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Recent honorifics news

This list of Virginia Tech news releases cover faculty honorific awards since the site was established in 2022. 

Jan. 1, 2024 - Charles Dye named Fulbright Specialist
Jan. 1, 2024 - Peter Kennelly awarded William C. Rose Award from ASBMB. (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
Jan. 1, 2024 - Peter Kennelly elected ASBMB Fellow
Jan. 2, 2024 - Physics' Giti Khodaparast elected 2024 Optica Fellow (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
Jan. 8, 2024 - Virginia Tech awarded a $250,000 Sloan Foundation grant
Jan. 9, 2024 - S. Ansar Ahmed inducted into prestigious national Sigma Xi honor society.
Jan. 12, 2024 - Tom Dingus selected as 2023 recipient of the SAE International Humanitarian Award honorifing Arnold W. Siegel
Jan. 15, 2024 - Yuhao Zhang receives 2024 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
Jan. 18, 2024 - Three computer scientists elected fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Jan. 18, 2024 - Azim Eskandarian named IEEE Fellow
Jan. 22, 2024 - Kathleen Alexander receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor
Jan. 22, 2024 - Timothy Jarome receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor
Jan. 22, 2024 - Daniel Crawford receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor
Jan. 23, 2024 - Bart Raeymaekers inducted to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Jan. 25, 2024 - Kevin Shinpaugh named AIAA associate fellow
Jan. 31, 2024 - Jennifer Wayne receives American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dedicated Service Award
Jan. 31, 2024 - Sunshine Lahmers receives 2023 Zoetis Distinguished Veterinary Teacher Award
Feb. 1, 2024 - Ozzie Abaye honored for national teaching excellence in food and agricultural sciences
Feb. 2, 2024 - Menah Pratt honored among Top 50 Women Leaders of Virginia for second consecutive year
Feb. 7, 2024 - Gerardo Flintsch announced as 2024 recipient of the Wilbur S. Smith Award and ASCE Fellow. (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
Feb. 19, 2024 - Michael Moehler receives Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
Feb. 22, 2024 - Monet Roberts receives Inaugural Henrietta Lacks Legacy Award from Young Doctors Roanoke
Feb. 27, 2024 - Dylan Losey receives National Science Foundation CAREER award to build assistive AI (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
Feb. 28, 2024 - Steve Rowson and Michael Bartlett named National Academy of Inventors Senior Members
March 1, 2024 - Margaret Ellis receives Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Undergraduate Teaching Award
March 4, 2024 - Matthew T. Holt receives Distinguished Agriculture Alumni Award from Purdue University
March 4, 2024 - Jungmeen Kim-Spoon named fellow in two national organizations (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS x 2!)
March 7, 2024 - Louis Hickman's research earns recongition from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
March 13, 2024 - Rodrigo Sarlo receives National Science Foundation CAREER award (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
March 19, 2024 - Richard Hanowski receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to Malaysia (NRC = Prestigious)
March 19, 2024 - Julie Shortridge receives Fulbright Scholar award to Finland (NRC = Prestigious)
March 19, 2024 - Ting-Chung Poon receives the OPTICA Emmett N. Leith Medal (NRC = Prestigious)
March 20, 2024 - Vincent Wang named Orthopaedic Research Society Fellow
March 20, 2024 - Alba Yerro-Colom wins NSF Early CAREER Award (NRC = Prestigious)
March 20, 2024 - Wenjing Lou named Association for Computing Machinery Fellow
March 21, 2024 - Jennifer Munson to be inducted into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows
March 21, 2024 - Buddy Howell receives national award for teaching first-year students
March 22, 2024 - Pinar Acar wins Frontiers of Materials Award
March 25, 2024 - Thinh Doan receives US Air Force of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award 
March 27, 2024 - Thinh Doan receives NSF CAREER Award (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
March 27, 2024 - Whittington Named ELATES Fellow
March 29, 2024 - Lance Collins recognized at Washington Business Journal Diversity in Business Awards
March 29, 2024 - Manish Bansal honored in first cohort of INFORMS Senior Members
April 1, 2024 - Layne Watson receives Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellowship
April 5, 2024 - Virginia Tech professor to be inducted into prestigious American Society for Clinical Investigation
April 8, 2024 - Sait Tunc receives NSF CAREER award to optimize health care systems for equitable outcomes (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
April 10, 2024 - Travlis Morrison receives NSF CAREER award (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
April 10, 2024 - Hainan Gheng wins Best Paper Award from the American Real Estate Society
April 11, 2024 - Andrew Scerri selected as a Fulbright Scholar (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
April 11, 2024 - Joseph Bedford receives American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant
April 15, 2024 - Alba Yerro-Colom to use National Science Foundation CAREER award to better predict and prevent landslides (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
