Megan Zalecki
-
Video ItemMen's basketball team visits Steger Center , video
The Virginia Tech Men's Basketball team visited the Steger Center for International Scholarship in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland during their foreign tour.
Date: Aug 14, 2023 -
Video ItemWelcoming new Hokies to the Class of 2027 , video
Students learn of their acceptance to Virginia Tech and celebrate the news with their families.
Date: Feb 17, 2023 -
Video ItemHokies come together for Giving Day 2023 , video
The Virginia Tech community came together from around the world over a 24-hour period to give back. Giving Day allows Hokies to support their to favorite departments, programs, student organizations, and teams.
Date: Feb 16, 2023 -
Video ItemJoe Griffitts and Hokie Passport Services Recognized With Governor's Award , video
Joe Griffitts, Director of Hokie Passport Services, was recently awarded a Governor's Award recognizing their outstanding work in creative customer service.
Date: Feb 03, 2021 -
Video ItemDome offers alternative learning space during COVID-19 , video
The College of Architecture and Urban Studies set up a 2,900 square foot geodesic dome in between Cowgill and Bishop-Favrao Halls for use of students and faculty for exhibitions, pin-ups, and small gatherings. As part of the college's COVID-19 response plan, this dome will take the place of several important spaces in Cowgill Hall that are now occupied by socially distanced studio desks.
Date: Nov 11, 2020 -
Video ItemOutdoor art projections illuminate Moss Arts Center , video
A collection of outdoor projection projects was created by teams of Virginia Tech faculty and students to bring the Moss Arts Center and its theme of “Flight and Refuge” to life. See these works, which blend technology, mapping, personal stories, and data, projected on various exterior surfaces of the Moss Arts Center building.
Date: Nov 09, 2020 -
Video ItemPreston's open for business with innovative changes to enhance safety , video
Preston’s Restaurant and the Continental Divide Lounge at The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center are open for business. The restaurant has initiated additional precautions to keep diners safe and found innovative ways to allow small groups to safely meet while enjoying mouthwatering creations.
Date: Oct 26, 2020 -
Video ItemVirginia Tech's 2020 Virtual Run in Remembrance , video
Hosted by Recreational Sports, the 2020 Virtual Run in Remembrance had 11,532 participants from across four continents and totaled 81,628 miles. Thank you, Hokie community. Video produced by Recreational Sports.
Date: Apr 21, 2020 -
Video ItemStudents share origami crafts to do at home , video
Looking for some ways to be creative while you’re at home? Learn how to make an origami football with Philip Lopez, a member of the Virginia Tech Origami Club, who provided this video tutorial.
Date: Apr 09, 2020 -
Video ItemAnnual Uplifting Black Men Conference offers community and empowerment , video
On February 15th, 2020, the 5th Annual Uplifting Black Men Conference was hosted by Virginia Tech's Student Success Center and Black Male Excellence Network (BMEN), whose mission is to empower Virginia Tech’s Black men by creating academic and social community through holistic development. The annual conference provides opportunities for networking, professional development, and community engagement.
Date: Feb 19, 2020 -
Video Item
-
Video ItemImproving mobility and quality of life for retired service dog , video
An 11-year-old black Labrador retriever, Saint, is a retired service dog from Saint Francis Service Dogs of Roanoke, Virginia. When he began experiencing mobility issues and hind limb weakness, his new owner sought out rehab services to improve Saint’s quality of life. Now that Saint regularly visits the veterinary college’s Rehabilitation service (https://www.vetmed.vt.edu/vth/services/rehabilitation/), he has made a significant turnaround. “He has a job again,” said Flori Bliss, a licensed veterinary technician who works with Saint. “He really lights up.”
Date: Jan 10, 2020 -
Video ItemClass of 2021 ring design debuts at Ring Premiere , video
Virginia Tech introduces a new collection of ring designs for each class. The tradition spans more than 100 years. The Class of 2021 ring design was unveiled at the annual Ring Premiere event on October 9th, 2019.
Date: Oct 14, 2019 -
Video ItemHIE Student Housing welcomes new students , video
Virginia Tech is ready as HIE Student Housing, formerly known as Holiday Inn Express, is transformed into a new residence hall.
Date: Aug 20, 2019 -
Video ItemFire and forest ecology , video
Adam Coates, assistant professor of forest fire ecology and management in the College of Natural Resources and Environment, leads a prescribed burn with students in Fishburn Forest as part of the Wildland Fire: Ecology and Management course.
