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Va. Tech names 2 engineering department heads
May 17, 2022

Va. Tech names 2 engineering department heads

Two departments in Virginia Tech‘s College of Engineering will have new leaders beginning this summer, the university announced this week. Suneel Kodambaka has been named head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and will start July 1, and Ella Atkins will be head of the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace starting Aug. […]

Skanska to construct $69M Va. Tech building
May 9, 2022

Skanska to construct $69M Va. Tech building

Virginia Tech‘s $69.5 million Undergraduate Science Laboratory Building will be constructed by Skanska and completed by April 2024, the Swedish builder announced Monday. Virginia Tech announced plans for the building in late March, and construction started in April. The 102,000-square-foot building will provide teaching and laboratory space on the university’s Blacksburg campus. It wil[...]

Hoffman & Associates and EYA are scheduled to break ground in mid-May on a 1.4 million-square-foot mixed-use development in Falls Church. Rendering courtesy Falls Church Department of Community Planning and Economic Development Services
Apr 28, 2022

West Falls Church on track for $1.2 billion transformation

Developers are expected to break ground this month on the first of three mixed-use projects near the West Falls Church Metro station with a total investment of about $1.2 billion. Each piece comes together to complete a puzzle that will transform about 40 acres of vacant land, parking lots and Virginia Tech‘s Northern Virginia Center […]

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Apr 13, 2022

Va. Tech to lead cybersecurity workforce initiative

Virginia Tech has received a $1.5 million award to lead an initiative that could help close a gap in the cybersecurity workforce. The award, announced April 5, comes from the nonprofit Griffiss Institute, a New York-based STEM and defense technology incubator that runs the Department of Defense’s Virtual Institutes for Cyber and Electromagnetic Spectrum Research […]

Mar 30, 2022

FOR THE RECORD

CENTRAL VIRGINIA  AutoZone Inc. plans to build a $185.2 million warehouse and distribution center in New Kent County, creating 352 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced in February. The 800,000-square-foot facility will serve as the auto parts company’s East Coast distribution operation. Based in Memphis, Tennessee, AutoZone has more than 6,000 stores nationwide and reported $14.6 […]

Va. Tech professor elected council chair of national institute
Mar 28, 2022

Va. Tech professor elected council chair of national institute

Jennifer S. Wayne has been elected Academic Council chair of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Virginia Tech announced Friday. Based in Washington, D.C., AIMBE is a nonprofit composed of leaders in the medical and biological engineering fields and advocates for the value of those fields. Wayne is the department head of […]

Roanoke College selects next president
Mar 22, 2022

Roanoke College selects next president

Roanoke College’s next president will be Frank Shushok Jr., the college announced Tuesday. Shushok, Virginia Tech‘s vice president for student affairs, will succeed Michael C. Maxey, who served as president for 15 years and is retiring in July, to become the school’s 12th president. “I am thrilled to welcome President-elect Frank Shushok to the Maroon […]

Mar 21, 2022

Carilion Clinic, Richmond firm part of $3.5M concussion grant

Roanoke-based Carilion Clinic and Richmond’s BRAINBox Solutions Inc. are part of a $3.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to research and develop a new way to diagnose brain injuries in the elderly. The research will include enrolling 300 patients with head trauma and 70 patients as controls. Patients will be followed for a year […]

Bankruptcy filing outlines coal industry’s decline
Mar 16, 2022

Coal waste project launches in SW Va.

A public-private project to evaluate the critical minerals in coal waste products in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky launched Wednesday with a community meeting in the Virginia Highlands Small Business Incubator in Abingdon. The project, Evolve Central Appalachia (Evolve CAPP), is part of an almost $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Energy Department to the […]

Academic Building 1 of Virginia Tech’s Innovation Campus is projected to open in August 2024. Rendering courtesy Virginia Tech
Mar 10, 2022

Amazon, Va. Tech partner on machine learning initiative

Virginia Tech announced Thursday morning that it is partnering with Amazon.com Inc. on an artificial intelligence and machine learning research initiative that will have a presence at both Tech’s Blacksburg campus and its emerging Innovation Campus in Alexandria. Dubbed the Amazon-Virginia Tech Initiative for Efficient and Robust Machine Learning, the program will include doctoral student [&[...]

Norris E. and Wendy Mitchell committed $35 million to help Virginia Tech replace Randolph Hall. Photo by Peter Means/Virginia Tech
Feb 27, 2022

Eyes on the future

In 2021, a year marked by continuing pandemic uncertainty and overloaded health care systems, philanthropists and corporations gave generously, supporting construction and research projects at Virginia universities and hospitals. Following 2020, a year that saw record-breaking donations to Hampton, Norfolk State and Virginia State universities by billionaire MacKenzie Scott, 2021 saw similarly gen[...]

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Feb 15, 2022

Washington Gas gifts Virginia Tech $430,000 for STEM education

Washington Gas gifted Virginia Tech $430,000 to help increase pathways into higher education in STEM disciplines, the university announced Monday. “Washington Gas is honored to partner with Virginia Tech and promote STEM education across the commonwealth of Virginia. Together, our program will help shape future generations of students and workers exploring energy in school studies […]

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