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  • 120 miles no longer deter an educational partnership
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2004-09-15)
    On Friday, Sept. 24, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center will celebrate the establishment of the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences (SBES) academic program and the completion of a new interactive video classroom that is helping to make the academic exchange possible.
  • A. Ross Myers and John R. Lawson II: Biographies and company profiles
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-10-27)
    The following profiles provide additional information on A. Ross Myers and John R. Lawson II, the two Virginia Tech alumni whose generosity led to the establishment of the proposed Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech.
  • About the Myers-Lawson School of Construction
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-10-27)
    The following are the philosophies and procedures behind the proposed Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech.
  • ACC schools collaborate on global course through Virginia Tech Construction Center
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2007-11-28)
    Students enrolled in the Virginia Tech sponsored course, Project Management in the Global Village, participated in a six week study abroad experience to Vietnam, working alongside indigenous community professionals to perform on-site needs assessments of technological and sociological factors of relief and development in several villages in the Mekong Delta.
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    Accomplished alumna once told she would never succeed in engineering
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2006-02-24)
    In tenth grade, Andrea Hill's algebra II/trigonometry teacher told her in front of her entire class that she was not "smart enough" to attain her dream -- to be an engineer. Instead of being totally embarrassed and crawling into a hole never to be seen again, as many young teenagers might have considered doing, Hill vowed to get the highest grade in the class. When the final exam grades were posted that semester, her eyes scanned the sheet, and her single word response was "Yes!"
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    Aerospace engineering students design mission Athena, win first place
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-08-30)

    A Virginia Tech design of a reliable and cost effective system to send a minimum of two astronauts to a Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) and return them safely to earth has won the team first place in the 2010 American Institute of Aerospace and Aeronautics (AIAA) Team Space Transportation Design Competition.

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    Ali Nayfeh earns Virginia's Lifetime Achievement in Science Award
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2005-02-11)
    Ali Nayfeh earned three academic degrees in four and a half years at Stanford University. He kept this pace up throughout his professional career, leading to today's announcement that the Virginia Tech University Distinguished Professor has garnered Virginia's 2005 Lifetime Achievement in Science Award, presented by the Science Museum of Virginia.
  • Alumnus Chris Kraft presents Moon rock to College of Engineering
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2006-09-30)
    The man who led the U.S. mission to the Moon in the 1960s was honored at Virginia Tech Sept. 30 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for his direction of America's space program. Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., a 1944 aerospace engineering graduate of Virginia Tech, received NASA's Ambassador of Exploration Award.
  • Alumnus provides critical junior-level faculty support for engineering education
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2006-01-24)
    In 2003, Virginia Tech's College of Engineering commenced an innovative Faculty Fellows program, designed to acknowledge and reward faculty in the junior ranks who have shown exceptional merit in research, teaching and/or service. At the time, each recipient received $5,000 a year for up to three years as discretionary operating funds.
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    American Society of Mechanical Engineers -Virginia Tech scholarship presented to Justin Klein
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2008-10-01)
    The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) presented its first ASME/Virginia Tech Memorial Scholarship to mechanical engineering graduate student Justin Klein of Catonsville, Md.
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    Art McKinney named Distinguished Engineering Alumnus for 2009
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2009-05-14)
    Some 12 years ago, the entrepreneurial spirit in engineer Art McKinney steered his now 30-year-old full service design firm away from big box, high technology manufacturing and into the sophisticated challenges of the life sciences where there are demands for bio-safety containment.
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    Assessing efficiency of road contracts can lead to less risk, more innovation says civil engineer
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2008-01-08)
    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.
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    Barbara Ryder elected vice president of computing association
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-09-17)

    Barbara Ryder, head of Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science, is the new vice president of the Association for Computing Machinery.

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    Bevlee Watford honored as distinguished alumna
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2009-05-07)
    Bevlee Watford, associate dean, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, is the recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award from the university's Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering.
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    Bevlee Watford receives Women in Engineering ProActive Network's Founders Award
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2008-08-04)
    Bevlee Watford, associate dean for academic affairs, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, is the recipient of the 2008 Founders Award from the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN).
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    Biomedical engineers use electric pulses to destroy cancer cells
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2007-07-03)
    A team of biomedical engineers at Virginia Tech and the University of California at Berkeley has developed a new minimally invasive method of treating cancer, and they anticipate clinical trials on individuals with prostate cancer will begin soon.
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    Biomedical foundation supports technology aimed at destroying cancer cells
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2008-08-18)
    A new technology, using electric pulses to destroy cancer tissue and named by NASA Tech Briefs as one of seven key technological breakthroughs of 2007, is receiving additional support aimed at moving the procedure to the marketplace. One of its lead developers, Rafael V. Davalos, a faculty member of the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (SBES), received a $240,000 grant from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and $25,000 from the Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center.
  • The Boeing Company gives $50,000 to Student Design Team Endowment
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2007-09-13)
    Last April, Virginia Tech's Student Engineers' Council (SEC) announced the creation of an endowment to benefit student design teams at the university. With the beginning of the fall semester, The Boeing Company increased the size of this endowment with a gift of $50,000 from its Global Corporate Citizenship (GCC) disaster relief team budget.
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    Boeing's Marc Sheffler receives College of Engineering Service Award
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2009-10-08)
    In 2007, Marc Sheffler arranged for his company, Boeing, to present a $50,000 check to the Design Team Endowment Fund, founded by the Student Engineers' Council at Virginia Tech. A few months later he supplemented that check with another $15,000 check from Boeing for the same cause. In 2009, he presented the Student Engineers' Council with yet another $20,000 for the Design Team Endowment.
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    By 2010, the Student Engineers' Council should surpass the $1 million club in giving
    Nystrom, Lynn A. (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2007-11-06)
    If a student organization were allowed to become a member of the Ut Prosim Society at Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech's Student Engineers' Council would be well on its way to becoming a member at the level of the President's Inner Circle, comprised of the donors who surpass the $1 million mark.