Date: Jun 21, 2019 -
Video ItemExploring wood science with InsideTREES , video
InsideTREES, a three-day educational summer program for high school students provided by the Department of Sustainable Biomaterials, was held June 10-12, 2019 on Virginia Tech's Blacksburg Campus. The camp gave high school students an opportunity to explore aspects of wood science, forestry, engineering, and design.
Date: Jun 19, 2019 -
Video Item2019 International Street Fair , video
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to experience 40 countries in one day? The 60th Annual International Street Fair, hosted by Cranwell International Center, gives you a chance to do just that.
Date: May 02, 2019 -
Video ItemBig Event 2019 , video
The Big Event at Virginia Tech is a student-run day of service that has grown into the second largest event of its kind in the nation. Every spring, thousands of students, faculty, and staff come together to complete nearly 1,200 community service projects throughout Blacksburg, Christiansburg and the New River Valley with the purpose of saying Thank You.
Date: Apr 11, 2019 -
Video ItemThen Now Forever: Class of 2020 Ring Dance , video
A tradition dating from 1934 beginning with the Corps of Cadets, the Virginia Tech Ring Dance symbolizes the transition from junior to senior and the presentation of the highly anticipated class ring. The Class of 2020 celebrated Ring Dance on March 29 and 30th, 2019 in the Squires Commonwealth Ballroom. <br><br>
Date: Apr 01, 2019 -
Video ItemHow Tech Ticks: The art behind the exhibit , video
Hear from Margo Crutchfield, Curator at Large for Moss Arts Center, speak about the process and details of installing an art exhibition. "Arboreal," the current exhibition which explores the imagery of trees as a potent signifier, will be on display in the Moss galleries through March 23rd, 2019.
Date: Feb 19, 2019 -
Video ItemHokieTalks: Hokies for Cyber - Preparing Hokies for careers in cybersecurity , video
Professor Robin Russell is department head of Business Information Technology in the Pamplin College of Business. She is a Virginia Tech alum (Class of 1976) in her 35th year at Virginia Tech. She is co-author of "Operations and Supply Chain Management" in its 10th edition at Wiley, and former president of the APICS Foundation, a professional association for supply chain managers. Listen to her HokieTalk titled, "Hokies for Cyber - Preparing Hokies for careers in cybersecurity."
Date: Dec 11, 2018 -
Video ItemHokieTalks: More than Money, Less than Sex , video
University Distinguished Professor Nikki Giovanni's talk "More Than Money: Less Than Sex" explores what poetry brings to life.
Date: Dec 11, 2018 -
Video ItemHokieTalks: Transforming human health through metabolism and obesity research , video
Professor, assistant dean of health sciences, and the co-director of the Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors, Matthew Hulver highlights ongoing and future health sciences initiatives in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences that strive to make a difference in the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related diseases.
Date: Dec 11, 2018 -
Video ItemFralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC: President Sands message , video
Virginia Tech President Tim Sands thanks donor Heywood Fralin for his historic gift to the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
Date: Dec 06, 2018 -
Video ItemFralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC: Heywood Fralin , video
Heywood Fralin, donor to the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, speaks on the opportunity to give and the impact it will have on Roanoke.
Date: Dec 06, 2018 -
Video ItemFralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC: Michael Friedlander , video
Michael Friedlander, Executive Director and Professor of Biological Sciences at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, speaks on the impact of the gift given by Heywood and Cynthia Fralin.
Date: Dec 06, 2018 -
Video ItemFralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC: President Sands , video
Virginia Tech President Tim Sands describes the impact of the largest gift in the university's history given by Heywood and Cynthia Fralin.
Date: Dec 06, 2018 -
Video ItemToughest Hokie 2018 , video
Who is the toughest Hokie? Around 200 participants crisscrossed Virginia Tech's campus on Oct. 27 as part of the first Toughest Hokie competition, composed of a multi-mile, multi-obstacle, multi-challenge course.<br><br>
Date: Oct 30, 2018 -
Video ItemHokieTalks: One Health: How it helped identify a new tick-borne threat coming soon to an area near you , video
Kevin Lahmers, a clinical associate professor in anatomic pathology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, discussed ticks and their pathogens, including a rare tick species he recently discovered here.
Date: Oct 23, 2018 -
Video ItemHokieTalks: 3 I's = T: 21st century graduate education isn’t what it used to be , video
Vice President and Dean for Graduate Education Dean Karen DePauw speaks about 21st century graduate education at Virginia Tech.
Date: Oct 22, 2018 -
Video ItemHokieTalks: Small School, Big Impact , video
Mustafa Nawroz Rasheed is a candidate for a Doctor of Medicine degree and a member of Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine's Class of 2020. Here he shares about the curriculum and student experience at Virginia Tech Carilion.
