Hoda Kotb Returns to Blacksburg

What is it like being back on campus? Oh, it's so great. It is so great. It's like this wash of memories from all those years ago. It felt like home, is what it felt like. I was blown away by the students here, OK, I mean, I knew they were spectacular, because they're Hokies, of course, but all of a sudden, listening to them, their insightful questions, the capacity they have to see themselves in a way that I never did when I was in college.

campus experience 0:46 Hoda Kotb Returns to Blacksburg

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Travis Carr

28 Apr 2026 748

Hoda Kotb '86, former "Today" show anchor, visited Virginia Tech on Monday, April 27, to gather feedback from students in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences about her new app, Joy 101, and to share advice.

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