Fall 2021
Around the Drillfield
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$35 million gift fuels long-awaited project to replace Virginia Tech’s Randolph Hall , articleThe largest ever gift by a Virginia Tech alumnus will advance a long-awaited project to replace an aging engineering building with what will be the largest building on the university’s Blacksburg campus.
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'A day many years in the making': Virginia Tech celebrates Innovation Campus groundbreaking , articleThe university expects to welcome students, faculty, and staff into the completed building in the fall 2024.
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Additional mental health counselors now on board to help Virginia Tech stay at the forefront of counseling services , articleFour counselors are embedded in various colleges, allowing for easier access for students, and the university plans on adding counselors to be embedded in residence halls for 2022-23 as part of a new approach to addressing the needs of students.
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Alumna gift has big impacts on inaugural Davis scholars , articleChemical engineering alumna Mary Parker Davis and husband Mark, a former Virginia Tech chemical engineering professor, said they want to encourage chemical engineering alumni to follow their lead in supporting student success through endowed scholarships. It has already had big impacts on the recipients.
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Boeing commits $50 million to innovation campus to become first foundational partner , articleTransformative investment will help diversify the technology industry and bolster the Washington, D.C., region as a global innovation hub.
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COVID Companions collaboration benefits students and the community , articleIsolation is still on the rise from the COVID-19 pandemic, and Virginia Tech and organizations within the New River Valley community are offering a way to minimize feelings of loneliness among older adults.
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Catawba Sustainability Center sips a sweet mountain staple , articleIn turning a small plot of sorghum into a molasses-like syrup, the center is testing whether an Appalachian tradition could help diversify small farms in Southwest Virginia.
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Class of 2021: Dedication defines Cadet Jillian Skahill as she prepares to commission into the U.S. Army , article"Besides her love of learning, she maintains a positive mental attitude that is omnipresent," says Lt. Col. Curtis Armstrong, executive officer of Virginia Tech and Radford Army ROTC. "She is also a fearless worker. As she continues to hone her knowledge and combine it with her work ethic, she will continue to be the type of officer that makes Virginia Tech proud.”
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Crafting a new way to explore engineering majors through Minecraft , articleIn a world of lectures, brochures, and informational slideshows, Ben Chambers is taking a hands-on approach to engineering major exploration: Minecraft.
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Dog sledding a passion project for Virginia Tech alumna , articlePaige Drobny, who graduated from Virginia Tech in 1997 with a degree in biology and a minor in chemistry, went to Alaska in 2004 to take a position as a fisheries biologist. But a love of Alaskan huskies and exploring the beautiful Alaskan landscape led to a different passion project — competitive dog sledding. She and her husband now annually compete in the Iditarod, which is the nation's premier dog sledding event.
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Dress for sock-cess: Hokie socks return for Giving Tuesday , articleFor just a short time, Hokies everywhere will have a chance to get a special pair of limited-edition Virginia Tech socks created by student designers when they make a gift to support something they love about Virginia Tech.
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Finding a forest in the trees: students design management plans for forest landowners , articleIn their capstone course, forestry students take what they’ve learned in the classroom and the lab throughout their college career and apply it to a real-world field project.
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Geologists look to past for answers on future tsunami threats , articleTina Dura’s Coastal Hazards Lab uses sand beds deposited by tsunamis and preserved in coastal environments to reconstruct past tsunami inundation over hundreds to thousands of years, helping better define coastal hazards in a region.
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Kitley centered on more than basketball , articleVirginia Tech women’s basketball standout Elizabeth Kitley had a dominant season on the court, where she earned ACC Player of the Year honors and stands as one of the best players in the nation. Few people know her off the court, but they should, as she shares a special bond with half-sister Raven, who is autistic.
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Medical student Dakota Buhrman receives national public health award , articleThe U.S. Public Health Service Physician Professional Advisory Committee awarded Dakota Buhrman, a fourth-year medical student at VTCSOM, with a 2021 Excellence in Public Health Award.
