Developments at Virginia Tech
The official Tumblr of Virginia Tech's Office of University Development, located at the Gateway Center on the corner of University City Blvd., and Prices Fork Rd., in Blacksburg, Va.
This website is maintained by the Development Communications team headed by Albert Raboteau, Gary Cope, and Chuck George.
In January, the Virginia Tech Lumenhaus team was notified that it had been selected to receive a 2012 American Institute of Architects Honor Award for its work on the solar house.
It marked the first time the AIA has ever awarded the honor to a team of student architects. The team will officially receive its award later this month.
The university’s award-winning solar house received substantial support by way of private giving. In fact, many of the successes we see at Virginia Tech benefit in some way from private giving, whether it’s scholarships, professorships, a new building, or program support.
Going on right now: Students and faculty are invited to sign a steel beam that will go inside the new Signature Engineering Building. Here, civil engineering majors Valerie Black and Becca Maine make their marks on the beam in front of Randolph Hall.
Have you signed the beam yet?
BLACKSBURG, Va., April 16, 2011 — The College of Engineering invites Virginia Tech students, faculty, and staff, as well as area residents, this week to place their signature and messages of goodwill on a steel beam that will be placed inside the under-construction Signature Engineering Building
Signatures will be collected Wednesday, April 18, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in front of Randolph Hall, near the courtyard main entrance. Engineering departments, such as mechanical, chemical, and engineering education, will move to the $100 million, 150,000-square-foot Signature Engineering Building when construction is finished in spring 2014. The Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering also will have a showcase lab in the new facility. The building is located near the corner of Prices Fork Road and Stanger Streets on the north edge of campus.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of Virginia Tech’s history! We’ll see you tomorrow between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Richard Perdue, professor and head of the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, was recently named the Robert B. Pamplin Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
Established in 2011, the Robert B. Pamplin Professorship in Hospitality and Tourism Management is one of several named professorships established with a portion of the $10 million endowment presented to the Pamplin College by Robert B. Pamplin, Sr. and Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. This professorship supports excellence in education in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management.
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John C. Little, professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, was recently appointed the Charles E. Via Jr. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
The Via Professorship is funded through an endowment established in 1987 by Marion Via Bradley in honor of her late husband to recognize excellence in faculty research.
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The engineering students at Virginia Tech were chosen as the most philanthropic in the country for 2012 as well operating the nation’s best Student Engineers’ Council, according to the results of the recent annual competition hosted by the National Association of Engineering Student Councils…
Congratulations!
The 2011-12 Virginia Tech club ice hockey team celebrates following its 5-3 win over Liberty University. The victory propelled the Hokies into the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s national tournament, held March 16-20, in Fort Meyers, Fla. (Photo courtesy of David Standley)
Virginia Tech’s club ice hockey team, one of 29 sport clubs within the Department of Recreational Sports, opens play in its first national tournament on Friday, March 16, 2012, in Fort Myers, Fla.
The Hokies will face the William Paterson University Pioneers in the opening round of the 2012 American Collegiate Hockey Association’s Division 2 National Tournament. The puck drops at 9 a.m., and the game is available online.
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Pamplin alumnus to discuss entrepreneurship in Wells Fargo Lecture
Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business alumnus Randy Lucas will give the Wells Fargo Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, March 15, at 3:30 p.m. at the Holtzman Alumni Center’s Alumni Assembly Hall.
Lucas earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting in 1991 and 1992, respectively. He is the founder and principal consultant for Lucas Tax + Energy, a Charlotte, N.C., tax consulting and financial advisory firm specializing in tax incentives for energy efficiency construction and for renewable and/or alternative energy technologies.
This event is free and open to the public. Like many lecture series at Virginia Tech, it is made possible by private support. Click on the photo above to learn more.
Virginia Tech alumni, family and friends are fiercely loyal to the university, but what fuels that sense of loyalty? What is it about Virginia Tech that you love so much? Is it the beautiful campus? The New River Valley? Professors? Rec sports? Tell us what makes Virginia Tech such a special place for you?
