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Faculty live like students for first-of-its-kind international training , articleThe 11 faculty members learning to build, launch, and lead study abroad programs experienced a role reversal. To design a program that maximizes student outcomes, the faculty experienced studying abroad from a student's perspective in an immersive development program at the Steger Center for International Scholarship.
Date: Aug 16, 2023 -
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Mark Barrow wins 2023 Teaching Scholar Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning , articleThe award, presented by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, recognizes the impact of Barrow’s teaching innovations, including a fresh approach to a capstone history class and a 20-year-old pedagogy community of practice.
Date: May 11, 2023 -
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Veterinary professor goes back to school to learn how to make school better for students , articleMichael Nappier wants to emphasize the “teaching” part of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. His solution: Going back to school.
Date: Mar 02, 2023 -
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Experiential learning helps agricultural, leadership, and community education students find career passions , articleAlumni share how internships and study abroad programs prepared them for life after graduation.
Date: Dec 08, 2022 -
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All food science and technology majors to do career-focused bridge experiences , articleUndergraduate research, a summer internship, and a 15-month work co-op at Hershey in Pennsylvania are some of the experiential learning opportunities that gave these students a taste of success.
Date: Dec 07, 2022 -
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For English majors, experiential learning boosts learning, career options , articleAs Virginia Tech places its focus on career-focused experiential learning, four current and former students explain how on- and off-campus internships paved the way to bigger and better opportunities.
Date: Dec 05, 2022 -
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Bridge Experience Program to make experiential learning a hallmark of undergraduate education , articleThrough the program, the subject of Virginia Tech's Quality Enhancement Plan, academic departments are making internships, undergraduate research, and other experiential learning opportunities more accessible and meaningful for students.
Date: Dec 05, 2022 -
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Engineering for the real world , articleLaunched this fall as an approved course and led by David Gray of engineering education, the Interdisciplinary Capstone is designed to bring together students from across the College of Engineering.
Date: Sep 13, 2022 -
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Escape room experience offers learning opportunity for Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine students , articleA group of faculty members and students participated in an escape room experience that required the competitors to use logic, deduce clues, follow instincts, collaborate, observe, and think outside the box. These are skills that students will need to become great physicians while also dealing with patients' psychological stress resulting from poverty.
Date: May 16, 2022 -
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Physics instructor Alma Robinson receives national teaching award for first-year experiences , articleAs a co-teacher of the physics First-Year Experience course, Robinson works to create an inclusive classroom in STEM and to encourage students to "think like a physicist."
Date: Mar 09, 2022 -
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Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy focuses on seven strategies for innovative teaching , articleEarlier in February, the university hosted 410 educators from as far as the United Kingdom and the Philippines, many of whom were traveling for the first time since the global pandemic began.
Date: Feb 21, 2022 -
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Bridge Experience puts College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ student learning at the forefront , articleThe College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is focused on providing hands-on, experiential learning opportunities to students of all the college’s majors through the Bridge Experience Program.
Date: Feb 21, 2022 -
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How do you improve classroom learning? Hire students to help. , articlePamplin's Engage program puts undergraduate teaching assistants in business school classrooms—and it's better for students and faculty alike.
Date: Feb 14, 2022 -
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Linsey Marr receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor , articleMarr is one of fewer than 12 worldwide experts on aerosol transmission of viruses and one of only a handful in America. She has been working with airborne viruses for the past 13 years, but her expertise became widely known during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: Jan 07, 2022 -
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A. Roger Ekirch receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor , articleEkirch, an award-winning historian, has achieved international acclaim for his published works, which together have been translated into ten languages.
Date: Jan 07, 2022 -
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Biomedical engineering and industrial design students collaborate in design sprint for health care solutions , articleElham Morshedzadeh, assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Design in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, and Chris Arena, associate professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics in the College of Engineering, brought industrial design and biomedical engineering and mechanics students together for a unique collaboration.
Date: Sep 21, 2021 -
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Tom Ewing, Robin Ott recognized for positive impacts with Project-Based Learning Award , articleThe Project-Based Learning Award is given to those who effectively implement project-based learning at the course level or a faculty team implementing across courses.
Date: Aug 10, 2021 -
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Crafting a new way to explore engineering majors through Minecraft , articleIn a world of lectures, brochures, and informational slideshows, Ben Chambers is taking a hands-on approach to engineering major exploration: Minecraft.
Date: Jul 22, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech’s Amy Pruden honored as University Distinguished Professor , articlePruden joined Virginia Tech in 2008 and has since been widely recognized for her work documenting antibiotic resistance genes as environmental contaminants, bioremediation of environmental pollution, environmental impacts of nanotechnology, and microbial ecology of drinking water systems.
Date: Apr 07, 2021 -
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University Exemplary Department or Program Awards honor effective teaching with a global perspective , articleUEDPA 2020 recognizes excellence in teaching and learning, and effectiveness in developing and sustaining effective approaches to teaching with a global perspective at the graduate or undergraduate levels.
Date: Feb 09, 2021
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