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- Invasive Species - A Global Dilemma. Exhibits TO GO versionFralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2025-11-10)This traveling poster exhibit aims to educate the Virginia Tech community about invasive species –what they are, their impacts, how they can be introduced to new areas, and much more. Perhaps most importantly, this exhibit seeks to empower individual and collective action to better prevent and slow the spread of invasive species in the Commonwealth and beyond. Understanding and addressing the global invasive species dilemma is necessary to create and preserve healthy landscapes for ourselves and future generations of people and wildlife.
- Ode from Oman: Student paintings from VT Arabic AbroadFralin, Scott; Caesar, Anna; Nasseriddine, Ragheda (Virginia Tech, 2024-09-19)This exhibit showcases the paintings of Anna Caesar who, while in Oman studying Arabic and immersing herself in Arabic culture, reflected on her experience through painting. These paintings depict Oman and the study abroad experience in a very personal and unique light.
- 2023-2024 Study Abroad Photo Contest FinalistsFralin, Scott; Schoener, Lauren; Perezous, Janika; Lucier, Emma; Le, Jessica (Virginia Tech, 2024-11-11)These photos, taken by Virginia Tech students and faculty, depict study abroad experiences during the 2023-2024 academic year. The photos represent the four finalists in each of the five categories: Hokies Go Global, The Heart of It, Postcards of the World, Cultural Connections, and Living Textbook (faculty & staff submissions).
- thươngFralin, Scott; Ha, Nina (Virginia Tech, 2025-02-28)The exhibition, thương features video and photography by Việt Lê and Ly Hoàng Ly, two Vietnamese Diasporic artists. Ly is a multidisciplinary artist working across poetry, painting, video, performance art, artist’s book, installation and public art. Việt's creative and critical practice as a queer, disabled artist focuses on sexualities, spiritualities–the physical and the metaphysical. Ly and Việt’s residency and exhibition is supported by the Beyond Boundaries Collaborative District, an AANAPISI Grant supported by the U.S. Department of Education, and co-sponsored with the APIDA + Center and the Ati: Wa:oki Indigenous Community Center. Their visit is part of programming for APIDA Heritage Month Commemorating the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Viet Nam and the United States, and the 50th anniversary of engagements in Southeast Asia. Special thanks to Co-Organizer Scott Fralin. The exhibition reception is co- sponsored by the Residential College at West Ambler Johnston.
- Statistics and Stories: American Soldiers and the 1918 FluFralin, Scott; Ewing, E. Thomas (Virginia Tech, 2024-11-08)This student-created exhibit in Newman Library (floors 1-4) featured posters researching Virginia soldiers who died from the 1918 flu epidemic during World War I. The project, developed by students in the HIST 2624 class, examines quantitative military medical records and individual soldier stories. This "Statistics and Stories: American Soldiers and the 1918 Flu" exhibit is on display through the semester.
- Ut Prosim Beyond Boundaries: Global Outreach During the PandemicFralin, Scott; Baniya, Sweta; Gautier, Laura (Virginia Tech, 2021-03-12)"Ut Prosim Beyond Boundaries: Global Outreach During the Pandemic" is an exhibition curated by Dr. Sweta Baniya, Laura Gautier, and Scott Fralin to present an example of Virginia Tech’s motto Ut Prosim in action. In this exhibition, we curate our experiences of an online service-learning-based Professional and Technical writing course at the Department of English that aimed at serving rural communities in Nepal to enhance digital literacy. This exhibition curates the multimodal and digital works produced by the students, including their reflections on learning from the partnership. The exhibition will also illustrate the stories and experiences of Dr. Sweta Baniya, her student Laura Gautier, and the community partner Ravi Kumar. The students created a varied range of user documentations, mobile application prototypes, and web interfaces that focused on empowering the rural population by enhancing digital literacy in post-pandemic Nepal. Below we share information on the class followed by our reflections, along with student experiences.
