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Points of prideUpdated 3-30-2022SHORT VERSIONInnovation Campus: $1 billion, 1 million-square-foot campus to develop a pipeline of technology talent in the greater Washington, D.C., metro area. Innovation Campus is a key reason that Amazon selected Virginia for a new headquarters. In 2021, Boeing became the first foundational partner for the campus by committing $50 million. In fall 2021, the official groundbreaking of the first of three buildings took place.Virginia Tech Carilion public-private partnership and the emerging Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke. Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC named to honor Heywood and Cynthia Fralin and the Horace G. Fralin Charitable Trust. The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine attracted more than 6,000 applications for 49 spots in 2021. Research institute rapidly developed a process to analyze COVID-19 samples to serve Southwest Virginia’s testing needs. Sesquicentennial: The university is celebrating 150 years of impact and engagement from fall 2021 through 2022. The celebration explores Virginia Tech’s past, present, and future through the lens of three cross-cutting themes: solve problems, extend knowledge, and create and engage communities. The university motto,?Ut Prosim?(That I May Serve), serves as the foundation of our efforts and represents our highest aspirations.Center for Quantum Architecture and Software Development: Established in fall 2021, the center is part of Virginia Tech’s commitment to transforming multiple pillars of technology across computing, sensing, and communications. A $12.5 million gift from Northrop Grumman will help to support research and teaching in quantum information science and engineering. The center will be a part of the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus in Alexandria, monwealth Cyber Initiative: Virginia Tech has lead role; initiative calls on higher education institutions and industry to build ecosystem of cyber-related research, education, and engagement.Global Business and Analytics Complex and data sciences: Data scientists and students from disciplines across campus are solving complex problems using analytical tools. Virginia Tech is building on its leading role in data analytics and decision-sciences by expanding programs, increasing enrollment, adding faculty members, and building new facilities.Blacksburg construction: Projects already scheduled include Holden Hall, Hitt Hall, a dining facility in the Intelligent Infrastructure complex, and the Multi-Modal Transit Facility. Teaching and research facilities at Kentland Farm, the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute expansion, the Creativity and Innovation District Living-Learning Community, the Student-Athlete Performance Center and Merryman Center weight room have been completed.Also, a $35 million gift from Norris ’58 and Wendy Mitchell — the largest gift ever by an alumnus — will lead to the replacement of Randolph Hall, currently the home of most of Virginia Tech’s engineering courses. Plans for the new building, to be named Mitchell Hall, call for classrooms, instructional labs, space for student team projects, research labs and office spaces for faculty, staff, and students. The project could be ready for construction to begin in summer 2023, pending budget approval from the General Assembly. Philanthropy: Boundless Impact: The Campaign for Virginia Tech was publicly launched in fall 2019 and is expected to run through 2027, seeking to raise $1.5 billion and engage more than 100,000 Hokies. Supporters gave a record $200.3 million in new gifts and commitments to the university in FY21. Reach for Excellence, the most ambitious campaign ever for Virginia Tech Athletics with a goal of $400 million, is a part of Boundless Impact. Research: Research portfolio of $556 million in FY20. Ranked 48th nationally by the National Science Foundation in FY19. Research areas, such as transportation, biomedical, cybersecurity and defense, agriculture, and energy, continue to excel. LINK, the Center for Industry Partnerships, streamlines how companies engage with Virginia Tech, and has helped secure multimillion-dollar agreements with companies like Boeing and Block.one. LICENSE, the Center for Technology Commercialization, and LAUNCH, the Center for New Ventures, help researchers move their inventions into the marketplace.?Calhoun Discovery Program in Honors College: Exemplifies collaborative learning, allows students to form connections between their academic majors and other disciplines while engaging with partners in industry. Supported by a $20 million gift from David Calhoun.Block.one: Global leader in blockchain made initial $3 million commitment to Department of Computer Science to help students build skills in blockchain. Inaugural Blockchain Challenge concluded with more than $28,000 awarded to students for blockchain projects.Class of 2025: Incoming fall 2021 was one of Virginia Tech’s largest and most diverse classes in history, demonstrating strong demand for a Virginia Tech degree. Undergraduate enrollment was at 29,760 and total enrollment sat at more than 37,000.Diversity: The Class of 2025 is Virginia Tech’s most racially diverse, posting historic highs for African Americans (8.7 percent) when combining African American (6.8 percent) and two or more races that indicate African American (1.9 percent). Hispanic/Latino students represent 10.5 percent of the class. This amounts to a 93 percent increase in African Americans and a 64 percent increase in Hispanic/Latinos compared to the class of freshmen and transfers that arrived in 2017. Underrepresented and underserved students – including low-income, first-generation, and veteran students – make up 39.3 percent of entering undergraduates, almost reaching the 2022 goal of 40 percent. Athletics: In conjunction with Virginia Tech President Tim Sands and other campus officials, the athletics department launched the Reach for Excellence Campaign, a $400 million fundraising campaign, in April 2021. The men’s and women’s basketball teams both qualified for the NCAA tournament in the same season for the first time in school history in 2020-21. The men’s indoor track team captured its sixth ACC championship in 2021, while the softball program reached the NCAA super regional for the first time since 2008. The women’s golf program qualified for the third round of the NCAA tournament in 2021 for the first time in program history.FutureHAUS Dubai: Displayed at the Expo2020 – an event better known as the “World’s Fair” from October 2021 through March 2022. Displayed in Times Square for the NYCxDESIGN celebration, May 2019. Recognized as the world’s best solar home in a November 2018 competition. Students are extremely involved in co-curricular activities. They rank 13 percentage points higher than college students nationally and double that of students at other large institutions.In its 2023 graduate school rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering at No. 30 out of 200 schools nationwide – up one spot from last year. Three of the college’s specialty engineering programs landed in the top 10 with industrial and systems engineering, civil engineering, and environmental and environmental health engineering program each coming in at No. 7.Virginia Tech ranked in the 250-300 range in the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Among U.S. public land-grant universities, it was 16th.Virginia Tech was 46th in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report’s Most Innovative Schools ranking and 43rd in Best Colleges for Veterans. The College of Engineering ranked No. 13 overall. U.S. News’ rankings of undergraduate programs placed Virginia Tech at 30th overall among public universities and 75th among all national universities. Forbes (26th) ranked the university among the top 30 public institutions in the nation.Online Master of Information Technology program ranked No. 4 nationally in the 2021 U.S. News & World Report’s rankings. Virginia Tech consistently ranks as nation’s best for studying natural resources and conservation.Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies ranked sixth nationally for its undergraduate programs in architecture and interior design, according to the 2019-20 DesignIntelligence “America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools” list. DesignIntelligence ranked the university’s graduate programs at No. 13 nationally.The university is one of two in the nation to have a Corps of Cadets embedded in a large civilian student body. Corps boasts the highest commissioning rate — 85 percent — of all the senior military and service academies in nation. Enrollment exceeds 1,200 cadets with plans to grow to 1,400. As one of fewer than 12 experts worldwide on the aerosol transmission of viruses, Linsey Marr, the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, initiated and helped lead the global conversation about the airborne transmission of COVID-19, giving hundreds of interviews and being quoted thousands of times. She shared research and advice on topics ranging from how the virus spreads indoors and the impact of different face coverings to how to grocery shop safely and embrace loved ones with a lower risk of contagion.In 2016, Professor Marc Edwards named to Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People for uncovering the lead-in-water issue in Flint, Michigan.Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership runs or participates in two major federal drone-integration programs: an FAA-designated test site and as one of 10 teams in the UAS Integration Pilot Program.Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, the second-largest university-level transportation institute in the country, pioneered the use of the naturalistic driving study research method and is a national leader in autonomous vehicle research.Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology is a research leader in 3D and immersive environments, such as the Cube, an experimental living laboratory in the Moss Arts Center. Virginia Tech Helmet Lab and Center for Injury Biomechanics has pioneered new methods for collecting quantitative, real-world data on head impacts and developed an evidence-based rating system for safety equipment.One Health: Virginia Tech is a leader in this approach, which involves the integrative effort of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, and the environment.Across Virginia, the university maintains 11 Agricultural Research and Extension Centers, Virginia Cooperative Extension offices, the Tech Center Research Park in Newport News, and much more. Around the world, the university operates such sites as the Steger Center for International Scholarship in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland. LONG VERSION: In the greater Washington, D.C., metro area, Virginia Tech has committed to build a 1 million-square-foot, technology-focused Innovation Campus — a $1 billion project under development in Alexandria that was cited as a key reason Amazon selected Virginia for a new headquarters site. In the coming years, the university’s contribution to the tech-talent pipeline will steadily increase, driving the region’s economy into the future. In 2021, Boeing became the first foundational partner for the campus by committing $50 million. The university recently celebrated 50 years of graduate education in the region and boasts seven existing campuses in the D.C. area. In Roanoke, the Virginia Tech Carilion (VTC) public-private partnership and the emerging Health Sciences and Technology Campus are transforming the city. The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC was so named because of a $50 million gift from Heywood and Cynthia Fralin and the Horace G. Fralin Charitable Trust. The institute has surpassed $120 million in the total value of active research awards. And in summer 2018, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine became Virginia Tech’s newest college. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the research institute rapidly developed a process to analyze COVID-19 samples to serve Southwest Virginia’s testing needs.The university is celebrating 150 years of impact and engagement from fall 2021 through 2022. The sesquicentennial celebration explores Virginia Tech’s past, present, and future through the lens of three cross-cutting themes: solve problems, extend knowledge, and create and engage communities. The university motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), serves as the foundation of those efforts and represents the university’s highest aspirations.In fall 2021, Virginia Tech announced plans to establish the Center for Quantum Architecture and Software Development. A $12.5 million gift from Northrop Grumman will help to support research and teaching in quantum information science and engineering and affirm Virginia Tech’s commitment to transforming multiple pillars of technology across computing, sensing, and communications. The center will be a part of the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus in Alexandria.The Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), launched with an initial state investment of $25 million in the 2018-20 Virginia budget, calls on higher education institutions and industry to build an ecosystem of cyber-related research, education, and engagement. The goal is to position Virginia as a leader where cybersecurity meets data analytics, machine learning, and autonomous systems. The state intends to further invest in CCI in subsequent years. CCI provides for cyber-physical system security research and technology commercialization, as well as cybersecurity workforce development through a primary “hub” in Northern Virginia and a network of regional “node” sites across the state. The Global Business and Analytics Complex will be a place for data scientists and students from multiple disciplines to thrive as they aim to solve the world’s most complex problems in analytical ways. Virginia Tech is building on its leading role in data analytics and decision-sciences by expanding programs, increasing enrollment, adding faculty members, and building new facilities. The complex, planned for a 2024 opening, will include four new buildings in Blacksburg — two academic structures and two living-learning residential communities housing about 700 students. To meet the current and future needs of students and faculty, Virginia Tech will construct or has constructed several premier teaching, research, and student life facilities in Blacksburg and other locations across Virginia. Blacksburg projects already scheduled or under construction include Holden Hall, Hitt Hall, a dining facility in the Intelligent Infrastructure complex, and the Multi-Modal Transit Facility. The Creativity and Innovation District Living-Learning Community, the Student-Athlete Performance Center and Merryman Center weight room, research facilities at Kentland Farm, and the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute expansion have been completed.In addition, in early December 2021, the university announced plans to replace Randolph Hall, the home of most of the university’s engineering courses. A $35 million gift from Norris and Wendy Mitchell — the largest ever by an alumnus — led to a project for a new home for engineering; one to be named Mitchell Hall and to be the largest on campus. Plans call for classrooms, instructional labs, space for student team projects, research labs and office spaces for faculty, staff, and students. The project could be ready for construction to begin in summer 2023, pending budget approval from the General Assembly.Boundless Impact: The Campaign for Virginia Tech was publicly launched Oct. 11, 2019, seeking to raise $1.5 billion and engage more than 100,000 Hokies. Campaign priorities include solving complex problems; inclusion and diversity; the Global Business and Analytics Complex; the Health Sciences and Technology Campus; a new era in greater