Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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| motto | Invent the Future - Ut Prosim |
| founding | 1872 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Blacksburg, Virginia , United States |
| president | Timothy D. Sands |
| Students | 34440 |
| Employee | 1,300 |
| Foundation assets | $ 447.4 million |
| University sports | Hokies ( Atlantic Coast Conference ) |
| Website | www.vt.edu |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (better known as Virginia Tech ) is a state technical university in Blacksburg , USA and the largest university in the US state of Virginia . A supercomputer called System X was put together here in 2004 .
history
In 1872 the university was founded as the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College . Its name was changed to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in 1896 and finally to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1970 . Virginia Tech has also been an official name for several years and is used more often today.
On 16 April 2007, a student killed in two shootings on the campus of Virginia Tech 32 people and himself. See the main article Virginia Tech shooting .
On December 8, 2011, a police officer and another person were killed in a shooting. The perpetrator is on the run.
organization
The university consists of the following colleges :
- College of Agriculture & Life Sciences (2,989)
- College of Architecture & Urban Studies (1,636)
- College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences (3,754)
- Pamplin College of Business (4,005)
- College of Engineering (9,215)
- College of Natural Resources & Environment (940)
- College of Science (4,247)
- Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine (626)
The number of enrolled students is given in brackets (as of 2014/2015). 1,761 other students studied at several colleges at the same time.
Cadet Corps
Students who want to pursue a military career can, in addition to their studies, receive training to become officers in the cadet corps . When a land-grant university was founded in 1872 as the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College , military training and membership of the cadet corps was mandatory. In 1923, the mandatory period in the cadet corps was reduced from four to two years. The students could then continue to attend the university as civilian students. Veterans after World War II did not have to join the corps. In 1964, admission to the corps became voluntary.
Today, membership in the Corps of Cadets and participation in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is no longer necessary. However, membership and participation in the ROTC is a prerequisite for receiving an officer's certificate (commission) upon graduation from the university . The cadets are not soldiers, do not belong to the US armed forces and are therefore not subject to military jurisdiction. However, they are required to wear uniform, live together in shelters and are subject to military drill and the rules of military discipline. Students who are striving for a military career must take part in the ROTC ( English Military Leader Track ) as a cadet and are subject to the obligation to later serve in the military. Alternatively, they receive additional training to become a civilian leader ( English Citizen-Leader Track ). More than 75% of the cadets strive for an officer license. As members of a Senior Military College , these graduates of the Cadet Corps are granted the right to serve as active officers in the US armed forces.
The Cadet Corps offers the ROTC programs of the US Army, US Air Force and US Navy, in which the leadership positions are filled by cadets of the senior years. A special feature is its own military music corps and a mounted unit.
Architecture degree
The architecture undergraduate program was ranked the fifth best in the country in 2017. Well-known architects that the school has produced are:
- Waddy Butler Wood (1869-1944)
- Thomas M. Price (1916-1998)
- Walter Smith Pierce (1920–2013)
- Carsten Roth (* 1958)
- Martin Felsen (* 1968)
- George S. Sexton, III - lighting designer
The lecturers currently include a. Markus Breitschmid . Milka Bliznakov was an important emerita.
Sports
The Virginia Tech sports teams call themselves the Hokies . The university is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference .
Famous Graduates
- William Edward Dodd (1869–1940) - American ambassador to Berlin at the time of National Socialism
- William G. Boykin (born 1948) - Lieutenant General in the US Army and Undersecretary of the US Department of Defense for Intelligence
- Johnny Oates (1946-2004) - Major League baseball player and coach
- Robert C. Richardson (1937–2013) - physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Bruce Smith (born 1963) - American football player
- Lance L. Smith (born 1946) - General in the US Air Force and commander of the US Joint Forces Command
- Steve Bannon (born 1953) - political activist
- William J. Dally (* 1960) - computer scientist
- Michael Vick (born 1980) - American football player , former quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles .
- Kam Chancellor (born 1988) - Seattle Seahawks football player
- Stephen Blake Woltz (* 1991) - wrestler at AEW , better known as "The Hangman" Adam Page
Others
There are 213 buildings and one airport ( Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive Airport , opened in 1931).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of President Tim Sands , on president.vt.edu
- ↑ a b About , on vt.edu
- ↑ rp-online: Two dead after shooting at a US university . Published and accessed December 9, 2011
- ↑ 2014-15 University Facts & Figures. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
- ^ A History of the Corps of Cadets. Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets, accessed March 29, 2020 .
- ^ Join the Corps of Cadets. Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets, accessed March 29, 2020 .
- ^ Corps Organizations. Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets, accessed March 29, 2020 .
- ↑ America's Top Architecture Schools 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2018 . school of architecture + design: architecture. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ school of architecture + design: all faculty. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
Coordinates: 37 ° 13 ′ 44 ″ N , 80 ° 25 ′ 25 ″ W.