Updates

News, Articles, and Campus Notices

Title	Description	Info
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
Alumna named to international advisory council that monitors food security impacts of COVID-19	Elsa Murano has been selected to represent the United States on the newly formed Food Security of the Americas Advisory Council — created to address the mounting food supply issues that are resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.	Date: 04/22/2020
Virginia Tech researchers develop new COVID-19 tests to combat backlogs, shortages	Virginia Tech scientists have developed a new COVID-19 test and secured federal and state approvals to immediately begin processing samples at on-campus labs in Blacksburg and Roanoke.	Date: 04/22/2020
Virginia Tech faculty helping peers across the nation create tools for effective online learning	Barbara Lockee and Aaron Bond co-author article on creating online learning experiences that are meaningfully different from simply mirroring face-to-face instruction in a virtual classroom.	Date: 04/21/2020
For small businesses, coronavirus is like 'a typhoon that leaves nothing standing in its wake'	What impacts small businesses is the same thing that impacts the broader economy – uncertainty, according to Richard Hunt, assistant professor in the Department of Management.	Date: 04/20/2020