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- - Virginia Tech economics experts detail Chinese and worldwide GDP loss from Hubei province as COVID-19 rattles nations, markets
    Virginia Tech economists Shaowen Luo and Kwok Ping ‘Byron’ Tsang have completed a study showing the cost of the coronavirus, or COVID-19, on the GDP (gross domestic product) on the Chinese and worldwide economies.
- - Election 2020: Virginia Tech expert says more women in representative government means less corruption
    Media expert advisory: Virginia Tech economist Sudipta Sarangi has found that government corruption is less prevalent in countries where there is a greater number of women in political leadership roles, both at national and local levels.
- - Economics’ Sudipta Sarangi wins award for paper focusing on worldwide ‘missing’ female population
    A study by a Virginia Tech economist that shines a spotlight on the reasons why 6 million women are "missing" each year worldwide has won the 2020 Kuznets Prize of the Journal of Population Economics.
- - Two College of Science faculty receive honors from Board of Visitors to support research
    Virginia Tech College of Science faculty members Serkan Gugercin and Gerelt Tserenjigmid recently were honored by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
- - Research institute offers support for approved projects using restricted microdata
    The Institute for Society, Culture and Environment provides assistance for researchers to have access to a specially protected federal data set.
- - College of Science presenting two 2019 Sowers Lecture Series events on game theory and black holes
    Colin Camerer will speak about game theory and its use in the sciences, and Gerard ‘t Hooft will discuss gravity and black holes in the subatomic world.
- - Industry turns to Newport News program to build data science workforce
    The first cohort of 12 graduates will complete the business analytics certificate program on June 22.
- - Media Advisory: Virginia Tech speaker highlights the changing nature of work
    Pressure to automate is growing as companies seek to cut labor costs in a tight job market. U.S. companies installed more robots last year than ever before. Many experts describe automation and labor markets as one of the most pressing business issues of the 21st century.