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Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Early Identification Program provides access to educational resources, mentoring and programming for students from seven local public school systems. In May, 112 high school seniors graduate from the program. Ninety-five of them have been admitted to college, including 41 who will be attending Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

Melissa Broeckelman-Post ran unopposed this spring for a second one-year term as senate chair. Under her leadership, the senate formed the Task Force on Reimagining Faculty Roles and Rewards to better recognize ways that faculty contribute to the university through teaching, research, advising, community service, and other actions. The task force plans to have an implementation proposal this fall.

Incoming transfer students from Germanna are excited to join Â鶹ÊÓƵ Nation through the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Virginia Promise

Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Germanna Community College have announced a new partnership bringing the first Â鶹ÊÓƵ Academy program to Virginia students. The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Academy is a localized guided degree transfer program that is in alliance with a Virginia community college and is part of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Virginia Promise (MVP) initiative.

The 15 students in the special topics class Facial Reconstruction started the semester with a generic plastic skull. Week by week, they sculpted different parts of their own faces, creating a portrait of themselves in clay and learning the forensic skills needed to put a face on a skull.

Dr. Amira Roess shares some background on the disease, how globalization contributes to its spread, and the important role of public health in its containment and prevention. 

Bachelor of Social Work student Alondra Ortega speaks about how her personal values to help children integrate with her career aspirations.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ researcher Jenefir Isbister was awarded the university's first patent on August 27, 1996, for her invention of a test for microbial contamination.

As more monkeypox infections are identified throughout the U.S. and the world, Dr. Amira Roess, an infectious disease expert, answers additional questions about monkeypox’s transmissibility, similarities to COVID-19, why it’s spreading now, and other questions the public is curious about. 

Existing health disparities are creating a bigger disadvantage for Black and low-income families and babies during the U.S. baby formula shortage. 

Intimate partner violence expert Denise Hines discusses the prevalence of bidirectional violence and other lesser known facts about intimate partner violence (IPV) in wake of a high-profile defamation trial.

In April, Â鶹ÊÓƵ professor Mohamed Gebril took a team of students to Commonwealth Cyber Initiative's BattleDrones Competition.