Anisa Zvonkovic Leads National Council on Family Relations
What began as a student membership in the National Council on Family Relations has turned, over the decades, into a leadership position for Anisa Zvonkovic, head of the Department of Human Develop...
Eric McCollum Honored with Emeritus Status
Eric McCollum, professor of human development in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of professor emeritus by the Virginia Tech Board ...
Fred Piercy Honored with Emeritus Status
Fred Piercy, professor of human development in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of professor emeritus by the Virginia Tech Board of...
Child Development Center Earns Virginia’s Highest Quality Score
When you walk into any of the three classrooms in Virginia Tech’s Child Development Center for Learning and Research, you’re met with warm lighting and open spaces.
“We want our center to feel like...
April Few-Demo Honored for Achievement in Feminist Family Studies
April Few-Demo, an associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Virginia Tech, is the 2017 recipient of the Alexis J. Walker Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Fem...
Center for Autism Research to Host Symposium on Technology, Education, and Clinical Care f...
The Virginia Tech Center for Autism Research will host a one-day symposium Sept. 15 in Falls Church, Virginia, bringing experts on autism spectrum disorder from Blacksburg to the National Capital Regi...
Rosemary Blieszner Named Dean of the College
Rosemary Blieszner, an Alumni Distinguished Professor, has been named dean of the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Her appointment was based on the recommendation of the colle...
Interdisciplinary Scholars Awards Represent Meetings of the Minds
Faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences are collaborating in three of the six teams receiving 2017–18 Scholars Awards from the Virginia Tech Institute for Society, Culture an...
April Few-Demo Receives Outstanding Mentor Award
April Few-Demo, associate professor of human development in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, has received the Graduate School’s 2017 Faculty Outstanding Mentor Award.
Sponsor...
Amina Rahimi Selected as 2017 Goldwater Scholar
Virginia Tech student Amina Rahimi, of Burke, Virginia, a double major in biochemistry and microbiology in the College of Science, has been selected as a 2017 Goldwater Scholar.
The Goldwater...
High-Quality, Early Childhood Education Has Significant Benefits
Children who are given high-quality education at an early age — starting at six weeks old and continuing through their first five years of life — are more likely to be employed full-time and hav...
In Memoriam: Peggy Meszaros, Provost Emerita
Peggy Meszaros, the highest-ranking woman in Virginia Tech’s history, died in the city of her birth — Hopkinsville, Kentucky — on April 18.
She was 79.
At the time of her death, Meszaros...
Insights into the Care of Older Adults
Karen Roberto, a University Distinguished Professor of Gerontology at Virginia Tech, was recently featured on Pulse of the Planet, a daily radio series and podcast that tracks the rhythms of nature, c...
The Impact of the Opioid Addiction Crisis on Grandparents
Virginia Tech faculty member Megan Dolbin-MacNab testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging in Washington, D.C., on March 21 on the impact of the opioid addiction epidemic on grandpar...
Awards Ceremony Celebrates Faculty Throughout College
The 2017 College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Faculty Awards ceremony took place in the Owens Banquet Hall on March 14.
Presenting this year’s awards were Rosemary Blieszner, interim dean of ...
Mariana Falconier Leads Couples Workshop
From research conducted over the past 12 years, Mariana Falconier knows how financial stress can negatively affect a couple’s relationship.
In 2009, Falconier, an associate professor in Vir...
Laura Sands Named Editor-in-Chief of New Journal
Laura Sands — a professor in the Center for Gerontology and the Department of Human Development, both in the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences — has been named editor-in-c...
Rosemary Blieszner Named Interim Dean
Alumni Distinguished Professor Rosemary Blieszner has been named interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences following the announcement of the University of California, Davis,...
Taking the Heat
Darrell Wesh represented his parents’ home country of Haiti at the Rio Olympics. There he competed in the 100-meter dash, an event for which he holds Haiti’s record.
“It was such an honor to be in ...