BLACKSBURG, Va., March 24 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
For Tom Martin, the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) at Virginia Tech has long mirrored many of his own academic and research interests.
"About 20 years ago, before ICAT existed, I was working on a number of different cross-college courses and design experiences for students," Martin said. "This was before the university was making a push to do interdisciplinary activities and a lot of the things we had to do were just completely under the radar, like teaching several independent studies that happen to meet in the same room at the same time. When ICAT came along in 2011, suddenly, this was the type of wo...