Date: Oct 18, 2018 -
Video ItemA construction milestone for Virginia Tech Carilion Biomedical Research , video
On Friday, September 28, Virginia Tech leadership gathered in Roanoke with leaders from Carilion Clinic and the City of Roanoke to mark a construction milestone in the expansion of the Virginia Tech Carilion Biomedical Research Addition.
Date: Oct 01, 2018 -
Video ItemApex Center for Entrepreneurs hosts fall kickoff event , video
On Aug. 29, 2018, the Apex Center for Entrepreneurs hosted its Fall VT Entrepreneurship Kickoff event. Caroline Pugh, a former Hokie, founder of VirtualU startup, and current chief of staff for CareJourney, spoke on “Starting Up, Standing Out, and the Path to Finding Your Passion."
Date: Sep 25, 2018 -
Video ItemCulinary Camp opens the world of haute – and hot – cuisine to young chefs , video
Guess what was on the menu when Virginia Tech Dining Services’ Culinary Camp opened this summer? Ten young culinary students – aged 9 to 14 – spent a day learning how to make Virginia Tech’s buffalo sauce from scratch. Replete with their tiny chef’s hats and chef coats monogrammed with their names, this new generation of future Tech students were acting out their part in the evolution of buffalo cauliflower tacos from a campus favorite to a campus tradition. Culinary Camp 100 has itself become a rather beloved campus tradition. Since 2013, when the first Culinary Camp 100 class opened its doors to area youngsters, Chef Randall Van Dyke and his team have been shepherding an increasing number of would-be chefs into the world of haute – and sometimes just hot – cuisine.
Date: Jul 20, 2018 -
Video ItemDr. Jordan Metzgar , video
Virginia Tech researchers who helped identify the dangerous Giant Hogweed plants in Clarke County, Virginia, want residents to stay on the lookout for the plant with toxic sap that can cause severe burns — but also stressed that the weeds are believed to have been planted intentionally decades ago and haven’t spread in the years since.
Date: Jul 16, 2018 -
Video ItemGiving back to the Navajo Nation , video
Nizhoni Tallas is pursuing a degree in environmental science at Virginia Tech, thanks in part to a Beyond Boundaries scholarship. Once she graduates, she wants to return to her Arizona community to give back.
Date: Jul 09, 2018 -
Video ItemCreating the smartest solar home in the world , video
Virginia Tech’s Solar Decathlon Middle East team, which unites 30 students and 18 faculty from four colleges, 14 disciplines, and seven countries, build a net-zero energy home incorporating new methods of prefabrication, technology, and sustainability.
Date: Jun 18, 2018 -
Video ItemRun in Remembrance 2018 , video
Virginia Tech’s 3.2-Mile Run in Remembrance is an annual event that honors and remembers the 32 individuals who lost their lives on April 16, 2007.
Date: Jun 18, 2018 -
Video ItemInternational Street Fair 2018 , video
An annual event at Virginia Tech, the International Street Fair shares customs and traditions of international students through food, performances, games, and interactive presentations.
Date: Jun 14, 2018 -
Video ItemResearcher discusses deadly pathogen strains in nature , video
Dana Hawley, associate professor of biological sciences at Virginia Tech, has long studied mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in house finches — a disease similar to “pink eye” in humans. Her research has found that, in nature, an imperfect immune system drives the evolution of deadly pathogen strains.
Date: Jun 14, 2018 -
Video ItemReunion 2018 Seminar with Michael Friedlander , video
Hear about Virginia Tech's research into cancer, human brain diseases and psychology from Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Executive Director Michael Friedlander.
Date: Jun 11, 2018 -
Video ItemReunion 2018 Seminar with Bud Robertson , video
Hear the untold stories of the university's history in a lecture entitled "Remembering Virginia Tech" by Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus, James "Bud" Robertson, Jr.
Date: Jun 11, 2018 -
Video ItemReunion 2018 Seminar with Menah Pratt-Clarke , video
Reunion 2018 attendees had the chance to hear from Menah Pratt-Clarke, Vice Provost for Inclusion and Diversity and Vice President for Strategic Affairs, on what an advisory council on Virginia Tech's history has discovered.
Date: Jun 11, 2018 -
Video Item
-
Video ItemArchitecture students design new chapter for African university , video
Seven students and an adjunct faculty member from Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies are creating the design for a new library for Mzuzu, a 4,000-student institution in the country's northern region and Malawi’s second national university. The Mzuzu library burned in 2015, and since then an events hall has served as the university's makeshift library.
