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The design demonstrated many universal design features that could be incorporated into a kitchen to meet the needs of people throughout their lifespan. The name of that kitchen became reflected in the name of the Center for Real Life Kitchen Design at Virginia Tech.
Faculty are located in Wallace Hall, War Memorial Hall, the Integrated Life Sciences Building located in the Corporate Research Center, and at the Virginia Tech Carilion Roanoke campus.
A powerhouse in her field, Wallace made home demonstration work in Virginia effective and efficient and reestablished VPI's home economics department. Among her national and state honors were the U.S. Department of Agriculture Superior Service Award and Progressive Farmer Magazine's Woman of the Year.
The Campus Kitchen program is a partnership between VT Engage and Virginia Tech Dining Services. Campus Kitchen works to increase food access and to reduce food waste by redirecting unserved food from on-campus dining centers to hunger relief agencies in the New River Valley.
Virginia Tech will unveil its newly refurbished Center for Real Life Kitchen Design at an open house set for Monday, April 2. The 1,500-square foot center, located in 247 Wallace Hall, features six fully functional residential kitchen designs that reflect a variety of price levels, lifestyles, and use of space for today’s homeowner.
In 2015, the Campus Kitchen at Virginia Tech (or CKVT) was established in Blacksburg, Virginia to address the issue of food accessibility throughout the community. The organization works with Virginia Tech dining services and takes the food that would have been wasted to disperse it back into the community.
Wallace Hall is built. The building memorializes Maude Emma Wallace, city Extension agent (1917-19), home demonstration agent (1929-37), head of home economics (1937-39), and assistant director of Extension (1938-59) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (now Virginia Tech).
