2018

A team of Virginia Tech hospitality and tourism management students won the 2018 STR Student Market Study Competition at the BDNY hospitality trade fair recently.

After years of research and development contributed by over 100 Virginia Tech students and faculty, the FutureHAUS Dubai team has officially built the world’s best solar home.

A team of Virginia Tech hospitality and tourism management students won the 2018 STR Student Market Study Competition at the BDNY hospitality trade fair recently.

Good ideas are slumbering in intellectual property offices at universities across the country, just waiting for enterprising people to see their potential.

What began about 10 years ago as a student club with a few members has transformed into the Consulting Group at Virginia Tech, giving students opportunities to develop or hone important professional skills while in college and providing businesses and organizations around Virginia with pro bono consulting services.

Imagine getting behind-the-scenes insights on a corporate acquisition that creates the world’s largest hotel company — from an experienced and articulate executive who helped make it happen.

Combatting brain drain. Creating safer infrastructure and reducing disease. Supporting peers struggling with mental health issues. Equalizing access to quality education.

Cadet Donald Warter will receive the flags at this week’s football game against Pittsburgh.

The home of the future is en route to a temporary residence in the desert — and the Virginia Tech students and faculty who built it are following.

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Zachary Bird, a 2015 Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets alumnus who earned a degree in business with a concentration in human resource management from the Pamplin College of Business and a minor in leadership studies from the corps’ Rice Center for Leader Development, was selected as the Hokie Hero for Saturday’s football game against Boston College.

Six alumni and one company were honored recently with the 2018 Pamplin Society Awards - Rising Alumni, Mentoring, Ut Prosim, and Corporate Ambassador awards from the Pamplin College of Business.

During her military career, U.S. Navy Cmdr. Stacy Uttecht has done everything from flying with a F/A-18 Super Hornet demonstration team to commanding a fighter squadron.

The program will integrate the study of Chinese and Korean languages and cultures through coursework in Blacksburg and online, study abroad, and internships with companies.

Virginia Tech hosted first session in a series that is designed to facilitate cross-institutional connections among academic leaders at 14 ACC universities while building leadership capacity for the participating institutions.

Hosted by the Graduate School, the two-day summit, now in its third year, aims to foster connections between Virginia Tech and students and faculty at the visiting institutions.

Cadets Jacob Heil, Ian Donaher, and Megan Watkins will receive the flags from football players at Thursday night’s game.

Rianka Dorsainvil is considered one of the top financial planning experts in the country and a strong voice advocating for diversity in the field.

The Virginia Tech representatives are Jeff Earley, associate vice provost for finance; Ron Fricker, professor and department head of statistics; Kay Hunnings, associate dean for administration in the Pamplin College of Business; Patty Raun, director of the Center for Communicating Science; and Susan Sumner, associate dean for academic programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

U.S. Air Force Capt. Jim Brooks, a Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets alumnus who earned a degree in accounting and information statistics from the Pamplin College of Business and a minor in leadership studies from the corps’ Rice Center for Leader Development in 2011, was selected as the Hokie Hero for Saturday’s football game against William & Mary.

I have worked at Virginia Tech nearly 50 years. Throughout, I have observed a consistent common denominator among our alumni - an appreciation for a fundamental business education.

Big prizes were dispensed for the best business ideas at the conclusion of the 2018 Virginia Tech Global Entrepreneur Challenge recently.

Tinder, a dating app, requires users to swipe right or left to indicate they like someone (right) or not (left). New research designed with Tinder in mind finds the direction and orientation of profile pictures may influence how users swipe.

PRISM has been selected as the winner in the 39th annual Telly Awards for two of their video projects within the Pamplin College of Business. The student-run ad agency was awarded a Bronze Telly Award for the 2017 Pamplin graduation video and a Gold Telly Award for the 2017 PRISM Reel.

For the second year in a row, donations to Virginia Tech surpassed $150 million. Tens of thousands of donors made more than $153.6 million in new gifts and commitments, combined, to the university during the 2017-18 fiscal year.

Employer expectations of work email monitoring during nonwork hours are detrimental to the health and well-being of not only employees but their family members as well.

The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra’s season opener this fall will include the U.S. premiere of a concerto for guitar and orchestra by a composer who teaches and does research on hospitality and tourism in his day job at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business.

Young entrepreneurs from around the world gathered to compete and display their product concepts and business ideas to judges, investors, mentors, and other entrepreneurs during the TiE Young Entrepreneurs Global Summit at the Virginia Tech Research Center — Arlington. TiE Global is a nonprofit devoted to assisting entrepreneurs through education, mentorship, networking, funding, and incubation. TiE Young Entrepreneurs is a “program designed for high school students to learn how to build a business from the ground up,” said program director Robin Dvorak, of TiE DC.

Seventeen years after graduating from Virginia Tech, Matt Arden accepted an invitation to serve on the Marketing Industry Mentoring Board of the Pamplin College of Business. For the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences graduate, joining the board in 2016 represented an opportunity to share his professional expertise across a broader swath of the university’s student body — and he didn’t stop there.

Soccer fans aren’t the only ones with their eyes on the ball during these weeks of World Cup matches in Russia. Tourism and economic development officials are hoping that victory on the field will be good for business — the way it was for Spain, after it won the 2010 tournament.

As the fourth industrial revolution is upon us, Virginia Tech students undertook a capstone project that challenged them to leverage a number of technologies to accelerate progress in many different IT domains. Included were Cloud, Al, ML, robotics and loT. The graduate students worked with Amdocs to create a value-based model for automation in IT to reduce the "run-the-business" operations and increase Amdocs growth. Amdocs is a leading software and services provider to the world's most successful communications and media companies. The team trip was guided by Linda Oldham, Executive Director, Center Business Intelligence & Analytics in the Pamplin College of Business. Several Amdocs executives sponsored the project and spent 2 days supervising its further development. They included Tomer Simon, IT Futurist, Director of Innovation & Academic Collaboration, Rupesh Guikwad, Global Technology Manager, Hanoch Sapoznikov, Lead of worldwide Academic Relations, and Alex Polyak, Global Technology Manager.

Sudip Bhattacharjee, professor of accounting and information systems in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, has been named the Thomas M. Wells and Kathy Dargo Professor in Accounting and Information Systems by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.

An interdisciplinary team of Virginia Tech students celebrated a stunning victory at the fourth annual Deloitte Foundation Cyber Threat Competition for their analysis and incident response approach to a simulated cyberattack.

The Apex Center for Entrepreneurs in the Pamplin College of Business will host the 2018 Virginia Tech Entrepreneur Challenge Finals on Friday, March 23, at the Lyric Theatre in downtown Blacksburg.

Pamplin College of Business’s evening master of business administration (MBA) program, located in the Washington, D.C. area, is among the top 20 part-time programs in its field, with a No. 17 ranking.

The Apex Center for Entrepreneurs in the Pamplin College of Business is expanding its team with the appointment of two management faculty members to lead its teaching and research programs.

Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, a former chief of staff for the U.S. Air Force and now dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, will speak April 5 at Virginia Tech as part of the Cutchins Leadership Lecture Series.

The internationally ranked Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech will be renamed the Howard Feiertag Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management.

Dr. Inès Blal, a Pamplin PhD alumnae, has been named Executive Dean of Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) located in Switzerland. Dr. Blal is the first and youngest woman to be appointed into this position since the foundation of Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne.