The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors met on Sunday, March 19, and Monday, March 20, to discuss the 2023-2024 academic year’s tuition and fees. Though originally scheduled to vote on a resolution on this matter, this was put off until the next meeting on Friday, April 21, as they await action …

The town of Blacksburg is currently proposing to raise the tax on cigarettes, which would match Christiansburg and Montgomery County’s tax, according to The Roanoke Times. The county’s tax will go into effect July 1.

The president of Botswana, His Excellency Mokgweetsi Masisi, is scheduled to speak at Squires Student Center on Tuesday, March 21, according to VTx. This is believed to be the first visit to the university by an international head of state.

Editor's Note: This article was updated on March 29, 2023.

Tsai Lu Liu, former head of the Department of Graphic Design and Industrial Design at North Carolina State University, has been appointed as the new dean of the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design at Virginia Tech, according to VTx. The university has also named Saonee Sarker, a profes…

Elizabeth Henry Groff, a 2017 Virginia Tech graduate, traveled to Lviv, Ukraine in mid-January to support children affected by the 2022 Russian invasion, according to VTx.

From Wednesday, Feb. 15 to Thursday, Feb. 16, Virginia Tech celebrated its annual 24-hour Giving Day event. The event kicked off at 12 p.m. EST and concluded at the same time the following day.

Virginia Tech entered the Campus Race to Zero Waste challenge on Jan. 29 for an eight-week long competition with 66 other universities across North and Central America to reduce waste and boost recycling rates. With first place corresponding to the school with the highest recycling rate, Vir…

According to a statement from Blacksburg Police Chief Kendrick T. Brewster, two men were injured in separate shootings on Saturday, Feb. 18.

According to VTx, the last beam of Academic Building One at the Innovation Campus in Potomac Yard, Alexandria, was raised to its highest point Tuesday, Feb. 7.

Editor's Note: This article was updated on Feb. 14, 2023.

The Virginia Tech police department is launching investigations into the recent slew of scams that students and faculty have been subject to. University police have received roughly 20 different reports in the last several weeks from victims of various scams circulating across campus.

On Jan. 13, the White House released a statement announcing President Joe Biden’s selected members of the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation.

The Critical Carceral Studies Lab, a prison abolitionist research project within the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies at Virginia Tech, received two grants last November to grow their work advocating for a justice system not centered around incarceration.

On Jan. 18, President Tim Sands revealed in his annual State of the University Address that the university has broken its record for highest number of first-year applicants. This is the third consecutive year Virginia Tech has achieved this feat.

Last month, it was announced that Virginia Tech graduate and former faculty member Larry Bechtel will create a statue of Henrietta Lacks to replace the statue of Robert E. Lee in Roanoke, according to the Miami Times. The statue, designed by Roanoke artist Bryce Cobbs, is intended to commemo…

According to Caroline Green, the threat assessment team coordinator at Virginia Tech’s police department, Virginia Tech has hired a company to scan the internet and social media for threats. The university approached the company during the 2018–19 school year.

According to the Roanoke Times, Kiersten Hening, a previous member of the Virginia Tech soccer team, will be paid $100,000 from the university to settle a lawsuit Hening filed in March 2021.