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        <title>Class of 2026: Milana Slowinski designs with a global perspective</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Slowinski draws on a global upbringing and extensive client experience to create impactful design work, including projects focused on public health communication. ]]></description>
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        <title>Redefining architecture for accessible design</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ For most people, architecture begins with what they see. For Andrew Gipe-Lazarou and his students it begins with sound, touch, memory, and movement. This year, Gipe-Lazarou, is expanding his work in accessible design for people who are blind or visually impaired. ]]></description>
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        <title>Register now for WickedCon: Conference returns May 7</title>
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        <title>Students design community-centered, flood-resilient landscapes on Virginia’s coast</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Through design, research, and community engagement, landscape architecture students reimagined how coastal landscapes can adapt to rising water and evolving needs. ]]></description>
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        <title>Spring into action with Talent Development resources</title>
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        <title>Unpacked: The ‘go bags’ that defined a semester in Switzerland</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A photo essay highlights how architecture students’ “go bags” became vivid records of their fieldwork and discovery during a semester abroad in Switzerland. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Blending real-world problem-solving with design education, Virginia Tech students partnered with the local community to create accessible trail options. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:57:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Save the date: The Influencing Change and Solving Wicked Problems Conference, May 8</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/notices/2025/03/hr-talent-wicked-con-save-date.html</link>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:40:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Program offers graduate students opportunities to hone professional skills</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/02/gradschool-cirtl-program.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech is an institutional partner in the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning, which offers free professional development workshops and courses. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:28:30 -0500</pubDate>
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        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/02/aad-app-futures-lab-tn.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Architecture students in the Appalachian Futures Lab relied on fieldwork, collaboration, and connections to design an outdoor memorial classroom for the African American community in Sewanee, Tennessee. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:44:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Campus internEXP helps students build skills, make impacts through internships </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Launched in 2021, Virginia Tech&#39;s Campus internEXP program represents a part of the university’s goal to create additional experiential learning opportunities for students and specifically focuses on providing on-campus internships for students seeking to gain applicable experience in potential career fields while working toward their degrees. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Senior Carter Roberts has built an impressive resume while creating sound design for events such as the university’s sesquicentennial celebration and the 80th anniversary display at the National D-Day Memorial. ]]></description>
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        <title>Get ‘Hooked In’ to career development resources</title>
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        <title>Designing his own Virginia Tech experience</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/10/aad-ethan-greenough-spotlight.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Interior design senior Ethan Greenough has found opportunity and inspiration through student organizations, overseas study, an internship, and the natural environment of Southwest Virginia. ]]></description>
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        <title>‘I think I&#39;ll be happy anywhere, as long as I&#39;m doing interior design’</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/09/aad-meet-the-sophomores.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Second-year interior design students networked with alumni and immersed themselves in the spaces and places of some of the most prestigious design firms in Washington, D.C. ]]></description>
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        <title>Hokies’ summer bridge experiences brim with ‘best days’</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Four 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.  ]]></description>
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        <title>For 20 years, School Leaders Institute has helped shape the future of education in Virginia</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Tech Roanoke Center program has developed a robust pipeline of skilled school administrators from more than three-quarters of school divisions across the commonwealth. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The grant from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia will make paid internships more widely available, removing some of the barriers for students with financial need. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Harjas Singh, London-based co-founder of Shares.io, is on his way home to Virginia Tech in September for a series of talks and visits with faculty, staff, and local entrepreneurs. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students learn about the manufacturing industry in Virginia firsthand during the Manufacturing Institute’s inaugural trip. ]]></description>
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        <title>Dressing for success at the Career Outfitters Closet</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Career Outfitters provides students with free, donated clothing appropriate for career fairs, networking opportunities, and interviews. Students are given one-on-one assistance with size, fit, and styling as well as guidance to other resources within the Smith Career Center. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A rigorous three-day professional development program provides underrepresented minorities with valuable experience toward achieving a career in academia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The College of Natural Resources and Environment’s 8-year-old Advising Center is making a significant impact in setting students up for success in college and future careers. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Keefer, a dual-degree alumnus from the College of Natural Resources and Environment, is currently the CEO of American Forest Management, Inc. He is the second visiting executive for the college. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Since 2005, about 70 percent of Virginia’s public school divisions have sent administrators to the institute’s two Roanoke programs to learn from veteran educators. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Extension staff affiliated with the College of Natural Resources and Environment have taken steps to adapt their normally in-person programs to a largely virtual world. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The College of Science hosted 16 high school science teachers from across Virginia, Maryland, and Tennessee for three days of in-depth lab experiments and demonstration centered on bringing nanoscience into the classroom. ]]></description>
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