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UNIVERSITYFACTS &FIGURES2012-13

University Facts & Figures2012-2013Compiled by the Office of University Relations, Marketing and PublicationsVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityAvailable online at www.vt.edu/aboutQuestions concerning University Facts & Figures should be directed to Richard Lovegrove, editor,at 540-231-9468 or lovegrov@vt.edu.

TABLE OF CONTENTSSTATEMENT OF MISSION AND PURPOSE............................................................................................................... 3UNIVERSITY OVERVIEWBackground....................................................................................................................................................... 4Enrollment........................................................................................................................................................ 4Admissions....................................................................................................................................................... 4Full-time Instructional Faculty...................................................................................................................... 4Alumni............................................................................................................................................................... 4Board of Visitors............................................................................................................................................... 4Instruction......................................................................................................................................................... 4Research............................................................................................................................................................ 4Special Academic Programs........................................................................................................................... 5Outreach and International Affairs............................................................................................................... 5Off-campus Facilities....................................................................................................................................... 5University Budget............................................................................................................................................ 6Athletics............................................................................................................................................................. 6Virginia Tech Foundation............................................................................................................................... 6Extension........................................................................................................................................................... 6The University Shield...................................................................................................................................... 6The University Seal.......................................................................................................................................... 6The Corps of Cadets Coat of Arms................................................................................................................ 7University Mascot............................................................................................................................................ 7Virginia Tech’s Benchmark Institutions........................................................................................................ 8Senior Administrative Personnel................................................................................................................... 9STUDENT OVERVIEW2012-13 On-Campus Enrollment Profile..................................................................................................... 10Enrollment by Race.................................................................................................................................. 10Enrollment by Gender............................................................................................................................. 10Enrollment by College............................................................................................................................. 102012-13 Off-Campus Enrollment Profile...................................................................................................... 10Enrollment by Race................................................................................................................................ 10Enrollment by Gender............................................................................................................................ 11Enrollment by College........................................................................................................................... 11Percent Enrollment by Race........................................................................................................................... 11Residency of Undergraduates....................................................................................................................... 11Freshman Student Profiles............................................................................................................................. 11SAT Percentile Entering Freshmen............................................................................................................... 12Class of 2016 Snapshot................................................................................................................................... 12Student Tuition and Fees, 2012-13................................................................................................................ 13Combined Tuition and Fees History............................................................................................................ 14Membership in the Corps of Cadets............................................................................................................. 14Historical Highlights of the Corps of Cadets.............................................................................................. 152University Facts & Figures 2012-13

FINANCIAL OVERVIEWConsolidated University Operating Budget, 2012-13............................................................................... 16Virginia Tech Foundation Endowment Trend Analysis........................................................................... 16FACULTY/STAFF OVERVIEWAverage Full-time Instructional Faculty Salaries...................................................................................... 17Salaried Personnel......................................................................................................................................... 17MEASURES OF EXCELLENCEUniversity Rankings...................................................................................................................................... 18Undergraduate........................................................................................................................................ 18Graduate................................................................................................................................................... 19General Information...................................................................................................................................... 19Research.......................................................................................................................................................... 19Colleges........................................................................................................................................................... 22College of Agriculture and Life Sciences............................................................................................ 22College Architecture and Urban Studies............................................................................................. 24College of Engineering........................................................................................................................... 26College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences..................................................................................... 28College of Natural Resources and Environment................................................................................ 30Pamplin College of Business................................................................................................................. 33College of Science................................................................................................................................... 35Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine......................................................... 37Distance Learning and Summer Sessions.................................................................................................. 38Outreach and International Affairs............................................................................................................. 39Student Affairs............................................................................................................................................... 40More facts and figures about Virginia Tech can be found at these websites:Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness — www.ir.vt.eduBudget and Financial Planning — www.obfp.vt.eduVirginia Tech history — www.vt.edu/aboutGuide to library archives — http://spec.lib.vt.edu/archives/guideSTATEMENT OF MISSION AND PURPOSEVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is a public land-grant university serving theCommonwealth of Virginia, the nation, and the world community. The discovery and disseminationof new knowledge are central to its mission. Through its focus on teaching and learning, research anddiscovery, and outreach and engagement, the university creates, conveys, and applies knowledge toexpand personal growth and opportunity, advance social and community development, foster economiccompetitiveness, and improve the quality of life.*Mission Statement approved by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors, 6/4/01; revised in 2006.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 3

University Overview, 2012-13BackgroundDedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I MayServe), Virginia Tech takes a hands-on, engagingapproach to education, preparing scholars to beleaders in their fields and communities. As thecommonwealth’s most comprehensive universityand its leading research institution, Virginia Techoffers 215 undergraduate and graduate degree programsto 31,000 students and manages a researchportfolio of $450 million. The university fulfills itsland-grant mission of transforming knowledge topractice through technological leadership and byfueling economic growth and job creation locally,regionally, and across Virginia.Founded in 1872, Virginia Tech has the largestnumber of degree offerings in Virginia, more than125 campus buildings, a 2,600-acre main campus,off-campus educational facilities in six regions, astudy-abroad site in Switzerland, and a 1,800-acreagriculture research farm near the main campus.The campus proper is located in the Town ofBlacksburg in Montgomery County in the NewRiver Valley and is 38 miles southwest of Roanoke.Enrollment28,836 on-campus; 82.5 percent undergraduate;17.5 percent graduate; 58.3 percent male; 41.7 percentfemale. Total enrollment on and off campus is31,087.AdmissionsVirginia Tech received 20,191 applications for thefall 2012 freshman class. The typical freshman hasa high-school grade point average of 3.98, with themiddle 50 percent between 3.75 and 4.22. The averagecumulative SAT reasoning test score was 1250,with a middle range of 1160 to 1340.Full-time Instructional Faculty1,368; 61.7 percent are tenured.AlumniMore than 225,000 living alumni from every stateand more than 100 countries.Board of VisitorsA board of visitors, appointed by the governor ofVirginia, is composed of 13 members, headed by arector. Current board of visitors members are MichaelQuillen, rector; George Nolen, vice rector; MicheleL. Duke; Nancy V. Dye; William D. FairchildIII; Cordel L. Faulk; B. Keith Fulton; William B.Holtzman; John C. Lee IV; Suzanne S. Obenshain;Deborah Petrine; John G. Rocovich Jr.; and DennisH. Treacy. The president of the state Board ofAgriculture and Consumer Services (Paul Rogers)serves as an ex-officio member. The presidents ofthe Faculty Senate (Sarah Karpanty) and the StaffSenate (Sue Teel) are also ex-officio, non-voting representatives.Each year, an undergraduate student(Nicholas Onopa) and a graduate student (RobynJones) are selected through a competitive reviewprocess to serve as non-voting representatives tothe board. Kim O’Rourke is the board secretary.InstructionThe university offers about 65 bachelor’s degreeprograms through its seven undergraduateacademic colleges: Agriculture and Life Sciences(which also offers an associate degree in agriculturaltechnology), Architecture and Urban Studies,Engineering, Liberal Arts and Human Sciences,Natural Resources and Environment, Pamplin Collegeof Business, and Science. On the postgraduatelevel, the university offers approximately 150master’s and doctoral degree programs throughthe Graduate School and a professional degreefrom the Virginia-Maryland Regional College ofVeterinary Medicine.ResearchThe university generated $450 million for researchprograms in fiscal year 2011. In fiscal year 2010,the most recent ranking available, Tech was 47thin the nation in research expenditures, according4University Facts & Figures 2012-13

to the National Science Foundation. Each year, theuniversity receives thousands of awards to conductresearch from an ever-expanding base of sponsors.Researchers pursue new discoveries in agriculture,biotechnology, information and communicationtechnology, transportation, energy management(including leadership in fuel-cell technology andpower electronics), and a wide range of otherengineering, scientific, social science, and creativefields. This research led to 82 patents and 32 licenseand option agreements in 2011.The Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center(CRC) offers opportunities for businesses to establishclose working relationships with the universityand nurtures entrepreneurs pursuing new inventionsand developments. Located on 210 acresadjacent to the main campus, the center consistsof 27 buildings housing more than 140 companieswith approximately 2,200 employees.Special Academic ProgramsIn the university’s Cooperative Education Program,sophomores and juniors can alternate semestersof study with semesters of professional work.The University Honors Program helps qualifiedstudents expand their intellectual powers throughspecial sections of regular classes, seminars, andindependent study. The Study Abroad Programconsists of academic programs, tours, and independenttravel, often conducted in conjunction withoverseas universities and institutions. Studentsenrolled in the corps of cadets are eligible for theArmy, Air Force, and Navy ROTC programs. VirginiaTech established its first residential college infall 2011 and added a second in 2012.Outreach and International AffairsOutreach and International Affairs, which spearheadsthe university’s outreach mission, encompassesa number of university-wide programs.These include the Center for European Studiesand Architecture in Switzerland; CommonwealthCampus Centers in Southwest Virginia, HamptonRoads, Richmond, and Roanoke; the Office ofEconomic Development; the Office of InternationalResearch, Education, and Development, includingEducation Abroad and applied research programsin developing countries; Outreach Fellows; SouthsideOutreach Programs, including the Institute forAdvanced Learning and Research in Danville andReynolds Homestead in Patrick County; and OutreachProgram Development, including the Centerfor Organizational and Technological Advancement,Continuing and Professional Education, Languageand Culture Institute, The Hotel Roanoke& Conference Center, Outreach Program Services,Service-Learning Center, The Inn at Virginia Techand Skelton Conference Center, and UpwardBound/Talent Search.Off-campus FacilitiesVirginia Tech has facilities located across the commonwealthand one in Europe. These include theMarion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center inLeesburg; several locations in the Virginia Tech NationalCapital Region, including the newly openedVirginia Tech Research Center — Arlington; HamptonRoads Center in Virginia Beach; Virginia TechRoanoke Center; Virginia Tech Richmond Center;and Virginia Tech Southwest Center in Abingdon.Virginia Tech also owns and maintains the Centerfor European Studies and Architecture in Riva SanVitale, Switzerland, which is part of the university’sstudy-abroad program. Tech owns The HotelRoanoke & Conference Center, which it uses foracademic programs, continuing education, seminars,and conferences.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 5