April 16, 2024 - Tijay Chung wins NSF Early CAREER award (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
April 17, 2024 - Vijay Singh receives Weed Science Society of America Outstanding Revierew Award
April 17, 2024 - Rajesh Bagtchi receives American Marketing Association RAPSIG Retail and Pricing Mentoring Award
April 17, 2024 - Audrey Ruple named National Academies of Practice Distinguished Fellow (FNAP)
April 17, 2024 - Satoru Emori receives IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturers honor
April 17, 2024 - Satoru Emori receives American Physical Society Outstanding Referee award
April 18, 2024 - Eric Burger, Liwu Li, Barbara Ryder, Nancy Ross, Naren Ramakrishnan, and Brenda Winkel named AAAS Fellows (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)

Jan. 1, 2023 - Subhash Sarin receives Fulbright Specialist
Jan. 2, 2023 - Wu Feng receives Test of Time Award for work on energy-efficient high-performance computing
Jan. 3, 2023 - Researchers to lead Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society
Jan. 17, 2023 - Eli Vlaisavljevich receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor
Jan. 19, 2023 - Bevlee Watford chosen to serve on National Science Board
Jan. 23, 2023 - Abbi Hanson Allen receives 2022 Outstanding IFC Advisor Award
Jan. 24, 2023 - France Bélanger earns top recognition from Association for Information Systems for research excellence
Jan. 27, 2023 - Kevin Lahmers, leader in exotic tick disease study, receives Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence
Jan. 31, 2023 - M.A. Saghai Maroof named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Feb. 1, 2023 - Albert Auguste and student honored with Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Feb. 1, 2023 - Congrations to Mike Ellerbrock, recipient of the AAEA Economics Distinguished Teaching Award
Feb. 1, 2023 - Jayesh Samtani and Mosban Kashad win Extension Division Education Materials Award from the American Socieity for Horticultural Science
Feb. 1, 2023 - Richard Hunt wins Entrepreneurship Division's Best Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management.
Feb. 2, 2023 - John G. Rocovich, Jr. honored with Virginia 4-H’s Emerald Clover Award
Feb. 7, 2023 - Martin receives SIAM Activity Group Early Career Prize
Feb. 8, 2023 - A legacy of inventors
Feb. 9, 2023 - Linsey Marr named to National Academy of Engineering (NRC = HIGHLY PRESTIGIOUS)
Feb. 14, 2023 - Robert Gourdie named senior member of the National Academy of Inventors
Feb. 14, 2023 - Chris Smith joins National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine roundtable
Feb. 16, 2023 - Tom Dingus earns federal award for excellence in safety engineering
Feb. 16, 2023 - Alan J. Brown receives ASNE Harold E. Saunders Award for Lifetime Achievement
Feb. 20, 2023 - Mathieu Joerger lauded with multiple honors from the Institute of Navigation
Feb. 21, 2023 - School of Neuroscience and Department of Engineering Education receive University Exemplary Department or Program Award
Feb. 21, 2023 - Anne M. Brown receives NSF CAREER award to use computational modeling to study amyloid interactions (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
Feb. 21, 2023 - Hesham Rakha named fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Feb. 22, 2023 - Jim Egenrieder named 2023 National ACTE Postsecondary Professional of the Year
Feb. 23, 2023 - Virginia Tech’s Menah Pratt and Robert Weiss named American Council on Education fellows
Feb. 27, 2023 - Luis Escobar receives NSF CAREER award to study disease transmission among wildlife and across geographic scales (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
Feb. 27, 20023 - Antonio Trani honored with Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award for Runway Exit Design Interactive Model used by airports worldwide
Feb. 28, 2023 - Danfeng 'Daphne' Yao, pioneer and expert in enterprise data security, elevated to IEEE fellow
Feb. 28, 2023 - Michael Bartlett receives NSF CAREER award to study soft composite manufacturing (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
March 1, 2023 - Travis Webster Won 2023 Conference on College Composition and Communication Lavender Rhetorics Book Award
March 2, 2023 - Grant fuels project to highlight untold history across Appalachia
March 2, 2023 - Pamplin Office for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging receives INSIGHT Into Diversity's Inspiring Programs in Business Award
March 3, 2023 - Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz earns Fulbright scholarship to study pollution in the Amazon rainforest
March 3, 2023 - Roger Ramirez-Barrios named Virginia Veterinary Medical Association’s Mentor of the Year
March 9, 2023 - Lauren Childs honored with fellowship by Association for Women in Mathematics and Cornell University
March 14, 2023 - Virginia Tech researchers receive National Science Foundation award to secure vegetable production in a changing environment
March 16, 2023 - Matthew Gabriele named Bullough Fellow by the University of St Andrews
March 21, 2023 - Menah Pratt honored as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders of Virginia for 2023
March 22, 2023 - Robert Gourdie elected fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
