Virginia Tech Language and Culture Institute

News and notes from the LCI in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Monday, July 26, 2021

In memoriam: Susan McCartney Piercy

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To see Susan Piercy — always poised, like the lifelong dancer she was — in front of a classroom of international students at the Language an...
Monday, May 3, 2021

Virginia Tech helps launch English language center at Iraqi university battered by Islamic State

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The University of Mosul's central library, once one of the largest in the Middle East, was left in ruins following the occupation of Isl...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

AdvantageVT students complete first-ever online orientation

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Today, the LCI’s AdvantageVT Program concluded its first 100% online orientation for new international students. These 13 students,...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Author tells class what it takes to report on 'Survivor Stories'

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Bonnie Sumner's Reading/Writing 550 class chats by Zoom with author Cara Tabachnick (bottom row, center). The 17-year-old survivor ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Argentine students tour NYC and Washington

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Students in the Friends of Fulbright Argentina program meet with Jorge Chediek, director of the UN Office for South-South Cooperation. ...
Monday, February 17, 2020

Argentine students accept engineering 'boat challenge'

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Ashley Taylor, of the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity, introduced students in the Friends of Fulbright Argentina exch...
Friday, October 11, 2019

LCI students get to see where the money gets made

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Students and faculty from Northern Virginia recently toured the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C. This agency is...
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