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After years of research and development contributed by over 100 Virginia Tech students and faculty, the FutureHAUS Dubai team has officially built the world’s best solar home. The lone American team earned a first-place victory over 14 other selected teams and more than 60 total entrants of the 2018 Solar Decathlon Middle East, a competition […]

The home of the future is at its temporary residence in the desert — and the Virginia Tech students and faculty who built it are awaiting the results. FutureHAUS Dubai, the innovative, interdisciplinary, and ambitious project to design and build a futuristic, modular smart home, is the lone American team currently competing against 14 other […]

The International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) at Virginia Tech is issuing an open call to women architects worldwide to submit a seminal design or drawing to the university’s historical collection. The campaign, dubbed “A Seminal Piece,” is the latest in the IAWA’s three-decades-long effort to capture and preserve the contributions of women in architecture who […]

  “Social Commentary,” an exhibit by professor emeritus of architecture, Donald Sunshine, was on display in Cowgill Hall lobby this past week.  Watercolor paintings and his pen and ink sketchbooks combined to showcase innovative perspectives of big events from our country’s past and present that are meaningful to not only Donald, but to many others. “This […]

After many late nights, research, hard labor, and coffee runs, the FutureHAUS is complete! The competition called the Solar Decathlon is being held in Dubai from November 14th-29th, 2018. After winning the top collegiate prize for the world’s best solar house in 2010, Virginia Tech is planning to do it again this year. Virginia Tech […]

A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1977, Rott made exemplary teaching contributions to the education of architects during his four decades in the professional undergraduate and graduate programs in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. […]

A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2008, Cook made significant contributions to the field of public administration and constitutionalism through his work on public administration in American political development and the politics of public policy design and implementation. […]

A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1974, Choudhury’s scholarship in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies focused on the ideas of symbol and mode. In the classroom, he had an unwavering commitment to the Vitruvian ideal of the education of an architect across his four decades of teaching. […]

An internationally recognized expert on Iran and Middle Eastern politics, Boroujerdi will join Virginia Tech on Aug. 10, 2019, and comes to the university from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. […]

Led by the Language and Culture Institute, representatives from across the university show off Virginia Tech’s internationalization efforts at the world’s largest gathering of international education professionals. […]

Seven Hokies spanning a variety of majors - and dubbed the HokieNauts - are among the 12 finalists in a national NASA-sponsored competition to design informational digital displays to fit inside an astronaut’s helmet. […]

Virginia Tech’s award-winning FutureHAUS will be on public display in Alexandria this summer, near the location of the future Innovation Campus. […]

A Mountains of Music Homecoming event on June 8 will both explore Solitude as contested space and celebrate the people who lived there across the centuries. […]

Committed to a future that utilizes wind energy as a reliable and clean energy source, students intertwine coursework with hands-on learning. […]

The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved these promotions, tenure, and continued appointments at its June 3 meeting. […]

Six interdisciplinary research teams were recently awarded funding through the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment’s (ISCE) signature program, the ISCE Scholars Program, to address a broad range of pressing contemporary social issues. […]

Since 1946, more than 380,000 individuals have participated in the U.S. Fulbright Program. This year, Virginia Tech adds seven more names to the list. […]