May 15, 2008—The Earth Times: EFJ, Inc. Partners With Virginia Tech to pursue advanced wireless development.

May 14, 2008—EFJ, Inc.: Company to leverage leading university's advanced wireless development

May 13, 2008—Virginia Tech News: Virginia Tech Welcomes New Computer Science Department Head Barbara G. Ryder

May 13, 2008—Daily Press: Dominion's coal-fired plant is necessary and safe

May 13, 2008—Water Tech Online: The many flavors of drinking water

May 13, 2008—Water Tech Online: Leasing the ocean for wind harvesting

May 8, 2008—chabad.org: Jewish Student Center Opens Doors at Virginia Tech

Named after slain Professor Liviu Librescu, who sacrificed his life by blocking the door to his classroom so that his students could escape....

May 8, 2008: Virginia Tech's College of Engineering Honors Distinguished Alumni

May 7, 2008—Virginia Tech News: James B. "J.B." Jones will receive the university's most prestigious honor

May 6, 2008: Pat Artis, ESM Graduate, Named Engineering College’s Distinguished Alumnus

May 6, 2008—Chabad.org: A Year Later, Virginia Tech Professor Remembered as Selfless Educator

A year after Virginia Tech engineering professor Liviu Librescu saved the lives of 21 of his students by giving up his own, his family, colleagues and those he saved remembered the man as possessing a constant love of mankind, and an earnest devotion to education.

May 1, 2008—The Guardian: Making a brake light say more than 'stop'

April 28, 2008—The Roanoke Times: Engineering students put skills to true test

Reformatting computers for a community service group. Devising a system to measure nutritional value at a food pantry. Designing a memorial for town employees. Not your typical freshman engineering class assignments. But hundreds of Virginia Tech engineering students spent the semester doing those projects

April 24, 2008: Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering has presented its Dean’s Awards for Excellence

Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering has presented its Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service for 2007-08. In addition, it awarded five Outstanding New Assistant Professor Awards, five Faculty Fellow Awards, an award for Innovation in Teaching, and its Certificates of Teaching Excellence April 22

April 24, 2008: Virginia Tech’s Kathy Lu Receives National Ceramic Engineering Award

Peizhen Kathy Lu, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Virginia Tech, is the 2008 recipient of the Karl Schwartzwalder-Professional Achievement in Ceramic Engineering (PACE) Award.

April 21, 2008: Leigh McCue wins NSF and ONR grants for research aimed at improving ship stability

Saving lives and ships by improving the stability and safety of sea-going vessels is the goal of Virginia Tech College of Engineering researcher Leigh McCue, who has won two highly competitive grants to support her research.

April 21, 2008: Thao Do of mechanical engineering is among Virginia Tech's Goldwater scholars

Thao Do of mechanical engineering is among three outstanding Virginia Tech students, each with an impressive record of undergraduate research and leadership experience, have received highly competitive Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for the 2008-09 academic year.

April 16, 2008—Apple: RoMeLa Students and Robots featured on Apple's Science Webpage

April 16, 2008—Washington Post: A Year Later, Va. Tech Is Still Healing

April 14, 2008—The Economic Times (India): Sugar-powered cars on the anvil

With technology improvement, sugar-powered vehicles could come true eventually," lead researcher Percival Zhang of Virginia Tech University said.

April 9, 2008—Plant Engineering Live: Virginia Tech takes top prizes in compressed air competition

April 8, 2008—WDBJ TV: New device could prevent car accidents

Virginia Tech brake light system invention

April 8, 2008: Paretti Wins Virginia Tech Engineering Sporn Award

April 7, 2008: Probing the complexities of chaotic systems is the goal of Virginia Tech CAREER project

Understanding the dynamics of large, chaotic systems, such as weather and climate, is the goal of Virginia Tech College of Engineering researcher Mark Paul, who has received a $400,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award to support his research.

April 7, 2008: IEEE sponsors "Pie-a-Prof" and nets large donation for charity

The Virginia Tech Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently sponsored the Pie-a-Professor fundraising event. Eleven professors from the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering volunteered to be "pied." Pictured is Jason Thweatt, an instructor in the ECE department.

April 4, 2008—Motor Trend: College student develops changing LED brakelight

Virginia Tech mechanical engineering student John Hennage, along with the help of his engineer professor Dr. Mehdi Ahmadian, have developed a brake light system that alerts following drivers of braking urgency, rather than the basic on/off application of today's vehicles.

