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“Great challenges also create great opportunities,” said Paolo Scardina, an assistant professor of practice who has filmed class lectures at waterways throughout campus.

Erin Bonilla '04 was vice commander of SENSORIA, a 14-day all-female research mission to simulate life on Mars. Bonilla is one of many Hokies featured in the spring Virginia Tech magazine story, "Hokies and Space."

Programs offered across Virginia Tech’s colleges and the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine are included in the U.S. News & World Report survey of best graduate programs for 2021.

Betsky, an internationally acclaimed author and critic on art, architecture, and design, will join Virginia Tech on June 1, 2020, and comes to the university from the School of Architecture at Taliesin (formerly known as the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture).

A team of graduate students with the Office of Economic Development worked with a Christiansburg children’s museum to capitalize on its new, expanded space.

The Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management professor is being honored for the certification standards she developed.

A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1988, Van Hook produced landmark scholarship through three books, many articles, and conference presentations that have shed new light on women as artists and women as subjects in American art.

A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1980, Bork’s scholarship focused on watershed sensitive site design through integrated stormwater management design and green infrastructure planning.

Hankey is the first faculty member from the Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award from the National Science Foundation.

In 2016, Aria Hill attended the Inside Architecture + Design program, an opportunity for rising 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students to have an immersive, introductory experience to architecture and design-related disciplines. Now, as a third-year student, Hill serves as an instructor in the same program.

Last fall, 40 first-year students began the inaugural journey into this unique undergraduate learning experience. At the first semester’s end, they shared their most recent work with David Calhoun, as well as the program’s leadership and industry partners.

The new center, housed under the Fralin Life Sciences Institute, will engage with a diverse set of stakeholders, create a safe space for difficult conversations with the public around coastal-zone issues, and establish a Coastal Zone Observatory.