News
- Feb 14, 2012
Growers Academy helps put Somali Bantu refugees on solid ground
An innovative business-support series, run through the Catawba Sustainability Center, helps a vulnerable population succeed.
- Feb 13, 2012
In memoriam: Mike Naff, director, Application Information Systems
Naff spent 34 years working at Virginia Tech.
- Feb 13, 2012
Virginia Tech receives funding for middle school STEM programs
The School of Education is implementing Studio STEM, an after-school project for three local middle schools, thanks to a million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation.
- Feb 13, 2012
College of Natural Resources and Environment department renamed Sustainable Biomaterials to reflect wider scope
The name change more accurately reflect the new, wider scope of education and research being conducted by the department and aligns with the college's broader transition toward an increased emphasis on sustainability and the environment.
- Feb 10, 2012
Researcher to study how students learn engineering concepts
Holly Matusovich will use a $438,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to study how students are motivated to learn engineering practices, including relearning concepts that are false that they previously thought true.
- Feb 10, 2012
Virginia Tech students curate video art exhibit at Taubman Museum of Art
An exhibition of contemporary video art curated by Virginia Tech students is currently open at the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Va..
- Feb 09, 2012
Shane Ross garners CAREER Award to advance understanding of fluid flows, from blood inside the body to oil spills in bodies of water
For the past eight years, Ross has focused his career on determining these various types of behavior and how to more successfully predict what many once believed to simply be chaotic motion.