March 22, 2023 - ENGE Asst. Professor Nicole Pitterson receives nearly $1 million NSF CAREER Grant (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
March 23, 2023 - Medical students honor Sarah Parker with 2023 Research Mentor of the Year Award
March 28, 2023 - Matthew Fullen wins Counselor Educator Advocacy Award
April 1, 2023 - Theodore Lim Awarded NSF CAREER Grant (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
April 3, 2023 - Chemistry’s Michael Schulz awarded National Science Foundation CAREER award (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
April 3, 2023 - Michael Schulz awarded Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
April 7, 2023 - Ruoxi Jian receives NSF CAREER Award (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
April 20, 2023 - Tyechia Thompson receives NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication (NRC = HighlyPrestigious)
April 26, 2023 - Three Virginia Tech advisors win awards from national advising organization
April 26, 2023 - Daniel Crawford Elected to Two Prestigious International Quantum Molecular Science Associations
May 1, 2023 - Shawn Askew honored with Fellows Award from the Weed Science Society of America
May 3, 2023 - 2023 STAR, IMPACT Awards Honor 3 Cottrell Scholars
May 3, 2023 - Virginia Tech’s Robert J. Bodnar and Shuhai Xiao elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NRC = HIGHLY PRESTIGIOUS)
May 5, 2023 - Dining Services' marketing team wins five ADDY awards
May 5, 2023 - Researcher receives prestigious grant to study computer modeling
May 5, 2023 - Lifu Huang receives NSF CAREER award to lay new ground for information extraction without relying on humans (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
May 10, 2023 - James Hawdon to research online hate with Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Finland
May 10, 2023 - Su Fang Ng receives National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
May 11, 2023 - Mark Barrow wins 2023 Teaching Scholar Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
May 12, 2023 - Nikki Giovanni receives Ut Prosim Scholar Award
May 12, 2023 - College of Engineering inducts six members into Virginia Tech Academy of Engineering Excellence
May 15, 2023 - Medical school awards second cohort of Dean’s Diversity Champions
May 18, 2023 - Alireza Haghighat earns Gerald C. Pomraning Memorial Award (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
May 18, 2023 - Faculty academies recognize three new members for exceptional leadership, service
May 18, 2023 - Chen-Ching Liu named foreign fellow of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering
May 18, 2023 - Chemistry’s Daniel Crawford receives 2023 Cottrell STAR Award
May 25, 2023 - Lisa Tucker honored with Arnold P. Friedmann Educator of Distinction award
May 30, 2023 - Carolyn Copenheaver wins Jack Everly Journal Award from the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA)
June 1, 2023 - Linbo Shao wins Ralf E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
June 2, 2023 - Don Taylor earns prestigious award for career contributions to industrial, systems engineering
June 7, 2023 - Phi Beta Kappa recognizes excellence in creativity and research among faculty members, students
June 7, 2023 - Caitlyn Collins named 2023-2025 iTHRIV Scholar
June 8, 2023 - Robotics paper wins the outstanding paper award of the 2023 IEEE ICRA
June 13, 2023 - Virginia vaccination project named national 'immunization champion'
June 13, 2023 - Professor Walid Saad wins two IEEE paper awards for publications on wireless communications and federated learning
June 16, 2023 - Rui Qiao named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
June 20, 2023 - Management’s Phil Thompson receives scholar award, fellowship after mid-career change
June 20, 2023 - Erdogan Kiran named fellow of national chemical engineering association
June 28, 2023 - Dominique Polanco wins 2023 BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Hispanic Bibliography for “Copying the Colony: The Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México’s Many Editions”
June 28, 2023 - Craig Ramseyer wins Editor's Award from the American Meteorological Society
June 28, 2023 - Michael von Spakovsky honored with Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program
June 28, 2023 - Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq honored with National Council of Teachers of English's CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Awards/Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of Technical or Scientific Communication Award
June 28, 2023 - Daniel Williams wins National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
June 29, 2023 - Linsey Marr receives SURA Distinguished Scientist Award
June 30, 2023 - Bahareh Nojabaei wins Petroleum Research Fund (PRF)/New Directions (ND) Grant
June 30, 2023 - Dina Smith-Glaviana honored with Paper of Distiction Award from the International Textile and Apparel Association
June 30, 2023 - Chad Levinson named Scholar in Residence by the John W. Kluge Center
July 12, 2023 - Jennifer Wayne awarded the Dedicated Service Award by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
July 25, 2023 - Fernanda Rosa named in second cohort the 2023–2025 Just Tech Fellow from the Social Science Research Council.