University BudgetVirginia Tech’s operating budget in 2012-13 is$1.2 billion and is comprised of two state agencies— the University Division and the CooperativeExtension/Agricultural Experiment Station — andfive major programs. The state appropriates a portionof the funds, but most originates from studenttuition and fees, grants and contracts, sales and services,federal sources, user fees, and other sources.AthleticsVirginia Tech is a member of the Atlantic CoastConference. NCAA Division I-A men’s varsitysports at Tech are football, basketball, baseball,soccer, indoor and outdoor track, swimming anddiving, wrestling, tennis, golf, and cross country.Women’s varsity sports are basketball, tennis, volleyball,swimming and diving, indoor and outdoortrack, soccer, softball, lacrosse, and cross country.An extensive intramural program offers opportunitiesfor participation in more than 20 recreationalactivities. The university also participates in intramuralsports and club-sports programs that allowstudents to compete against programs from othercolleges and universities across the country.Virginia Tech FoundationAs of June 30, 2012, the Virginia Tech Foundation’sassets and managed funds — including gifts andbequests — totaled more than $1.21 billion. Thetotal endowment owned and managed by the universitywas $594.8 million. Endowment value perstudent was $19,536.ExtensionVirginia Cooperative Extension is a dynamicorganization that stimulates positive personal andsocietal change leading to more productive lives,families, farms, and forests, as well as a betterenvironment. Extension responds to the needs ofindividuals, families, groups, and organizationswith educational programs in three broad areas:agriculture and natural resources, family and consumersciences, and 4-H youth development.Extension, operated jointly in the commonwealthby Virginia Tech and Virginia State University, hasbeen helping people improve their economic, cultural,and social well-being for more than 95 years.While Extension has a long history of helping makeAmerica’s agricultural powerhouse more productiveand economical, it also does important workin the state’s urban and rural areas — from helpingexpectant mothers learn healthy nutritional practicesto counseling families in financial distress. Withoffices, professionals, and volunteers positionedaround the commonwealth, Extension’s nonformaleducation benefits more than 1 million participantsannually. Extension has touched virtually every lifein the state in some way.Extension is a product of cooperation among local,state, and federal governments in partnership withthousands of citizens who, through local ExtensionLeadership Councils, help design, implement, andevaluate Cooperative Extension’s needs-drivenprograms.The University ShieldThe shield embodies Virginia Tech’s motto — UtProsim (That I May Serve) — by incorporating animage of the university’s War Memorial Pylons,where this motto is etched in stone.The shield’s shape also reflectsthe collegiate heritage of alluniversities, and the numerals“1872” recognize the year theuniversity was founded andreinforce the traditions of longstandingservice to the Commonwealthof Virginia.The shield was adopted in May 1991.The University SealThe four quadrants of the shield on the seal depictthe obverse side of the Great Seal of the Commonwealthof Virginia, the surveyor’s level andleveling rod superimposed over a scroll, a partially6University Facts & Figures 2012-13

husked standing ear of corn, and a chemical retortand graduate. Above the shield is the left side ofthe flaming lamp of learningwith a right hand suspendedabove it.The seal, created in 1896and officially adoptedby the board of visitorsin 1963, has remained unchanged(with the exceptionof the name of the institutionand the alteration of the commonwealthportion) for more than 11 decades and reflects theagricultural/mechanical emphasis in the VirginiaTech curriculum during its first century.The Corps of Cadets Coat of ArmsDesigned in 1965 by Col. Harry D. Temple (industrialengineering ‘34) when he was commandingofficer of the Army’s Institute of Heraldry, the coatof arms was granted to the Virginia Tech Corps ofCadets by the U.S. Army. The symbols are as follows:• Flaming grenade = preparationfor war• Four gold stars = fourmajor wars in which Techcadets had fought before1965 (Spanish-AmericanWar, World War I, WorldWar II, and Korean War)• Laurel wreath = thepresidential citation given to the cadet band forSpanish-American War service• Color red = strength and courage• Sword = commandUniversity MascotThe HokieBird, the university mascot, evolvedfrom a live turkey paraded on the playing field toa hand-sewn costume with a papier-mâché headto today’s professionally manufactured outfit. Acostumed mascot — which eventually became theHokieBird — first took the field in the fall of 1962.In 1913, Floyd Meade, a local resident nicknamed“Hard Times,” who was chosen by the studentbody to serve as the team’s mascot, trained a largeturkey that he could make gobble on command atgames. Although the nickname “Gobblers” hadbeen used sporadically for about 10 years, fans andsports writers enthusiastically beganto use it regularly.The term “Hokie” wascoined by O.M.Stull (Class of 1896)when he wrote the“Old Hokie” spirityell, first used in thefall of 1896 (“Hoki,Hoki, Hoki, Hy / Techs!Techs! VPI”). Fans startedcalling Tech teams “Hokies” aswell as “Fightin’ Gobblers,” butthe latter nickname prevailed.In the 1980s, a football coach whodidn’t like the gobbler image encouraged the use ofthe nickname Hokies, and the two names evolvedinto the HokieBird.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 7

Virginia Tech’s Benchmark InstitutionsFor the purpose of salary comparisons, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia identifies institutionswith academic profiles similar to Virginia Tech’s.• University of California, Berkeley• University of California, Davis• University of Colorado, Boulder• Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.• University of Florida, Gainesville• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign• Iowa State University, Ames• University of Maryland, College Park• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor• Michigan State University, East Lansing• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities• University of Missouri, Columbia• North Carolina State University, Raleigh• The Ohio State University, Columbus• Pennsylvania State University, University Park• University of Pittsburgh• Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick• University at Buffalo, State University of New York• University of Southern California, Los Angeles• Stony Brook University, State University of New York• Texas A&M University, College Station• University of Texas at Austin• University of Washington, Seattle• University of Wisconsin, Madison8University Facts & Figures 2012-13

Senior Administrative PersonnelPresident.......................................................................................................................................... Charles W. StegerSenior Vice President and Provost.............................................................................................Mark G. McNameeVice President for Alumni Relations............................................................................................. Thomas C. TillarVice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer..................................................... M. Dwight Shelton Jr.Vice President for Administrative Services........................................................................... Sherwood G. WilsonVice President for Development and University Relations..............................................Elizabeth A. FlanaganVice President for Information Technology....................................................................................Scott F. MidkiffVice President for Diversity and Inclusion...................................................................................William T. LewisVice President for Research............................................................................................................... Robert WaltersVice President for Student Affairs................................................................................................Patricia A. PerilloVice President and Executive Director for the National Capital Region...................................... Donald J. LeoVice President and Dean for Undergraduate Education........................................................... Daniel A. WubahVice President for Outreach and International Affairs.................................................Jerome E. Niles (Interim)Vice President and Dean for Graduate Education.....................................................................Karen P. DePauwChief Operating Officer for the Virginia Tech Foundation........................................................... John E. DooleyDean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.....................................................................................Alan GrantDean, College of Architecture and Urban Studies............................................................................A. Jack DavisDean, College of Engineering...........................................................................................................Richard BensonDean, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.................................................................Sue Ott RowlandsDean, College of Natural Resources and Environment...............................................................Paul WinistorferDean, Pamplin College of Business......................................................................................... Richard E. SorensenDean, College of Science................................................................................................................. Lay Nam ChangDean, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine.......................................Gerhardt SchurigDean, University Libraries.................................................................................................................... Tyler WaltersUniversity Legal Counsel................................................................................................................Kay Heidbreder2012-13 University Facts & Figures 9

Student Overview2012-13 On-campus Enrollment ProfileUndergraduate Graduate Professional TotalEnrollment by RaceAmerican Indian or Alaska Native 47 5 0 52Asian 1,996 158 6 2,160Black or African-American 821 151 4 976Hispanics of any race 1,145 103 8 1,256Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 23 0 1 24White 17,402 2,409 312 20,123Two or more races 844 66 6 916Not reported 714 33 81 828Nonresident alien 804 1,695 2 2,501Total 23,796 4,620 420 28,836Enrollment by GenderMen 13,921 2,814 92 16,827Women 9,867 1,799 327 11,993Not reported 8 7 1 16Enrollment by CollegeAgriculture & Life Sciences 2,294 367 0 2,661Architecture & Urban Studies 1,375 327 0 1,702Business 3,595 225 0 3,820Engineering 6,872 1,912 0 8,784Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 3,289 687 0 3,976Natural Resources & Environment 684 174 0 858Science 3,699 584 0 4,283Veterinary Medicine 0 129 420 549Intercollege 1,988 215 0 2,2032012-13 Off-campus Enrollment ProfileUndergraduate Graduate Professional TotalEnrollment by RaceAmerican Indian or Alaska Native 1 3 0 4Asian 4 173 0 177Black or African-American 3 222 0 225Hispanics of any race 1 80 0 81Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0 3 0 3White 43 1,478 0 1,521Two or more races 0 37 0 37Not reported 9 61 0 70Nonresident alien 2 131 0 133Total 63 2,188 0 2,25110University Facts & Figures 2012-13

Undergraduate Graduate Professional TotalEnrollment by GenderMen 36 1,192 0 1,228Women 27 988 0 1,015Not reported 0 8 0 8Enrollment by CollegeAgriculture & Life Sciences 12 50 0 62Architecture & Urban Studies 0 315 0 315Business 8 210 0 218Engineering 8 228 0 236Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 17 602 0 619Natural Resources & Environment 2 85 0 87Science 12 2 0 14Veterinary Medicine 0 9 0 9Intercollege 4 687 0 691Percent Enrollment by Race (Total enrollment of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on and off campus)American Indian or Alaska Native 0.2%Asian 7.5%Black or African-American 3.9%Hispanics of any race 4.1%White 69.6%Two or more races 3.1%Not reported 2.9%Nonresident alien 8.5%Residency of Undergraduate StudentsVirginia undergraduate students 17,626Nonresident undergraduate students (includes international) 6,233Undergraduate students living in residence halls 9,087Freshman Student ProfilesFreshman applications received 20,191Freshmen enrolled 5,487Enrolled freshmen in top 10% of high school class 43.7%Enrolled freshmen in top 25% of high school class 84.4%Enrolled freshmen in top 50% of high school class 98.6%2002 freshmen returning fall 2003 87.5%2003 freshmen returning fall 2004 87.6%2004 freshmen returning fall 2005 88.0%2005 freshmen returning fall 2006 88.6%2006 freshmen returning fall 2007 93.2%2007 freshmen returning fall 2008 91.1%2008 freshmen returning fall 2009 90.9%2009 freshmen returning fall 2010 91.9%2010 freshmen returning fall 2011 91.1%2011 freshmen returning fall 2012 92.6%2012-13 University Facts & Figures 11

SAT Percentile Entering Freshmen25th Percentile 75th Percentile AverageYear Math Verbal* Math Verbal* Math Verbal*2004 560 540 660 630 611 5872005 570 540 660 630 615 5882006 570 530 660 630 617 5842007 570 530 670 630 617 5862008 570 540 670 630 618 5862009 570 540 670 640 621 5902010 580 540 680 640 626 5912011 570 540 670 640 622 5922012 570 540 680 640 625 587*Verbal is now called Critical ReadingTop five home states of out-of-state freshmen:1. Maryland2. New Jersey3. Pennsylvania4. North Carolina5. New YorkNumber of states and territories represented: 42Countries represented: 54Class of 2016 SnapshotMost popular majors for incoming freshmen in fall 2011:• University Studies (undeclared)• General Engineering*• Biological Sciences• Business (undecided)• Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise• Animal and Poultry Sciences*Non-degree major; students move into more specific disciplines, including computer science12University Facts & Figures 2012-13

2012-13 Student Tuition and FeesUndergraduateGraduateIn-state Out-of-state In-state Out-of-stateAcademic year tuition $9,187 $23,575 $10,677 $20,926Fees* $1,736 $2,340 $1,736 $2,340Total tuition and fees $10,923 $25,915 $12,413 $23,266Room and board** $6,996 $6,996 $6,996 $6,996*Includes academic, athletic, technology, student activity, health, bus, recreational sports, and studentservices fees. Out-of-state students also pay a capital and equipment fee. Students in various disciplinesalso pay supplemental fees not included here.**Room and board varies depending on the student’s place of on-campus residence, single or doubleoccupancy, and the student’s meal plan.Source: Office of Budget and Financial PlanningVeterinary Medicine (Virginia and Maryland residents)Tuition $18,163Fees* $3,271Total tuition and fees $21,434Veterinary Medicine (other states)Tuition $42,491Fees* $3,875Total tuition and fees $46,366*Includes academic, athletic, technology, student activity, health, bus, recreational sports, and studentservices fees. Out-of-state students also pay a capital and equipment fee.Source: Office of Budget and Financial Planning2012-13 University Facts & Figures 13

