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Virginia Tech Announces Winter Graduates
Virginia Tech Professor Edward Weisband will be the keynote speaker at Virginia Tech’s Fall 2022 Commencement on Friday, December 16.
Wiseband is an Edward S. Diggs Endowed Chair in the Department of Political Science at the College of the Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
He has been in public education for 55 years. He came to college in 1990.
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Avelette Names Winter Commencement Speaker
Global Speaker, President and CEO Lenora Billings Harris at Averett University’s Winter 2022 Commencement ceremony on Saturday, December 10, at the university’s E. Stuart James Grant North Campus (707 Mt. Cross Rd. Danville).
Averett will award degrees to approximately 120 students beginning this academic year between Averett Online and the university’s traditional programs. The 2022 class includes 17 veterans and two international students from the Bahamas. All graduates were born between 1963 and 2002.
These graduates specialize in helping organizations create and implement strategies to turn diversity, equity, and inclusion into a competitive advantage by destroying bias in the workplace. You will hear from Billings-Harris. With over 25 years of experience in her public and private sector, she has developed her own style of presenting sensitive topics in a thought-provoking, non-judgmental, positive and upbeat way. is known.
Currently President and CEO of UbuntuGlobal, her clients include NASA, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Mercedes-Benz, West Point, Disney, Best Buy, as well as numerous professional associations and universities. . She is an adjunct professor at two of her university’s business schools, including Averett.
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New River Community College recently received a Micron Opportunity Fund donation through the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education initiative, according to a release from the school. The Micron Opportunity Fund helps remove barriers to student success for all students.
NRCC’s Education Foundation will receive $4,600 to support science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related programs at the university.
Funds received will support tuition, fees, books, necessary materials/equipment, and other attendance costs not covered by traditional financial aid, such as transportation, childcare, and basic needs to support students can be assigned for To continue on the road to college graduation. Through the NRCC’s Student Resource Advisors and Student Resource Specialists, students in need will receive rewards of up to $500.
STEM programs offered at NRCC include computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, electrical engineering technology, electronics, engineering design technology, information technology, measurement and control automation technology, mechanical technology, cybersecurity, automotive, and mechatronics. increase.
For more information, contact the NRCC Educational Foundation at (540) 674-3618 or foundation@nr.edu.
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Technician nominates mechanical engineering professor
Rolf Müller, Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Virginia Tech School of Engineering, was named Raymond E. and Shirley B. Lynn Professor of Mechanical Engineering by the Virginia Tech Visitors Committee.
The Raymond E. and Shirley B. Linn Professorship of Mechanical Engineering was established through an endowment from the Shirley B. Linn Estate. The professorship recognizes excellence in teaching and research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering among those who have demonstrated extraordinary achievements in research, teaching, and/or service. The recipient will hold the position for her five-year term.
A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2008, Mueller’s research draws inspiration from bats to create new principles of sensing in complex natural environments. His work yielded new fundamental insights into biological sensing, demonstrating the ability of bats to perform complex nonlinear transformations of incoming echoes through Doppler shifts induced by rapid movements of their ears. This phenomenon has no parallel in sensory physiology, and his findings were published in his 2019 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.