Publish Date: 04/03/2013

Libby G. Bradford, Director of External Relations and Undergraduate Studies, received a Dean's Award for Outreach Excellence at the Dean's Awards for Excellence Ceremony at The Inn at Virginia Tech on April 2, 2013.  Dean Richard Benson made the following remarks about Ms. Bradford's achievements.

"Ms. Bradford is the full time director of the Computer Science Resources Consortium, an industrial partners program for the department that now has more than 80 members. These companies provide internships and job opportunities for CS students. The companies also provide funding for numerous CS student groups such as the Association of Women in Computing, CS Community Service, a gaming club, and a mobile computing club. Ms. Bradford also established the CS@VT Investment in Excellence Scholarship fund, in part, from these industrial funds. Under her direction, this endowment has grown to almost $250,000. Ms. Bradford still advises the department’s honors students, and supervises a new academic advisor.

"She has proactively organized information sessions for high school students and their parents who visit Virginia Tech. Recently, through industrial grant support she helped to attain, she has organized visits to Virginia high schools by the student Ambassadors of the department. She has visited approximately three high schools per academic year since this program started in 2009 and has reached out to more than 425 high school students."