Combined Tuition and Fees* HistoryUndergraduateGraduateIn-State Out-of-State In-State Out-of-State2003-04 $5,095 $15,029 $6,944 $10,6632004-05 $5,838 $16,581 $7,512 $11,6822005-06 $6,378 $17,837 $7,977 $12,8352006-07 $6,973 $19,049 $8,540 $14,0572007-08 $7,397 $19,775 $8,986 $15,3512008-09 $8,198 $20,825 $9,735 $16,8662009-10 $8,605 $21,878 $10,228 $17,9282010-11 $9,459 $23,217 $10,933 $19,9572011-12 $10,509 $24,480 $11,705 $21,7232012-13 $10,923 $25,915 $12,413 $23,266*All mandatory fees required of all students; does not include specialized program fees or room andboardSource: Office of Budget and Financial PlanningMembership in the Corps of Cadets(as of the beginning of fall session)Year Male Female Total2003 614 144 7582004 644 120 7642005 642 104 7462006 634 98 7322007 618 92 7102008 614 90 7042009 657 112 7692010 737 120 8572011 815 138 9532012 908 158 1,06614University Facts & Figures 2012-13

Historical Highlights of the Corps of Cadets• 1872: Virginia Tech established as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, corps organized as onebattalion of two companies.• 1899: Corps petitions governor for active military service during the Spanish-American War. Bandsmenand director enlist as Regimental Band, 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment Exposition.• 1919: Band first called “Highty-Tighties.” Tech designated one of the nation’s “Distinguished MilitaryColleges.”• 1922: Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets (VTCC) organized as regiment.• 1923: Corps petitions governor for active military service during national rail strike.• 1924: Corps made mandatory only for a cadet’s first two years.• 1934: First Ring Dance (Class of 1935).• 1942: VTCC organized as brigade of two regiments.• 1953: First African-American student enrolls (Cadet Irving L. Peddrew III).• 1958: First African-American student graduates (Cadet Charlie L. Yates).• 1964: Corps becomes voluntary.• 1973: Women admitted into corps of cadets (except the Regimental Band) and organized intoL Squadron.• 1975: Women accepted into Regimental Band.• 1981: Cadet barracks become first co-ed dorms on campus.• 1985: First African-American regimental commander (Derek Jeffries ‘86).• 1987: First female regimental commander (Denise Shuster ‘88).• 1996: VTCC Center for Leader Development is established.• 1997: VTCC initiates Caldwell March, which becomes semi-annual event.• 2005: First African-American female regimental commander (Christina Royal ‘06).2012-13 University Facts & Figures 15

Financial OverviewConsolidated University Operating Budget 2012-13(Dollars in Thousands)Educational and GeneralUniversity Division:General Fund $145,561,717Tuition and Fees $363,337,840All Other Income $30,327,783Subtotal $539,227,340CE/AES DivisionGeneral Fund $62,931,071Federal Funds $14,325,000All Other Income $709,000Subtotal $77,965,071Total Educational and General $617,192,411Auxiliary Enterprises $270,450,777Financial Assistance Sponsored Programs $290,149,588Student Financial Assistance $18,618,928All Other Programs $5,761,606Total $1,202,173,310Virginia Tech Foundation Endowment Trend AnalysisYear (as of June 30) Market Value ($) $ Per Student2002 $328,679,928 $12,3752003 $331,311,105 $12,5232004 $370,811,010 $13,9622005 $408,560,308 $15,3102006 $447,404,748 $16,4472007 $524,731,181 $18,9722008 $527,629,109 $18,2162009 $451,744,223 $15,1302010 $502,379,593 $16,6462011 $600,647,830 $19,6192012 $594,776,124 $19,53616University Facts & Figures 2012-13

Faculty/Staff OverviewAverage Full-time Instructional Faculty Salaries(Dollars in Thousands)Rank 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12Professor $116.2 $116.8 $115.9 $116.7 $121.7Associate Professor $83.0 $84.6 $82.9 $82.0 $84.4Assistant Professor $68.1 $70.4 $70.4 $70.9 $73.3Instructor $43.7 $45.5 $45.3 $45.0 $46.8All Ranks $87.3 $88.0 $87.4 $86.2 $89.1Notes:• The figures for this table are taken from an Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System reporttitled “Salaries, Tenure, and Fringe Benefits of Full-Time Instructional Faculty.”• Lecturers, research associates, and administrators above the department level are excluded.• All salaries have been reported on an academic-year-equivalent basis. The salaries of 12-month facultymembers have been converted by a factor of nine-elevenths.Salaried PersonnelFaculty/Staff 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12Full-Time Instructional Faculty 1,371 1,369 1,364 1,306 1,368Other Faculty & Research Associates 1,690 1,761 1,913 1,826 1,954P14s (instructional only) 217 229 224 273 264Support Staff 3,774 3,816 3,603 3,461 3,449Total Faculty & Support Staff 7,052 7,175 7,104 6,866 7,035Percent of Instructional Faculty Tenured 63.4 61.9 62.8 61.9 61.7Notes:• Faculty data are based on full-time instructional faculty paid 50 percent or more from instructionalfunds.• Percent tenured is based on full-time instructional faculty who are tenured (does not include those ontenure track).2012-13 University Facts & Figures 17

Measures of ExcellenceUniversity RankingsUndergraduateU.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges 2013” (fall 2012)• Virginia Tech ranked 28th among national public universities. Among all national universities,including such private institutions as Harvard and Yale, Virginia Tech ranks 72nd.• The Virginia Tech College of Engineering undergraduate program ranked 16th in the nation (tiedwith Pennsylvania State, Rice, and Texas A&M) among all accredited engineering schools that offerdoctorates. The program ranked sixth among engineering schools at public universities.• The Pamplin College of Business ranked 40th among the nation’s undergraduate business programsand 24th among public institutions. Pamplin’s overall ranking places it in the top 10 percent of the445 U.S. undergraduate programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools ofBusiness International.• The College of Engineering’s Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics ranked fifth in thenation, tying with Stanford University. Other notable placements: The Charles E. Via Jr. Departmentof Civil and Environmental Engineering’s two programs ranked ninth and 12th, respectively. TheDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering ranked 10th, with the Department of Aerospaceand Ocean Engineering ranking 13th for its aerospace program; the Department of MechanicalEngineering at 15th; and the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at 17th.• The university was also listed among 33 universities named as having outstanding “undergraduateresearch and creative project” programs for undergraduate students, specifically targeting freshmen.The ranking was listed alphabetically.The university’s undergraduate architecture program in the College of Architecture and UrbanStudies’ School of Architecture + Design was ranked third in the nation in the 13th annual America’sBest Architecture & Design Schools study conducted by the journal DesignIntelligence. The school’sundergraduate program in interior design was ranked 10th and the graduate landscape architectureprogram, offered in both Blacksburg and in the National Capital Region, was ranked 12th.Tech’s apparel program was ranked 15th in the world by Fashion-Schools.org, based on the quality ofprograms offered, job and internship placements, industry reputation, teaching facilities, and tuitioncosts.The Princeton Review ranked Tech second in the nation for Best Campus Food, third for Their StudentsLove These Colleges, fourth for Town-Gown Relationships are Great, and sixth for Best Quality of Life.Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine ranked Virginia Tech among the 100 public colleges anduniversities that offer a first-class educational experience at a bargain price.Virginia Tech, with an average starting salary of $51,600 for graduates, ranked fifth in the nation in 2011in that metric among NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools, behind Stanford, Duke, GeorgiaTech, and Notre Dame, according to the website Payscale.com. The ACC ranked first among all FBSconferences. Virginia Tech also ranked in the top 20 nationally for mid-career salaries of graduates of FBSschools. At 14th, Virginia Tech graduates bring in an average mid-career salary of $91,500.18University Facts & Figures 2012-13

GraduateU.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools 2013” (spring 2012)• The College of Engineering’s overall graduate program ranked 24th among all schools ofengineering, up one place from the 2011 survey.• Four departments within the College of Engineering finished in the top 10 of their respectivecategory. The Charles E. Via Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ranked eighthamong civil engineering programs, with the environmental engineering program ranking seventh.The Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering ranked third among industrial/manufacturing programs. The biological systems engineering department, also part of the Collegeof Agriculture and Life Sciences, ranked seventh in the nation among biological/agriculturalprograms.• The career and technical education graduate program in the College of Liberal Arts and HumanSciences’ School of Education ranked fifth among vocational and technical specialties.• The public affairs program in the School of Public and International Affairs, College of Architectureand Urban Studies, ranked 37th in the nation.• Two programs within the College of Science were rated among the best in the nation. In thegeosciences department, the paleontology program ranked ninth and the earth sciences programranked 28th.• The Pamplin College of Business ranked 37th among the nation’s best part-time M.B.A. schools.DesignIntelligence ranked the graduate landscape architecture program fourth in North America, thegraduate interior design program 10th, and the graduate architecture program 12th.General InformationWith more than 23,700 undergraduate students, about 6,800 graduate students, and more than 3,300faculty members and researchers, Virginia Tech offers more degree programs and awards more diplomasthan any other university in the Commonwealth of Virginia.Virginia Tech’s fully computerized library contains more than 2.3 million volumes, an array of specializedcollections, and numerous electronic databases.Virginia Tech consistently ranks among the top 15 schools in the nation in number of patents received.Virginia Tech is one of only three public universities in the United States to support both a military and anonmilitary student lifestyle (the others are Texas A&M and North Georgia College and State University).Membership in the corps of cadets was mandatory for all able-bodied males until 1964, when it becameoptional. The corps preceded the federal service academies by first admitting women in 1973.The Center for Digital Government named Blacksburg the sixth-most technologically advanced town inthe nation among urban areas with a population of 30,000 to 74,999.ResearchFor fiscal year 2010, Virginia Tech ranked 47th in the nation for total research and developmentexpenditures, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF). Research and developmentexpenditures for 2011, for which there has not yet been a ranking, were $450,058,000.Each year, the university receives significant external support from an ever-expanding base of sponsorsfor research, instruction, and outreach projects. In fiscal year 2012, the university received more than$260.9 million to conduct research.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 19

