PBS Newshour: How scientists are harvesting fog to secure the world's water supply Industrial design professor Brook Kennedy is part of the team that developed the Fog Harp. It uses tightly placed vertical wires, as opposed to crisscrossing mesh.

Washington Post - In Flint, suspicions of the water — and of Democratic candidates — run deep Virginia Tech scientists found lead levels in the city’s water that were nearly three times higher than the classification for hazardous waste.

Washington Business Journal - Virginia Tech's innovation campus to make space for businessesThe premier structure on Virginia Tech’s $1 billion innovation campus at Potomac Yard could feature an array of multipurpose spaces where entrepreneurs and academics collaborate. 

U.S. News & World Report - New River Valley grower beats the heat of the hops harvest A 2018 grower survey conducted by Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension found at least 20 operations. producing hops commercially in Old Dominion. Together they grew 9,300 plants from a dozen different varieties, which yielded 690 pounds of dry hops

The Chronicle of Higher Education - Meet Your Campus Troubleshooter The ranks of ombudsmen in higher education continue to grow, with institutions like Meharry Medical College and Virginia Tech among those hiring ombuds for the first time in the last 12 months.

Medium - We’re Safer in Autonomous Vehicles.In 2016, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute with the help of Google conducted a study to compare the safety of self-driving cars and human-driven vehicles, and self-driving cars on average were found to be safer than vehicles driven by humans.

Virginia Business - Tech official helped state secure HQ2 Had it not been for Dwight Shelton’s personal contributions … I’m confident Virginia’s HQ2 bid would not have been successful,” says Stephen Moret, the president and CEO of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership.

Chicago Inno - Shooting for the Moon: 13 Companies Driving Momentous Change in 13 Markets After taking 3D printing courses in graduate school at Virginia Tech, Elliot McAllister wrote a paper on the potential of using them to design microchips and other small devices. Little did he know, that idea might forever alter the face of medical test development.

WDET-NPR Detroit -  Lansing is the Only City in Michigan to Replace Every Lead Service Line. Here’s How It Happened In Lansing, the work was completed before there was a crisis to report. The city reached out to Marc Edwards, a water quality expert at Virginia Tech, to find out more about their water system.

Houston Chronicle -  Cy-Fair college students create tool for NASA missions Other inventions from schools like Virginia Tech and Boise State University were also tested in the water.

News-Medical.net - Virginia Tech graduate student wins NIH award to map unexplored area of the brain Ubadah Sabbagh, a Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health graduate student working at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, will create the first atlas of the vLGN's cellular and molecular characteristics.