D.C.; and re-imagining education. The comprehensive campaign will leverage continued success in philanthropic efforts. In FY21, a record $200 million in new gifts and commitments marked the fifth consecutive year of surpassing $150 million. In fall 2017, the university’s endowment surpassed the $1 billion mark and now stands at more than $1.3 billion. And the university’s fourth annual Giving Day in February 2022 garnered more than $8.4 million from more than 15,787 donors in a 24-hour period. Virginia Tech’s research portfolio totaled $556 million in FY20; its FY19 total ranked 48th nationally. The university’s life sciences and biomedical portfolio is expanding, and the university is internationally recognized in autonomous systems, intelligent infrastructure, water, and more. Virginia Tech earned the 2019 Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence, one of very few higher education institutes to receive the recognition.LINK, the Center for Industry Partnerships, streamlines the way that companies engage with Virginia Tech. In its first year, LINK helped to secure multimillion-dollar agreements with companies like Boeing and Block.one. LICENSE, the Center for Technology Commercialization, and LAUNCH, the Center for New Ventures, help researchers move their inventions into the marketplace.?The Calhoun Discovery Program within the Honors College is one example of collaborative learning at Virginia Tech and is supported by a $20 million donation from alumnus David Calhoun, CEO of Boeing. The program helps students form connections between their academic majors and other disciplines while engaging with partners in industry, including Boeing, which has committed $3 million in cash and significant in-kind contributions.Block.one, a global leader in blockchain and publisher of the EOSIO blockchain software, made an initial $3 million commitment to the Department of Computer Science in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering to help students build skills in blockchain. During the spring semester, students engaged in a weekend blockchain bootcamp, the first senior blockchain capstone course commenced, and the inaugural Virginia Tech Blockchain Challenge concluded with more than $28,000 awarded to students for blockchain projects.The Class of 2025 arrived as one of Virginia Tech’s largest and most diverse. Transformational impacts, such as the announcement of the Innovation Campus, success in recruiting underserved and underrepresented populations, and the strength of our academic programs have created an unprecedented demand for a Virginia Tech degree.Undergraduate enrollment is approaching 30,000, aligning with President Tim Sands’ goal to reach that benchmark by 2025, and its total enrollment exceeded 37,000.Virginia Tech’s comprehensive strategies for growth in underserved and underrepresented (URM/USS) populations continue to be effective. The university currently enrolls 10,171 URM/USS undergraduate students, up from 9,916 in the fall of 2020. Underrepresented minority students comprise more than 20.4 percent of the freshman class, compared to 13.2 percent in 2017. Underrepresented and underserved students – including low-income, first-generation, and veteran students – make up 39.1 percent of entering undergraduates in 2021, almost reaching the 2022 goal of 40 percent. The athletics department, in conjunction with Virginia Tech President Tim Sands and other campus officials, launched the Reach For Excellence Campaign in April 2021. This $400 million fundraising campaign seeks to help propel Tech Athletics sports to the forefront of the Atlantic Coast Conference, prepare generations of student-athletes for success in life, and raise the university’s profile nationwide. The Virginia Tech men’s and women’s basketball teams both qualified for the NCAA tournament in the same season for the first time in school history in 2020-21. Men’s basketball coach Mike Young was named the ACC Coach of the Year.?The men’s indoor track team captured its sixth ACC championship in 2021, while the softball program reached the NCAA super regional for the first time since 2008. The Virginia Tech women’s golf program qualified for the third round of the NCAA tournament in 2021 for the first time in program history.After years of research and development that engaged more than 100 Virginia Tech students and faculty, the FutureHAUS Dubai currently is displayed at the Expo2020 — an event better known as the “World’s Fair” — from October 2021 through March 2022. It was recognized as the world’s best solar home in a November 2018 competition, and in May 2019, the house was displayed in Times Square for the NYCxDESIGN celebration. Virginia Tech excels in providing experiential learning opportunities, so its students are extremely involved in co-curricular activities, ranking 13 percentage points higher than college students nationally and double that of students at other large institutions, a 2018 Gallup study said.In its 2023 graduate school rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering at No. 30 out of 200 schools nationwide – up one spot from last year. Three of the college’s specialty engineering programs landed in the top 10 with industrial and systems engineering, civil engineering, and environmental and environmental health engineering program each coming in at No. 7.Virginia Tech