Updates
News, Articles, and Campus Notices
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| Extension Master Gardeners meet demand for home vegetable gardening information |
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the number of people interested in home vegetable gardening, said Dave Close, Virginia Cooperative Extension consumer horticulture specialist and Extension Master Gardener program director. |
Date:
05/20/2020
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| Spurred by COVID-19, researcher Linsey Marr evaluates efficacy of sterilized N95 respirators, alternative mask materials |
Since March, Virginia Tech civil and environmental engineering professor Linsey Marr, an expert in the airborne transmission of infectious disease, has been testing the efficacy of sterilized N95 respirators and alternative mask materials in filtering out particles. |
Date:
05/19/2020
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| Molecular Sciences Software Institute leads design of open-source repository for COVID-19 drug-delivery simulation data |
The Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI), based in Virginia Tech’s Corporate Research Center and headed by Virginia Tech's T. Daniel Crawford, has launched an open-source website that will allow biomolecular scientists from around the world to share computer-aided drug testing. |
Date:
05/19/2020
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| Hokies celebrate graduates with watch parties, virtual cheers, and special online guests |
The Class of 2020 celebrated from wherever they were — many at their homes with family, hosting watch parties and commencement ceremonies. They participated virtually by posting to social media using the #HokieGrad tag or leaving comments on the commencement website. |
Date:
05/17/2020
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| Virginia Tech offers resources, advice for students scrambling to find jobs, internships during pandemic |
Across the nation, new graduates entering the job market and current students seeking internships are feeling the effects of COVID-19. |
Date:
05/15/2020
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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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