Virginia Tech Services, Inc. history

Beginning in the fall 1973, women could participate in the Corps, making Virginia Tech among the nation's first senior military colleges to integrate women.

Unveiled in 1984, the athletic logo is a composite of designs submitted by two Virginia Tech students to a competition sponsored by the university’s art department.

Desperate for additional farmland for the support of teaching, research, and extension programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Virginia Tech acquired Kentland Farm on December 31, 1986.

The current HokieBird, which conveys power and strength, debuted in September 1987.

In 1991, Virginia Tech adopted a university logo, which incorporates an image of the War Memorial with its eight pylons, each representing a different virtue.

In 1995, the original lunch pail was acquired by the mother-in-law of co-defensive coordinator Rod Sharpless.

The tradition of students jumping up and down during the song started on December 1, 2001, when a Marching Virginians band member started jumping during the song and was joined by his colleagues.

They joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2004.

The battered and rusting pail, which now contains the names of the 32 Hokies who died in the tragedy on April 16, 2007, travels wherever the Hokies go, and its care is entrusted to a defensive leader.

Virginia Tech brought in over $500 million in research expenditures in 2014.

VT Stories, the 2015 Beyond Boundaries oral history initiative from President Tim Sands, has partnered with the Council on Virginia Tech History to preserve stories of the university's communities.

Formed in 2017, the Council on Virginia Tech History consists of cross-disciplinary experts from the university and surrounding communities.

Due to rapid growth of incoming freshmen classes, the university announced in 2019 that it would offer 1,559 incoming, in-state freshmen financial incentives to skip the 2019–20 school year in Blacksburg.