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The Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI) bolsters the research enterprise at Virginia Tech through services and support that help faculty, staff, and students plan, perform, and commercialize groundbreaking research.
Measures of Excellence
$531M +
Research Expenditures
Ranked Top 50
Research Institution
Ranked Top 5%
in Nation for Research Expenditures
Ranked Top 15
Public Land-Grant University
Support and Services for Research Administration
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Latest News
- Oct 15 Workshops break down barriers to developing research protocols that require IRB review A new workshop on protocol development will be held for graduate students and faculty.
- Oct 15 Open Access Week keynote Brandon Butler discusses the Big Deal and why open access matters For the past two decades, research institutions have been buying research the same way consumers have been buying television programming: in big bundles. Like big cable packages, these bundles have become bloated with unnecessary content, and their prices have exploded.
- Oct 14 Leading aging, vision experts to keynote international precision neuroscience conference in Roanoke this spring Neuroscientists, physicians, and graduate students from across the world will gather at the Precision Neuroscience Conference hosted by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute in Roanoke, Virginia, in May.