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2006 Issue Contents with links to PDF files. |
- 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 in 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 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.
To request a print copy of this issue, contact the editor at OutreachNOW@vt.edu, call 540/231-7188, or drop a note to Editor, Outreach NOW, 702 University City Blvd. (0364), Blacksburg, VA 24061.
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Other Publications
- Inside Outreach - Outreach and International Affairs faculty and staff newsletter
- Outreach Connections Newsletter (annual)