Seven research institutes have been created to draw upon established strengths and build resources:20• Fralin Life Science Institute• Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology• Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science• Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment• Virginia Bioinformatics Institute• Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute• Virginia Tech Transportation InstituteThe largest research institutes at the university are the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and the VirginiaTech Transportation Institute.The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), with almost 300 employees and $104 million in activeresearch awards, has a mission to save lives, time, and money for the transportation industry. Facilitiesinclude the 2.2-mile, two-lane, fully instrumented “Smart Road” and more than 51,000 square feet of officeand specialized laboratory space — such as an asphalt lab, fully equipped garages, instrumentation bays,and a machine shop for working on VTTI’s vehicle fleet.The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI), with more than 200 people and $109 million in active researchawards, combines information technology, medicine, and biology to solve problems in the biomedical,environmental, and agricultural sciences. VBI research has contributed to public health and national safety.The Fralin Life Science Institute is dedicated to increasing the quality, quantity, and competitiveness oflife science research, education, and outreach at Virginia Tech by coalescing resources around existingand emerging strengths within the life science community. Institute researchers investigate vector-bornedisease, infectious disease, obesity, molecular plant sciences, and cancer biology.Focused on the intersection of the arts, creative technologies, and learning, the Institute for Creativity,Arts, and Technology will contribute to society through programs that promote creativity, critical thinking,and life-long learning. It will provide an innovative environment within which to conduct and applytransdisciplinary, collaborative research that will enhance learning in pre-kindergarten through highschool and higher education environments. Targeted research and scholarship areas will include creativeand critical thinking skills; learning advancement, especially in math, science, social studies, and languagearts; and innovation of transdisciplinary educational experiences.The Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science is building capacity at the intersection ofengineering, science, biology, and the humanities. Thrust areas include nanoscale science and engineering,nano-bio interface, sustainable energy, safe and sustainable water, national security, cognition andcommunication systems, renewable materials, and emerging technologies. Researchers from acrossthe university are taking advantage of the Nanoscale Characterization and Fabrication Laboratory andbuilding collegial partnerships as they use the resources of two new buildings — one in the university’sengineering corridor and one in the life sciences corridor.The Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment is strengthening the university’s competitive positionin the social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The institute provides organizational, technical, andfinancial support for targeted creative, interactive, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary researchendeavors that address issues of social and individual transformation. The Global Issues Initiative isresearching trade policies and poverty in Pakistan and the Philippines and the implications of agriculturalsubsidies in eight countries, among other issues. A Center for Public Health Practice and Research has beenestablished to foster interdisciplinary, collaborative public health practice and research activities at VirginiaTech and among external public health agencies, organizations, practitioners, and researchers.University Facts & Figures 2012-13

The Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute was created in 2009 to make major scientific advancesin understanding and addressing the fundamental processes of human health and disease withdevelopment of new approaches to diagnosis, treatments, prevention, and cures. The mission is tobecome a premier institute of interdisciplinary and translational research within the medical sciences,to facilitate research-based medical education, and to improve patient care through discovery andpartnerships with clinicians. The first faculty members’ research emphasis areas are: brain function ofchildren and adults in health as well as in neurological and psychiatric disorders; molecular studiesof cancer and heart development; infectious diseases in children; addiction and substance abuse;development of novel neurorehabilitation strategies for traumatic brain injury, PTSD, depression, andseizure disorders; and early life educational interventions for children at risk.Other areas of research achievement and ongoing investigation throughout the university include highperformancecomputing; advanced materials; wireless telecommunication; housing; human and animalhealth; cognition, development, and behavior; the environment; and energy, including power electronics,biofuels, fuel cells, and solar-powered building structures. In the social sciences, scholarship and creativework include cultural expression and literature; interactions between ideas, technology, and people; andperforming arts.The university is affiliated with two human medical schools, each with a significant research component.The Virginia Tech–Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences integratesthe capabilities of the Virginia Tech College of Engineering, Wake Forest University School of Medicine,and the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. Virginia Tech’s research includesbiomechanics, cellular transport, computational modeling, biomaterials, bioheat and mass transfer,biofluid mechanics, instrumentation, ergonomics, and tissue engineering.The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine welcomed its first class in August 2010. Curriculum valuedomains are basic sciences, clinical sciences, research, and interprofessionalism. Students and clinicianswill be partners in the research enterprise.Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (VTIP) was established as a nonprofit corporation in 1985 tosupport the research mission of the university by protecting and licensing intellectual properties thatresult from research performed by Virginia Tech faculty and staff members and students. During fiscalyear 2012, 17 U.S. patents and 65 foreign patents were awarded to VTIP, and 32 license and optionagreements were signed.The Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation (VT-ARC), a private nonprofit corporation affiliatedwith Virginia Tech, was established in fall 2010. With offices in Northern Virginia and Blacksburg, VT-ARC will foster applied research and development, and management of large contract research projects.It will apply Virginia Tech’s basic and scholarly research achievements, expertise, and collaborationsacross multiple disciplines to solve complex national challenges in intelligence, cyber and informationtechnology, national security, energy, and health.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 21

CollegesCollege Of Agriculture and Life SciencesNoted Accomplishments/HonorsThe College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Virginia Cooperative Extension are part of a consortiumthat released the “Virginia Farm to Table Plan: A Strategic Plan for Strengthening Virginia’s Food Systemand Economic Future.” This entrepreneurial initiative contains 38 distinct recommendations related tobusiness and production management, market development, food system planning, management andpolicy, food security, food safety, diet and health, and implementation.U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Graduate Schools 2013 survey ranked the College ofAgriculture and Life Sciences’ Department of Biological Systems Engineering seventh among biologicaland agricultural programs in the country.The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is the first college at Virginia Tech to provide publications inan e-book format. Virginia Cooperative Extension’s free publications are available for iPads, iPhones, andiPod touch.Ground was broken for the new Human and Agricultural Biosciences Building 1, a 93,860-square-footfacility that will house the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ departments of Biological SystemsEngineering and Food Science and Technology. The state-of-the-art building will have open-planlaboratories, pilot plant research space, a sensory/flavor-testing suite, prep kitchens, and more. It isscheduled to open in late 2013. It is the first building in the new Biosciences Precinct, which will havemore than 400,000 square feet of research facilities.The college established the Virginia Agriculture Leaders Obtaining Results, or VALOR, program — anew adult leadership development program that aims to prepare leaders to meet future challenges inVirginia’s agricultural community, create collaborative solutions, and promote agriculture throughout thestate.In fiscal year 2012, the college had record research expenditures of $41,830,830 — an increase of 8.6percent over the previous year. Several departments also set records for their amount of research awards.The college received 585 awards for a total of more than $44 million.Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences made a discovery that will help lead to theunderstanding of how mosquitoes spread diseases, such as West Nile virus and dengue fever. KevinMyles and Zach Adelman, both associate professors of entomology, identified a novel antiviral pathwayin the immune system of mosquitoes.The college and Virginia Cooperative Extension are part of three-year study to develop, implement, andevaluate a food security strategy to enhance the resilience of the Southern Appalachian region, with aspecial focus on local food access and affordability for low-income populations.Outstanding FacultyResearchers in the Department of Horticulture were part of a team of international scientists whosuccessfully sequenced the genome of the potato, the world’s third-most-important crop. The concept forthe project was based on the doctoral work of Richard Veilleux, the Julian and Margaret Gary Professor ofHorticulture.22University Facts & Figures 2012-13

Carl E. Zipper, associate professor and Virginia Cooperative Extension specialist for crop and soilenvironmental sciences, received Virginia Tech’s 2012 Alumni Award for Outreach Excellence.Pablo Sobrado, assistant professor of biochemistry, was awarded Costa Rica’s 2011 National TechnologyPrize for his significant contribution to the diagnosis and treatment of infectious and tropical diseases.Sobrado researches issues related to Chagas disease, tuberculosis, and fungal infections that infect morethan 20 million people worldwide.Dini Miller, associate professor of entomology, received the university’s 2012 Alumni Award forExcellence in Extension. She is an urban pest management specialist for Virginia Cooperative Extension.An international research team led in part by Associate Professor Boris Vinatzer in the Department ofPlant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science used the latest DNA sequencing to track a pathogen thatis devastating the international kiwifruit back to its likely origin in China.Department of Entomology assistant professor and Virginia Cooperative Extension specialist Chris Berghprepared the application for a new pesticide to fight off the stinkbug in Virginia, which has been causingproblems for growers and homeowners alike.Susan D. Day, assistant professor of urban forestry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and theCollege of Natural Resources and Environment, helped develop the nation’s most comprehensive systemfor rating the sustainable design, construction, and maintenance of built landscapes.Scott Jessee, Russell County agriculture and natural resources agent for Virginia Cooperative Extension,received Virginia Tech’s 2012 Alumni Award for Excellence in Extension.Professor John M. McDowell, in the Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science,published a paper demonstrating how a protein called enhanced disease susceptibility 1 activatesdifferent components of the plant immune system. The discovery will help scientists enhance diseaseresistance in crops.Paul Siegel, whose decades-long career has contributed to international research on animal genetics,received an honorary doctorate from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala,Sweden. Siegel is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Animal and Poultry Sciences in the College ofAgriculture and Life Sciences.Jeffrey Derr, professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science at the Hampton RoadsAgricultural Research and Extension Center in Virginia Beach, was named a Weed Science Society ofAmerica (WSSA) Fellow in recognition of his meritorious contributions to weed science and the WSSA.Shawn Askew, associate professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science, and turfgrass weedscience Extension specialist, received the Weed Science Society of America Outstanding Early CareerWeed Scientist Award.Janet Rankin, in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, was elected the next presidentof the American College of Sports Medicine, the largest organization of its kind in the world.Student/Student Group AchieversThe 4-H Livestock Judging Team placed third overall at the 2011 National 4-H Livestock JudgingCompetition.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 23

A team of eight Virginia Tech graduate students from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciencesand the College of Natural Resources and Environment won the national GeoLeague Challenge at theAmerican Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing conference. The society is one of the leadingprofessional organizations devoted to advancing research and applications of geospatial data.The Virginia Tech Soil Judging Team finished first out of 21 teams and more than 125 contestants at theNational Collegiate Soil Judging Championship. This win marks the fourth time that Virginia Tech hastaken home the prestigious trophy.Catherine Larochelle, a doctoral student in agricultural and applied economics in the College ofAgriculture and Life Sciences, received an Outstanding Dissertation Award from Virginia Tech’s GraduateSchool. Larochell won the social sciences category.A team from the Department of Food Science and Technology finished in second place in the DevelopingSolutions for Developing Countries competition in which the students invented a mango-based productthat addresses common nutrient deficiencies in Kenya.Students from the Department of Dairy Sciences took second place at the National Intercollegiate DairyCattle Judging Contest at the World Dairy Expo.College Of Architecture and Urban StudiesNoted Accomplishments/HonorsLumenhaus, Virginia Tech’s entry in the Solar Decathlon Europe, was declared the most-efficient structurein the decathlon, beating out 16 other solar houses from seven countries on three continents. Lumenhausplaced in almost all of the 10 judging categories, including tying for first in architecture, taking second incommunication and social awareness, and placing third in industrialization and market viability and inlighting. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) also selected it as one of only nine recipients of the2012 AIA Institute Honor Awards for Architecture.The Myers-Lawson School of Construction is partnering with the Pamplin College of Business to offera new simultaneous degree option at the master’s level. Students now have the opportunity to earn anM.B.A. alongside an M.S. in either construction engineering management or building construction in twoyears.The undergraduate program in architecture in the School of Architecture + Design was ranked thirdin the 13th annual America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools study conducted by the journalDesignIntelligence. The school’s undergraduate program in interior design was also ranked in the study’stop 10 in its field. The graduate landscape architecture program, offered in both Blacksburg and in theNational Capital Region, was ranked 12th in North America.Following several years of careful planning, Tech’s government and international affairs program ispartnering with the University of Kent campuses in Brussels and in Canterbury to offer Virginia Tech andKent students a dual master’s degree in public and international affairs and in international studies.Outstanding FacultyProfessor Laurel McSherry was named one of five Research Award winners in the 2011-12 WilliamTurnbull Competition, sponsored by the California Architectural Foundation. The five projects, all dealingwith “Drylands Design,” were awarded research grants of $10,000 each from the Arid Lands Institute atWoodbury University.24University Facts & Figures 2012-13