April 2, 2008: Industry Teams with Virginia Tech Engineering Students on Hybrid Technology

Virginia Tech mechanical engineering (ME) students and RIDE, Inc., a Virginia-based corporation concentrating on the development of hybrid vehicles, are working together to develop vehicle components

April 2, 2008—Virginia Business: Virginia Tech research team to head carbon sequestration project

Dr. Michael Karmis of Virginia Tech says that while it’s an admirable goal to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming, the problem won’t be fixed until those emissions are prevented from entering the atmosphere. “I do not believe anybody can reduce emissions without having some kind of significant CO2 storage capability,” says Karmis, director of Virginia Tech’s Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research.

April 1, 2008: Rakesh K. Kapania named Norris and Laura Mitchell Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Virginia Tech

Rakesh K. Kapania, a professor in the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, was appointed the Norris and Laura Mitchell Professor of Aerospace Engineering by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors during the board's quarterly meeting March 31.

April 1, 2008: Scott L. Hendricks named to W.S. “Pete” White Chair for Innovation in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech

Scott L. Hendricks of Blacksburg, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, was appointed to the W.S. “Pete” White Chair for Innovation in Engineering Education by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors during the board's quarterly meeting March 31.

April 1, 2008: From Maddening Mechanics to Funny Fluids, Learn How to Teach with Toys

“Teaching With Toys” will be the topic of a seminar by Hassan Aref, the Reynolds Metals Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, who also holds a Niels Bohr Visiting Professorship at the Technical University of Denmark.

March 28, 2008: College of Engineering graduate programs fare well in rankings

Three of the College of Engineering’s graduate programs have been ranked among the top 10 in their fields in the “America’s Best Graduate Schools 2009” survey released today by U.S. News & World Report.

March 28, 2008—VT News: Engineering, education, and public affairs programs earn high marks in U.S. News and World Report survey

Graduate programs in three of Virginia Tech's colleges have been ranked nationally among the tops in their fields in the "America's Best Graduate Schools 2009" survey released today by U.S. News and World Report.

March 27, 2008: de la Garza Appointed to National Research Council Board

Jesus M. de la Garza, the Vecellio Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, is a newly appointed member of the National Research Council’s Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE).

March 27, 2008—CNNMoney.com: Pratt & Whitney Establishes Engineering University Partnerships

Pratt & Whitney has established strategic university partnerships with Georgia Tech, Penn State and Virginia Tech, further strengthening the current relationships with these institutions that are renowned for their world-class engineering education and research capabilities

March 26, 2008: Pratt & Whitney Establishes Engineering University Partnerships

March 26, 2008—VT News: Smart brake light system would provide more information to drivers

John Hennage hooked the sensor circuit for the intelligent brake light system into a toy car to which he had added LED tail lights, all powered by a 9-volt battery. Tilting the car so that gravity simulates deceleration will activate the lights.

March 24, 2008—Network World: Researcher aims to make wireless nets more flexible, secure

Article featuring Jung-Min Park, a researcher at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering

March 20, 2008—Roanoke Times: Hogs4Hokies founder plans benefit ride for Tech

Frank Salzano is a 1983 civil engineering graduate of Virginia Tech who has created the organization Hogs4Hokies to help memorialize the 32 victims of the April 16 shootings at Tech and to raise money for the 32 named memorial scholarships established after the shootings.

March 20, 2008—Rich.com: Virginia schools revive nuclear studies

March 20, 2008—Washinton Post: Ga. Tech Chief Selected As Head of Smithsonian

Clough, 66, president of Georgia Tech since 1994, was selected after a divided Smithsonian board of regents had grappled for months over the direction to take...

March 20, 2008—New York Times: Georgia Tech President to Lead Smithsonian

March 20, 2008—60 Minutes: The testing for alertness and reaction time has real-world relevance

Virginia Tech's Transportation Institute did a study of what causes car crashes. They got 241 volunteers to agree to have their cars wired with five cameras each. Over a year's time they found that driving drowsy was the riskiest behavior of all.

March 17, 2008: Ensuring security for cognitive radio networks is the goal of Virginia Tech CAREER award research

March 14, 2008: Virginia Tech's Student Engineers' Council Announces Another $125,000 Gift

March 14, 2008: Franklin Institute Award Presented to Virginia Tech Electrical Engineers

Virginia Tech engineering professors James Thorp and Arun Phadke are recipients of the 2008 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering for their combined contributions of more than 60 years to the power industry.

