Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies Diversity Committee, the Taskforce on Race and the Institution Undergraduate Subcommittee, and InnovationSpace are sponsoring a Twitter Poetry Competition to celebrate diversity and inclusive excellence at Virginia Tech.

Janet Niewald, an artist and senior instructor of art in Virginia Tech’s School of Visual Arts, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, is currently featured in a one-person exhibition at Washington and Lee University and is soon to be featured in a national exhibition in New York City.

Visiting architecture faculty Marie and Keith Zawistowski’s practice, OnSite, received one of nine 2009 Virginia Society American Institute of Architects Awards (VSAIA) for Excellence in Architecture for their transformation of the 200-year-old Arritt Farm House in Potts Creek, Va.

The Virginia Tech Lumenhaus, an innovative, solar-powered house designed, constructed, and operated by students and faculty for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, will be exhibited in Times Square in New York City Jan. 27-31 and will be featured on ABC’s Good Morning America on Thursday, Jan. 28.

A Virginia Tech-led team of almost 20 partners has won $3.8 million in federal stimulus money to train workers for new, green jobs in the construction industry.

The International Archive of Women in Architecture, in Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture + Design, invites architects, scholars, and researchers to honor the International Archive of Women in Architecture founder and Virginia Tech emerita faculty member Milka Bliznakov through their research on women in architecture and related design fields.

Four Virginia Tech professors from the School of Architecture + Design, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, were among 25 faculty in North America named Most Admired Educators of 2010 in the 11th annual Americ’s Best Architecture and Design Schools study by “DesignIntelligence” on behalf of the Design Futures Council.