The fourth annual VetTRAC summer program offered a week of hands-on activities, lectures, and tours for undergraduate students from underrepresented populations interested in veterinary medicine.

Virginia Cooperative Extension was awarded a $1.28 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The five-year grant will support health education initiatives aimed at preventing opioid abuse among vulnerable communities in Virginia.

Katherine Broadway, a Virginia Tech graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences, is researching a cutting-edge, microbe-based cancer therapy as her dissertation project.

A veterinarian and medical microbiologist, Lee has been appointed head of the veterinary college's Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology. A two-time Hokie, she returns as the first female chair in the department's history.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a new five-year grant to Ken Oestreich, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, to study immunological memory.

Theus' work focuses on stem cell therapy, especially the potential for "self-healing," which uses the patient's stem cells in the healing process.

The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved these promotions, tenure, and continued appointments at its June 4 meeting.

The partnership between the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech and the Humane Rescue Alliance of Washington, D.C., will provide expanded educational opportunities for veterinary students and an increased capacity for quality veterinary services to the Washington, D.C., region.

The American chestnut is often remembered as a giant, but research suggests that those memories may not be entirely accurate.

The program is based on the Virginia Tech Carilion Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, and it positions students to conduct research in more than 50 departments and institutes across Virginia Tech.