Founded in 1872 as a land-grant institution, Virginia Tech is now a comprehensive, innovative research university with the largest number of degree offerings in Virginia. Virginia Tech's eight colleges are dedicated to putting knowledge to work through a combination of its three missions of teaching and learning, research and discovery, and outreach and engagement. Virginia Tech continually strives to accomplish the charge of its motto: Ut Prosim (That I May Serve). At its 2,600-acre main campus located in Blacksburg and off-campus educational facilities in six regions, Virginia Tech enrolls more than 31,000 full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries in 215 academic degree programs.

The Center for Neutrino Physics was founded in 2010 as a center in the Virginia Tech Department of Physics. The center members are all active researchers in the fields of particle and nuclear physics. Neutrinos are a major research direction for the Virginia Tech Physics Department.

In addition to the various experimental and theoretical research initiatives of the center members, the Center for Neutrino Physics runs the underground lab known as the Kimballton Underground Research Facility, or KURF, as a resource for the wider neutrino and low-background research community.