Administrative Updates
- What’s new online? Websites updates from the Office of Communications and Marketing
- New issue of Innovations coming soon
- Social media overview and updates
Accolades
- Melanie Staples — September Employee of the Month
- Annual scholarship banquet brings students, supporters, and faculty together
- W. Lee Daniels receives lifetime achievement research award
- David R. Winston selected as Dairy Challenge program chair
- Livestock industry to induct former faculty and alumni in Livestock Hall of Fame
- Cadet Stockmoe given color guard honor
- HokieWellness Slip, Slap, Slide contest: Ag-Ext VT 4-H
Transitions
- Robert Grisso named associate director of Virginia Cooperative Extension
- Extension welcomes new employees
- Recent hires
Academic Programs Update
- Inaugural VALOR fellows participate in first seminar
- Graduate Teaching Scholar Program
- Oct. 20: Second annual Hokie Bugfest
- CSES’s Ozzie Abaye teaches grassland management in Senegal
- In the news
Research Updates
- Pint-size molecules show promise against obesity
- Virginia Tech research program confirms presence of invasive insect in Senegal
- Infestation of stink bugs continues to spread across state
- New research laboratory aims for the sky and sea
- Proposal reminders for CALS and VCE
Extension Update
- State 4-H Championship Horse & Pony Show
- Greenhouse Energy Efficiency workshop to be held in Farmville, Va.
- Extension welcomes new employees
- Extension agents win national awards
- Workshop series honored