In a paper appearing in the Feb. 24 issue of the “Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A,” Virginia Tech Engineering Science and Mechanics Professor Hassan Aref, and his colleague Johan Roenby at the Technical University of Denmark shed new light on the chaotic motion of a solid body moving through a fluid.

The mountains of Blacksburg will come alive with music this summer as luminaries from the opera and chamber music worlds gather to coach and mentor a new generation of superstar performers. The two-week festival — Viva Virginia — starts June 21 and includes concerts, lectures, and master classes open to the public.

After year one of a five-year grant intended to support the education of young women about careers in information technology in the Appalachian region, Virginia Tech researchers report that their project has impacted 365 people; or one person per day.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell will speak on March 3 at a workshop on international trade of agricultural products in Norfolk, Va. The governor’s remarks at the conference’s opening luncheon will be his first major speech on agricultural issues since assuming office as the commonwealth’s top elected official.

A graduate student in Virginia Tech’s electrical and computer engineering department has been awarded a $10,000 Ford engineering scholarship from the Golden Key international honor society. The international organization awards only four such scholarships annually.

Cornel Sultan, assistant professor of aerospace and ocean engineering in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, is the latest faculty member at the university to learn he has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

Math-based computer models are a powerful tool for discovering the details of complex living systems. John Tyson, professor of biology at Virginia Tech, is creating such models to discover how cells process information and make decisions.