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Mitchell Hall namesakes build on a long-standing tradition of giving , articleA man who grew up in a home without running water or electricity is a namesake of what will be the largest building on Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus — Wendy and Norris E. Mitchell ’58 Hall.
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New Catawba Sustainability Center trail provides access to Appalachian Trail, McAfee Knob , articleThe 2.9-mile Catawba Greenway winds its way through the 377-acre Roanoke County farm, showcasing Virginia Tech research in sustainable farming, before connecting to the Appalachian Trail. The trailhead’s new parking lot will help ease the burden on Route 311 for one of region’s most popular hikes.
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New study examines quality of life in mini pigs , articleAt the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, researchers want to examine which factors are important when miniature pig owners — also known as “pig parents” — measure their pigs’ happiness.
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Newman Library group study tables now available thanks to architecture students’ work , articleA group of College of Architecture and Urban Studies students put their expertise to work in a project that allows their fellow Hokies to work together again in Newman Library.
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Poetry like a marriage between a comet and a meteor , articleThe Academy of American Poets chose Carmen Giménez Smith, a Virginia Tech professor of English, for one of its most prestigious honors.
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Soil Judging Team collaborates with NASA in "Plant the Moon" challenge , articleIn this second installment of looking at how Virginia Tech researchers and students address complex problems, the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences Soil Judging Team is working with NASA to grow vegetables as part of a global science experiment to learn how to grow crops in a hostile environment.
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Students help to clear up pandemic communication , articleTransparenSee, a group of Master of Public Health students and a graduate engineering student, produced clear, fog-resistant face masks to allow for better communication with the deaf and hard of hearing community.
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Three questions to keep anger in check , articleE. Scott Geller, a longtime professor of psychology, shares insights about the sources of anger and how to deal with it.
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Transdisciplinary collaborations essential to tackling cancer , articleA dynamic collaboration between researchers in the veterinary college’s new Animal Cancer Care and Research Center and Virginia Tech’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics has attracted substantial funding for a unique approach to treating osteosarcoma, a notoriously painful and aggressive bone cancer that primarily afflicts large-breed dogs, children, and adolescents.
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Under a watchful eye , articleTheir hunched bodies and contorted faces are the stuff of legend. Chiseled in stone and calling to mind the rooftops of Paris or the Halloween season, the gargoyles capture Hokie imaginations.
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Virginia Cooperative Extension agents to be trusted messengers for COVID-19 vaccine information , articleA group of Virginia Tech researchers, along with partners at Virginia State University, are working to deliver facts about the COVID-19 vaccine to the hesitant in rural Virginia via messengers they know and trust: Virginia Cooperative Extension agents.
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Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets ambassador Growley II to retire , articleIf you see Growley, say hello to the cadet with him and give Growley a few extra pets to thank him for his service to the Corps of Cadets and the campus.
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Virginia Tech Program in Real Estate named in recognition of Blackwood family , articleThe naming recognizes $10 million in giving to the real estate program by one of the university’s most generous and involved families, which includes alumni couple Willis Blackwood ’72 and Mary Nolen Blackwood ’73, and their children, Morgan Blackwood Patel ’02 and Nolen Blackwood ’10.
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Virginia Tech helps launch English language center at Iraqi university battered by Islamic State , articleThe Language and Culture Institute is training faculty members and administrators at the University of Mosul as they work to rebuild after the four-year occupation.
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Virginia Tech launches National Security Institute; Eric Paterson appointed executive director , articleDrawing on the experience of its faculty members and experts, the institute will produce research and impact policy related to legal and practical challenges facing national intelligence, defense, law enforcement, homeland security, and cybersecurity communities.
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Virginia Tech launches ‘next generation’ human brain imaging lab , articleResearchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have received a $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, part of the National Institutes of Health, to measure the brain’s subtle magnetic signals in two research volunteers simultaneously as they interact, capturing the rich complexity of the brain’s signaling during face-to-face social interactions in real-time.
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Virginia Tech research unleashing robotic technology on campus construction sites , articleFaculty and students from Myers-Lawson School of Construction are partnering with the Division of Campus Planning, Infrastructure, and Facilities and Procon Consulting to deploy Spot, a mobile robot dog, to conduct innovative research around autonomous construction progress monitoring.