March 12, 2008—Examiner.com: Agency agrees to independent review of D.C. water quality

Article featuring commentary by Marc Edwards, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech

March 12, 2008: Virginia Tech receives Petty Enterprises donation for motor sports research

March 10, 2008: Engineering Students to Host Talk on the Future of Space Exploration

Eric Anderson, the president and chief executive officer of Space Adventures, Ltd. will speak about the future of space exploration at Virginia Tech on Wednesday, Mar. 19 at 8:00 p.m. in Burruss Auditorium.

March 7, 2008: Virginia Tech’s Don Baird Received Michigan State Achievement Award

Don Baird, Virginia Tech professor of chemical engineering, is the 2008 recipient of the Jack Breslin Life Achievement Award from the Michigan State University (MSU) Alumni Varsity Club

March 7, 2008—HPC Wire: CAREER Project Aims to Balance Compute and Storage Demands

Article about Ali R. Butt, an assistant professor of computer science in Virginia Tech's College of Engineering

March 7, 2008—Virginia Business: Virginia Tech brings back nuclear engineering

March 5, 2008—INSIDE HIGHER ED: ‘Chic Geek’: Computer Science Major Rebounds

Cal Ribbens, associate department head in computer science at Virginia Tech, said his university hasn't yet seen increases, but that the decline has stopped.

March 4, 2008—RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH: Tech researcher wins grant to develop chemical detection device

Tech researcher wins grant to develop chemical detection device Virginia Tech researcher Masoud Agah of electrical and computer engineering wins $400,000 grant to develop chemical detection device.

February 28, 2008—RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH: Virginia Tech researcher Masoud Agah wins $400,000 grant

Virginia Tech researcher Masoud Agah of electrical and computer engineering wins $400,000 grant to develop chemical detection device

February 22, 2008: Balancing computing power and storage demands is the goal of Virginia Tech CAREER project

Ali R. Butt, an assistant professor of computer science in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, has received a $400,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, which is the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for creative junior faculty who are considered to be future leaders in their academic fields.

February 20, 2008: Creating a credit-card-sized platform for volatile compound analysis is the goal of Virginia Tech CAREER project

Developing a credit-card-sized gas chromatography platform that can analyze volatile compounds within seconds is the next step for Virginia Tech College of Engineering researcher Masoud Agah, who has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award to support his research.

February 18, 2008—New York Times: High-Tech Invitations Take Your Mind Off Road

The study was conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

February 14, 2008: The Inaugural Green500 List: Encouraging Sustainable Supercomputing

Virginia Tech has released the inaugural Green500 List , ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world and as a complementary view to the Top500 List.

February 14, 2008: Rolls-Royce’s decision to build manufacturing plant will impact Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering will receive three endowed chairs, $2 million in support from the state of Virginia for laboratory renovations, some graduate fellowships, and resources for specific international program efforts, as a result of plans by British-based Rolls-Royce to build a new jet engine manufacturing plant in Prince George County.

February 14, 2008: AEP CEO to discuss America’s energy future with Virginia Tech students on Feb. 18

February 14, 2008: Assessing efficiency of road contracts can lead to less risk, more innovation says Virginia Tech civil engineer

The most recent survey of the nation’s highway infrastructure, conducted by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2005, indicated that the U.S. road system is in poor condition, a marked contrast from the 1988 survey by the National Council on Public Works Improvement. At that time, the nation’s roads were cited to be in better than fair condition.

February 14, 2008: Virginia Tech To Offer Nuclear Engineering Coursework

Virginia Tech's College of Engineering is now offering graduate coursework that will lead to a Master's of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering (ME) with a Nuclear Certificate. Courses are now available and approval for the certificate is expected for fall semester of 2008.

February 12, 2008: Virginia Tech’s Roe-Hoan Yoon Named to National Academy of Engineering

Roe-Hoan Yoon, who holds the Virginia Tech Nicholas T. Camicia Professorship, is a newly elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the highest honor provided to members of the engineering profession.

February 12, 2008—Washington Technology: Pedal to the metal

Makers of robot cars push technology’s edge in DARPA’s Urban Challenge. Victor Tango's Odin, from Virginia Tech, received $500,000 for finishing third.

February 12, 2008—Associated Press: Trip and Fall Lately? Tell Your Doctor

"Even the frail elderly individuals, some days they have good days and some days they have bad days," says lead researcher Thurmon Lockhart, who in his Virginia Tech laboratory literally forces volunteers to trip in the name of science to determine what makes one person fall while another stays upright.

February 12, 2008—MSNBC: Small tumbles can predict seniors' serious falls

Trip and fall lately? Seniors often won't mention it unless they're hurt, but new guidelines say that first tumble is a good predictor of who's at risk for another, more serious fall.

