Virginia Tech

Country singer-songwriter Morgan Wade joined cadets today for Platoon Tactical Challenge where they tackled simulated ambushes, medical evacuations, obstacles, rappelling, grueling physical tests, and miles of running before crossing the finish line. @virginia_tech @themorganwade

Gabriel Isaac, a neuroscience doctoral student conducting research at @FralinBiomed, is working to develop safe, effective treatments for chronic pain — without the need for surgery. 🔬 🔗: brnw.ch/21x0U8N

The #VirginiaTech Boeing Center for Veteran Transition and Military Families is partnering with Warrior Rising to launch Activate, a pre-seed accelerator for veteran and military spouse founders building tech and dual-use solutions. 🔗: go.vt.edu/umMCr

Researchers at Virginia Tech are aiming to refine relapse prediction in leukemia patients. 🔗: go.vt.edu/umMKR

Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. 🍄 A recent study unveils how fungal proteins have lead to new discoveries in weather engineering. 🔗: brnw.ch/21x0QKi

Julie Gohlke is leading a multi-university research effort to understand how the catastrophic inland impacts of Hurricane Helene will continue to shape the health of Appalachian communities for years — perhaps decades — to come. 🔗: go.vt.edu/umIyF

The surge in single-family home rentals from the 2009 Great Recession yielded higher educational outcomes for kids of all ages, a #VirginiaTech researcher found. 🏡 🔗: go.vt.edu/umIAq

Blacksburg is and always has been 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦. 🧡

Through immersive, applied training, students design and deliver community workshops in food safety and home food preservation while gaining hands-on experience that prepares them for careers in Extension and agricultural education. 🙌 🔗: go.vt.edu/umGwL

feeling oh so lucky to be a Hokie

In a new study, addiction researcher Allison Tegge proposes a new way to measure substance use disorder by recognizing incremental health improvements of people in recovery. 🔗: go.vt.edu/umrsS

What if we could design with water, rather than against it? Through design, research, and community engagement, landscape architecture students are reimagining how coastal landscapes can adapt to rising water and evolving needs. 🔗: go.vt.edu/umrpw

A new trial, led by @FralinBiomed researchers, provides new evidence to guide early treatment decisions in children with cerebral palsy. Learn more. ⬇️ brnw.ch/21x0MJT

Reid Dameron '25 turned his passion for games into practical tools that help students learn how games are built, step by step, in Newman Library’s fourth-floor Gaming Studio. 🎮 🔗: go.vt.edu/umu9j

burnt orange > regular orange

The #VirginiaTech-led Coalition for Smart Construction connects researchers, industry partners, and emerging technologies to accelerate innovation in the construction industry through collaborative research and development. 🙌 Learn more ➡️ go.vt.edu/umohw

A new Virginia Tech study quantifies the Virginia Creeper Trail's growing regional significance and its role as a major economic engine for Southwest Virginia. 🔗: brnw.ch/21x0E3T

Meet the watershed monitoring program, designed to help us determine how things like development affect water quality. 💧

Researchers have uncovered new details about how a key enzyme regulates muscle energy and exercise performance, advancing decades of research on how our bodies power movement. 🏃 🔗: go.vt.edu/umhra

Longer evenings are on the way, Hokies. ☀️ Don’t forget to spring forward and set your clocks ahead one hour tonight. ⏰