Date: May 29, 2018 -
Video ItemFor Austin Michelle Cloyd Fellow, Virginia Tech is home , video
Lea Koehler is driven to make a difference, whether it be through her academics or her interests on campus. An Austin Michelle Cloyd Fellow, she in majoring in Business IT and will graduate from Virginia Tech in May, 2018.
Date: May 29, 2018 -
Video ItemVirginia Tech Entrepreneur Challenge , video
A lively audience of more than 500 students, alumni, and corporate representatives cheered on 12 finalist teams as they pitched their business ideas for a shot at $60,000 in prizes.
Date: May 29, 2018 -
Video ItemHelping others, while pursuing a dream , video
Chanz Hopkins, a fish conservation major in Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment, has reinvented himself and will graduate this year, 17 years after graduating from high school.
Date: May 29, 2018 -
Video ItemCampus Kitchen combats hunger in the New River Valley , video
Campus Kitchen at Virginia Tech is combating hunger in the New River Valley. The VT Engage program redirects quality, surplus food to area hunger relief agencies. Since 2015, Campus Kitchen has diverted more than 43,000 pounds of food from Dining Services. Hokie students, staff and faculty have volunteered 8,400+ hours.
Date: May 29, 2018 -
Video ItemCreating a superior wine at Virginia Tech , video
Researchers at Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are evaluating the effects of grape dehydration on wine quality. The study aims to enhance the process of grape dehydration, thereby lowering the cost of production and improving wine quality. The research is being supervised by Jacob Lahne, assistant professor, and Bruce Zoecklein, professor emeritus, of the Food Science & Technology Department.
Date: May 29, 2018 -
Video ItemHokie Roller - President Sands , video
President Sands caught a ride on the Hokie Roller this week to talk about commencement. He also gave some advice to the students graduating. His words may be meant for the seniors, but every Hokie can apply them.
Date: May 21, 2018 -
Video ItemHokie Roller - Kiran Bagalkotkar , video
Hokie Roller is a mobile interview series recorded on a golf cart. In this edition, senior Kiran Bagalkotkar discusses the unique opportunities she receives as a student in the Honors College at Virginia Tech.
Date: May 21, 2018 -
Video ItemHokie Roller - James Federica , video
James Federica is one of the student co-directors for Virginia Tech Relay for Life. Relay for Life is a national fundraiser for cancer awareness and research. Federica describes some of the new additions to the 2018 program at Virginia Tech.
Date: May 21, 2018 -
Video ItemBrain Pong in the School of Neuroscience , video
While the rest of the country was immersed in the recent basketball tournament, the Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience had their own version of March Madness. Instead of using their physical abilities, NEUR 2036 students went head to head in a PONG tournament using only their brain activity, captured through state of the art Cognionics dry electrode EEG headsets! This new brain machine interfacing lab was thanks to the collaborative forces of the School of Neuroscience’s Dr. Ian Kimbrough and Dr. Sujith Vijayan and Electrical and Computer Engineering master students Naresh Nagabushan and Abhinuv Nitin Pitale. Together with course instructor Dr. Chelsea McCoy, they debuted another exciting new lab to the delight of the students!
Date: May 21, 2018 -
Video ItemSpring 2018 University Commencement , video
Family and friends of Virginia Tech's graduating students traveled to Blacksburg, Virginia, to attend the university's commencement ceremonies. May 11, 2018.
Date: May 21, 2018 -
Video ItemGrad Bash 2018 , video
On Wednesday, May 9th, soon-to-be graduates of Virginia Tech gathered on Holtzman Alumni Center Terrace and Lawn to celebrate commencement.
Date: May 21, 2018 -
Video ItemVirginia Tech Police Hot Dog Luncheon , video
The Virginia Tech Police Department’s annual Hot Dog Luncheon took place Tuesday, May 15 in front of the Public Safety Building at the Blacksburg campus. All proceeds from the luncheon benefit the Virginia Special Olympics.
Date: May 21, 2018 -
Video ItemA busy spring weekend , video
With the Run in Remembrance, the Black Alumni Reunion, and Family Weekend, there was no shortage of things to do on campus from April 14-16, 2018.
Date: May 11, 2018 -
Video ItemA shadow art workshop with Manual Cinema , video
The Moss Arts Center recently hosted the performance collective Manual Cinema. They combine handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and innovative sound and music to create immersive visual stories for stage and screen. While they were in town, they also gave a workshop to interested students and community members.
Date: May 11, 2018 -
Video ItemCampus Timelapse , video
A time lapse video filmed in various locations on Virginia Tech's Blacksburg campus.
Date: May 11, 2018