Joseph Schilling, research assistant professor and associate director of the Metropolitan Institute atVirginia Tech, and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Alan Mallach coauthored “Cities in Transition: AGuide for Practicing Planners,” published by the American Planning Association (APA). The two authorspresented the report at the 2012 Virginia APA Conference.Keith and Marie Zawistowski, both assistant professors of practice, received the Grand Prize from theNational Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) for their practice curriculum, describedby the prize committee as “engaging students in the often ‘mundane’ subject of professional practice byintroducing it as a design problem — an innovative means to make the subject relevant to students.”NCARB also awarded Joseph Wheeler, Robert Dunay, Robert Schubert, and David Clark a 2011 NCARBprize for their work on Lumenhaus.Robert Dunay, the T.A. Carter Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture + Design, wasnamed one of the 25 Most Admired Educators of 2012 by DesignIntelligence. This is the third time thatDunay, who is also the director of the Center for Design Research, has received this recognition from themagazine.ACSA also recognized James Bassett with the ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award, given jointlyby ACSA and the American Institute of Architecture Students. This award recognizes demonstratedexcellence in performance during the formative years of an architectural teaching career.Derek Hyra, of the School of Public and International Affairs, was named to the U.S. Small BusinessAdministration’s Advisory Council on Underserved Communities.Anne Khademian, a professor with the Center for Public Administration and Policy in the School ofPublic and International Affairs, was elected a National Academy of Public Administration Fellow.Four professors from the School of Architecture + Design were among 25 faculty members in NorthAmerica named Most Admired Educators of 2010 in the 11th annual America’s Best Architecture andDesign Schools study by DesignIntelligence. They were Brian Katen, Ronald Kemnitzer, Patrick Miller,and Lisa Tucker.Student/Student Group AchieversA group of industrial design and architecture students led by Prof. Akshay Sharma is working to see howdesign can improve the everyday lives of people in poor communities. The program, entitled “DesigningEmpowerment,” focuses on the technical and social factors that define life for the world’s poorestand attempts to create practical tools to assist them. Two projects undertaken by this group receivedinternational recognition: “Immune,” a cell phone-based vaccination solution, was named the winner ofthe 2012 Design for All Foundation Award; “laXmi,” a financial literacy system for illiterate women, wasnamed a finalist for the 2012 World Design Impact Prize. Both projects were selected as Bronze Awardwinners in the prestigious International Design Excellence Awards program from the Industrial DesignersSociety of America.Two interior design students received top honors in the annual student design competition sponsoredby the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). Hannah Chessman was awarded first place, andJennifer Boyd received an honorable mention. This is the third year in a row that a Virginia Tech interiordesign student has won one of the two national competitions for students of interior design.A team of five Virginia Tech students from the colleges of Architecture and Urban Studies andEngineering won first place in the Associated Schools of Construction/Associated General ContractorsRegion II Heavy-Civil competition. The student teams were given a construction problem statement at 72012-13 University Facts & Figures 25

a.m. on the day of the competition and had until 8 p.m. that same day to develop a solution, an estimate,and construction schedule. The teams had to consider concrete placement, traffic control, structural steelerection, bridge construction, and conventional concrete in their solution for the fictional Port EvergladesBridge project in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.College Of EngineeringNoted Accomplishments/HonorsVirginia Tech is the home of the commonwealth’s leading College of Engineering, known in Virginia andthroughout the nation for the excellence of its programs in engineering education, research, and publicservice.Virginia Tech educates almost half of all the engineering graduates produced in Virginia, and it is amongthe top five providers of engineering baccalaureates in the U.S. Recruiters named the college as one of thetop five places to hire new graduates, according to an independent Wall Street Journal survey.Among the many highlights of 2011-12, the College of Engineering brought in more than $205 million, orapproximately one fifth of the overall university’s capital campaign goal of $1 billion. The college raised$50 million more than its target of $155 million.In addition to the Signature Engineering Building entering year two of its construction, two newengineering research buildings are underway. Space@VT will occupy most of the first floor of thefirst building in the new Phase II expansion of the Corporate Research Center. Aerospace and oceanengineering will have space on the first and third floors of the new Technology Research and InnovationCenter in Hampton Roads. An aerobiology building and the VT Propulsion Lab are in planning stages.In U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges 2013” survey, released in September 2012, thecollege’s undergraduate program ranked 16th among all accredited engineering schools, and sixth amongpublic universities.The magazine’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools 2013” survey, released in April 2012, ranked thecollege’s graduate program 24th among the nation’s engineering schools. The Charles E. Via Departmentof Civil and Environmental Engineering ranked eighth among civil engineering programs and seventhamong environmental engineering programs; the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems rankedthird for industrial/manufacturing programs; and the biological systems department ranked seventhamong biological/agricultural programs.In the college’s annual accounting to the American Society of Engineering Education, it reported $152.7million in research expenditures for fiscal year 2011. This is a college record, and up to 13 percent from$134.8 million in fiscal year 2010. The National Science Foundation (NSF) ranked the college 10th in thenation for research in fiscal year 2008 (released in April 2010 and not yet updated). Overall, the college isa quarter-of-a-billion dollar annual enterprise with approximately one-half of that money raised each yearthrough direct research dollars generated by the faculty.The School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences’ research is growing exponentially. From its birthin 2000 with almost no research spending, the numbers climbed to more than $16 million by 2011(latest reported number). In just about a decade, it rose from unranked to 37th in the nation. A newundergraduate minor starts in fall 2012.26University Facts & Figures 2012-13

In March 2012, with funding from the NSF, the Center for Tire Research, or CenTIRe, was established. Itfocuses on developing new tire materials, as well as the manufacturing, modeling and simulation, andtesting of tires. Saied Taheri, associate professor of mechanical engineering, serves as the director. Thegroup already has 12 tire and auto companies as members, including Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.,Michelin North America Inc., Bridgestone Firestone North American Holdings Ltd., Ford Motor Co., andNissan Motor Co. Ltd.Virginia Tech opened its new Brüel & Kjær Laboratory for Aerospace Vibration and Acoustics. Thelaboratory is part of Virginia Tech’s National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) Research and InnovationLaboratories in Hampton, Va. It contains instrumentation and equipment for measuring and analyzingvibration and sound, and is sponsored by Brüel & Kjær. NIA’s labs are directed by Christopher R. Fuller,who is Virginia Tech’s Samuel Langley Distinguished Professor of Engineering.Outstanding FacultyTwelve current, adjunct, or emeritus faculty members are also members of the prestigious NationalAcademy of Engineering. Eleven current or emeritus faculty members are University DistinguishedProfessors; four are Alumni Distinguished Professors; one is a McArthur Genius award recipient; and twohave received the Benjamin Franklin Medal.The 2012 National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates Presidents Awardrecipient is Bevlee Watford, the college’s engineering associate dean for academic affairs and the directorof the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity. Watford was cited for her support for thescience, technology, engineering, and mathematics educational program.In December of 2011, the Brain Trauma Foundation honored the Virginia Tech – Wake Forest Universitybiomedical program with its 2011 Brain Trauma Foundation Award. Stefan Duma, professor and head ofthe biomedical engineering program for Virginia Tech and Wake Forest, accepted the award in New York,saying the research advancements made by the biomedical engineering program will help reduce the riskof traumatic brain injuries in both automobile accidents and on the football field.Duma, who holds the Harry Wyatt Professorship in Engineering, oversaw research published in February2012 that prompted Pop Warner — which has more than 285,000 children ages 5 to 15 in its leagues — toissue rules changes to limit concussions. Duma’s study, the first of its kind for participants that young,placed sensors in the helmets of seven youth football players ages 6 to 8 during their 2011 season. Duma’sresearch has shown that the damage from concussions can be cumulative, and that the brains of youngerathletes may be particularly susceptible.Panos Diplas, professor of civil and environmental engineering, is the 2012 recipient of the Hans AlbertEinstein Award, presented by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is also a member of a teamreceiving the 2012 Karl Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Award, presented by the same society. Diplas’ Einsteinhonor is the result of “his significant contributions in river and sediment transport, macroscopic relationsfor bed load transport, riverbed sediment sampling, self-formed channels, ecohydraulics, and themicroscopic study of sediment transport and its relation to turbulence,” according to the award citation.Charli, the robotic Hokie, was featured in Time magazine’s issue on the greatest inventions of 2011. Also,Charli and his creator, Dennis Hong, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and his engineeringstudents from the RoMeLa Laboratory, were the subject of a cover story in the Washington Post Magazine.Charli is the first untethered, autonomous, full-sized, walking, humanoid robot with four moving limbsand a head built in the United States.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 27

Wu Feng, of the computer science department, unveiled the supercomputer HokieSpeed, built for$1.4 million, just one-tenth of a percent of the cost of the Top500’s current No. 1 supercomputer, the KComputer from Japan. The majority of funding for HokieSpeed came from a $2 million National ScienceFoundation Major Research Instrumentation grant. HokieSpeed has enough computational capability toplace it at No. 96 on the most recent Top500 List, the industry-standard ranking of the world’s 500 fastestsupercomputers. But more intriguing is HokieSpeed’s energy efficiency, which ranks it at No. 11 in theworld on the November 2011 Green500 List, a compilation of supercomputers that excel at using lessenergy to do more. On the Green500 List, HokieSpeed is the highest-ranked commodity supercomputerin the United States.Five faculty members won National Science Foundation CAREER awards in 2012. They are RafaellaDeVita and Shane Ross, of engineering science and mechanics; Joseph Baker and Chao Wang, of electricaland computer engineering; and Holly Matusovich, of engineering education. Four new faculty membersbrought their CAREER awards with them. Sixty-nine current engineering faculty have received thisprestigious honor.Student/Student Group AchieversThe engineering students at Virginia Tech were chosen as the most philanthropic in the country for 2012,as well operating the nation’s best Student Engineers’ Council, according to the results of the recentannual competition hosted by the National Association of Engineering Student Councils at PurdueUniversity. The council was cited for its donation of more than $100,000 to the college during the year, aswell as more than $1 million in the past 10 years. This money was used for various engineering projects.Tech’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory team dominated RoboCup’s 2012 international humanoidrobot soccer competition for the second year in a row, once again wining the adult- and kid-sizedhumanoid soccer robot competitions.Senior design team BOLT placed second at the TTXGP eGrand PrixRace at the Portland InternationalRaceway in summer 2012. TTXGP is the world’s first zero-emissions motorcycle race series, and VirginiaTech’s entry, BOLT, stands for Battery Operated Land Transportation. The team received funding for thedesign of BOLT from the Virginia Tech Student Engineers’ Council, Boeing, General Motors, FFR Trikes,Areva, Plastics One, Kollmorgen, and Solutia.For the third consecutive year, a team of doctoral students from the Department of Computer Scienceand Center for Human-Computer Interaction won first place in the 3-D User Interfaces contest. The2012 competition required students to build a computer application that allowed two users to navigatethrough a complicated 3-D environment without any direct verbal communication.College Of Liberal Arts and Human SciencesNoted Accomplishments/HonorsThe apparel program in the Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management was rankedNo. 15 in the world by FashionSchools.org. The program was cited for its focus on new technologies andconsumer-centric industry information, as well as its internship program.The M.F.A. program in creative writing in the Department of English was again recognized by Poets& Writers Magazine. In 2012, the program improved its ranking to No. 23 among 400 M.F.A. programsnationally, moving up nine positions since 2011. The program continues to enjoy excellent rankings inother areas as well: 16th in poetry and 29th in fiction.28University Facts & Figures 2012-13

