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#VirginiaTech
& you are welcome here. Go
#Hokies
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Today, on the 2019 Day of Remembrance, we honor the lives of 32 Hokies with events and opportunities for reflection throughout the day. 🧡
👉
#VTWeRemember
Today, on the 2021 Day of Remembrance, we honor the lives of the 32 students and faculty members who were tragically taken from their loved ones and our community on April 16, 2007. 🧡
#VTWeRemember
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Today, on the 2018 Day of Remembrance, we honor the lives of 32 Hokies with events and opportunities for reflection throughout the day.
#VTWeRemember
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Today, on the 2022 Day of Remembrance, we honor the lives of the 32 students and faculty members who were tragically taken from their loved ones and our community on April 16, 2007. 🧡
#VTWeRemember
Today, we honor the lives of the 32 students and faculty members who were tragically taken from their loved ones and our community on April 16, 2007.
On the 2023 Day of Remembrance, we reflect on the tremendous promise each of them embodied for our world.
#VTWeRemember
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Today, we’re honoring the lives of the 32 Hokies who were tragically taken from their loved ones and the Virginia Tech community on April 16, 2007. On the 2024 Day of Remembrance, we reflect on the tremendous promise each of them embodied for our world.
#VTWeRemember
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This morning, on the 2019 Day of Remembrance, we honored the lives of the 32 students and faculty who died on April 16, 2007 with a wreath laying ceremony and moment of silence. 🧡
#VTWeRemember
14,500 Hokies came together this morning for
#VirginiaTech
’s 3.2 Run in Remembrance. 🏃♀️ 🏃 The first runner completed the race in just over 19 minutes. 🧡
#VTWeRemember
Butter received the title of 2019 National Thanksgiving Turkey today at the
@WhiteHouse
. 🧈 🏆 But don’t worry — losing the title didn’t get a ~rise~ out of Bread, because he’s off to spend time at
#VirginiaTech
with his...butter half. 🦃 🦃
This morning, on the 2020 Day of Remembrance, the Burruss Hall bells were rung 32 times and flowers and wreaths were placed at the memorial to honor the 32 Hokies who lost their lives on April 16, 2007. 🧡
#VTWeRemember
During his time at
#VirginiaTech
, Stephen Woltz learned the art of communication from
@VT_LiberalArts
. Today he's mastered another art — wrestling. 🤼
As a world champion, Woltz offers this advice to
#Hokies
: Have fun and cherish the connections you make.
**Sees a stranger wearing a Virginia Tech shirt**
Brain:
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Me:
*Shouts* “LET’S GO...”
"You are our future. You're everything. We are counting on you." 👏 💫
@VT_alumni
@hodakotb
knows exactly what every
#HokieGrad
needs to hear right now. 🧡
HISTORIC DAY: Amazon has chosen Virginia as the
#AmazonHQ2
destination, thanks to plans for a revolutionary,
#VirginiaTech
graduate campus in Alexandria, VA. 👏 👉
Burruss Hall will be illuminated blue over the upcoming weeks, in support of all medical professionals and essential employees working during the
#COVID19
emergency. 💙 💙 💙 We can’t thank you enough.
Because of YOU, the
#VirginiaTech
Twitter account has been ranked
#1
, out of 300 Division 1 school accounts.😮Never stop tweeting us funny, interesting, & downright odd questions🧡(but maybe stop asking us if class is canceled, when we've already told you it's not).😆🎉🥇
The ceremonial candle burned for 24 hours at the April 16 memorial. Once extinguished at midnight, the candle was carried back into Burruss Hall, to represent our commitment to never forget. Thank you for honoring the 32 Hokies.
#VTWeRemember
🕯🧡
Hey
#VT22
🗣️
@GovernorVA
will deliver your 2022 University Commencement address during the
#HokieGrad
ceremony on May 13 🎓
He'll be joined by several of the Class of 2022 class officers, including Catharine Kelley, Danielle Panico, and Austin Askew. ➡️
#CaughtOnCampus
: Nothing to see here. All is normal...everyone is studying for finals and checking for campus updates. Definitely no
#Hokies
horsing around. 😅 🤔 🐎 ❄️
This morning, on the 2021 Day of Remembrance, the Burruss Hall bells were rung 32 times and flowers and wreaths were placed at the memorial to honor the 32 Hokies who lost their lives on April 16, 2007. 🧡
#VTWeRemember
ICYMI or forgotter about it...there is an otter in the Duck Pond. 👀
🗣 We repeat: THERE IS AN OTTER IN THE DUCK POND. 😮 It is otterable and happy, so you otter visit our new Hokie, but please don’t approach or feed our friend. 🥰
#HokieNationIsNotLikeAnyOtterCollege
Hey 👋 um...we're
#VirginiaTech
. 146 years young. Majoring in loving all
#Hokies
. Minoring in knowing all of the things. We're probably not supposed to join our own
#vtfollowtrain
, but here we are. 🦃 🧡 🏠
We are deeply saddened to share that Moose Davis, our beloved
@CCCatVT
therapy dog, died yesterday. Moose was responsible for so much healing and joy for many Hokies and will forever be remembered for how he embodied
#UtProsim
. 🧡
Did we just become best friends?? YUP. 🤗 🍞 🧈 🦃
The National Thanksgiving Turkeys, Bread and Butter, just met the best bird on Earth and so far there’s no fowl play. 🙃
#PresidentialTurkey
We are heartbroken and sending our deepest sympathies to the
@UVA
community and families of the victims of last night's tragedy.
#HokiesForHoos
🧡💙
Read the full remarks by Board of Visitors Rector Letitia "Tish" Long and
@VTSandsman
:
SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is widespread among wildlife species, according to
#VirginiaTech
research published today in Nature Communications.