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Outreach NOW highlights the ways Virginia Tech works locally and globally.
From the Hahn Horticultural Garden on the Blacksburg campus to war-ravaged villages in Southern Sudan, Virginia Tech faculty and students are using research, education, and economic development to enhance the quality of life for countless people.
The 2009-2010 issue of Outreach Now: Networking Opportunities Worldwide illustrates the variety and complexity of the land-grant university’s efforts throughout the Commonwealth and around the world.
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Virginia Tech is a national leader in outreach and engagement programs that are making differences with individuals, businesses, and communities around the globe. The university's commitment to community engagement is as deep as it is wide. We welcome inquires from communities, companies, and institutions seeking solutions to the perplexing problems of the 21st century. As a land-grant university, we embrace our unique mission and moral responsibility to find new pathways toward human advancement.
The Virginia Tech partnerships in Southside Virginia won the first competitively awarded Magrath/Kellogg Award for Community Engagement given by the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. In 2007, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recognized Virginia Tech as an engaged university, including its role in the scholarship of engagment. Virginia Tech's volunteer service initiative, VT-ENGAGE, drew together university and communities, with more than 340,000 hours of volunteer work during its first year. Our Engagement Academy for University Leaders, launched in June 2008, annually attracts upper-level administrators from colleges and universities around the country for a total-immersion learning experience in developing and implementing a strategy for university engagement.
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Outreach News
- Doctoral student reaches out to area refugee girls with after-school program
- Governor's Conference for STEM Education set for Nov. 15-16 in Roanoke
- Professors learn about higher education needs in Iraq during visit
- Office of International Research, Education, and Development garners $30 million from U.S. Agency for International Development for two global projects
- New phase of high school-university research partnership funded by National Institutes of Health
- Researcher for Virginia Tech program wins Nobel Prize
- Office of International Affairs sponsors World Food Day telecast, canned food drive