Outstanding FacultyMark V. Barrow Jr., professor and chair of the Department of History, was selected as the winner ofthe 2011 Susan Elizabeth Abrams Prize, awarded biennially for the best book in the history of sciencepublished by the University of Chicago Press. Barrow received the recognition for “Nature’s Ghosts:Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology.”Co-edited by Robert E. Denton Jr., chair of the Department of Communication, and John Hendricks,“Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House”won the 2011 Distinguished Book Award from the Applied Communication Division of the NationalCommunication Association.University Distinguished Professor and Department of Political Science Chair Timothy W. Luke washonored at the combined Western Political Science Association annual meetings and the 10th anniversarycelebrations for the Environmental Political Theory Workshop. The event’s concluding roundtable,“Great Works in Environmental Political Thought,” featured Luke’s “Ecocritique: Contesting the Politicsof Nature, Economy, and Culture,” as one of three benchmark works that continue to anchor and orientcontemporary scholarship in this area of political thought.Erika Meitner, associate professor of English, won the 2012 Emily Clark Prize for Poetry from theVirginia Quarterly Review. She was selected for her series of poems, titled “This Is Not a Requiem forDetroit,” published in spring 2011. Annually, the quarterly recognizes the best work in each literary genrepublished in the previous year’s issues.Fred Piercy, professor of human development, was appointed editor of the Journal of Marital and FamilyTherapy, the flagship journal of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and thelargest family therapy journal in the world.The National Council on Family Relations conferred its prestigious Fellow status on Joyce Arditti,associate professor in the Department of Human Development. Arditti is known nationally andinternationally for her disciplined study of marginalized groups (e.g. prisoners and the families ofprisoners), including issues of poverty, diversity, and social justice, and the intersection of families andsocial policy.Benjamin Sax, assistant professor in the Department of Religion and Culture, was named faculty principalof the residential college at West Ambler Johnston. Jennifer Quijano Sax, assistant program director foreducation abroad in the Office of International Research, Education, and Development, accepted the roleof Senior Fellow. They live in the faculty apartment of the residential college, which houses more than800 students and just opened this fall after extensive renovations. Three other CLAHS faculty membersare serving as associate faculty principals: Sheila Carter-Tod, an associate professor of English; MatthewGabriele, an associate professor in religion and culture; and Erika Meitner, an associate professor ofEnglish.Student/Student Group AchieversNicole Faut, an interdisciplinary studies major in the Department of Religion and Culture who also hasminors in history and medieval and early modern studies, received a 2012-13 Fulbright award. Faut’sexperience with creative expression paved the way to India, where she will work on her project, titled“Bhiti Chitra: The History and Applications of Murals in South India.” Faut also received a CriticalLanguage Enhancement Award and will spend three months taking advanced classes in Hindi in animmersion experience.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 29

Robyn Jones, a master’s candidate in educational leadership and policy studies in the School ofEducation, was selected as the 2012-13 graduate student representative to the Virginia Tech Board ofVisitors. Jones earned her bachelor’s degree in pre-law and public policy from Virginia Tech in 2005. Asan undergraduate, she was elected class president in 2002 and served as a senator and executive directorin the Student Government Association and as a resident advisor.Damion Blake, an ASPECT student, was awarded a Latin American Security, Drugs, and DemocracyFellowship. He was among 20 doctoral candidates and junior researchers at top-ranked researchuniversities and Latin American Studies centers to receive this prestigious fellowship. Blake returnedto his native Jamaica to study the place and power of the Jamaican don in the country’s inner-citycommunities.The Virginia Tech Relay For Life and its 5,500 participants raised more than $600,000 for the AmericanCancer Society. Virginia Tech was ranked the No. 1 university in terms of online fundraising, according toAmerican Cancer Society reports. The event was directed by Emily Feeney, who graduated with a degreein communication.Philipp Kotlaba was named the 2012 Outstanding Graduating Senior in the college. A member of theUniversity Honors Program, Kotlaba received his degree with three majors (international studies,German, and psychology). After being accepted at several of the nation’s elite schools, he chose to enterYale University’s School of Law.Jennifer McCloud, a doctoral candidate in curriculum and instruction in the School of Education, wasawarded the 2011-12 CLAHS Outstanding Doctoral Student award and the CLAHS 2012 GraduateHumanities Fellowship. McCloud specializes in English as a second language and multiculturaleducation.College Of Natural Resources and EnvironmentNoted Accomplishments/HonorsThe National Science Foundation has ranked the university’s agricultural science and natural resourcesresearch program in the top five among the nation’s universities and colleges since 2007. This rankingincludes figures from the colleges of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Natural Resources and Environment,and Veterinary Medicine.The college’s forestry, fisheries, and wildlife programs have consistently ranked among the top in thenation. In its most recent ranking of doctoral programs, the National Research Council rated VirginiaTech’s graduate program in forestry as one of the country’s best.A new bachelor of science degree in meteorology, the first in the commonwealth, was initiated in spring2012. The degree program, which resides in the Department of Geography, prepares students for careersin meteorology and weather forecasting with a significant focus on geospatial information technology,and unites data from both the natural and human environments. Enrollment numbers easily surpassedexpectations.The college’s Leadership Institute develops leadership abilities in some of its top undergraduate studentsto prepare them for managing natural resources for sustainability and biodiversity. In this two-semesterspecial study sequence, select students with demonstrated leadership skills and academic abilitystrengthen their talents through in-class discussion and hands-on leadership projects.30University Facts & Figures 2012-13

Faculty and students in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation are collaborating withresearchers across the globe to help save tigers, one of the world’s most endangered species, fromextinction. In the mountains of Nepal, researchers are using genetic sampling to identify individualtigers and track their movements. A study in Sumatra is the first of its kind to systematically investigatethe use of different land cover types for tiger habitat. The study’s use of geographic information systemtechnology was featured in a cover story in GeoWorld magazine.The college renamed its wood science and forest products department the Department of SustainableBiomaterials to more accurately reflect the wide scope of education and research being conducted.In recent years, faculty expertise has diversified to include education and research activities innanomaterials, drug delivery, adhesion science, advanced composites, nontimber forest products,biofuels, aseptic packaging, and sustainable biomaterials.The college’s urban forestry program collaborated with state and nonprofit partners to develop aspecialty license plate to raise awareness of the value of community trees. Proceeds from the “VirginiaLoves Trees” plate will benefit Virginia Tech’s urban forestry program and its partner, Trees Virginia, thestate’s Urban Forestry Council.The college took the lead in organizing three interdisciplinary events on campus. The InternationalYear of Forests celebration highlighted the life and legacy of Aldo Leopold, father of the Americanconservation and wildlife management movement. The Showcase of Female Scientists, which examinedthe challenges facing graduate students, faculty, and staff in the sciences, included noteworthy speakersand a panel on work and life balance. The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Ecological Society of America’sannual conference, one of the largest ever held by the chapter, offered students a valuable opportunity tonetwork with experts from across the region.The college collaborated with Primland, a 12,000-acre sporting resort near Meadows of Dan, Va., on afield guide for the property as well as a geocache trail, which were unveiled at a weekend event that alsocelebrated Primland’s new tree house accommodations. The college continues to partner with Primlandon a number of ongoing projects at the site, including a cultural plant survey, water quality work, goldeneagle research, and naturalist courses for guests and employees.The Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation worked with the Virginia Department of Game andInland Fisheries on a statewide management plan for more than 200,000 acres of land on 39 wildlifemanagement areas. A two-year study, in which more than 4,000 wildlife management area users weresurveyed for their input on the agency’s management techniques, was one of the first in the country tosolicit user input.Outstanding FacultyAssociate Professor Kathleen Alexander continues to stay at the forefront of research on the humanwildlifeinterface. She received a National Science Foundation grant to investigate the links betweenhumans’ and animals’ influence on water quality and, in turn, how water quality affects their health.She is leading a team to study the management and control of water-borne diseases through a NationalInstitutes of Health grant. And she found evidence that buffalo may be an important species in thetransmission and persistence of the brucellosis pathogen in Botswana.Geography instructor John Boyer, known for his Plaid Avenger alter ego and his unorthodox teachingmethods, has embraced social media in a way unmatched by few other faculty members. Not only doeshe use social media to communicate with the 3,000 students in his oversized World Regions course, hisonline campaigns have brought noteworthy guests to campus, including a visit by Martin Sheen andEmilio Estevez to promote their film “The Way.” His class participated in an exclusive online interview2012-13 University Facts & Figures 31

with Burmese political activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi in what EdTech Digestcalled “the best use of Skype ever.”Post-doctoral researcher John “J.D.” Willson co-authored a study on the impact of invasive Burmesepythons on mammal populations in the Everglades. His collaborative research, which attracted nationalattention, found that the huge snakes — probably descended from escaped or released pets — appearto be wiping out the area’s populations of raccoons, opossums, bobcats, and other small mammals. Thefindings suggest that the pythons will have dramatic effects on the overall ecosystem of the Everglades.Janaki Alavalapati, professor and head of the Department of Forest Resources and EnvironmentalConservation, was named a 2011 Senior Fellow in the U.S. State Department’s Energy and ClimatePartnership of the Americas program.Sarah Karpanty, associate professor of wildlife, was elected to serve as president of the Faculty Senate for2012-13.Brian Murphy, professor of fisheries, is president of the Southern Division of the American FisheriesSociety.Marc Stern, associate professor of natural resources education and communication, has been selected as aScholar of the Clemson University Institute for Parks, one of the largest concentrations of park researchersin any U.S. academic institution.Daniel Hindman, associate professor of wood engineering, has been named editor of Wood Design Focus,a journal produced by the Forest Products Society.Michael Schwarz, an adjunct assistant professor and an aquaculture specialist at the Virginia SeafoodAgricultural Research and Extension Center, was presented with a letter of entrustment from the JejuSpecial Self-Governing Province of South Korea naming him an honorary ambassador for the island.Schwarz is also president-elect of the World Aquaculture Society.Alan Thornhill, an adjunct faculty member in the college’s National Capital Region graduate program,was selected as the first chief environmental officer of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, a unit ofthe U.S. Department of the Interior.Robert “Bob” Smith, associate dean of engagement, was appointed by the U.S. secretary of agricultureto the Forestry Research Advisory Council, representing the interest area of forestry schools and stateagricultural experiment stations.Three Extension educators received Gold Awards from the Association of Natural Resource ExtensionProfessionals: Scott Barrett for the Virginia SHARP Logger Program, Jennifer Gagnon for the VirginiaForest Landowner Update newsletter, and Adam Downing for the “Four Minutes to a Better Backyard”video.Student/Student Group AchieversDanielle Williams, who received an executive master of natural resources degree, was named a finalist fora Presidential Management Fellowship, a highly competitive two-year post-graduate fellowship with afederal agency. Fewer than 10 percent of the 9,000 applicants become finalists.Katelin Shugart-Schmidt, a master’s student in fisheries and wildlife sciences, was named Virginia Tech’s2012 Graduate Woman of the Year for her contributions to the Virginia Tech graduate community.32University Facts & Figures 2012-13

