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- - Engineers Without Borders crowdfunding campaign serves underdeveloped communities
    Engineers Without Borders is working to raise $5,000 through JUMP, Virginia Tech’s official crowdfunding platform, to help support projects to improve the quality of life in Guatemala, Uganda, and Nicaragua. The campaign runs until Nov. 17.
- - Study takes a unique approach to new generation of smart drug delivery carriers
    This method of drug delivery could usher in a new era of pharmaceuticals. Some of the world’s most devastating illnesses could be better treated with lifesaving drugs that are cheaper, more widely accessible, and perform better in the human body.
- - 3-D printed golf grips change the game
    A team of Virginia Tech graduate and undergraduate students took first place in the 2017 Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ Digital Manufacturing Challenge by developing a process to mold, scan, and 3-D print golf grips customized to individual users.
- - Construction graduates are the job market’s hottest thing. Just ask a Hokie.
    Myers-Lawson School of Construction’s Fall Career Fair reflects explosive demand for the nation’s fastest-growing major and the world’s future construction needs.
- - President Sands shares aspirations for Virginia Tech to become a global land-grant university
    During the State of the University address, President Sands discussed campus growth, expansions in the National Capital Region and Roanoke, the Beyond Boundaries initiative, and efforts to make the university more inclusive.
- - A brand to match Virginia Tech’s momentum
    Building on a 145-year-old tradition of education, service, and outreach, Virginia Tech strives to transcend the boundaries of traditional education, redefine research through transdisciplinary problem-solving, and embrace its role as a global land-grant university.
- - 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.
- - 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.

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