
Innovation Campus a ‘crucial ingredient’ for Virginia
Sanju Bansal has lived in, invested in, and developed the greater Washington, D.C., metro area’s business ecosystem since 1994.

Sanju Bansal has lived in, invested in, and developed the greater Washington, D.C., metro area’s business ecosystem since 1994.

In the rapidly evolving, competitive marketplace of higher education, Virginia Tech is not only holding its ground as one of the nation’s best universities, but steadily gaining.

In his fourth State of the University address last week, President Tim Sands explained to the campus and community crowd that Virginia Tech’s growth is happening in many ways and in many places.

Technology once seemed the exclusive domain of technical experts. Today, though, some of the greatest technology challenges involve ethics, policy, culture, and politics.

A three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will allow 18 students from Eastern Mennonite University and nearby colleges to gain cross-cultural and research experience – in Australia. The grant will fund the “Tephritid fruit fly Multidisciplinary Australian Research Collaboration for Biosecurity” (T-MARC-BIO) initiative, which is led by EMU chemistry Professor Matthew Siderhurst. Tephritid fruit…

The search committee for the next dean of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine has announced four finalists who will visit the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg and the University of Maryland campus in Baltimore for interviews.

Virginia Tech sophomore and biochemistry major Taylan Tunckanat is characterizing enzymes to understand how methane-producing microorganisms are able to survive in environments with high concentrations of salt.

The Virginia Tech College of Engineering is among the first in the country to earn a bronze award from the American Society for Engineering Education in its inaugural year of their Diversity Recognition Program.

The Virginia SmallSat Data Consortium, a research center co-led by Virginia Tech and Old Dominion University, has been awarded a $1.5 million grant by the Virginia Research Investment Fund.

As Women’s Equality Day is being celebrated nationwide, the Virginia Museum of History & Culture is collecting stories and items for an exhibit that will celebrate Virginia women as drivers of change since 1920.
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