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For all of her hard work with �鶹��Ƶ's NAACP chapter, rising senior Alaina Ruffin has been recognized with two national NAACP awards.

Brian Ngac and Nirup Menon, from the information systems and operations management area at the School of Business, were recently awarded a $100,000 grant from the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) located in Arlington, Virginia. This Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Grant was awarded for their proposal to develop a new experiential learning program that will engage students and companies from the Commonwealth.

Ingrid Guerra-López, the new dean of �鶹��Ƶ’s College of Education and Human Development, joined the university on July 1, 2022.

�鶹��Ƶ’s Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center and Amazon have joined forces to help combat counterfeiting and its criminal supply chain networks.

�鶹��Ƶ’s Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center is pleased to partner with Amazon to co-host the 2022 Bring Down Counterfeiting Public Policy Hackathon.

The summer program, co-sponsored by �鶹��Ƶ's Quantum Science and Engineering Center (QSEC) and the nonprofit Potomac Quantum Innovation Center, brought together rising high school seniors from around the region to learn about quantum and STEM-related careers from researchers at leading universities and in the industry.

In 2007, �鶹��Ƶ chemistry professor Abul Hussam won the $1 million Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability Gold Award from the National Academy of Engineering for his inexpensive water filtration system designed to remove arsenic from drinking water in his native Bangladesh.

The �鶹��Ƶ Board of Visitors (BOV) elected a new rector and welcomed four new members Friday, July 29, as part of the governing body’s annual two-day planning conference and meeting.

�鶹��Ƶ artist in residence Abdulrahman “Abi” Naanseh studied interior design at Damascus University in Syria, but his true passion is art, specifically Arabic calligraphy.

Colleen Forsee and �鶹��Ƶ alumna Carla Rocha are two out of 12 winners of Generation Hope’s “Our Campus, Our Voice” initiative, which challenged people to come up with ways to create more family-friendly college campuses.

Work has begun on the “Necklace Phase One and Stream Restoration” project on �鶹��Ƶ’s Fairfax Campus, �鶹��Ƶ Facilities announced.

Created in 1984, the Clarence J. Robinson Professors Program embodies �鶹��Ƶ's commitment to making high-quality education accessible to undergraduate students.