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Jay and Carolyn Marsh are bidding adieu to Â鶹ÊÓƵ after a combined 90 years of service. But the larger-than-life roles they played in the university’s Athletics Department are here to stay.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumnus Roger Connor is an aeronautics curator at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

Activism runs in Laila Mokhiber’s blood. Well before she became the director of communications at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA USA), Mokhiber was a child holding protest signs in human rights demonstrations. Before then, her mother held her as a baby in the gallery of the Supreme Court, as her father argued to incorporate Arab Americans into the Civil Rights Act in 1987. The Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumna has also made a name for herself. In 2020, she was named one of the top 40 influential Arab Americans under 40 by the Arab America Foundation.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumna Deborah Bundy-Carpenter was recently featured in Â鶹ÊÓƵ Alumni Association's monthly newsletter, The Scroll. Bundy-Carpenter (BSN '79) received the 2020 Governor's Honor Award in the category of Personal and Professional Excellence in recognition for her dedication and excellence in her profession, public health, and collaborative spirit with other healthcare entities and agencies.

Theresa Davis, PhD, was recently featured in The Scroll, Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Alumni Association's monthly newsletter. Davis shares her experience leading the telemedicine division that supports intensive care units across the Inova system during the pandemic and representing the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses at the White House.

Dilafruz Khonikboyeva, BA ’10, MS ’14, grew up during the civil war in Tajikistan, and said it was her experience of living through conflict that motivat

Â鶹ÊÓƵ on Friday afternoon honored its largest and most diverse graduating class in history with its 54th Spring Commencement.

Thank you, President Washington, for the invitation to speak today and for the honorary degree. This school is special to me for several reasons—many of my own students at NOVA transfer here.

The Class of 2021 will graduate on Friday, May 14.

Members of the College of Health and Human Services’ Class of 2020 and 2021 were honored during an in-person mini-celebration on Thursday, May 13.

Graduating senior Nicole Herman said Â鶹ÊÓƵ made the world her campus.

Zach Fowler and five other students persevered through the pandemic to finish their postsecondary education at the four-year Â鶹ÊÓƵ Learning into Future Environments (LIFE) Program.