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2012-13: Our world-changing land-grant heritage
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2011: Working side by side with communities
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2010: It's All About Impact
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2009: Economic Development is a Complex Process
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2008: Lessons in Collaboration
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2007: The Real World Community of Virginia Tech
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2006: Looking Outward, Looking Forward
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- Message from the Vice Provost for Outreach and International Affairs about faculty outreach efforts.
- A Point of Departure for International Partnerships. Virginia Tech's new international faculty development program supports professors building partnerships. Faculty and students benefit.
- A Culture of Research Builds on Southside Resources. Virginia Tech research on plants and polymers at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research is tailored to building local prosperity.
- Tapping the Margins with Ann Kilkelly. Award-winning researcher, tap-dancer, choreographer, script writer, director, poet, and more, Ann Kilkelly emphasizes the interactive.
- Building a Better Economy for Virginia Through Research. Virginia Tech's Office of Economic Development offers services to communities and business.
- Turning Assets into Opportunities One Community at a Time. As Virginia's communities move away from agriculture, mining, and textiles, Cooperative Extension is collaborating with communities to provide the skills needed to build on local resources.
- Engineering Classes Across Continents. Students in Professor Jan Helge Bohn's engineering classes collaborate in real time using the Internet with their peers in Germany, China, Mexico, Australia and more to create new car designs.
- Community Planners Learn New Approach to Urban Development. Harmony of design is a goal of Form-Based Codes, a new approach now being used to guide redevelopment everywhere from small towns to Hurricane Katrina-damaged Biloxi.
- A Lot to Think and Write About. Students from 8 to 18 get creative at the annual All Write @ Virginia Tech camp sponsored by the Department of English.
- Robotics in Action: Preparing Students for the Next Century. Brenda Brand, assistant professor in the School of Education, collaborates with the local school system to train high school students to build robots for competition--with the help of Virginia Tech student mentors.
- Upward Bound and Talent Search Programs Guide Youth to College. Virginia Tech's programs for regional middle and high school students help 91% enter college.
- News Briefs.
- Commonwealth Centers. Virginia Tech's graduate and outreach centers in Abingdon, Hampton Roads, the National Capital Region, Richmond, and Roanoke.
- Contacts for Outreach and International Affairs.
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2005: Introducing Outreach NOW
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- Message from the Vice Provost for Outreach and International Affairs about university outreach efforts.
- Raising the Level of Dialogue Around the World. Virginia Tech's Office of International Research, Education, and Development collaborates with partners around the world to increase food security, reduce the use of harmful pesticides, and promote sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. Sidebar on Education Abroad programs.
- Distributed University Research Helps Southside Economy. Virginia Tech partners with Southside, Virginia government, organizations, and educational institutions in a new approach to economic development.
- VT-STEM: A Link Between K-12 Teachers and Campus Programs. Faculty from across the university who are focusing on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education come together to make their work more accessible to teachers.
- Timely Assistance on the Way for the Forest Industry. The new Sloan Foundation Forestry Center will do research to address challenges faced by the industry--and give it a leg up on the competition.
- Animal Shelter Workshop Teaches Simple Steps to Better Care. One hundred animal shelter professionals from the region and 75 via the Internet learned the latest health assessment, sanitation, adoption promotion, and other shelter management skills.
- A Grand Welcome for Our Visitors. The university's two accredited hotel and conference center complexes make university research dissemination at conferences--and travel to Roanoke and Blacksburg--a pleasure.
- News Briefs
- A Master of the Mission. Clifton C. Garvin Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics Romesh Batra teaches practical applications of research at continuing education classes.
- A Place to Call Home: A Mentor's Story. Service-Learning Center Director Michele James-Deramo tells the story of Blacksburg's Somali-Bantu families, from Somalia to Kenya to Southwest Virginia.
- Commonwealth Campus Centers. Virginia Tech's graduate and outreach centers in Abingdon, Hampton Roads, the National Capital Region, Richmond, and Roanoke.
- Contacts for Outreach and International Affairs.
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Outreach NOW is published annually at the beginning of the fall semester. It is distributed to university off-campus partners. For a free subscription or copy, contact Holly Carroll at hcarroll@vt.edu, call 540/231-9868, or drop us a note, Outreach NOW, 319 Burruss Hall. (0265), Blacksburg, VA 24061. |
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