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8 unusual facts about Virginia Tech


Au Bon Pain

One of those three Virginia Tech locations, the one in the Graduate Life Center section of campus, was the site of the 2009 murder of Xin Yang.

The chain is also very successful on college campuses: the University of Pennsylvania has one location on its campus as does The Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers University, Auburn University, Duke University and Saint Louis University, while Virginia Tech has three.

Cyrus McCormick Farm

The farm is near Steele's Tavern, Virginia and Raphine, Virginia, close to the northern border of Rockbridge County, Virginia and Augusta County, Virginia, and is currently a museum run by the Virginia Agricultural Experimental Station of Virginia Tech.

Jones Diamond

In 1942, Punch brought the stone to a geology professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) -- more commonly known as Virginia Tech -- in nearby Blacksburg, Virginia.

Pelikan tail

Virginia Tech students built a Pelikan tail model and got positive results for its viability using a wind tunnel.

Rebecca Wight

Rebecca Wight -- a student, of Iranian and Puerto Rican heritage, who was working on her Master's Degree in Business Administration -- and 32-year-old Claudia Brenner -- a Jewish, Manhattan-born architecture student -- were partners for two years, after meeting over breakfast while both were students at Virginia Tech.

Reynolds Homestead

The homestead is currently an outreach facility of Virginia Tech, and includes the restored home of R.J. Reynolds and a continuing education center, which are operated by the Virginia Tech Department of Outreach and International Affairs.

The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications

Despite his heavy teaching load and administrative duties at Virginia Tech, where he had just become head of a large civil-engineering program, Morris made steady progress on his section of the book, eventually contributing more than twice as much material as Whitcomb.


2014 UCLA Bruins football team

Led by quarterback Brett Hundley, offensive guard Xavier Su'a-Filo, outside linebacker Anthony Barr, and inside linebacker Jordan Zumwalt, the Bruins were 10–3 and winners of the Sun Bowl over Virginia Tech 42-12.

Alonzo Jackson

In the National Championship game, the Sugar Bowl vs. Virginia Tech, Jackson contributed one solo tackle on special teams.

He had five tackles and two tackles for loss in the Gator Bowl against Virginia Tech.

Chuck McLachlan

Some of his work can be found in the corporate and private collections of R.J. Reynolds, Virginia Tech and the SAS Institute.

Draper's Meadow massacre

The settlement was situated near the present day campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

EnVISIONing Annapolis

During this period of intense collaborative work, four university teams - one each from the University of Maryland, Catholic University of America, Virginia Tech, and Morgan State University - converged on the city to study, brainstorm, and create.

Gary Cates

A graduate of Virginia Tech and the University of Dayton, Cates began his political career as a Union Township Trustee from 1990 to 1995.

Givology

Givology campus chapters have been established at several universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, Oxford University, Virginia Tech and Peking University.

Harding Nana

Nana signed with Virginia Tech out of Notre Dame Prep in Kensington, Maryland.

James Lindsay Almond, Jr.

Almond attended Virginia Tech and served as a private in the Students Army Training Corps in 1917 and 1918 in World War I, after which he taught school in Locust Grove, Virginia.

Jess Cliffe

He grew up in New Jersey and went to North Hunterdon High School in Annandale, New Jersey before attending Virginia Tech from 1999-2003.

John Swofford

During his tenure he has doubled the ACC's annual revenue, served as Chairman of the Bowl Championship Series in college football in 2000 and 2001, and expanded the ACC to include Boston College, Virginia Tech, the University of Miami, the University of Pittsburgh, Syracuse University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Louisville by 2014.

Joshua Boateng

He played college soccer at Virginia Tech and Liberty University, where he was named a member of the All-Big South First Team in 2007, and honored as the Big South Player of the Year and was named to the Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy Watch List for the best player in the NCAA in 2008, He was also an All American player.