The Hokies for Wetlands Team took first place in the American Society for Photogrammetry and RemoteSensing’s 2012 GeoLeague Challenge. The winning paper, prepared by the team of eight master’s anddoctoral students, appeared in the June 2012 issue of the journal Photogrammetric Engineering & RemoteSensing.Baojuan Zheng, a graduate student in geography, received the William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarshipfrom the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.Geography student Kathryn Prociv is challenging the belief that tornadoes break up as they hit mountainridges. Prociv was interviewed as the Storm Chase team prepared for its first trip of the 2012 season.The student team of Wyatt Blevins (wildlife science) and Carson Rejzer (building construction) took fifthplace and a $5,000 prize in the National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship.Wildlife sciences graduate student Claudia Wultsch and her conservation dog Bruiser were featured in aNational Geographic homepage segment on scat studies.Matt Hillman, a wildlife sciences master’s student conducting research on the North Carolina coast,saved the life of a woman drowning in a rip tide. He was nominated for the U.S. Coast Guard LifesavingAward.Clark DeHart, a wildlife science major, is a cast member of the award-winning television program “AquaKids,” which shows young people the importance of preserving and protecting marine and aquaticenvironments.Pamplin College of BusinessNoted Accomplishments/HonorsU.S. News & World Report ranked the Pamplin College of Business undergraduate program 40th overallamong the nation’s undergraduate business programs and 24th among public institutions. Pamplin’sranking places it in the top 10 percent of the 445 U.S. undergraduate programs accredited by AACSBInternational (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).Other notable rankings:• The undergraduate program ranked No. 52 overall, No. 37 by employers, according to BloombergBusinessweek.• The M.B.A. program ranked No. 84, while the evening M.B.A. program ranked No. 37, U.S. News &World Report.• The masters of information technology program ranked fourth in the nation for teaching practicesand student engagement, 10th for faculty credentials and training, and 16th for student services andtechnology, U.S. News & World Report.• Accounting and information systems was among the top 25 undergraduate programs in accounting,Public Accounting Report 29th Annual Professor’s Survey, 2010.• Management and marketing had two faculty members among the world’s top 25 business ethicsscholars, Journal of Business Ethics, 2010.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 33

• Hospitality and tourism management: four faculty members among world’s top 50 tourism scholars,Tourism Management, 2009.The college developed an innovative program to help alleviate the critical national shortage of businessschool faculty. Pamplin is among four U.S. business schools that have launched the first post-doctoral“bridge-to-business” programs approved by AACSB International. The programs are designed to prepareindividuals with doctorates in nonbusiness, but related, disciplines for new careers as business facultymembers.Six Pamplin majors are routinely in the 10 majors most sought after by recruiters visiting campus.Outstanding FacultyFaculty members who have received Fulbright awards are hospitality and tourism management AssociateProfessor Vince Magnini, business law Professor Janine Hiller, management Professor Richard Wokutch,accounting and information systems Professor France Belanger, hospitality and tourism managementProfessor Mahmood Khan, and management Professor Larry French.Business information technology Assistant Professor Alan Abrahams won the Decision SciencesInstitute’s 2011 Instructional Innovation Award for his pilot study on using “expeditionary learning,” aneducational approach used in the natural sciences, to teach e-commerce technologies.Management Assistant Professor Steve Gove and his co-authors received the 2011 Sage Publications/Robert McDonald Advancement of Organization Research Methodology Award by the Academy ofManagement’s research methods division. The award recognized the scholarly contributions of their two2005 Strategic Management Journal articles addressing measurement error in the management literature.Management Associate Professor Jeffrey Arthur and his co-authors received the 2011 Best Paper Awardof the Academy of Management’s human resources division for their paper, “How a climate for incivilityaffects business unit performance: testing a linkage model.”The world’s top hospitality and tourism scholars include Pamplin’s Vince Magnini, Ken McCleary, andZvi Schwartz, according to a study in the August 2011 issue of the Journal of Hospitality & TourismResearch.Management Professor Richard Wokutch and marketing Professor Joseph Sirgy are listed among the mostproductive researchers in business ethics, according to a study in the Journal of Business Ethics, whichranked Virginia Tech 15th among the top 25 academic institutions in this field.Anthony T. (Terry) Cobb, associate professor of management, received the university’s 2011 Edward S.Diggs Teaching Scholars Award, presented annually to three Virginia Tech faculty members to recognizeexceptional contributions to the teaching program and learning environment. Cobb developed aunique pedagogy of using self-managed student teams in his classes to address complex projects. Histextbook, “Leading Project Teams: An Introduction to the Basics of Project Management and ProjectTeam Leadership,” is designed for instructors in professional programs for use in class as well as in theworkplace.Pamplin faculty members are tackling major issues in industry, finance, management practice, andinformation technology, to name a few areas. Their research has contributed to greater understandingof business issues, has been cited in government hearings and court testimony, and has played a role inpolicymaking. Though sponsored research is not a central aspect of the research programs of businessschools, several Pamplin faculty members have attracted national funding for their research while34University Facts & Figures 2012-13

working as members of interdisciplinary teams. Based on publication in the leading academic journalsin their fields, the college’s departments are also regularly ranked among the nation’s or world’s topprograms for scholarly productivity.Pamplin’s senior faculty members teach many of the required courses, and students learn from theprofessors who win teaching and research awards, write the books used in classrooms everywhere, serveas consultants to companies, or have worked in business and industry. The college has had 22 winners ofthe university’s Wine Award for teaching excellence since the award was established in 1957.Student/Student Group AchieversThrough two student-run investing groups, Pamplin students manage about $10 million of VirginiaTech’s endowment. SEED (Student-managed Endowment for Educational Development) manages about$5 million through stock investments and is believed to be the nation’s largest student-run portfolio thatis managed as an extracurricular activity. BASIS (Bond And Securities Investing by Students) managesabout $5 million in bonds and other fixed-income securities and is one of a handful of bond-only studentinvestorprograms in the nation. SEED’s faculty advisors are finance professors John Pinkerton and MikeKender; BASIS is advised by professors George Morgan and Derek Klock.Pamplin students are overseeing and advancing the college’s social media activities through a newlyestablished organization, PRISM (Pamplin Reinventing Social Media), under the guidance of marketinginstructor and faculty advisor Donna Wertalik.A team led by Wertalik received the 2012 CASE District III Award of Excellence for the redesignedwebsite and social media platform for the marketing department. CASE is the Council for Advancementand Support of Education.Notable AlumniThe college is named in honor of alumni Robert B. Pamplin, the retired CEO of Georgia-Pacific who diedin June 2009 at age 97, and businessman and philanthropist Robert B. Pamplin Jr. The college’s notablealumni include David Calhoun, chairman and CEO of The Nielsen Company and former vice-chair of GE;Lance Smith, retired U.S. Air Force general and former commander of the U.S. Joint Forces Command;Terry Blevins, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Landmark Media Enterprises; TrishCox, chief operating officer of Schwab Advisor Services; Lynne Doughtie, national managing partner ofKPMG’s U.S. advisory services; Shirley Edwards, audit and advisory services partner at Ernst & Young;C.E. Andrews, president and chief operating officer of RSM McGladrey, a subsidiary of H&R Block;Vahan Janjigian, vice president and executive director of the Forbes Investors Advisory Institute, Forbeschief investment strategist, and author of “Even Buffet Isn’t Perfect: What You Can and — Can’t — Learnfrom the World’s Greatest Investor”; and Denman Zirkle, executive director of the Shenandoah ValleyBattlefields Foundation.College of ScienceNoted Accomplishments/HonorsThe Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery is a critical new center committed to interdisciplinarydiscovery of new drugs, therapies, and delivery mechanisms. The center collects faculty from across thecollege and serves as a conduit with other colleges.The College of Science is working in collaboration with the Institute for Arts, Creativity, and Technologyby using art to inspire advances in molecular structure and symmetry, and teamed science to provide newmeans to convey science with novel avenues for effective communication.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 35

The Integrated Science Curriculum is a gateway for science majors and a vehicle to introduce emergingdegrees in nanoscience, neuroscience, computational science, and systems biology. A second class of 26students entered in fall 2012.The college hosted the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry’s MACRO2012 InternationalCongress — 1,400 scientists from 52 countries gathered at Virginia Tech. This prestigious event rotates tothe United States every 15 years.Outstanding FacultyPatricia Dove, C.P. Miles Professor of Science in the Department of Geosciences, was elected a memberof the National Academy of Sciences for sustained excellence in original scientific research. She will beinducted in April 2013 during the 150th annual meeting in Washington, D.C.William H. Woodall, professor of statistics, was given the Box Medal by the European Network ofIndustrial and Business Statistics. The award recognizes an extraordinary statistician who has maderemarkable contributions to the development and application of statistical methods in business andindustry.David G.I. Kingston, University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, has been named to the NationalAdvisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.Thomas H. Ollendick, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, received an honorary doctoratefrom Stockholm University and was one of only 10 individuals internationally to receive the honor.Timothy E. Long, professor of chemistry and associate dean of the College of Science, and member of theMacromolecules and Interfaces Institute at Virginia Tech, was presented with the Pressure Sensitive TapeCouncil Carl Dahlquist Award for his research relating to adhesive tape technology. He was also nameda Mark Scholar by the American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry. The award is one ofthree given annually to leaders in the combined fields of polymer science and engineering.Jackson R. Webster, professor of ecology, received the 2012 William E. Wine Award. The award is anautomatic induction into the Academy of Teaching Excellence.Yili Hong, assistant professor of statistics, was named a DuPont Young Professor. He was one of only 18professors given the distinction from 11 U.S. and six international universities.T. Daniel Crawford, professor of chemistry, received a 2012 Alumni Award for Excellence in Research.The award is presented annually to no more than two university faculty members who have madeoutstanding research contributions.Lee Cooper, professor of psychology and director, Psychological Services Center, received the 2011-12Diggs Teaching Scholar Award.Vito Scarola, assistant professor of physics, received the 2011 DARPA Young Faculty Award, whichidentifies and engages rising research stars in junior faculty positions.36University Facts & Figures 2012-13

