Mark Armstrong, a senior instructor in the Department of English, and his family’s Armstrong Family Foundation established the Armstrong Endowed English Scholarship.

The fund will provide scholarship support for undergraduate students majoring in any academic discipline in the Department of English.

Armstrong, who joined the Virginia Tech community in 1995, is part of the Professional and Technical Writing Program. He is the recipient of a Department of English teaching award, a university service award for teaching medical writing in Tanzania, and a university technology award for helping to create the online technical writing course.