July 27, 2023 - Pinar Acar receives NSF CAREER award to design the materials of the future
July 31, 2023 - Hesham Rakha named Canadian Academy of Engineering fellow
Aug. 1, 2023 - David Brunsma receives Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociology Association (NRC = Prestigious)
Aug. 1, 2023 - Rachel Midura recieves Renaissance Society of America Fellowship
Aug. 2, 2023 - Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz receives the 2023 Kenneth T. Whitby Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research.
Aug. 11, 2023 - Walid Saad's research group receives the IEEE Best Paper Award for Advances in Communication from the IEEE Communications Society.
Aug. 14, 2023 - Kevin P. Granta Faculty Fellow, Robin Queen receives the Jean Landa Pytel Award for Diversity Mentorship in Biomechanics from the American Society of Biomechanics.
Aug. 16, 2023 - Wilbur B. Smith Distinguished Transportation Educator Award awarded to Bryan Katz
Aug. 22, 2023 - Alexander Brand receives NSF CAREER award to discover the mechanisms that make concrete work
Aug. 24, 2023 - Brian Strahm named fellow of the Soil Science Society of America 
Aug. 24, 2023 - Margie Lee honored with national poultry research award
Aug. 28, 2023 - Making a CAREER on bridging scientific knowledge and AI
Aug. 31, 2023 - Davalos, Munson, and Wayne named Fellows by the Biomedical Engineering Society
August 31, 2023 - Haibo Huang receives New Holland Young Researcher Award (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
Sept. 1, 2023 - Kathy Lu awarded ACerS/EPDC: Arthur L Friedberg Ceramic Engineering Tutorial and Lecture award
Sept. 1, 2023 - Kim Niewolny presented the Excellence in Instruction Award by the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society
Sept. 1, 2023 - Xiaowei Yue awarded IISE Transactions Award
Sept. 1, 2023 - Mona Ghassemi awarded U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program
Sept. 1, 2023 - Silke Hauf awarded NIH Outstanding Investigator Award (R35)
Sept. 1, 2023 - Stella Lucia Volpe awarded the McCormick Science Institute Research Award
Sept. 12, 2023 - David Brunsma awarded the American Sociological Association (ASA) Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award
Sept. 19, 2023 - Medical school’s Kiran Khalid earns Early Career Development Award
Sept. 22, 2023 - Shigeo Ted Oyama (VT emeritus) named 2023 recipient of the George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry (NRC = PRESTIGIOUS)
Sept. 28, 2023 - Longtime poultry geneticist Paul Siegel receives national lifetime research award
Oct. 4, 2023 - Veterinary college to present Distinguished Alumni Awards at Connect 2023
Oct. 4, 2023 - Virginia Tech's Linsey Marr named 2023 MacArthur Fellow (NRC = HIGHLY PRESTIGIOUS)
Oct. 5, 2023 - Yingda Cheng honored by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Oct. 11, 2023 - Virginia Tech announced as HEED Award winner for eight consecutive years
Oct. 16, 2023 - Accomplishments, scholarship, and impact honored at research celebration
Oct. 20, 2023 - Scott D. King elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union
Oct. 25, 2023 - Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine faculty member honored with national award for humanism
Oct. 25, 2023 - Brian Lattimer named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Oct. 27, 2023 - Faculty, staff honored with annual College of Agriculture and Life Sciences awards
Nov. 8, 2023 - Veterinary college’s Audrey Ruple inducted into two scientific honor societies