Student/Student Group AchieversKayvon Izadpanah, of Sterling, Va., and a recent graduate in biological sciences and biochemistry withminors in international studies, medicine and society, and chemistry, and Carly Stephens, of Centreville,Va., a recent graduate in biological sciences with a minor in Spanish, were selected as the 2012 VirginiaTech Man and Woman of the Year.Virginia-Maryland Regional College Of Veterinary MedicineNoted Accomplishments/HonorsThe Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine (VMRCVM), in collaboration with theVirginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, launched a new master of public health program in responseto a critical shortage of trained public health professionals. The program, which offers concentrations inpublic health education and infectious disease, integrates and expands public health opportunities at theuniversity.One of the most common causes of lameness in horses — an injury to tendons or ligaments — can nowbe treated at the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center with platelet rich plasma (PRP). PRP isderived from blood that is drawn from an equine patient and run through a centrifuge, which separates asolution’s less-dense components from its heavier ones.For the past several years, Dr. Elankumaran Subbiah, assistant professor in the Department ofBiomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, and a team of researchers from the college have conductedinnovative research to develop a treatment for cancer. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) andthe Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program of the Department of Defense have providedmajor funding for Subbiah’s work, which focuses on creating a cancer therapy from genetically alteredNewcastle disease virus. This innovative work will continue thanks to a pledge from Robert Garst inmemory of his wife, Maria, who died from cancer. The Maria Garst Memorial Fund for Cancer Researchwill enable Dr. John Rossmeisl, an associate professor in the Department of Small Animal ClinicalSciences, to take Subbiah’s work on brain tumors from the research laboratory into the clinical setting.In response to an increased need for qualified veterinarians in North America, particularly those inthe public sector, the first-year class size has been increased. In addition, the new Veterinary MedicineInstructional Addition includes a state-of-the-art clinical techniques laboratory, as well as small groupteaching spaces and faculty offices.The Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine has partnered with the U.S. Animal HealthAssociation to create mentoring, education, and networking opportunities for veterinarians andveterinary students. In response to increased demands for veterinarians in the public sector, the center isworking to expand activities in the areas of public health, public policy, international veterinary medicine,organizational leadership, and the One Health Initiative.Outstanding FacultyDr. Ansar Ahmed, professor of immunology and head of the Department of Biomedical Sciences andPathobiology, completed research on a new, nonradioactive alternative to determining the proliferation oflymphocytes. The paper he authored on his research surpassed 500 citations in the citation index ISI Webof Science, a prestigious honor earned by few in the field of life sciences.Dr. Jennifer Barrett, assistant professor of surgery at the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center, wasselected to serve on the Founders’ Committee for the North American Regenerative Society.Dr. Sandra Diaz, assistant professor of dermatology in the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences,achieved diplomate status with the American College of Veterinary Dermatology.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 37

Dr. X.J. Meng, a virologist in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, waselected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. Meng, a professor of molecular virology inthe Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, researches emerging and re-emerging viraldiseases that impact veterinary and human public health. Meng developed the first vaccine fully licensedby the U.S. Department of Agriculture to protect against porcine circovirus type 2 infection and itsassociated diseases, which constitute a major threat to the global swine industry.Dr. Bonnie Smith, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, wasawarded the national Carl J. Norden-Pfizer Distinguished Teaching Award, an honor that celebrates heras the best among the thousands of professors teaching in the nation’s 28 colleges of veterinary medicine.Dr. Anne Zajac received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of VeterinaryParasitologists (AAVP). She also authored a book under the auspices of the organization, the royaltiesof which have added thousands of dollars to the AAVP student travel fund. Zajac was the first femalepresident of the organization.Student/Student Group AchieversAnne Dewar ‘11, Jenny Miller ‘12, and Sarah Brauning ‘12 won the national American Association ofBovine Practitioners (AABP) Quiz Bowl competition. The VMRCVM students beat out 23 teams from theUnited States and Canada at the AABP Convention.Dr. Kathryn Simmons, VMRCVM alumna, was selected as a 2010-11 American Veterinary MedicalAssociation Congressional Science Fellow. Simmons graduated with the college’s charter class in 1984.This is the second consecutive year that a VMRCVM alumna has been selected for the prestigiousfellowship.Dr. Jean Richards ’06, former student of the Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine, hasbeen selected as a Fellow for the 2010-11 American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science& Technology Policy Fellowships. The fellowships help to establish and nurture critical links betweenfederal decision-makers and scientific professionals to support public policy that benefits the well-beingof the nation and the planet.Dr. Claire Simeone ’11 was awarded first place in the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners 19thAnnual Student Case Report Contest.Other areasDistance Learning and Summer SessionsThere were 24,356 credit eLearning enrollments at the undergraduate and graduate levels representing823 course offerings during 2011-12.Growth continued in undergraduate enrollments with 18,442, equivalent to 614 30-seat classrooms. In2011-12, the Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning (IDDL) targeted Curriculum for Liberal Education(CLE) courses as a way to enhance undergraduate distance-learning offerings through the deliveryof 54 different CLE courses.Seventy-three percent of first-time, full-term freshmen in the 2008 entering cohort have taken an onlinecourse. One hundred percent of the university’s academic departments are engaged in developing and/or delivering courses at a distance.38University Facts & Figures 2012-13

The university’s graduate distance-learning portfolio included 560 courses and 852 course sections.The graduate certificate in nuclear engineering, developed from within the Department of MechanicalEngineering, successfully went through university governance in FY11 and online course developmentwas conducted during FY12.IDDL offered professional development opportunities and built partnerships with Nigeria, South Africa,and Senegal in fall 2011. Visiting scholars from Egypt participated in the master online instructor certificateduring the spring 2012 semester.Quality assurance remains a priority while providing design and consultation services utilizing researchbasedpedagogical practices to improve distance learning at Virginia Tech. To support this commitment,IDDL provided more than $200,919 (Provost Enterprise Fund Course Development Fund) for new coursedevelopment and $15,000 for research fellowships.More than 160 faculty members participated in IDDL professional development offerings. Additionally,more than 90 faculty participated in one-on-one instructional design consultation.Outreach and International AffairsOutreach and International Affairs’ Continuing and Professional Education (CPE) continued to providevaluable programs that connected the expertise of Virginia Tech to local, state, national, and global needsof individuals, organizations, and communities. The CPE team successfully delivered 244 programs thatwere attended by approximately 21,000 participants.Continuing and Professional Education also is heading up Virginia Tech’s role in a $60 million, fiveyeargrant project funded by the U.S. Army Education Outreach Program. CPE is collaborating with theuniversity’s Office of Academic Assessment and the VT-STEM initiative on the project, which is an effortto nurture students’ interests in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers. Theproject brings together 10 national STEM outreach programs under one umbrella.CPE’s Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement (COTA) generated more than $1.2million in gross sales revenue for the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center in FY 2012. From 2004 to 2012,COTA has generated about $45.5 million in gross sales at the hotel and conference center.Since 2008, more than $8.5 million worth of renovations have been made at the Hotel Roanoke &Conference Center, including upgrades of all guest rooms and conference facilities. In 2012, the facilityreceived Hilton Hotel’s Best Property Operations-Americas East Award in recognition of long-termeffective management.The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center recently was named a top-10 meeting destinationin a readers’ choice survey by ConventionSouth. Inn and conference guests also can enjoy golf packagesat the nearby Pete Dye River Course of Virginia Tech, which was ranked among the 10 Best CampusCourses for 2011 by Golfweek magazine.The Office of Economic Development is spearheading a $1.7 million, three-year federal grant projectaimed at creating new jobs in Southwest Virginia’s transportation equipment manufacturing industry.Because of its track record in activities that help create jobs, the Office of Economic Development also hasbeen awarded a $500,000 University Center grant to further its regional economic development effortsover the next five years. The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration chosefewer than two dozen universities to receive the competitive grants.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 39

The Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED) manages research programsfocused on sustainable agriculture, resource management, and pest management in more than 25countries around the world. It also oversees Virginia Tech’s Office of Education Abroad, Women andGender in International Development, Graduate Certificate in International Research, and Peace Corpsprograms.During the past year, OIRED continued to manage a five-year, $28 million grant from the U.S. Agencyfor International Development to revamp the agriculture curriculum in Senegal’s institutions of highereducation. The Education and Research in Agriculture in Senegal project is part of a U.S. government’sFeed the Future Initiative, aimed at ensuring that countries around the world can feed themselves.OIRED also oversees a $9.4 million, five-year project designed to help train the next generation ofagriculturalists in post-conflict South Sudan. The project’s focus is establishing agriculture and naturalresource management curricula in South Sudan’s universities.The Upward Bound program at Virginia Tech was recently awarded a five-year grant worth $1.85 millionby the U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education, TRIO Programs. Upward Boundis one of six federal TRIO Programs designed as educational opportunity outreach programs to assistfirst-generation college and disabled students in progressing from middle school to post-baccalaureateprograms. In 2011 the university’s sister program, Talent Search, received a five-year funding grant of $1.6million from the Department of Education, renewing its outreach to middle and high school students inSouthwest Virginia.The Virginia Tech Language and Culture Institute offers language-related programs and services foracademic and professional development on the Blacksburg campus and at the National Capital Regioncampus. The Intensive English course series serves 300-400 students each semester. The institute alsohas provided pre-academic training to about 90 Fulbright scholars from Africa, Asia, Latin America, theCaribbean, Europe, and the Middle East.During the past year, more than 600 students enrolled in eight different graduate programs at the VirginiaTech Commonwealth Campus centers. The six centers also serve a wider field of clients. For example,the Southwest Center in Abingdon presented a variety of professional development, training, and STEMprograms that attracted about 9,600 participants, including K-12 administrators, teachers, and students, aswell as members of civic organizations.Virginia Tech has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll asone of the nation’s leading colleges in service for the past seven years, and VT Engage: the CommunityLearning Collaborative is a university leader in implementing service efforts. During the past year,about 2,700 undergraduate and 430 graduate students participated in service-learning and experientialprograms that were integrated into 84 courses in more than 28 departments.Student AffairsCook Counseling Center is accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services and offersa pre-doctoral internship in professional psychology that is accredited by the American PsychologicalAssociation.The Cranwell International Center, in conjunction with the Council of International StudentsOrganizations, 62 student organizations, and more than 200 volunteers, hosted the 53nd InternationalStreet Fair in 2012. With 13,000 attendees, it is the largest and longest-running international street fair atany university in the U.S.40University Facts & Figures 2012-13

Virginia Tech is one of only three public institutions in the U.S. to offer full-time military and civilianstudent lifestyles (the others are Texas A&M and North Georgia College and State University). The Corpsof Cadets annually commissions approximately 80 percent of its graduates; VMI, the Citadel, and TexasA&M commission 35 to 50 percent.Four hundred twenty-one cadets entered in fall 2012 for New Cadet Training to push the overall corps tomore than 1,065 cadets, the largest regiment since 1968.Success of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets’ leader development effort is demonstrated by the consistentselection of cadets as recipients of the university’s most prestigious student-leadership awards. In 2012,Cadet Amanda McGrath was named the university’s Undergraduate Student Leader of the Year, markingthe eighth time in past nine years a cadet has earned this honor. She was also recognized with the Womenin Leadership and Philanthropy’s Undergraduate Woman in Leadership Award, the third time in the pastfour years this award has gone to a cadet.The Princeton Review consistently ranks Virginia Tech Dining Services as one of the top three in thenation for Best Campus Food.Dining Services is at the forefront of the sustainability movement nationally, with composting, auniversity garden, local purchasing, extensive sustainability training, classroom instruction, and creationof a sustainable dining venue.Virginia Tech is rated a “4 star” (out of five) institution by Campus Pride, the national rating organizationfor LGBT-friendly campus environments. The recent addition of a campus LGBTQ coordinator will allowthe university to expand its collaborative efforts among faculty, student, and community supporters ofLGBTQ issues.Schiffert Health Center is accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.The Big Event community service project celebrated its 10th anniversary at Virginia Tech in 2011 byholding the second largest event in the nation, involving more than 6,731 volunteers who completed morethan 950 service projects for the local community.Virginia Tech Relay For Life is one of the top collegiate relays in the country.More than 19,000 students are members of the more than 700 officially registered clubs and organizationsat Virginia Tech.To learn more about Virginia Tech, including more recent measures ofsuccess and notable announcements, visit www.vt.edu.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 41

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