Centers and Supported Entities
Institute Centers
Center for Communicating Science
The art of connecting across difference.
The Center for Communicating Science creates and supports opportunities for scientists, scholars, health professionals, and others to develop their abilities to communicate and connect.
Center for Public Health Practice and Research
The Center for Public Health Practice and Research (CPHPR) at Virginia Tech partners with an interdisciplinary group of faculty, staff and students at Virginia Tech and community organizations to enhance public health practice and research in the region.
Center for Rural Education
The Center for Rural Education aims to advance educational equity in rural communities through research and outreach. Working with transdisciplinary teams from Virginia Tech and beyond, especially partners in rural communities, the Center for Rural Education seeks to understand and address the complex challenges that impact rural schooling.
Networks and Consortiums
+Policy Network
The +Policy Network serves as a dynamic space for faculty and students developing novel approaches to policy development, implementation, and analysis to address complex decisions across multiple settings. Working at the intersection of scientific evidence, governance, and analyses, +Policy Network affiliates translate scholarship to practice and examine the interplay between the two.
Whole Health Consortium
The Virginia Tech Whole Health Consortium empowers people and their communities to pursue meaningful lives through transdisciplinary solution-oriented research in equitable health and well-being. Its mission is to harness a range of expertise to revolutionize systems, research, practices, and policies that affect holistic health and well-being.
Associated Centers
Center for Agricultural Trade
The Center for Agricultural Trade aims to become a national leader in the creation and dissemination of information and analysis for policymakers, commercial firms, and producers in the global marketplace for agricultural products through a three-fold mission focused on education, outreach and research.
Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science
The mission of the Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science is to achieve excellence in Virginia Tech’s health and medically related research portfolio through fostering collaborations across biostatistics, data science, health analytics, computer science, engineering, bioinformatics, biology, database management and integration, project coordination, clinical practice, health economics, translation and public policy.
Center for European and Transatlantic Studies
As a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, the purpose of the Center is to engage with faculty experts and policymakers to tackle fundamental problems facing the transatlantic and trans-European world through education, research and outreach.
Center for Gerontology
The Center for Gerontology serves as the organizational unit and focal point for aging-related activities at Virginia Tech. The center’s primary mission is to foster and facilitate multidisciplinary research that enhances the quality of life of older adults, focusing primarily on three areas: Family Gerontology, Health and Aging, and Elder Rights.
Center for Refugee, Migrant and Displacement Studies
Affiliated Centers
VT Center for Autism Research
The Virginia Tech Autism Clinic and Center for Autism Research promote collaborative research on Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and related conditions from multiple disciplinary perspectives. The Clinic and Center build upon basic research and clinical resources already available at Virginia Tech and work closely with other autism service providers to provide outreach on research findings, conduct research, and recruit participants.