2016 Dean's List available online
- - Rosemary Blieszner named interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences; Elizabeth Spiller to take new post at University of California, Davis
    Blieszner will become interim dean on March 6. She has been a member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 1981. A search for a new dean will be launched in fall 2017.
- - Documentary, panel discussion about women and minorities in STEM and computing set for Feb. 7
    Virginia Tech is hosting a public screening of “CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap,” on Feb. 7. CODE is a documentary that explores the history of women and minorities in the field of computer science and discusses the benefits, challenges, and struggles of underrepresented groups in the STEM fields.
- - Virginia Tech Hyperloop team places fourth at international SpaceX competition
    The Hyperloop competition, initiated by SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk, was held at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California on Jan. 27 and 28 and pitted the Virginia Tech undergraduate student team against 26 others.
- - An open letter to the Virginia Tech community from President Tim Sands
    Friday’s U.S. Presidential Executive Order on interior immigration enforcement will have an impact on members of the Virginia Tech community.
- - Summer course explores the Great Smoky Mountains history, ecology
    The Natural History of the Great Smoky Mountains takes place Aug. 4-12 at Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont.
- - Virginia Tech’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions now using ZeeMee
    Those who apply for undergraduate admission can add a link to their ZeeMee profile, which allows applicants to create multimedia profiles to accompany their application.
- - New program to highlight enrichment opportunities for students
    The College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences has launched the university’s first Office for VT-Shaped Learning. The program is intended to help undergraduates excel academically through disciplinary depth, interdisciplinary capacities, experiential learning, and a strong humanistic perspective.

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