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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin will address �鶹��Ƶ’s graduating class of 2023 at its Spring Commencement at EagleBank Arena on Thursday, May 18.

In fall 2022, �鶹��Ƶ physics major Billy Bates ran for Fairfax City Council and won. He was sworn in in January.

Meet the two Schar School graduates who are among the new cabinet members in Maryland Governor Wes Moore’s administration. They both lead environmental agencies.

�鶹��Ƶ community members were served breakfast and gratitude at the Faculty and Staff Donor Breakfast held in honor of employees who had donated to university fundraising initiatives over the past year.

The City of Fairfax's new mayor, Catherine Read, is the first woman—and the first �鶹��Ƶ alum—to be Fairfax's mayor.

�鶹��Ƶ President Gregory Washington was recently named by the Washington Business Journal as one of its honorees of the 2023 Diversity in Business Award.

Homecoming 2023 at �鶹��Ƶ came in many forms, from a tailgate party, to a win by the men's basketball team, to a day of service and alumni reunions.

Schar School biodefense grad Matthew Ferreira is named an “emerging leader” in biosecurity with a Johns Hopkins’ fellowship.

�鶹��Ƶ alumna remembers special gift from esteemed journalist Barbara Walters.

The 40 �鶹��Ƶ students who traveled to Richmond for �鶹��Ƶ Lobbies on Jan. 26 shared their college experience with legislators and highlighted the need for increasing financial aid for �鶹��Ƶ students, increased funding per student, and increased staff and faculty salaries for the university to be more competitive in the Washington, D.C., metro area.

In the Feather Identification Lab at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, �鶹��Ƶ alum Carla Dove identifies the specific birds involved in collisions, with samples coming to her from various branches of the U.S. military, commercial airlines, and more

�鶹��Ƶ alum Horace Blackman was elected as rector of �鶹��Ƶ’s Board of Visitors in July, after serving as vice rector for the past two years.