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The Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering, the School of Architecture + Design in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences' Undergraduate Research Institute, and a pair of departments working together, the Department of History and the Department of Teaching and Learning in the School of Education, will all receive the 2008 University Exemplary Department Award at a ceremony to be held Tuesday, Dec. 2 at The Inn at Virginia Tech.

Intense glacial erosion has not only carved the surface of the highest coastal mountain range on earth, the spectacular St. Elias range in Alaska, but has elicited a structural response from deep within the mountain.

The Virginia Tech Department of Music, of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences presents "A Musical Odyssey: Piano Music by Kent Holliday," a faculty recital featuring the compositions of Kent Holliday on Saturday, Dec. 6 at 8 p.m. in the Squires Recital Salon.

Accounting and information systems associate professor Steve Sheetz has received a grant from accounting and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to investigate why more firms have not adopted XBRL -- eXtensible Business Reporting Language, part of a group of information systems languages used for communicating information between businesses and on the Internet.

Markel Corporation's senior vice president and chief financial officer Richard R. Whitt will give a talk on Thursday, Nov. 13, as the Wachovia Distinguished Speaker in the Pamplin College of Business.

Faculty members in computer science, English, and the Pamplin College of Business will lead a two-day workshop aimed at gathering information about the use of computing and information technology in different disciplines. The workshop, on Friday, Oct. 31 and Saturday, Nov. 1, will be held at the Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center.

Intense glacial erosion has not only carved the surface of the highest coastal mountain range on earth, the spectacular St. Elias range in Alaska, but has elicited a structural response from deep within the mountain.

The Southwest Virginia Science Forum brings together university, college, and corporate researchers to develop new relationships, share ideas, and showcase inventions and discoveries. The next forum is Dec. 10 at the Fralin Life Science Institute (formerly the Biotechnology Center) on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, from 4 to 7:30 pm.

Two Virginia Tech researchers have been awarded a 2.4 million dollar grant by the National Science Foundation to investigate ways to engage females in information technology career fields in five states -- Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and West Virginia.

Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets alumnus Capt. Eric Keith, who received a degree in psychology from the College of Science in 1999, has been selected as a Hokie Hero.

Joe R. Cowles of Blacksburg, professor of biological sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, was conferred the "professor emeritus" title by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors during the board's quarterly meeting on Nov. 3.

Jack A. Cranford, associate professor of biological sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, was conferred the "associate professor emeritus" title by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors during the board's quarterly meeting on Nov. 3.

The Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering, the School of Architecture + Design in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences' Undergraduate Research Institute, and a pair of departments working together, the Department of History and the Department of Teaching and Learning in the School of Education, will all receive the 2008 University Exemplary Department Award at a ceremony to be held Tuesday, Dec. 2 at The Inn at Virginia Tech.

Virginia Tech and the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) signed a memorandum of understanding in Dahlgren, Va., Nov. 25, designed to develop and expand a framework of cooperation that will benefit the university's students and faculty in addition to Navy technology programs.

Ranga Pitchumani, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Connecticut, has been named a John R. Jones III Fellow in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech recently by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.