Virginia Tech

Thanks for the visit, @HodaKotb! 👋🧡   While on campus, she met with four @VT_LiberalArts classes working with her Joy 101 app to help make it more relevant for college-age audiences, and later participated in a panel discussion with students in the @commvt.

We have a special visitor on campus today! 🤭🧡

Microplastics are everywhere: in our environment, drinking water, & increasingly, the food we eat. But finding them in seafood has been slow & tedious, making routine testing nearly impossible. Now, a new Virginia Tech-led study could change that. 🔗: go.vt.edu/uofeK

Students recently paddled their way to first place at the ASCE Student Symposium Concrete Canoe Competition. 🛶👏 The concrete canoe team designs/races a canoe made from a lightweight, carefully engineered concrete mix, balancing buoyancy and strength. Next stop: nationals. 🏆

"This case not only helped Copper — it will help pets next year, and 15 years from now." That's what a teaching hospital makes possible. f.mtr.cool/ltrmtoguzz

A crushed fossil led to a clearer picture of dinosaur history. 🦖 #VirginiaTech undergraduate student Simba Srivastava spent two years unscrambling an ancient fossil. His findings shed light on how dinosaurs dominated the Jurassic period. Learn more ➡️ go.vt.edu/un35F

A cancer genomics course offered to translational biology, medicine, and health students in Washington, D.C., this spring marks a first for the #VirginiaTech graduate program. 🔗: brnw.ch/21x1PFn

A #VirginiaTech researcher and his colleagues discovered that when managers frame work problems as a potential loss, employees are more likely to take action than when those problems are framed as potential gains. 🔗: go.vt.edu/un7wG

For 12 years, Whit Babcock led Virginia Tech Athletics with purpose, pride and a deep care for the people who make this place special. Today, he announced his retirement as Director of Athletics, effective June 30, 2026. ➡️ vthoki.es/JFCZs

A look inside lamb care at the Copenhaver Sheep Center 🐑🧡 Students in the #VirginiaTech School of Animal Sciences provide round-the-clock care for lambs, building crucial husbandry skills that lead some students to enroll in a professional doctorate program at @VaMdVetMed.

Happy #EarthDay, Hokies! 🌎 What’s your favorite season on campus? ⬇️

Governor Abigail Spanberger will address #VirginiaTech’s Class of 2026 during University Commencement exercises, continuing the tradition of inviting new Virginia governors to deliver the address. 🎓 🔗: brnw.ch/21x1Pka

Hokies partnered with Steven Nape to create smart goggles that help him swim independently after a brain injury affected his vision. Using underwater communication and real-time cues, the system alerts Steven as he nears the wall. ➡️ brnw.ch/21x1NvI

The future of computing is being built at Virginia Tech. 🙌 Inside Yang "Cindy" Yi's new BRICCS Lab in Alexandria, researchers and students are designing smarter, faster, ultra-low-power chips that could shape the next generation of AI. More ➡️ brnw.ch/21x1Nep

In the Herpetology Outdoor Lab, @vt_cnre students observe frogs, snakes, and lizards in the area to better understand the ecosystem around us and gain hands-on experience (literally). 🦎🙌

Burruss Hall has framed generations of Hokie memories. Now you can bring the beloved landmark home. 🧡 Make a gift of $30 or more to receive a limited-edition set of Burruss micro building blocks. 🔗: give.vt.edu/givehokies

Warren Dixon, an internationally recognized leader in robotics and autonomous technologies, has been named the next dean of the Virginia Tech College of Engineering. 👏 🔗: go.vt.edu/unZwn

Thankful for game days with Hokie Nation and for the Blacksburg and Virginia Tech first responders whose quick actions safely returned today’s parachuter to the ground without injury. 🧡

This is Hokie Nation in action, coming together for 32. 🧡 More than 16,500 Hokies participated in this year’s #VT32Run to honor those who were killed on April 16, 2007. #VTWeRemember

.@vt_cnre recently helped launch a research-grade weather balloon to collect atmospheric data nearly 30,000 feet up, where many of the conditions that shape weather forecasts begin. ⛅️ The real-time data will feed into operational weather models and help improve forecasts.