February 12, 2008: Thurmon Lockhart's trip and fall research featured in world-wide media

Stories featuring Lockhart's research have appeared in several media...

February 11, 2008—The Register (UK): The Climate Computer

Geeks fight the smelter with embedded processor-based box

February 11, 2008—Discovery Channel: It's Raining Energy. Hallelujah!

Energy is everywhere. In the sun, wind, and now rain.

February 11, 2008: Phadke and Thorp part of Chinese funded research team

National Academy of Engineering members Arun Phadke and James Thorp, both on the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) faculty at Virginia Tech, are part of a Chinese funded research team directed to improve the protection and security of the worldwide, interconnected electric power grid

February 8, 2008—Thaindian News: Rain showers may soon be an electricity source

Includes comments by Dan Inman, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures at Virginia Tech.

February 8, 2008: Virginia Tech and Meridium, Inc. receive NSF grant for agile software usability project

Scott McCrickard and Todd Stevens recently received a National Science Foundation Small Business Technology Transfer grant.

February 6, 2008—TFM (New Jersey): Four Schools Compete in Compressed Air Engineering Contest

The Compressed Air & Gas Institute (CAGI) has announced the teams taking part in the organization's first Innovation Awards contest. Participating engineering schools include Milwaukee School of Engineering, Purdue University, Virginia Tech, and the University of Minnesota.

February 5, 2008—Design News: Designing for Robotics

Virginia Tech's RoMeLa, or Robotics and Mechanisms Lab., has created an autonomous humanoid soccer-playing robot called DARwin which was the first U.S. entry in the humanoid division of RoboCup.

January 31, 2008—Thomas Net: Graphical System Design Software is designed for students

Currently, universities such as Virginia Tech, which has more than 1,600 freshman engineering students, use this feature to quickly get their students ready for instruction in a project-based learning environment.

January 30, 2008—Daily News (Hampton Roads): Nuclear power on verge of renaissance

Virginia might be home to the first new nuclear reactor in the U.S. in three decades. The issue of mining uranium in Virginia for the first time is before the General Assembly this winter. Northrop Grumman has started a new nuclear operations company...That's one reason Virginia Tech just announced it is reviving its nuclear engineering program, which was canceled in the late 1980s due to a lack of interest.

January 28, 2008: White House releases guest list for State of the Union

January 25, 2008—Bernama.com: NASA Names Korean-American To Senior Post

Shin graduated from Yonsei University in South Korea and received his doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

January 16, 2008: How does one ensure all right of way issues are found before construction commences?

Kathleen Hancock, who works at the University’s National Capital Region office of Center for Geospatial Information Technology in Alexandria, has recently completed a study on the integration of geospatial technologies into the ROW data management process, and her findings were the topic of a report published by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program.

January 16, 2008—Daily Press: VT offers graduate nuclear engineering courses

Virginia Tech is offering graduate-level courses in nuclear engineering.

January 15, 2008—Astrobiology Magazine: The Return of the Blob … As a Robot

No one knows if there is life on Mars, but if Dennis Hong has his way, the Red Planet could some day sport a creature that moves a lot like an amoeba. The assistant professor of mechanical engineering and director of Virginia Tech's Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa), has developed a Whole Skin Locomotion (WSL) device that may be one of the world's most unusual robots.

January 15, 2008—WITH GOOD REASON (Virginia Public Radio): Reducing lead in drinking water (.mp3)

Highlights Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Marc Edwards' efforts to reduce lead levels in the drinking water of Washington, D.C.'s schools.

January 15, 2008—The Progress Index (Virginia): Kaine says universities key to luring Rolls-Royce

Luring Rolls-Royce to Prince George County was the hardest development deal he's ever done, and Gov. Timothy M. Kaine shared some secrets during a speech Thursday night

January 11, 2008—ner.com: Engineering News Record has named Virginia Tech's William R. Knocke, professor and head of the Via Department of Civil Engineering, as one of the magazine's Top 25 Newsmakers of 2007

Educator Leads Civil Engineers Back From Their Day of Hell. Virginia Tech program head Bill Knocke rebuilds bonds for staff and students.

January 2, 2008: Virginia Tech Researchers Headline ICTAS Spring Seminar Series

ICTAS Spring seminar series.

January 2, 2008—Genome Technology: Green HPC has Arrived

Whether it’s a giant supercomputer crunching teraflops of data or the average Beowulf cluster running a sequence database search query, the same basic issues of power consumption and heat apply. The more powerful the compute system, the more watts your local power company has to generate to keep the system up and running.

