In U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges 2008" survey released today, Virginia Tech's undergraduate engineering and cooperative education and internship programs are rated among the top 15 in the nation, ...

Hanif Sherali, the W. Thomas Rice Chair of Engineering in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been named a University Distinguished Professor, a rank that honors select members ...

John J. "Jack" Lesko, professor of engineering science and mechanics in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been named special assistant to the vice president for research for energy initiatives.

Roe-Hoan Yoon, the Nicholas T. Camicia Professor of Mining and Minerals Engineering in the College of Engineering, has received one of the highest honors awarded by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME).

Virginia Tech's Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics will celebrate its 100th anniversary during 2008. As part of its celebration, the department is hosting a two-day mechanics conference on May 29 and 30, 2008, ...

The College of Engineering's Distinguished Alumnus for 2006 is Michael Jack Quillen, president and chief executive officer of Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (ANR) of Abingdon, Va., the Commonwealth's largest coal producer ...

Two professors were recognized by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine for excellence in teaching, research, knowledge integration, and public service during a ceremony today at the Library of Virginia in Richmond.

Marc Edwards, the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been named a MacArthur Fellow for 2007 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Edwards will receive ...

The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year grant of over half a million dollars to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech to develop a digital library curriculum.

Mechanical engineering students at Virginia Tech are donating their time and skills to design and construct projects to meet the needs of the Montgomery County Animal Care and Control (MCAC) Shelter.