ranked in the 250-300 range in the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Among U.S. public land-grant universities, it was tied for 16th.Virginia Tech was 46th in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report’s Most Innovative Schools ranking and 43rd in Best Colleges for Veterans. The College of Engineering ranked No. 13 overall. U.S. News’ rankings of undergraduate programs placed Virginia Tech at 30th overall among public universities and 75th among all national universities. Forbes (26th) ranked the university among the top 30 public institutions in the nation.The online Master of Information Technology program (a collaboration between the Pamplin College of Business and College of Engineering) ranked No. 4 nationally in the 2021 U.S. News & World Report rankings. USA Today College has consistently ranked Virginia Tech as the nation’s best for studying natural resources and conservation.Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies ranked sixth nationally for its undergraduate programs in architecture and interior design, according to the 2019-20 DesignIntelligence “America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools” list. DesignIntelligence ranked the university’s graduate programs at No. 13 nationally. Virginia Tech is one of two institutions in the nation to have a Corps of Cadets embedded in a large civilian student body. The corps boasts the highest commissioning rate — 85 percent — of all the senior military and service academies in nation. Enrollment exceeds 1,200 cadets with plans to grow to 1,400. In recent years, no ROTC program in the country has had more students selected for SEAL training than Virginia Tech’s. In 2020, Virginia Tech produced a nationwide ROTC best with four cadets chosen for the SEAL officer summer cruise and three cadets for the Explosive Ordnance Disposal summer cruise, two of the most highly selective Navy programs.As one of fewer than 12 experts worldwide on the aerosol transmission of viruses, Linsey Marr, the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, initiated and helped lead the global conversation about the airborne transmission of COVID-19, giving hundreds of interviews and being quoted thousands of times. She shared research and advice on topics ranging from how the virus spreads indoors and the impact of different face coverings to how to grocery shop safely and embrace loved ones with a lower risk of contagion.In 2016, Professor Marc Edwards, along with pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha, were named to Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People for their work uncovering the lead in water issue in Flint, Michigan. Edwards now leads the U.S. Water Study team that won a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Dozens of students from his program have gone on to test and protect water systems in communities across the nation. The Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership runs or participates in two major federal drone-integration programs: an FAA-designated test site and as one of 10 teams in the UAS Integration Pilot Program, which brings together communities, governments, and companies to enable the next generation of drone operations. Partners include Wing, State Farm, and Intel.The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, the second-largest university-level transportation institute in the country, pioneered the use of the naturalistic driving study research method and is a national leader in autonomous vehicle research. The institute will operate the first research bed capable of testing advanced vehicles in a controlled rural setting.The Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology is a research leader in 3D and immersive environments. In the Moss Arts Center, the Cube is a four-story-high, state-of-the-art theatre and high-tech laboratory that serves faculty, students, and national and international guest artists and researchers. It is a highly adaptable space for research and experimentation in big data exploration, immersive environments, performances, and audio and visual installations. The Virginia Tech Helmet Lab and Center for Injury Biomechanics has pioneered new methods for collecting quantitative, real-world data on head impacts and developed an evidence-based rating system for safety equipment that gives consumers clear guidance about which models do the best job of reducing concussion risk. To solve the health challenges facing an increasingly complex and connected world, Virginia Tech enacts an interdisciplinary One Health approach to education, scholarship, research, and practice. Because the health of people, animals, and the environment is inextricably connected, the university’s integrative work ensures that impacts across all three sectors are considered in order to achieve optimal health locally, nationally, and globally.Across Virginia, the university maintains a presence in every corner of the commonwealth with 11 Agricultural Research and Extension Centers, Virginia Cooperative Extension offices, the Tech Center Research Park in Newport News, and much more. Around the world, the university operates sites such as the Steger Center for International Scholarship in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland. ................
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