Gary Cope - Communications Specialist

Gary Cope currently serves as the multimedia and web content manager for Virginia Tech's Office of University Development, which recently completed a successful billion dollar campaign.


Gary has more than 20 years of experience in communications, journalism, photography, writing, web development, social media, search engine optimization and online marketing.

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Hot off the presses, my latest article for Virginia Tech’s Spotlight on Impact series. This story highlights the Health Education and Awareness Team at Virginia Tech. This is the second Spotlight article I’ve written this year.

My latest article for Virginia Tech. This Spotlight on Innovations appeared on the university’s main website, www.vt.edu, from Jan. 7-28.

Hypatia learning community nurtures success for female engineers
Impact Magazine
Winter 2012

Fralin Life Science Institute’s SURF program
Impact Magazine
Winter 2012

Scholarship means smoother sailing for Corps of Cadets students
Impact Magazine
Winter 2012

Donor Supports Critical Research into Autism
VT Magazine
Fall 2012

VALOR program prepares its inaugural class for leadership
Impact Magazine
Winter 2012

During time as the weekend sports anchor at WVIR, NBC 29, in Charlottesville, Va., I produced several features. In this package, I geared up to take on the University of Virginia’s women’s lacrosse team.

The Cavaliers’ head coach Julie Myers and her team were great sports and made the piece a lot of fun to put together. It’s hard to believe this was about 12 years ago, but I still remember it like it was yesterday.

This is an article I wrote about the Virginia Tech ice hockey team. There is not a video associated with this piece. It’s just a sample of my writing.

Another multimedia feature for VT News. Again, I wrote the article and shot the accompanying video (top right of the sidebar).

As I manage three Virginia Tech websites, I am proficient in building pages and stories using the university’s content management system, Ensemble.