- Good DogsFralin, Scott; Hammer, Kelsey (Virginia Tech, 2025-08-26)When most folks think about campus history they often think of strolling students, spiralling footballs, and fading photos of buildings past – but what about a university’s best friend? Dogs have been a part of campus life for over a century, providing warm support, steadfast skills, and loyal friendship to Hokie students and staff. This exhibit follows the story of these ‘campus canines’ through the historic Bugle and Tin Horn yearbooks. Meet the club mascots, ambassadors, service animals, and beloved pets who taught us about Ut Prosim in ways only they could. This project found around 250 pictures of dogs out of 125 available yearbooks covering 130 years. We believe around 230 dogs are pictured total. This exhibit also includes over 40 additional photos of local dogs from dozens of specialized collections.
- Hold the Phone: Communicating in an Afrofuturist WorldFralin, Scott; Thompson, Tyechia (Virginia Tech, 2019-05-01)Inspired by Zadie Smith's claim that cellphones have become a force of isolation, "Hold the Phone" imagines an Afrofuturist world in which technologies help rather than hinder communication. Afrofuturism is a cultural expression termed in the 1990s but dating back centuries. This exhibit urges us to rethink our modern world and approach the furture with an open mind. A project for ENGL4684: Afrofuturism to Vibranium and Beyond.
- Hybrid Forms: A Literary ShowcaseFralin, Scott; Vollmer, Matthew (Virginia Tech, 2025-05-02)Exhibit highlighting the final projects of students in the creative writing capstone class: Hybrid Forms. Genres dictate the shape, sound, and appearance of our information. And, by setting parameters, defining boundaries, and establishing limitations, they tell our words what to do. For their final project, students designed and built individual installations with help from the library exhibits program and the Prototyping Studio at Newman library. Their creative pieces were featured across sections of unused shelving on the 3rd floor.
- Native at Virginia Tech: Online ExhibitFralin, Scott; Faircloth, Melissa (Virginia Tech, 44287)This online exhibit is an effort to disrupt narratives of erasure and highlight the amazing accomplishments of students, faculty, and staff who have added to the rich history of our campus. Additionally, it seeks to honor Native communities within the Commonwealth, creating awareness around the history and continued presence of Tribes within our state. The American Indian and Indigenous Community Center, and those who tirelessly worked on this project, invite you to learn more about the Native community at Virginia Tech and those tribes of the Commonwealth. We also encourage you to visit Native Lands to learn more about the tribal communities that exist in your area. Finally, we acknowledge and honor the Monacan/Tutelo People and other Indigenous Peoples who historically cared for the Land, Air, and Waters that Virginia Tech now consumes.
- University Libraries Studios Network Spotlight Series: The Comedy ConglomerateFralin, Scott; Spear, Bennett; Frye, Sam (Virginia Tech, 2020-11-02)This is an online exhibit that captures the interdisciplinary relation between the Comedy Conglomerate (ComCon), a student organization at Virginia Tech, and the Media Design Studios at University Libraries. ComCon@VT stays committed to each member’s personal development, whether they are ironing out a stand-up routine, finding creative outlets, or practicing skills for future dream jobs. The Media Design Studios meets those needs with plenty of flexibility and opportunity for new ideas. Bennett Spear, one of the earlier ComCon@VT members, made a series of videos with the tools in Media Design Studio A last year. He started with no experience editing, worked with Studios staff to learn the ropes, and eventually was hired to work in the Media Design Studios. In the time since he joined ComCon@VT, Bennett discovered a love for video editing and performing.
