Updates
News, Articles, and Campus Notices
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| Tips for safe grocery shopping, virtual socializing, stress management, and more at COVID-19 resource page |
Date:
04/26/2020
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| University allocates CARES Act funding to support students |
Virginia Tech will immediately allocate $9.7 million to emergency financial aid grants for eligible students. These funds will support the university’s ongoing efforts to assist students who are experiencing financial hardships as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Date:
04/26/2020
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| Economists: Stay-at-home orders under COVID-19 have slashed United States’ GDP by nearly $1.2 trillion |
Virginia Tech economists in a new paper have found that the output loss in the United States’ GDP hit roughly $1.156 trillion from March 19 to April 15, a 26 percent drop of total U.S. output from the same fiscal period last year. Divided by the current U.S. population of 328.2 million, the loss per person is averaged at about $3,521 during this period. |
Date:
04/24/2020
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| Support for students, grading options among topics discussed at virtual town hall |
President Tim Sands and university leaders discussed opportunities for students to connect and stay in touch with the university. |
Date:
04/23/2020
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| Clubs continue to keep connections close virtually |
Student leaders from various Virginia Tech clubs and organizations have switched to online operations in an effort to ensure that the feeling of community so essential to the university experience lives on. |
Date:
04/23/2020
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Statements
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| COVID-19 Update: Guidance for Virginia Tech faculty and staff |
The increasing impact of COVID-19 is resulting in an unprecedented and rapidly changing situation for our campus and we understand that employees have many questions about these changes. |
Date:
03/22/2020
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| Preston’s restaurant offering special takeout menus |
Select chef-created breakfast, lunch, and dinner items can be ordered for pickup seven days a week at The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center. |
Date:
03/20/2020
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| A message from Dean of University Libraries Tyler Walters |
Classes are online and so is the University Libraries. University Libraries Dean Tyler Walters explained many library resources and expertise have already been online, even before we imagined that our lives would change, and our work would become mostly virtual. |
Date:
03/20/2020
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| May commencement ceremonies to move online; senior celebration in Lane Stadium planned for September |
Virginia Tech President Tim Sands acknowledged the mixed emotions he has heard from graduating seniors as the spring semester has been upended — but knowing that graduates and families needed time to plan for commencement activities, and knowing the fluidity of the ongoing pandemic and the responsive measures that the nation is taking, Sands and other university leaders set in motion a plan for a truly memorable celebration in September. |
Date:
03/19/2020
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| Social distancing: Off-campus gatherings prohibited and enforced |
Date:
03/18/2020
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