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General ItemFaculty Affairs: Call for proposals for 2026 Virginia Tech Mentoring Forum Date: Nov 14, 2025 -
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Video ItemPathways to Engineering , video
Pathways for Future Engineers is a multi-year Virginia Tech College of Engineering program designed to support first generation students and their families on the pathway from high school to an engineering degree. High school students from across Virginia visit Virginia Tech to experience different activities and events around engineering academic programs.
Date: Jul 02, 2025 - -
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Apparel, housing, and resource management programs joining the School of Design , articleThe reorganization will foster faculty collaboration and expand experiential learning and career development opportunities for students.
Date: Jun 30, 2025 - -
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Virginia Tech receives $4.5 million grant to expand university pathways for students in Virginia , articleThe grant will support multi-tiered programming designed to help K-12 students and their families engage early with college preparation and planning through STEM workshops and field trips and financial and academic support for students as they transition to college.
Date: Jun 16, 2025 - -
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From Blacksburg to Venice: International Archive of Women in Architecture celebrates 40 years of global impact , articleThe 40th anniversary of the archive, which preserves and amplifies the contributions of women architects, will be marked by a series of events that include immersive digital exhibits in Blacksburg and Venice.
Date: Feb 18, 2025 - -
Video ItemHokies encode success into rural student experiences , video
Department of Computer Science undergraduates working with Collegiate Associate Professor Sally Hamouda on the CodeKids project teach coding to Southwest Virginia fifth graders once a month during Hokie for a Day visits. Hokie for a Day, offered through the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts, helps expand learners’ visions of their future possibilities through campus tours, opportunities to talk to Virginia Tech students, and visits to labs and classrooms. The program shows rural and other students pathways between where they are and where they could be going.
Date: Oct 29, 2024 - -
Video ItemVirginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education celebrates 20 years of impact , video
With cutting-edge research at the doctoral level and experiential learning at the undergraduate level, Virginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education leads the field preparing students to solve the world’s most complex problems. As an R1 institution and land-grant university, Virginia Tech aims to be a leader in STEM scholarship programs and implementing solutions across the U.S. that will give all students access to an engineering education. Faculty and Ph.D. research in engineering education contributes to, and even creates, such initiatives at the individual, local, national, and global level, often setting the bar for other engineering programs.
Date: Oct 25, 2024 - -
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Soybeans, social services, and the 'Baptist saints' , articleFor 55 years, Virginia Tech alums Bryan and Nancy Taliaferro have devoted their lives to growing things: soybeans and other grains, social service programs in their community, and mission opportunities in Virginia and abroad. Together, their life has been spent serving others, offering inspiration, and changing communities along the way.
Date: Oct 23, 2024 - -
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Molecular biologist and science educator to explain a scientist’s most powerful weapon against misinformation , articleMolecular biologist and science educator Raven Baxter will speak at the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science's Kelly Lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 6.
Date: Oct 19, 2024 - -
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New College of Science STEM education center awards instructional teaching grants , articleIn an effort to encourage innovation in teaching methodologies, four projects were selected as grant recipients in the new awards from the Center for Advancing Undergraduate Science Education.
Date: Oct 07, 2024 - -
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Domestic abuse survivor finds her voice through poetry , articlePh.D. student Mackenzie Rose writes poetry to process her experiences as a survivor of domestic abuse.
Date: Jul 29, 2024 - -
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College of Science to launch Center for Advancing Undergraduate Science Education , articleBy integrating research and practice, the center aims to foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation in undergraduate science and mathematics education.
Date: Mar 27, 2024 - -
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Margaret Ellis receives Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Undergraduate Teaching Award , articleMargaret Ellis was recognized or outstanding contributions to undergraduate education through teaching, service, and creating an inclusive community of experiential undergraduate mentorship.
Date: Mar 01, 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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Virtual reality transports designers into the past for sustainable solutions to heat , articleInterior Design Professor Eiman Eglewely and an interdisciplinary team of students have created a 3D virtual reality replication of the house of Sheikh Isa, a Middle Eastern structure built in the 1800s. This project has shown students sustainable approaches to cooling and opened their eyes to another part of the world without leaving Blacksburg.
Date: Dec 14, 2023 - -
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From jail to Yale: Humanities Week keynote speaker to focus on prison education as a humanizing force , articleGeorge Chochos will deliver a keynote address on prison reform and education initiatives on Oct. 25 at 6 p.m. in the Haymarket Theater. The Virginia Tech community and general public are invited to attend for free.
Date: Oct 06, 2023 - -
Video ItemRedefining education with the Honors Minor in Collaborative Discovery , video
The new minor prepares students to tackle real world issues with transdisciplinary, collaborative problem-solving.
Date: Jul 28, 2023 - -
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Championing the evolving landscape of life science outreach , articleAs a visionary supporter of scaling up life sciences research, teaching, and outreach at Virginia Tech, Tracy Wilkins and his wife, Sarah, have established the Tracy and Sarah Wilkins Outreach Innovation Fund to support Fralin Life Sciences Institute's Biotech in a Box program.
Date: Jul 27, 2023 - -
Video ItemUniversity Libraries launches long-term technology lending program , video
University Libraries at Virginia Tech is partnering with Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies (TLOS) to launch a semester-long technology lending program for the 2023-24 academic year. This initiative provides faculty, staff, and students access to cutting-edge equipment for research, teaching, and collaborative projects free of charge. To apply for equipment through the semester-long lending program, fill out the following form: bit.ly/46Ph0zI
Date: Jul 17, 2023 -
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