- The Land Speaks: The Monacan Nation and Politics of MemoryFralin, Scott; Taylor, Jessica L.; Reeves, Audrey; Poets, Desirée; Elliott, Rufus; Ferguson, Victoria; Blauvelt, Brady; Ahwee-Marrah, Elena (Virginia Tech, 2020-05-04)This online exhibit was made possible by students in the Virginia Tech ASPECT Spring 2020 graduate course, "the Politics of Memory," who researched the long history of the Monacan Indian Nation. The Monacan Indian Nation are indigenous people from the greater Piedmont and Blue Ridge, with some of their earliest settlements dating to 1000 A.D. Their history is marked by resilience and their tie to this place. Today, the Monacans need help saving the remains of their historic capitol, Rassawek, located at the confluence of the Rivanna and James Rivers, from development. After the initial design planning stage for "The Land Speaks: The Monacan Nation and Politics of Memory," Scott Fralin, exhibits program manager and learning environments librarian, was ready to construct the exhibit physically by hand. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Ralph Northam’s statewide stay-at-home directive, and the university’s transition to essential operations. “The Land Speaks” exhibit is a unique product of a transdisciplinary collaboration between Fralin and several faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Desirée Poets and Audrey Reeves, assistant professors of political science, joined Jessica Taylor, an assistant professor of history, in teaching a class, “The Politics of Memory,” under the aegis of the doctoral program ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought). The main goal of the exhibit is to spread the story of the Monacan Indian Nation. This federally recognized tribe includes more than 2,300 members and has a continuous, thousand-year-old history and presence in the area that is now Amherst County in central Virginia.
- Maré from the InsideFralin, Scott; Poets, Desirée; Barnes, Nicholas; Stephenson, Max O. Jr.; Gomes, Henrique; Jorge, Andreza; Klein, Peter; Savell, Stephanie; Sussman, Nadia; Todd, Molly F.; Veneri, Antonello (Virginia Tech, 2021-04-19)"Maré from the Inside" is an interactive visual and textual exhibit developed through the collaboration of Brazilian and U.S.-based artists, activists, and academics. It offers rarely captured views into the lives of residents in Complexo da Maré, a group of 16 contiguous favelas (informal and impoverished working-class neighborhoods) in Rio de Janeiro. The exhibit demonstrates the diversity and creativity of the citizens of these communities while exposing the barriers favela residents confront in their everyday lives. In doing so, Maré from the Inside challenges long-standing and powerful stigmatizing narratives and suggests the need for a fresh set of political and cultural strategies capable of breaking the cycles of exclusion and marginalization experienced by favela communities. Maré from the Inside is comprised of 30 family portraits, 26 street photographs, and 3 documentary films. The photographs draw from the experiences and reflections of Antonello Veneri, an Italian photojournalist, and Henrique Gomes, a cultural producer and resident of Complexo da Maré. The artists collaborated with 30 families to create an intimate visual representation of their homes. Together, the portraits capture the diverse human, familial, and urban identities of the Maré community in a respectful and non-fetishized way.
- Living and Learning Abroad: Hybrid ExhibitFralin, Scott; Jalalzai, Farida (Virginia Tech, 2020-10-01)This exhibit has the goal of celebrating the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences study abroad experiences and to promote and encourage people to sign up to the programs.
- African American Women and the Fight for the VoteFralin, Scott; Holness, Lucien (Virginia Tech, 2020-01-31)In honor of Black History Month and 2020 being the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment which granted women the right to vote, this exhibition wanted to highlight some of the African American women who fought and struggled to ensure that they were not left out of the suffrage movement. The women in this exhibit do not represent the full extent of the African American women’s suffrage movement, but rather serve as an introduction to some of the amazing women who tirelessly worked to make sure African American women were granted the right to vote and were able to express themselves with this new right. The women’s suffrage movement repeatedly marginalized and excluded African American women. African American women had to contend with racism, sexism, and white suffragists excluding them because of political concerns. White suffragists knew they needed the votes of southern state legislatures, U.S. senators, and congressmen so they excluded African American women to help secure these votes. The fight for the vote did not end with the ratification of the 19th amendment in August 1920. In some Southern states, African-American women were unable to freely exercise their right to vote until the 1960s. Despite the difficulty of the fight, it did not deter African-American women in their effort to secure the vote.
