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- - 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.
- - Julia Ross named dean of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech
    Ross currently serves as dean of engineering and information technology at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She will begin at Virginia Tech on July 31.
- - Undergraduates can work on food, water, energy problems in Switzerland
    In a two-minute video, Bob Bodnar of the College of Science describes a new study-abroad program.
- - Innovative ‘Pink Time’ learning exercise puts student on career path
    During “Pink Time,” students spend the time they would normally devote to class exploring a passion or interest and then share their experiences in the classroom.
- - Virginia Tech Hyperloop team heads to second phase of global competition
    Virginia Tech's team is back in action in California on Jan. 27 and 28 as SpaceX hosts 29 teams in a hyperloop pod competition. The event is the follow-on to 2016's design competition where Virginia Tech placed fourth in a field of more than 100.
- - Virginia Tech FutureHAUS wows crowds at KBIS
    FutureHAUS merges advanced technologies, modular “cartridge” construction, transformable rooms, and sleek design into practical, user-friendly living spaces.

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