Ph.D. student receives KPMG accounting scholarship
Lemuria D. Carter of Richmond, a Ph.D. student in accounting and information systems at Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business, has received a KPMG Accounting Doctoral Scholarship.
View ArticleWildlife Specialist Cites Benefits of Eco-Intelligent Communities
How urban landscape design, from small to large scales, affects wildlife distributions was the focus of a recent talk by Extension wildlife specialist Mark Hostetler at Virginia Tech's College of...
View ArticleVirginia Tech's College of Natural Resources offers Global Seminar Course
Some forty-five universities from around the world will interact and study together complex environmental issues via international video conferencing and online chats. This spring will mark the second...
View ArticleGeography department offers Baltic States and Russia trip
Virginia Tech's department of geography in the College of Natural Resources is planning an inter-sessional study abroad trip to the Baltic States and Russia. The trip, which takes place from Dec. 28th...
View ArticleVirginia Tech Launches Institute for Biomedical and Public Health Sciences
Virginia Tech is putting a new kind of knowledge to work. Long considered a giant in the agricultural and engineering sciences and lauded as a 20th century pioneer in America's information technology...
View ArticleCongress Allocates Funding for Virginia Tech's Horseshoe Crab Research Center
Congress has allocated $630,000 for horseshoe crab research funding to Virginia Tech's Horseshoe Crab Research Center (HCRC) in Blacksburg. Jim Berkson, who is an assistant professor of fisheries and...
View ArticleVirginia Tech Has Links to First Flight and its 100th Anniversary
When the world celebrates on Dec. 17 the 100th anniversary of the flight of the first flying machine ever to take off from ground level and land under the control of its pilot, Virginia Tech will have...
View ArticleHoneywell Awards Support for Virginia Tech Chemical Engineering Research
Honeywell International Inc. of Morristown, New Jersey, has awarded an educational grant of $100,000 for support of the Honeywell Center of Excellence in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) in the Virginia...
View ArticleNSF Appoints Virginia Tech Professor to Head Information Technology and...
Jesus M. de la Garza of Blacksburg, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, has been appointed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as director of the Information...
View ArticleJacobina to Head New Executive MBA Program at Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business has appointed Charles Jacobina, of Reston, executive director of its new executive MBA program, scheduled to begin in the Washington, D.C., area on Feb. 6,...
View ArticleUnusual Subatomic Particle Discovered
Sookyung Choi of Gyeongsang University, Korea, and Stephen Olsen, professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, members of an international team of researchers at the High Energy Accelerator...
View ArticleVirginia Tech announces new program with America Online
In the future, Virginia Tech alumni and fans may log on to America Online (AOL) and hear "gobble…gobble" instead of the familiar "you've got mail." But now, they are able to search the Internet and...
View ArticleKnobler Provides $600,000 to Engineering and to English Departments at...
Alfred E. Knobler, a 1938 ceramic engineering graduate of Virginia Tech, has provided a $600,000 gift over the next three years to his home department as well as to the English Department.
View ArticleVirginia Tech to offer intensive English language refresher courses
Speaking and writing professionally with confidence are difficult for virtually everyone, but for those using a second language, these tasks pose a unique challenge. Virginia Tech's English Language...
View ArticleVirginia Tech Professional Education Unit Continues National Accreditation...
Following a meticulous review process, the Virginia Tech professional education unit has once again been accredited by the National Council for Teacher Accreditation (NCATE). The unit is defined as all...
View ArticleInformation Session to be held on Virginia Tech Campus Master Plan
As Virginia Tech continues its 10 year planning process on the campus master plan, an information session will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 3, from 4 to 7 p.m. in Conference Room A in the Donaldson Brown...
View ArticleArchitecture Honors for Torgersen Hall Note Completion of 1900s Master Plan
The capstone building of an early 1900s master plan for Virginia Tech was recognized this fall when Torgersen Hall received two distinguished architectural honors.
View ArticleVirginia Tech Hokie Bird appears on national television program
A segment of "Turkey Secrets," a program filmed by and shown on the Animal Planet network, features Hokie Bird, Virginia Tech's popular mascot. The one-hour program, a tongue-in-check look at turkeys,...
View ArticleVirginia Tech Board of Visitors Committee on Research to meet Dec. 3
The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors Special Committee on Research will meet Wednesday, Dec. 3, at 9 a.m. in the Torgersen Hall Board Room (Room 2100).
View ArticleVirginia Tech dairy cattle judging team wins honors
The Virginia Tech Dairy Cattle Judging team won several honors at three cattle judging contests it attended this fall.
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