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Virginia Tech Advantage Where passion meets possibility , articleThrough the Student-Initiated Research Grant program, students in the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design are transforming bold, personal ideas into innovative, hands-on research with real-world impact.
Date: Apr 25, 2025 - -
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Category: campus experience Lia Braaten Hager, design vice president for Global Home Care at Procter & Gamble, to deliver commencement address for the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design , articleDrawing on a career spent championing creativity and innovation in the corporate world, alumna Lia Hager is returning to campus to inspire May graduates with a message about the courage to pursue bold ideas.
Date: Apr 07, 2025 - -
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Category: research National Academy of Inventors names seven senior members , articleAlaa Algargoosh, Anna Duraj-Thatte, Jonas Hauptman, Brook Kennedy, Guoliang "Greg" Liu, Roop Mahajan, and Danfeng "Daphne" Yao were among 162 emerging inventors from across the nation to make up the 2025 class of senior members for the National Academy of Inventors.
Date: Feb 24, 2025 - -
Video ItemCategory: academics Individual workspaces create collaborative environments , video
In the Schools of Architecture and Design, students have individual work spaces to make their own for the semester. This is a unique setup that carries a number of benefits.
Date: Oct 15, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Hokies tackle e-scooter issues in Georgetown , articleBrook Kennedy led a team of industrial design students this summer in developing Nest, a prototype parking rack that could encourage e-scooterists, as well as cyclists, to park more responsibly.
Date: Oct 14, 2024 - -
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Category: academics Industrial design faculty recognized for their contributions to academia , articleIndustrial design faculty Martha Sullivan and Isabel Prochner were recognized for their contributions to academia by the Industrial Designers Society of America.
Date: Oct 11, 2024 - -
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Category: research PREP Program cultivates grant writing skills for early career researchers , articleFive faculty members from three departments, one school, and three colleges have been selected for the 2024-25 cohort, receiving up to $10,000 each to develop research proposals.
Date: Oct 11, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Advantage Hokies’ summer bridge experiences brim with ‘best days’ , articleFour students from the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design who participated in summer bridge experiences shared what they learned, offered advice, and, reminisced about what happened on their best days.
Date: Sep 27, 2024 - -
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Category: academics Expansive and innovative expertise distinguishes 28 new faculty members in the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design , articleNew faculty in the College of Art, Architecture, and Design are bringing a wealth of expertise into the classroom, as well as creative topics and new approaches to inquiry to their research and creative scholarship.
Date: Sep 11, 2024 - -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction The magic of turning food waste into paint pigments , articleYoon Choi, assistant professor in Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture, Arts, and Design, launched the Food Magic project in 2023. The project utilizes a multi-stream recycling approach to capture food waste that can be transformed into natural powder pigments for art.
Date: Jul 08, 2024 - -
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Category: research Student airplane accessibility project named finalist for international award , articleSusan Sale and Mikayla Kaczmar, recent industrial design graduates, will travel to Hamburg, Germany, this week to represent their team from the Calhoun Honors Discovery Program and the United States in the university division of the Crystal Cabin Awards. For passengers who depend on wheelchairs, Virginia Tech’s project could be life changing.
Date: May 20, 2024 - -
Video ItemCategory: campus experience CRM Sensory Bike , video
The Cook Counseling Center has partnered with the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design's industrial design students to develop a sensory bike. Members of Cook Counseling will use the bike across campus to initiate conversations around their community resilience model (CRM). See how students were impacted when given the challenge to design around the CRM model. For more information about the CRM model, visit https://ucc.vt.edu/outreach_consultation/crm.html.
Date: Apr 12, 2024 - -
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Category: research Beauty meets function: Students revive ancient cooling technology for modern application , articleGraduate and undergraduate students in industrial design and architecture 3D printed intricately designed protypes of evaporative cooling partitions, an ancient technology made relevant again as society seeks energy-efficient approaches to combat heat.
Date: Jan 18, 2024 - -
Video ItemVirginia Tech Global Distinction Looking to the past for sustainable ways to beat the heat , video
Faculty and student researchers in the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design are using 3D-printed ceramics technology paired with computational designs to explore the relevance of ancient cooling technology in service of offsetting the energy and carbon footprint of conventional mechanical cooling.
Date: Jan 09, 2024 - -
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Category: academics Virginia Tech students test drive real-world industrial design at General Motors , articleGregory Borbon '19 helped provide 38 industrial design students a chance to put their skills to the test. A General Motors-sponsored design studio focused on the company’s commitment to accessibility and offered students a chance to tackle a real-world problem through innovative concepts, visit the company's headquarters, and meet with design professionals.
Date: Oct 23, 2023 - -
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Category: impact A transcontinental collaboration for women’s health , articleFaculty and students at Virginia Tech and in Malawi, Africa, are working together to fight breast and cervical cancer by using technology and cost-saving creativity to improve women’s health care in the low-income country.
Date: Sep 22, 2023 - -
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Category: research Students explore bamboo’s potential for sustainable housing in Ecuador , articleAssociate Professor Jonas Hauptman and a group of students teamed with the Regeneration Field Institute to build an experimental cabin on the institute’s 71.5-acre Los Arboleros Farm, a tropical dry forest in the rural, agrarian community of Chone, Ecuador.
Date: Sep 21, 2023 - -
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Category: research Innovating around complex problems , articleVirginia Tech inventors who contributed to the innovation ecosystem last year by disclosing 169 new innovations, executed 30 new license agreements with commercial partners, and created 10 new start-up companies, were honored at the second annual Celebrating Innovation event, last Monday.
Date: Apr 28, 2023 - -
Video ItemCategory: impact Industrial Design students manufacture backpacks for Connection to Care program , video
Working with Virginia Tech's Institute of Policy and Governance, students majoring in Industrial Design over several years have developed a backpack for the Connection to Care opioid crisis response program. The students traveled to Fairfield, Virginia to produce 50 prototype backpacks in collaboration with UTS Systems, a manufacturer of military grade shelters. The bags are intended to address the needs of individuals who are housing insecure or struggling with substance misuse, and will be given to the Drop-In Center in Roanoke, Virginia to be field tested so students can learn if improvements need to be made.
Date: Dec 06, 2022 - -
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Category: academics Designing help for aging in place , articleAbout 40 third-year students studying industrial design received feedback on aging-in-place products they created from residents at Warm Hearth Village, a senior living community near the Blacksburg campus, on a recent Monday.
Date: Oct 25, 2022 -
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