Updates
News, Articles, and Campus Notices
| Title | Description | Info |
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| A message from President Tim Sands: High-contact testing program |
The next phase of our testing plan is focused on the health and safety of individuals in high-contact situations. These employees and students, due to the nature of their jobs or academic responsibilities, have a higher level of interaction with the public or each other and may at times be unable to maintain the recommended physical distancing. |
Date:
09/30/2020
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| Crisis response |
From providing new testing procedures to discussing economic repercussions to moving classes and labs from in-person to online to helping track data of COVID-19's spread, Virginia Tech scientists — faculty, staff, students, and alumni — took action. Here are some of their stories. |
Date:
09/28/2020
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| Inside Virginia Tech's COVID-19 analysis lab |
Carla Finkielstein, the director of the Virginia Tech Molecular Analysis Laboratory at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, gives an exclusive tour of the lab. With expanded testing crucial to controlling the pandemic in Virginia and the nation, Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and graduate students went to work to answer the challenge. This lab was crucial to that response.=https://video.vt.edu/media/1_as9pwf4i |
Date:
09/28/2020
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| Hokies celebrate football win virtually |
Typically the epicenter of Virginia Tech football, attendance in Lane Stadium was limited to 1,000 people due to restrictions to help fight the spread of COVID-19. As a result, Virginia Tech Athletics quickly assembled a flurry of safe ways to keep Hokie traditions alive and students, alums, and fans engaged throughout Saturday's game. |
Date:
09/27/2020
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| Spread spirit, not the virus, on game day |
Celebrate the first Hokie football game of the season safely with this game plan. |
Date:
09/24/2020
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| Title | Description | Info |
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| Virginia Tech moves to essential operations status |
This transition will further scale back on-campus operations in response to the COVID-19 emergency. For most students and employees, the transition to essential operations will require only minor adjustments from the current status of operations. |
Date:
03/31/2020
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| Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam issues stay at home order due to COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) |
The order directs all Virginians to stay home except in extremely limited circumstances. |
Date:
03/30/2020
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| A message to Blacksburg Hokies from President Tim Sands |
Prior to Gov. Ralph Northam’s new executive order, President Tim Sands sent the following message to all students to reinforce social distancing practices. |
Date:
03/30/2020
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| A March 27 message to the Virginia Tech community from President Tim Sands |
I strongly encourage you to follow public health guidelines to stay at home and practice social distancing to keep our community healthy and ensure that we continue to have the capacity to care for and manage the needs of those who become ill. |
Date:
03/27/2020
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| A message from Don Taylor: Research Resources for COVID-19 |
Date:
03/24/2020
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