Katarína Filová

Filova is currently a fourth-year junior with an international studies major at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Larry Coker

The following week, the 'Canes lost to Virginia Tech, 17–10, as ESPN College Football analysts questioned Coker's management of the clock in the game's final minutes.

Marjorie Grene

Ruth Grene, a professor of plant physiology at Virginia Tech, and Nicholas Grene, Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin.

Nonie Darwish

She has spoken on numerous college campuses including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Tufts, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Oxford, Cornell, UCLA, NYU, Virginia Tech, Pepperdine, UC Berkeley and several others.

Robert T. Lackey

In 1971, Lackey was awarded a PhD (Fisheries and Wildlife) and was hired immediately by Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia) as an assistant professor of fisheries.

School Shooter: North American Tour 2012

The game has drawn criticism by parents and educators for its premise and is often compared to the school shootings in Columbine High School and Virginia Tech.

Todd Reesing

Despite this loss, Kansas was selected to play in the 2008 FedEx Orange Bowl against 11–2 Virginia Tech.

Tri-State Warbird Museum

The museum's North American B-25 Mitchell was featured on October 16, 2010 in a flyover of the Virginia Tech football game.

WVTF

Owned and operated by Virginia Tech through its fundraising arm, the Virginia Tech Foundation, the station is licensed to Roanoke and operates a large satellite and translator network.


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2005 NCAA conference realignment

Led by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the football schools that would be left behind under this initial plan — UConn, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia — filed two lawsuits, one against the ACC, and the other against Miami and BC, accusing them of improper disclosure of confidential information and of conspiring to weaken the Big East.

2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl

After taking possession on his own 16-yard line, Georgia quarterback and true freshman Matthew Stafford caused the first turning point of the game as he threw an interception to Brenden Hill of Virginia Tech.

2013 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team

Once again Georgia Tech allowed the opposition to score early going behind 14–0 after spectacular play by Virginia Tech's quarterback Logan Thomas who threw and ran for a touchdown in the first half.

Boston College–Virginia Tech football rivalry

Although the Eagles defeated the Hokies in both the regular seasons of 2007 and 2008, Virginia Tech won the 2007 and 2008 ACC Championship Game contested between the two schools.

Brian Brohm

He was forced to miss Louisville's last regular season game (a December 2 matchup against Connecticut) and was still in rehabilitation when the Cardinals lost to Virginia Tech in the 2006 Gator Bowl.

Charles Goodsell

Goodsell is also known for his work as a co-author of the Blacksburg Manifesto, written with Gary Wamsley, Robert Bacher, Philip Kronenberg, John Rohr, Camilla Stivers, Orion White, and James Wolf—all of whom were at Virginia Tech during the 1980s.

Cubbage

B. C. Cubbage, the head coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies football program from 1921 to 1925

Grand Challenges In Global Health

At Virginia Tech University, Dr. Jeffery Bloomquist and a team are using molecular modeling and a new chemical synthesis method known as “click chemistry” to produce insecticides targeted to the primary malaria vector mosquitoes, Anopheles gambiae.

James Bishop

Jamie Bishop (1971–2007), German language instructor and Virginia Tech massacre victim

James Thorpe

James Thorp, head of the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech

James Weaver

James C. Weaver, former American football player and coach, current director of athletics at Virginia Tech

Joe Saunders

As the only active major league player at the time from Virginia Tech, Saunders received special dispensation to wear a Virginia Tech cap during the April 20, 2007, game against the Seattle Mariners to honor the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre.

John McBryde

John McLaren McBryde (1841–1923), president of Virginia Tech, 1891–1907

Lund v. Commonwealth

While working on his Ph.D. research in the 1970s, Lund utilized the resources of Virginia Tech's computer lab.

Radio IQ

Although Radio IQ is officially a partnership of Virginia Tech and Ferrum College, WFFC's license is now held by the Virginia Tech Foundation, licensee of WWVT.

Triclosan

The American Dental Association published a response to the concerns stemming from the Virginia Tech study stating that the study is not relevant to toothpaste.