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Virginia Tech researchers identify a missing piece of the Lyme disease puzzle , articleVirginia Tech Assistant Professor Brandon Jutras and his lab have continued to tackle the Lyme disease epidemic over the past year, and they have recently identified another missing piece of the Lyme disease puzzle.
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Weight or energy: Undergraduate student's research finds ACL recovery results and implications for returning to sport , articleIn a study published in Clinical Biomechanics, undergraduate biomedical engineering student Jenna Mesisca and Robin Queen, professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics in the College of Engineering, discovered the importance of factoring both weight and jump height into the tests that are used to clear athletes to resume physical activity following an ACL injury.
Around the Hokie Nation
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Alumna channels love of paleontology into children's book series , article“Book One: Meet Dana” is the first book in Dana Korneisel's new series titled “Dana Digs Dinosaurs,” which explores her childhood fascination with fossils and how she got her start studying them.
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Alumna doing her part to bring diversity to field of veterinary medicine , articleTierra Price, a 2020 graduate of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, has created BlackDVM Network — a comprehensive platform consisting of a website, social media accounts, and a YouTube page designed to help Black veterinary professionals connect, grow, and advance within the field of veterinary medicine.
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Bold decisions lead to successful career, life for Virginia Tech alumna , articleYing Huske overcame a modest upbringing in China, hurdled the language barrier while in the United States, and ultimately earned a master’s degree in civil engineering from Virginia Tech in the mid-1990s. Now, she’s a thriving spouse, the mother of an American Olympic swimmer who competed in Tokyo, and an information technology specialist for the Department of Navy.
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Career change turns up aces for Virginia Tech alumnus , articleTired of working an 8-to-5 job and feeling an itch to pursue his passion, Adam Hendrix gave up a job working for a government contractor to become a professional poker player. For this 2015 Virginia Tech alumnus with a degree in economics from the College of Science, the gamble continues to pay off.
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Championing research , articleVice President for Research and Innovation Dan Sui has been called one of the greatest visionaries in the field of geographic information and ranks among the first scientists to recognize the importance of geographic location information in social media.
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Graduation day one of celebration for the Pedrotty family , articleDominic Pedrotty will carry physical and emotional scars from a car accident three years ago with him when he walks across the stage Friday morning at Virginia Tech’s commencement ceremony. After enduring all the rehab, dealing with short-term memory issues, and suffering from guilt at the loss of his beloved sister, he is now ready to move forward with his life — one with an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering.
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Pamplin alumna shares insights from her varied and accomplished career , articleAnisya Fritz's career has spanned academia, disaster relief, and overseeing the customer experience at a winery in California’s Sonoma County. Though each of those roles have been very different, Fritz credits her graduate education at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business with preparing her to adapt to different situations and make an impact across multiple fields.
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Prestigious first book award additional validation for Virginia Tech alumna , articleAnuradha Bhowmik, whose poetry addresses her life experiences as a Bangladeshi-born American woman in today’s world, was selected as the winner of the 2021 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Bhowmik won a $5,000 grand prize, and the University of Pittsburgh Press plans to publish her collection later this fall.
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Student club helps inspire Virginia Tech alumna to build online community for women in construction , articleVirginia Tech alumna Kathryn Hart created an online community for women starting entry-level positions in construction to help connect, learn, and grow from each other. This online community was inspired by Hart's efforts to rebuild the Building Women in Construction student organization at Virginia Tech.
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Virginia Tech alumna connects tourists and locals with things to do in Washington, D.C. , articleJade Womack, who graduated in 2015 with a degree in applied economics management, created created Clockout D.C., a calendar blog with a popular Instagram following that provides information on upcoming events in and around the D.C. area.
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Writer's relationship underscores literary success , article“I would not be the writer I am without my literary mother, Nikki Giovanni,” said Kwame Alexander '89. “Virginia Tech gave me the opportunity to sit at the feet of one of the greatest writers to walk the planet, which I did for three consecutive years. It’s unheard of to have that opportunity.”
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