January 1, 2008—USA Today: White House releases guest list for State of the Union

Kevin Sterne, a Virginia Tech student will sit with first lady Laura Bush during the State of the Union

December 19, 2007—ABC News: UPS Drivers Train for the Holidays

December 19, 2007: Virginia Tech students' research could give the Beach Boys a new surfing song

Surfers in Hawaii had better beware. Four Virginia Tech engineering science and mechanics (ESM) students have completed "Surf Green" for their senior design project, and conclude that they can technically improve the surfboard's performance.

December 18, 2007—CNN Money: CGI dedicates new southwest Virginia Technology Center of Excellence

December 18, 2007—NASA Tech Briefs: 2007: The Year in Technology:Electric Pulses Destroy Cancer Cells

December 13, 2007—WSLS-TV Channel 10 (NBC): Liviu Librescu Voted "Most Inspiring Person of 2007"

December 13, 2007—Daily Press (Hampton Roads): Late Virginia Tech professor is 'Most Inspiring Person'

December 13, 2007—Associated Press: Slain Va. Tech professor named 'most inspiring'

December 13, 2007—WSET-TV Channel 13 (ABC): VT Professor Killed on April 16th Named ''Most Inspiring Person of 2007''

December 13, 2007—Roanoke Times: Tech professor who gave life is honored as 'inspiring'

December 13, 2007—BELIEFNET: Most Inspiring Person of 2007: Liviu Librescu

December 5, 2007—TIEKE (Finland): IBM blue gene supercomputers top new list of energy-efficient systems

December 4, 2007—NULL: Virginia Tech wireless communications groups win top awards at international competition

December 4, 2007—AARP the magazine: Inspire Awards Honorees

December 4, 2007—Associated Content: GM and Virginia Tech Scientists Team Up to Advance in Neuroinformatics

December 4, 2007—Roanoke Times: Jet engine plant will benefit colleges

December 3, 2007—Lynchburg News and Advance: E-textiles: Making wearable computers

November 30, 2007—IBM News: IBM Blue Gene Supercomputers Top New List of Energy-Efficient Systems

November 29, 2007—Baseline: Super Fast and Super Green

November 28, 2007—Trading Markets (CA): IBM: When Green is Blue

November 28, 2007—New Scientist Tech: Tripedal robot swings itself into action

November 28, 2007—Electronics Weekly (UK): UK has most energy efficient supercomputer

November 28, 2007: ISE wins Exemplary Department Award for undergraduate advising

The Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) will receive one of three 2007 University Exemplary Department Award at ceremonies to be held Tuesday, Nov. 27 at The Inn at Virginia Tech.

November 26, 2007—Auto Express (UK): The most incredible race in the world...without any drivers!

November 26, 2007—It World Canada: A new supercomputer ranking: The Green500

November 26, 2007—CNN: What drivers really do behind the wheel

November 26, 2007—TIMES-DISPATCH: New plant to add 170 jobs

November 20, 2007—Network World (MA): Power isn't everything; Green500 offers new supercomputer list

November 20, 2007—New York Times: In Thanksgiving Speech, Bush Urges Americans to Give Back

November 16, 2007—SCIENCE: Robotic Cars Tackle Crosstown Traffic--and Not One Another

November 16, 2007—Computer World: Power isn't everything; Green500 offers new supercomputer list

November 16, 2007—Greener Computing: New Group Lists the World's Greenest Supercomputers

November 16, 2007: SDR Forum Announces Winners of Its Inaugural Smart Radio Challenge and Qualifying Teams for the 2008 Challenge

November 14, 2007—ROANOKE TIMES: Virginia Tech and Lanford Brothers Co.: Building education in Botetourt

November 14, 2007: ACC schools collaborate on global course through Virginia Tech Construction Center

November 13, 2007: Virginia Tech Hires Key Scholar for its Microelectronics Chair

November 8, 2007—Nature News (UK): Energy: To catch a wave

November 8, 2007—EE Times: Virginia Tech launches 'green' supercomputer rankings

November 8, 2007—NULL: The Case of the Missing Genes … and The Subsequent Search for a Genome Similarity Tree

November 7, 2007—NULL: Virginia Tech's Green500 List to put supercomputing on a diet

November 6, 2007: VT Engineering Science and Mechanics to Celebrate 100th Anniversary

February 14, 2007—WSLS-TV Channel 10 (NBC): Rolls-Royce Plant Deal Gave State an Education