Virginia Tech
Public university in Blacksburg
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| 2025 | Gold Phase implementation is scheduled to begin in the Spring semester. |
| 2025 | Major General William H. Seely III set to become the first Commandant from the Navy or Marine Corps in the Corps' history. |
| 2024 | Pheldarius Payne begins his NFL journey as a defensive tackle with the Houston Texans. |
| 2024 | Multiple players transferred from Virginia Tech women's basketball team to Kentucky, including Gabby Brooks, Georgia Amoore, and Clara Strack. |
| 2024 | Elizabeth Kitley was drafted 24th overall in the 2024 WNBA draft, marking her transition from college basketball to professional basketball. |
| 2024 | Olivia Summiel, Cayla King, and Elizabeth Kitley completed their graduate student eligibility and graduated from Virginia Tech. |
| 2024 | Brigadier General Dwayne R. Edwards appointed as interim Commandant of Cadets. |
| 2024 | Cadet leadership announced plans to start Gold Phase in the Spring of 2025. |
| 2024 | Mike Young begins his sixth season as head coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team for the 2024-25 season. |
| 2024 | Virginia Tech men's basketball team acquired five new transfer players: Hysier Miller (Temple), Tobi Lawal (VCU), Jaden Schutt (Duke), Rodney Brown Jr. (California), and Ben Burnham (Charleston). |
| April 3 2024 | Megan Duffy hired as the new head coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies women's basketball team, replacing Kenny Brooks. |
| 2023 | Virginia Tech became the second public university to end its use of legacy admissions following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. The university also discontinued its binding early decision program. |
| 2023 | Upper Quad Hall North was completed, and the Corps Leadership and Military Science Building was finished, providing office space and classrooms for Corps and ROTC staff. |
| February 23 2023 | Tsai Lu Liu was announced to be the new dean of the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design effective July 1, 2023. |
| 2022 | John Parker Romo joins the New Orleans Saints as a placekicker, and Jordan Williams debuts as a defensive tackle with the Miami Dolphins. |
| 2022 | The cadet regiment grew from three to four battalions. |
| 2022 | Second Battalion revived the Cadet Private First Class rank, designating it to freshmen members of each company's Eager Squad in the spring. |
| July 5 2022 | The School of Architecture + Design was split into two separate entities: the School of Architecture and the School of Design as part of a major restructuring initiative. |
| July 5 2022 | As part of a restructuring, the School of Public and International Affairs was transferred from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies to the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. |
| July 5 2022 | The Myers-Lawson School of Construction was transferred from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies to the Virginia Tech College of Engineering as part of a restructuring effort. |
| July 1 2022 | The name of the college was changed to the College of Architecture, Art, and Design (AAD) including a restructuring of schools within the college. |
| February 2022 | Kevin T. Pitts was named the third official dean of the College of Science. |
| 2021 | Rosemary Blieszner begins leadership of the Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies |
| 2021 | Mike Company was activated, completing the full restoration of the 3rd Battalion. |
| 2021 | India Company was reactivated, marking the initial step in restoring the 3rd Battalion to its full complement. |
| 2021 | Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets reaches over 1,200 members, maintaining its organizational structure modeled on an Army infantry regiment. |
| January 2021 | Sally C. Morton departed the College of Science to join Arizona State University. Ronald D. Fricker was named interim dean. |
| 2020 | Academy of Data Science was founded within the College of Science. |
| 2020 | The School of Neuroscience planned to launch a graduate student program. |
| 2020 | Pamplin College of Business's part-time MBA program was tied for 19th overall by U.S. News & World Report. |
| 2020 | Cadet Darrien Brown was suspended for his role in the 2019 sophomore integration incident and subsequently filed a lawsuit claiming lack of due process. |
| August 2020 | In the fall 2020 semester, the Corps of Cadets modified its freshman training program, ceasing weekday training except for ROTC instruction. |
| 2019 | Sterling Nesbitt, an associate professor, announced the discovery and naming of a new Tyrannosaurus rex relative called Suskityrannus hazelae, which received widespread media coverage including reports from the Associated Press and CNN. |
| 2019 | Research and development expenditures peaked at $542 million, marking the 15th consecutive year of research growth and ranking 48th among national education institutions. |
| 2019 | Kiplinger's Personal Finance placed Virginia Tech 20th in its ranking of best value public colleges in the United States. |
| 2019 | The university announced financial incentives for 1,559 in-state freshmen to skip the 2019-20 school year, budgeting $3.3 million to manage unexpected enrollment growth. They also waived on-campus housing requirements and leased additional housing spaces. |
| 2019 | Bravo Company upperclassmen organized a sophomore integration event involving physical exercise and voluntary blood pinning, with all but one sophomore participating. |
| May 2019 | U.S. News & World Report released graduate science program rankings, highlighting Virginia Tech College of Science's program rankings across multiple disciplines. |
| 2018 | CEOWORLD magazine ranked the undergraduate architecture program 3rd nationally and the graduate architecture program 14th. |
| 2018 | The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets reached 1,127 cadets, the largest corps since the mid-1960s. |
| 2018 | Cam Phillips begins his NFL career as a wide receiver with the Buffalo Bills. |
| 2018 | The last selection of freshmen for the rank of Cadet Private took place in the spring, ending a long-standing tradition of promoting some second-semester freshmen. |
| 2017 | Virginia Tech's Center for Design Research finalized the design of 'FutureHAUS', which began in 2015, planned to enter the 2018 International Solar Competition in Dubai. |
| 2017 | W. Steven Holbrook became the leader of the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech. |
| 2017 | Popular Mechanics magazine praised the Academy of Integrated Science (AIS) program, stating it represents the ideal skill set that technology employers would seek in a college graduate. |
| 2017 | Research expenditures grew to $522 million, further solidifying Virginia Tech's position in research. |
| 2017 | Pearson Hall West was constructed, continuing the Corps' infrastructure expansion. |
| 2016 | The School of Neuroscience was approved by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia in spring, offering undergraduate degrees in various neuroscience disciplines and headed by Harald Sontheimer. |
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