- Virginia Tech Arabic Abroad: Oman, The Student ExperienceFralin, Scott; Nassereddine, Ragheda (Virginia Tech, 2019-09-30)The VT Arabic Oman program is an intensive Arabic language program held in Nizwa, Oman. In summer 2018 and summer 2019 the program was hosted by the DHAD Institute which is part of the University of Nizwa. The 5-week program consists of 4 weeks of intensive Arabic language instruction and 1 week of planned excursions to the United Arab Emirates during the Eid Al Fitr holiday. The program also consisted of daily interactions with student language partners and immersive excursions within Oman to learn about Omani life, history, and culture. Students had classes everyday, Sunday through Thursday (the weekend is Friday and Saturday), 4 hours a day and followed by lectures or cultural activities. They had Omani conversational partners 5 days a week, where they practiced speaking Arabic and learned more about Oman history and social, economic and political life in Oman and about Omani and Arab traditions and culture. Please explore this exhibit and read about the students’ experience in Oman, see the trip through their eyes, and experience it via the objects here which are a small sample of what aided them on their journey.
- The fight for women's suffrage, 1848-1920Fralin, Scott; Mollin, Marian B. (Virginia Tech, 2020-03-02)One hundred years ago, U.S. women gained a political voice — they were granted the right to vote. The Aug. 18 ratification of the 19th Amendment was a historic achievement that followed a more-than-70-year fight by women’s suffrage activists. These women went to great lengths for the right to vote, from picketing in front of the White House to lobbying in political settings where they were not allowed. Many were arrested. Because of this long-fought suffrage movement, women now are just as involved in political causes as men. In many elections of the past several years, women have outpaced men in percentage of voters. Marian Mollin, an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech, studies U.S. women’s history and social and political movements. This exhibition captures the work of professor Mollin and that of her students in the subject.
- The Virginia Tech First-Generation Photo ProjectFralin, Scott; Charmaine, Troy (Virginia Tech, 2020-11-09)This project deepens our understanding of how the intersection of students’ individual identities and motivations can allow them to translate their experiences. The photos you see here were submitted by students, faculty, and staff at Virginia Tech who identify as a first-generation college student or graduate. At Virginia Tech, a student is identified as a first-generation college student if neither parent/guardian has earned a bachelor’s degree at a four-year college or university. First-Generation Student Support was founded in August 2019 to support these students.
- Virginia Tech in the 1960s: An Exhibition of Student ResearchFralin, Scott; Mollin, Marian B. (Virginia Tech, 2019-12-10)This exhibit comes from student research in HIST 2984 – A Nation Divided: America in the 1960s. It explores the evolving nature of student life at Virginia Tech (then known as VPI) over the course of the 1960s. Using the student newspaper, The Virginia Tech, as the base, the students conducted research for panels which highlight events and trends defining the student experience: everything from dating and socializing, to student government and student-faculty relations, to race relations and responses to the Vietnam War. By placing these stories within the larger historical context of that time, it becomes clear that although Virginia Tech students were, in many ways, far from the center of the social, cultural, and political tumult that characterized much of the 1960s, they were not immune to the changes and conflicts the decade ushered in.
- Earth as Art, at Reynolds HomesteadFralin, Scott; McGee, John (Virginia Tech, 2025-04-30)The United States Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center periodically publishes a series of satellite images called Earth As Art. This collection of Landsat images includes scenes from across the globe associated with various landscapes and features. The Landsat program has been operational since 1972 and is recognized as the longest continuous global record of the Earth’s surface. The images presented in this exhibit were selected from the Earth As Art collection by John McGee, Geospatial Extension Specialist in the Department of Forest Resources & Environmental Conservation here at Virginia Tech. John also processed an image that includes the New River Valley using data collected by Landsat 8, captured on April 22, 2020.