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Article ItemRevitalized Honors Service Learning course helps students shape the Virginia Tech Climate Action Living Laboratory , article
Honors Service Learning students engage in hands-on sustainability work to help develop the Climate Action Living Laboratory.
Date: Apr 24, 2024 -
Article ItemCollaboration drives sustainability efforts at Virginia Tech , article
Virginia Tech's comprehensive and collaborative approach to sustainability initiatives helps further its Climate Action Commitment. These efforts are just a few examples of the ways Virginia Tech demonstrates impact as a global land-grant university — promoting sustainability in its surrounding communities, through Virginia, and around the world.
Date: Apr 16, 2024 -
Article ItemVT Engage Faculty Fellowships expand opportunities for community-engaged learning , article
The program is now open for new applicants to integrate high-impact, ethical community-based learning experiences in their academic courses and programs. Current fellows say their students' attitudes and attention reflect the purposeful learning their fellowships support.
Date: Feb 28, 2024 -
Article ItemLow oxygen in lakes may breathe new life into conservation efforts for water quality , article
Abigail Lewis and her international team analyzed 656 lakes across five continents to provide empirical evidence supporting a long-held theory regarding low deep-water oxygen concentrations, or anoxia.
Date: Feb 15, 2024 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech joins climate resilience partnership to serve the commonwealth , article
Virginia Tech joins the University of Virginia and Old Dominion University to help communities bolster their climate resiliency by anticipating threats, reducing community vulnerabilities, and respond to and recover from hazardous events and chronic stresses.
Date: Jan 11, 2024 -
Article ItemTurning tree tragedy into triumph , article
Dutch elm disease forced the removal of a landmark elm tree on the Upper Quad earlier this fall, but not before a group of committed tree lovers spent years collaborating to save it — and coming up with a plan to replace it
Date: Dec 12, 2023 -
General ItemVirginia Tech to hold annual ‘Lights Out!/Power Down!’ event on Dec. 6 Date: Dec 06, 2023
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General ItemGreen RFP Program seeks student sustainability proposals Date: Nov 17, 2023
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Video ItemLiving laboratory engages students with hands-on approach to sustainability , video
The Honors College Service-Learning course is playing a supporting role in helping to develop the university's Climate Action Living Laboratory. Students use Virginia Tech's campus and surrounding community as a “living laboratory" to learn about sustainability. The course also offers experiential learning through field trips around the area such as the Catawba Sustainability Center and Homefield Farm.
Date: Nov 15, 2023 -
Article ItemClimate Action Living Laboratory addresses sustainability challenges , article
The laboratory is helping faculty, staff, and students continue efforts to integrate Virginia Tech's Climate Action Commitment into the university’s educational mission and engage more students in sustainability-focused learning opportunities.
Date: Nov 14, 2023 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech continues efforts to achieve carbon neutrality on the Blacksburg campus , article
On Nov. 6., updates on Virginia Tech’s progress toward achieving its Climate Action Commitment and developing its inaugural utilities master plan were shared with the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors' Buildings and Grounds Committee.
Date: Nov 06, 2023 -
Article ItemSustainability interns help advance Virginia Tech’s Climate Action Commitment , article
Each academic year, students united by a common interest in sustainability expand their understanding of the interdisciplinary issue of climate change through experiential learning opportunities in the areas of energy, water, waste, and food.
Date: Oct 10, 2023 -
Article ItemMill Mountain Garden Club explores Health Sciences and Technology campus green roof, other conservation measures , article
The club is keenly interested in environmental conservation, and members wanted to see how the newest building on Virginia Tech’s Health Sciences and Technology campus in Roanoke earned a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Date: Sep 06, 2023 -
Article ItemUniversity set to implement latest Green RFP projects , article
The latest university-approved proposals include continued restoration efforts of Stroubles Creek, lighting upgrades, an enhanced battery recycling program, and more.
Date: Sep 01, 2023 -
Article ItemProtecting the protectors , article
Commonwealth Cyber Initiative researchers from Virginia Tech work to secure future military base power grid operations and their critical missions from cybersecurity threats.
Date: Aug 29, 2023 -
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Article ItemVirginia Tech Electric Service plugs into local power needs , article
The electric utility has met the electricity needs for the university and for a section of Blacksburg residents for the past 130 years — and is committed to doing so into the future.
Date: Aug 15, 2023 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech’s sustainability efforts earn global recognition , article
Times Higher Education released its 2023 Impact rankings for sustainability and Virginia Tech again earned a top-100 global ranking. The university's emphasis on eliminating hunger and food waste, sustainability research, and policies and procedures to help it become carbon neutral by 2030 all played a part in the strong showing
Date: Jun 01, 2023 -
Article ItemNewest biomedical research building celebrates Earth Day, one flush at a time , article
Rainwater collection and rooftop meadow garden help Fralin Biomedical Research Institute achieve a 60 percent reduction in water use.
Date: Apr 24, 2023 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech celebrates second anniversary of renewed Climate Action Commitment , article
In just two years since the commitment's approval, significant progress has been made toward achieving a carbon-neutral Blacksburg campus by 2030.
Date: Apr 10, 2023
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