Nov. 8, 2023 - Bahareh Bekham recognized as an emerging leader in biological engineering
Nov. 13, 2023 - American Physical Society names physics’ Sophia Economou as fellow
Nov. 15, 2023 - Dr. Andrea L’Afflitto selected Top Associate Professor of the Year by IATOP
Nov. 13, 2023 - National FFA Convention & Expo honors 11 Virginians for outstanding contributions to agricultural education
Nov. 17, 2023 - Virginia Tech, CCI researchers and students win big at influential military communications conference
Nov. 26, 2023 - Highly Cited Researchers 2023: Zheng 'Phil' Xiang
Nov. 26, 2023 - Highly Cited Researchers 2023: Walid Saad
Nov. 26, 2023 - Highly Cited Researchers 2023: Linsey Marr
Nov. 26, 2023 - Highly Cited Researchers 2023: Wenjing Lou
Nov. 26, 2023 - Highly Cited Researchers 2023: Lina Quan
Nov. 30, 2023 -Highly Cited Researchers 2023: Kwok Tsui
Nov. 30, 2023 - Michael Goatley receives gold medal for his work with industry
Dec. 1, 2023 - Costin Untariou receives Barnett-Uzgiris Product Safety Design Award from ASME
Dec. 1, 2023 - Valerie Welborn wins NIH Outstanding Investigator Award (R35)
Dec. 5, 2023 - Veterinary college’s Roger Ramirez-Barrios receives Zoetis Research Award
Dec. 5, 2023 - Veterinary college's Sunshine Lahmers receives Zoetis Teaching Award
Dec. 12, 2023 - José Ramón Madrid Padilla receives inaugural fellowship from American Mathematical Society
Dec. 13, 2023 - Christina McIntyre named National Collegiate Honors Council fellow
Dec. 15, 2023 - Eric Burger elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors
Dec. 15, 2023 - Robin McCarley elected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors 
Dec. 19, 2023 - Acar recognized by global leadership group
Dec. 21, 2023 - Daniel Crawford Receives 2024 SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award
Dec. 31, 2023 - John Casali awarded Oliver Keith Hansen Outreach Award
Dec. 31, 2023 - Lou Wenjing named ACM Fellow

 

 

Jan. 4, 2022 - Marion Ehrich recognized for leadership in toxicology
Jan. 6, 2022 - A. Roger Ekirch receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor
Jan. 7, 2022 - Linsey Marr receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor
Jan. 10, 2022 - Michael Weaver receives Entomological Society of America’s Distinguished Achievement Award in Extension
Jan. 18, 2022 - David Townsend wins USASBE Model Program Award from the US Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE)
Jan. 26, 2022 - American Association for the Advancement of Science honors X.J. Meng as Lifetime Fellow
Jan. 26, 2022 - Physics’ Leo Piilonen awarded Lifetime Fellowship by American Association for the Advancement of Science
Jan. 26, 2022 - Yao Fu receives two early career awards to investigate fractures and cracking behaviors of additively manufactured metals
Jan. 26, 2022 - Jennifer Davis awarded 2021 Zoetis Excellence in Teaching Award
Feb. 11, 2022 - Chris Williams named senior member of the National Academy of Inventors
Feb. 11, 2022 - John Robertson named senior member of the National Academy of Inventors
Feb. 17, 2022 - Washington Architectural Foundation recognizes Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center and faculty members
Feb. 20, 2022 - Robin Queen elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Feb. 23, 2022 - Dennis Dean honored as fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Feb. 24, 2022 - Neuroscience’s Sujith Vijayan receives NSF CAREER award to study neural dynamics during sleep.
