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.
Toni Morrison, American novelist, editor, and professor, will be celebrated at Virginia Tech this fall at an event titled Sheer Good Fortune. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required and limited to two per person. Learn more about the event and how to register for tickets.
Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988, for “Beloved,” which was adapted into a film starring Oprah Winfrey in 1998. In 1993, Morrison won the Nobel Prize in literature. In 2006, a survey of writers and literary critics by The New York Times ranked “Beloved” as the best of work of American fiction from the previous 25 years.
Sheer Good Fortune’s hosts, pictured above, will be the poet Maya Angelou (seated), the poet and Virginia Tech Professor of of English Nikki Giovanni (right), and James Madison University Professor of English Joanne Gabbin.
The event is being presented by the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech and is receiving funding from the university’s Women in Leadership and Philanthropy Endowed Lecture Fund.
What a thrill it must be as an English student at Virginia Tech to have the famed Nikki Giovanni sit in on your paper presentation. This photo was taken today, Friday, March 25, at the English conference being held at Shanks Hall.
The Answer is Yes… from The Campaign for Virginia Tech on Vimeo.
On Thursday, April 29, 2010, noted English professors Virginia Fowler and Nikki Giovanni were recognized for their generous contribution to The Campaign for Virginia Tech: Invent the Future.
Fowler and Giovanni announced that they were establishing a fund named “The Answer is Yes: Fowler-Giovanni English Department Program Endowment.”
Read the announcement.
