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Five professors, one class: Welcome to Honors SuperStudio , articleFive professors from four academic disciplines help undergraduates study the Green New Deal from a multitude of angles.
Date: Aug 12, 2022 -
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Six grants from the Office of Undergraduate Research create new work and learning opportunities for students , articleThe grants created a range of opportunities for students, from exploring the video game Minecraft as a teaching tool to creating training materials for researchers working with marginalized communities. More than 70 undergrads participated, with the aim that faculty will be able to scale up programs to include more in the future.
Date: Aug 05, 2022 -
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Stamps Scholars partner with organizations to help build beds for children in need , articleIn their second annual bed build with Sleep In Heavenly Peace, a national organization dedicated to providing beds for children in need, Stamps Scholars in the Virginia Tech Honors College helped the New River Valley achieve one of its biggest builds yet. Partnering with 13 other organizations, the Stamps Scholars helped to build a total of 70 beds for local children.
Date: Jun 28, 2022 -
Video ItemTackling complex problems in the Honors College SuperStudio , video
Students in the Honors College's SuperStudio course learn the processes it takes to tackle the complex problems facing our world today. SuperStudio is part of the College's new Minor in Transdisciplinary Praxis.
Date: May 20, 2022 -
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Meet some members of the Class of 2022 , articleMeet a few of the students receiving their degrees this week. Congratulations to these graduates and all members of the Class of 2022.
Date: May 12, 2022 -
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Class of 2022: Mariam Hasan named Outstanding Senior for the Honors College , articleHasan’s extensive undergraduate student pursuits exemplify transdisciplinary collaboration, social responsibility, and experiential learning, which are core values of the Honors College.
Date: May 10, 2022 -
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Class of 2022: Psychology’s Kameron Cummings named 2022 Outstanding Senior in College of Science , articleCummings, majoring in psychology with a double minor in disability studies and sociology, has been a star researcher during her four years at Virginia Tech.
Date: May 06, 2022 -
Video ItemCalhoun Honors Discovery Program Expo brings together faculty, students and industry partners , video
Calhoun Honors Discovery Program's Expo, the culmination of project development across multiple learning environments, brought together students from 15 majors with industry partners from Boeing, General Electric, Caterpillar, Association for Financial Professionals, Capital Youth and Empowerment Program, and Ithaka S+R to tackle complex problems.
Date: May 03, 2022 -
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Honors faculty partners with the Office of Sustainability to launch the Honors Culture of Sustainability Lab , articleThis program serves as a space for honors undergraduate students to engage in interdisciplinary research exploring cultural and social aspects of sustainability.
Date: Apr 26, 2022 -
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How we collaborate: Calhoun Honors Discovery Program , articleWith the only full-time industry partner embedded in an academic program, the Calhoun Honors Discovery Program is uniquely interdisciplinary. That requires dedicated efforts at collaboration.
Date: Mar 23, 2022 -
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Honors students recognized with Norrine Bailey Spencer Strong Start Award , articleMore than 100 students in the Virginia Tech Honors College were recently recognized as Norrine Bailey Spencer Strong Start Honorees. The recognition goes to Honors College students who achieved a 4.0 in their first semester of study at Virginia Tech.
Date: Feb 23, 2022 -
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Equity, mentoring, Legos, and Googling: Student Joseph O’Such brings an eclectic worldview to campus with help from scholarships , articleO’Such spent a lot of his childhood with his family in Lane Stadium, shouting “Hokie hi” on Saturday afternoons with thousands of other fans. As a budding engineer, he also envisioned himself walking the Blacksburg campus as a student one day. With the help of two key scholarships, that dream became a reality.
Date: Feb 22, 2022 -
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Scholarship helps in the pursuit of a dream , articleVirginia Tech was Samantha Corduan’s dream school. But she’s from Edenton, North Carolina, and didn’t know if she could afford out-of-state tuition. Then she got an email from the STAMPS Scholars program notifying her she had earned a full-ride and an enrichment fund for college.
Date: Feb 18, 2022 -
Video ItemLessons in lean manufacturing , video
Undergraduate students in the Iteration and Continuous Improvement course experienced hands-on training in lean manufacturing, a method to minimize waste and maximize productivity in manufacturing, during a session in the Industrial & Systems Engineering Learning Factory. The training program was developed by ISE students last year for their capstone project, sponsored by Moog. Two of the graduates on that team, who now work for Moog, volunteered their time run the course. The effort is a collaboration between the Calhoun Honors Discovery Program, ISE, and Moog.
Date: Feb 17, 2022 -
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Study abroad scholarships help students gain an international perspective , articleStudents studying this semester at the Steger Center for International Scholarship are finding that living like a local in Switzerland means much more than cheese and chocolate.
Date: Feb 16, 2022 -
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Architecture and urban studies students serve through community leadership, on and off campus , articleFor a subset of students in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, serving their communities through leadership positions, both on and off campus, is a demonstration of Ut Prosim in action.
Date: Feb 16, 2022 -
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Student's art exhibit uses data to help illustrate racial health disparities , articleSenior Mariam Hasan has created a new data-driven art exhibition at the Armory that takes the audience on a journey through the racial inequalities that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the social conditions which have caused them.
Date: Feb 14, 2022 -
Video ItemHonors College senior merges art, engineering, and activism in campus exhibit , video
Mariam Hasan is an Honors College senior studying biomedical engineering, but she's also an artist, a designer, a scientist, and an activist fighting for social justice through, not just her art, but her engineering projects as well.
Date: Feb 09, 2022 -
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Exploring the many angles of the future of work , articleTaught by Daniel Sui, Virginia Tech’s vice president for research and innovation, and Ralph Hall, an associate professor in the School of Public and International Affairs, the new Honors College course takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the implications of advancing technology on life and work.
Date: Jan 12, 2022 -
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Engineering student brings youth drone academy program to the Dominican Republic , articleThe program was modeled on part of the Malawi class co-founded by Assistant Professor Kevin Kochersberger, putting materials in the hands of students to build motorized foam gliders to test the laws of aerodynamics, electricity, and surfaces.
Date: Nov 19, 2021
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