March 2, 2022 - Landon Marston receives NSF CAREER award to advance water sustainability and economic resilience
March 7, 2022 - Alan Michaels elected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
March 9, 2022 - Physics instructor Alma Robinson receives national teaching award for first-year experiences
March 15, 2022 - Pinhas Ben-Tzvi named fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
March 15, 2022 - Sustainable biomaterials professor honored for creating the future of wood science
March 17, 2022 - Microbiologist Frank Aylward to use $989,000 NSF CAREER Award to study ‘giant’ viruses found in ecosystems
March 21, 2022 - Shima Shahab receives NSF CAREER Award to develop innovative methods for delivering ultrasound treatments
April 7, 2022 - Maryam Shakiba receives NSF CAREER award to study microplastics pollution in oceans
April 11, 2022 - Linda Dahlgren awarded the 2021 Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence
April 13, 2022 - Virginia Tech early-career faculty earn 54 prestigious awards
April 14, 2022 - Venkat Sridhar receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to study water availability and demand research in India
April 19, 2022 - Virginia Tech celebrates its inventors
April 21, 2022 - Navdeep Sokhey receives prestigious national fellowship for research on survival of dialects through social media
April 21, 2022 - Xiaowei Yue named a Sandra L. Bouckley Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer
April 26, 2022 - Javiera Jaque Hidalgo awarded National Endowment for the Humanities support for research on Indigenous funeral rituals in colonial Santiago
May 17, 2022 - H. Clay Gabler III posthumously awarded the Kenneth A. Stonex Roadside Safety award
May 18, 2022 - Charlene Eska receives Guggenheim Fellowship for research on early Irish law
May 19, 2022 - Alan Asbeck receives NSF CAREER award to create new type of lower-body exoskeleton
May 20, 2022 - Virginia Tech assistant professor earns prestigious Fulbright Specialist Award
May 23, 2022 - International Association of Medical Science Educators honors Richard Vari with lifetime achievement award
June 13, 2022 - Homero Murzi receives NSF CAREER award to create the next generation of engineering education leaders in diversity, equity, and inclusion
June 14, 2022 - NSF CAREER Award will help address food security and nitrate pollution
June 17, 2022 - Julia Ross named 2022 Outstanding Woman Leader in Virginia Higher Education
June 22, 2022 - Dong Dong receives NSF CAREER Award to build more efficient power conversion platforms for high-voltage systems
July 5, 2022 - Hosein Foroutan receives NSF CAREER Award to understand how plastic particles are aerosolized
July 25, 2022 - Blake Johnson receives NSF CAREER Award to improve reliability of biosensors
Aug. 4, 2022 - Yaoyi Zhou named ASID Ones to Watch award winner from the American Society of Interior Designers
Sept. 6, 2022 - Linsey Marr named Jacob Bjerknes Lecturer in the Atmostpheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union.
Sept. 16, 2022 - Industry leaders inducted into the 2022 Livestock Hall of Fame
Sept. 23, 2022 - Michael Nussbaum inducted into the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators
Oct. 4, 2022 -  Mathematical Association of America honors Estrella Johnson with award for research
Oct. 7, 2022 - Research!America to recognize Michael Friedlander, Heywood Fralin for medical and health leadership
Oct. 9, 2022 - A living legend: Sarah Gregory honored with induction into National 4-H Hall of Fame
Oct. 12, 2022 - Virginia Tech scientist to accept international prize for medical research
Oct. 18, 2022 - Chip von Weise recognized with AIA Illinois Architecture Education Award
Oct. 21, 2022 - Veterinary college's William “Bill” Pierson earns national avian disease award
Oct. 31, 2022 - Ron Fricker elected to Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Nov. 11, 2022 - Hang Yu chosen for DARPA Young Faculty Award
Nov. 15, 2022 - Jeff Marion earns the U.S. Department of Interior’s highest award
Nov. 15, 2022 - Veterinary college’s dean receives honor from Auburn University
Nov. 15, 2022 - Virginia Tech researchers among the most cited in the world
Nov. 28, 2022 - University Libraries’ carbon footprint research leads to international best paper prize
Nov. 28, 2022 -  R. Thulasi Kumar honored with University Technology Leader of the Year Award
Nov. 28, 2022 - Timothy Bolton awarded Zoetis Distinguished Veterinary Teacher Award
Dec. 1, 2022 - Virginia Tech achievers receive top Southwest Virginia Business Hall of Fame honors
Dec. 1, 2022 - Barbara Lockee honored with 2022 David H. Jonassen Excellence in Research Award from AECT
Dec. 1, 2022 - Todd Lowe named fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Dec. 8, 2022 - Roe-Hoan Yoon elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors
Dec. 16, 2022 - Two faculty honored as part of the AIAA Class of 2023 Associate Fellows
Dec. 19, 2022 - Harpreet S. Dhillon elected fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Dec. 19, 2022 - Rafael Davalos elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors
Dec. 20, 2022 - Social science faculty recipients of Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment’s first PREP awards
Dec. 31, 2022 - Haining Wang named ACM Distinguished Member by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2022 - Patricia Dove awarded with International Mineralogical Association IMA Medal

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