Graduate School News

Virginia Tech is home to 6,900 graduate students enrolled in certificate and degree programs across nine colleges. You can learn about our students and their work, our graduate programs, and the events and information we share via University News stories, our blogs, and our social media accounts here.

Graduate students and programs in the news

- - Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists reveal how brain tumors impact normally supportive cells
    The same brain cells designed to stop brain damage fail to support healthy neurons when a cancer grows. New research, led by Stefanie Robel and Harald Sontheimer at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, reveals how gliomas alter astrocytes, a cell type that helps protect neurons and is crucial to preventing seizures.

- - A message from Dean Karen P. DePauw regarding graduate research

- - A message from Dean Karen P. DePauw regarding graduate student employment

Vice President and Dean for Graduate Education Karen P. DePauw at commencement

Dean Karen DePauw wins national Graduate Education leadership award from the Council of Graduate Schools

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Graduate School Bulletin

The Graduate School has launched a twice-monthly newsletter that will be archived at this blog site. The blog is a way to communicate with graduate program directors (GPDs) and graduate coordinators regarding upcoming events, policy updates, administrative announcements and important deadlines.