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Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia awards first-round funding , articleFour projects demonstrating the diversity of Appalachia have received more than $300,000 in funding from Virginia Tech's Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia initiative.
Date: Jan 12, 2024 -
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New program mentors first-generation Latinx students from rural communities , articleThe Centers for Rural Education and Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies have teamed up with Galax City High School to create a new mentoring initiative, the Galax Mentoring Program, aimed at keeping Latinx students from rural Virginia engaged in education.
Date: Jan 10, 2024 -
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Universitywide team to lead Carnegie Community Engagement Classification application , articleThe designation recognizes “collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities for the mutually beneficial creation and exchange of knowledge and resources.” Virginia Tech was first classified for community engagement in 2006.
Date: Dec 12, 2023 -
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Six faculty selected for Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment PREP awards , articleThe interactive, two-semester cohort program is designed for faculty pursuing research in social science disciplines who have strong potential for success in seeking external funding but who are relatively new to the proposal writing process or those whose past proposals did not receive funding.
Date: Oct 13, 2023 -
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Bestselling author Beth Macy talks outsiders, underdogs, and the importance of hope , articleThe former reporter who delved into the opioid crisis with her landmark book "Dopesick" and its follow-up, "Raising Lazarus," will be the community keynote speaker Aug. 23 as part of the Rural Education Summit.
Date: Aug 09, 2023 -
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Collaboration with Southside community is reimagining a historically Black college , articleAbout 200 miles from their offices and classrooms in Blacksburg, Virginia Tech faculty, researchers, and students are working with a group of St. Paul’s College alumni and Brunswick County community members who want to keep the traditions of the former liberal arts college alive.
Date: Jul 20, 2023 -
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Center for Autism Research’s spring conference to focus on access and neurodiversity , articleThe Virginia Tech Center for Autism Research’s biennial spring conference returns live, in-person for the first time since 2019 on April 21 at The Inn at Virginia Tech. The one-day event will also mark the 10th anniversary of the center.
Date: Apr 06, 2023 -
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Eminent researchers around the country help launch the new Center for Rural Education , articleImagine a gathering of the most innovative and prominent scholarly researchers who are offering their intelligence, experience, and time. That describes the Rural Education Summit, held at The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center on Aug. 26, which officially launched the new Center for Rural Education.
Date: Sep 20, 2022 -
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New Center for Rural Education to focus on educational equity , articleAs the founding director of the center, Amy Price Azano has studied how structural challenges related to poverty and educational inequities can adversely affect rural schools and communities. As a first-generation college student from a rural community, Azano understands these challenges both professionally and personally but also believes in the power and promise of rural schooling.
Date: Sep 19, 2022