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        <description><![CDATA[ An interdisciplinary team is working alongside Amonate residents to preserve the former coal town&#39;s history, identify community priorities, and build local capacity. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new GO Virginia investment will help Virginia Tech and regional partners accelerate innovation, expand workforce pathways, and strengthen Southwest and Southern Virginia’s position in advanced manufacturing. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The popular 34-mile rail trail generates more than $61 million annually and supports hundreds of jobs across four counties, reflecting its vital role in the region’s economy as communities rebuild after Hurricane Helene.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The seed grant, designed to support place-based collaborations between faculty and communities, helped build trusted partnerships that expanded into a coordinated effort to reduce harm and support recovery in the New River and Roanoke valleys. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Drawing on data and community insight, the Center for Economic and Community Engagement helped shape a strategy to drive growth across Southern and Southwest Virginia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As Hokies sample oysters at West End at Cochrane Hall on Oct. 21, Virginia Tech programs and partners are helping sustain a $60 million industry through education and workforce development.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new strategy developed by Virginia Tech through its Center for Economic and Community Engagement is fueling growth, improving sustainability, and boosting permit sales across a thriving outdoor recreation network in Southwest Virginia.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ This month, Virginia Tech will convene manufacturers, researchers, and policymakers for three connected events aimed at expanding advanced manufacturing in Virginia and preparing the talent to power it. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Through hands-on training, classroom resources, and industry partnerships, Virginia Tech is supporting workforce development in a vital Virginia industry. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Early Childhood Education Initiatives relies on a team of faculty, staff, and students to bring new programs and services to working families at Virginia Tech. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students gain valuable field experience while helping the Center for Economic and Community Engagement study battlefield tourism’s economic impact in the Shenandoah Valley. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech is collaborating with the Roanoke Blacksburg Innovation Alliance and Carilion Clinic to lead efforts to strengthen Southwest Virginia’s position at the forefront of fields such as medical devices, oncology therapeutic research, and neurotechnology.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With food, music, and a passion for volunteering, Travis is leading the charge to revitalize downtown Christiansburg through the Rockin’ Food Truck Rodeo. ]]></description>
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        <title>Destination Area 2.0 grants awarded to five new transdisciplinary projects</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The grants, awarded by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, will help kick-start projects around ecological and biocultural restoration, green infrastructure, rural health and education, whole health, and medical materials. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Through comprehensive research, data gathering, and collaborative partnerships, the Center for Economic and Community Engagement is working to understand the unique child care challenges facing different regions and develop targeted solutions to address gaps. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students are gaining practical experience, honing their skills, and finding career opportunities in Southwest Virginia and beyond. Local employers, meanwhile, gain fresh perspectives, access to highly motivated and educated workers and the opportunity to mentor and shape the next generation of professionals. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The proposal heavily leverages the Virginia Tech College of Engineering’s Advanced Manufacturing Team, led by Professor Chris Williams. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The shellfish industry has always been a huge part of the economy in Virginia’s Northern Neck and middle peninsula regions. It has been difficult, though, to get young people interested in the field. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ About 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. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A collaboration between the Center for Economic and Community Engagement, Main Street America, and Virginia Main Street has grad students doing hands-on experiential learning to discover what makes Virginia towns feel like home sweet home for remote workers. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Could a 1940s theater bring more people to Stuart, Virginia? A team of graduate assistants at the Center for Economic and Community Engagement put their knowledge to work to help town leaders figure it out.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Through the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, the university has partnered with more than 60 others to potentially bring green hydrogen — and the good-paying jobs and improved energy security that comes with the zero-carbon fuel — to the Hampton Roads region.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The $1.6 million in state funding will build a hydrogen power demonstration lab at Tech Center Research Park in Newport News. It will also provide workforce training for the clean energy sector and deliver educational programming through the Center for Economic and Community Engagement and the Newport News Center. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The University of Exeter lecturer is working with the Center for Economic and Community Engagement to examine how revitalization efforts in Appalachian towns may also work for struggling town centers in England. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers in the Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture and the Virginia Tech Applied Research Cooperation will use the $750,000 Convergence Accelerator program grant to develop climate-smart, economically efficient, and environmentally sustainable precision agricultural practices. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The project, said Executive Director John Provo, is a great example of the ways the center partners with communities across the commonwealth to help improve their quality of life through the resources of the university. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Building on a Virginia Tech-led coalition of more than 150 public, private, and nonprofit organizations, the project will develop educational and training programs for workers to strengthen a talent pipeline for Southwest Virginia’s manufacturing, transportation, and autonomous vehicles sector. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ John Provo, executive director of the Center for Economic and Community Engagement, knows that payoffs can be big when faculty members collaborate with industry leaders: Companies thrive, communities prosper, and students’ lives are transformed. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Emerging leaders from Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria visited Virginia Tech to develop the skills to successfully develop and implement projects that will help their communities. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Jason Schwartz, a master&#39;s student in urban and regional planning, says his work as a graduate assistant for the Center for Economic and Community Engagement prepared him for the challenges of public service. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Warner visited Virginia Tech&#39;s campus to brainstorm ways that academic leaders, industry partners, and government can come together to leverage the opportunity of the CHIPS Act. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Imagine 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. ]]></description>
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        <title>Students’ dashboard helping alumna’s Hampton Roads nonprofit close Black wealth gap</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students turn to data analytics to help the nonprofit Black BRAND better understand the factors that affect the economic and social progress of Black residents in the region. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Kaine visited the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute to learn more about a university-led effort to create the most advanced real-world test environments for automated vehicles and delivery technologies. ]]></description>
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