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Innovation Campus will connect technology and Liberal Arts

An audience member asked a town hall panel of four Virginia Tech leaders how the Innovation Campus, with its focus on technology and computer science-related learning, will benefit students who study the liberal arts.

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      • Innovation Campus Drives Progress

        “The Innovation Campus helps Virginia Tech live out its mission to support economic growth,” said Theresa Mayer, vice president for research and innovation. “As a research land-grant university, it is critical to translate research and discoveries into the marketplace where they can have tangible impact.”

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Virginia Tech President Tim Sands speaking about the innovation campus

President Tim Sands discusses impact of Innovation Campus

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Virginia Tech’s bold decision to create the Innovation Campus is keeping with its longstanding emphasis on promoting economic development across the commonwealth as part of its land-grant mission. President Tim Sands shares how the campus will be transformative for the Blacksburg campus as well.

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President Tim Sands speaks during a panel at the Tom Tom Summit.

Sands joins panel on Amazon HQ2

President Tim Sands joins economic development leaders from across Virginia to talk about Amazon's HQ2, how we got there, and how cities in the state will benefit. The panel discussion took place at the Tom Tom Summit & Festival in Charlottesville in April.

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Ready or Not - We're ready

Innovation Campus - We're Ready

The story of how Virginia Tech created the Innovation Campus speaks to the university's role to combine people, research, industry, and ideas to solve global-scale problems while teaching the innovators of tomorrow.

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Cal Ribbens department head of Computer Science

Computer Science students to benefit from Innovation Campus

Cal Ribbens, head of the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering shares his thoughts on the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus and its benefits to students, faculty and the growing tech industry.

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“The Smartfarm Innovation Network is poised to leverage the university’s expanding talent pipeline, including the Innovation Campus.” — Tim Sands, president of Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech News

Amazon wants to foster tech talent and it’s starting young

Washington Business Journal

Amazon has praised the D.C.-area workforce. But there’s a lot of work still to do.

Washington Business Journal

Va. Tech’s new Innovation Campus is more than ‘Amazon University’

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