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Led by the Office of Annual Giving, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Vision Day 2023, held on April 6, highlighted the challenges posed by student food insecurity—which is a growing issue at Â鶹ÊÓƵ and at college campuses across the nation. This year, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Vision Day raised $290,000 for Â鶹ÊÓƵ causes with nearly $90,000 dedicated to student food insecurity.

Eighteen Arlington Public School seniors got an in-depth look into the world of artificial intelligence (AI) this summer thanks to Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s new AI Scholars program.

U.S. Air Forces Central (AFCENT) formalized a partnership with Â鶹ÊÓƵ for joint research, rapid capability development, warfighter training, and education to support the mission readiness of the Ninth Air Force.

PSYC 461 Advanced Topics in Human Factors is an interactive, hands-on curriculum that challenges students to solve real-life issues offered for the first time in the spring 2023 semester.

In May 2023, Â鶹ÊÓƵ honored philanthropist Diane Portnoy with an honorary doctor of humane letters, given in recognition of her extraordinary contribution to society and decades of service in support of immigrants and refugees.

The Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Restorative Arlington, a local 501(c)(3) non-profit that provides restorative justice services to the schools, legal system, and communities of Arlington County and the City of Falls Church, have signed an affiliation agreement that would facilitate collaboration between the two organizations and further cement the Carter School’s profile as a key resource in alternative dispute resolution in the DMV.

Jackie Ferree has been selected as Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s first Senior Vice President of Operations and Business Services following a national search.

Located in Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Special Collections Research Center in Fenwick Library, this collection consists of the papers of the Nobel Prize-winning economist James M. Buchanan and documents his career and research from the mid-20th century through the early 2000s.

On June 28, Dean Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly, and James Kinter, director of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, discussed how the Virginia Climate Center is helping communities increase resilience to the impacts of climate change.

Nearly 100 student representatives and 20 advisors from 13 Fairfax County public high schools gathered on Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Fairfax Campus in June for a day of workshops and team-building activities to support the peer-led student ambassadors program.

The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution provides critical learning opportunities for Myanmar students as they search for solutions to Myanmar’s tumultuous state.

His new study shows that terrorists possibly could bring an end to all of humanity. Just another day’s work for policy fellow Zak Kallenborn.